Word: shakur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DESPITE HIS CONTROVERSIAL REPutation, Tupac Shakur was always an ambivalent gangsta, at least on record. His 1993 album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., included an anthem called Keep Ya Head Up that was chivalrously supportive of black women; on his last album, the confrontationally titled Me Against the World, he rapped a surprisingly tender tribute to his mother titled Dear Mama. Even as Shakur was being vilified in the mainstream press as a tough-talkin', gin-and-juice-drinkin' gangsta rapper, his songwriting was becoming increasingly intelligent and introspective...
...trend comes to a halt with the release of his ambitious new album, All Eyez on Me--the first double album in rap history. A year ago, Shakur was convicted of sexually abusing a female fan; now, thanks to recent court decisions that allowed him to be freed while he appeals his conviction, he's out on $1.4 million bail, and he's angrier than ever. As the title of his highly anticipated album brags, all eyes are indeed on him--and it's not a pretty sight...
...group of Hispanics and a lone black man spar with each other by turning up their radios to louder, increasingly confrontational volumes. The scene challenges the old cliche that music is the universal language. Often, in fact, it is an expression of what divides us--Shania Twain and Tupac Shakur don't share much of a crossover audience. It's therefore a delight to encounter two engaging, offbeat new rap groups, the Japanese-American duo Cibo Matto and the Haitian-American trio the Fugees. Neither makes overtly integrationist music--no hip-hop covers of We Shall Overcome--but both...
Actually, that murder, in the new film of Richard III, offers a cleverer twist on the orgasmic affinity of love and death than any devised by Eszterhas for Basic Instinct. It has the added jolt of literary blasphemy, like hearing a Tupac Shakur lyric sung in Westminster Abbey. Melodrama in Shakespeare? How awful, how scabrous, how very...appropriate, since Will was a man of the theater who gloried in the trappings of stage sensation. And because Richard III and Iago are the two scurviest, most seductive villains in the canon, it is right for directors to find a movie equivalent...
After coming under harsh criticism from conservatives for putting out records with controversial lyrics, Time Warner announced today it is shedding its 50 percent stake in Interscope Records, the rap label of such stars as Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound and Tupac Shakur. The decision followed Interscope's refusal to allow Warner Music Group to review lyrics for an upcoming rap record by Tha Dogg Pound. "The sale of Interscope is not going to reduce the amount of sex and violence in American culture," says music critic Christopher John Farley. "It is all around us: in the streets...