Word: shakur
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Lines to live by from gangsta rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur, 22, who not long ago gave an interview on MTV with what looked to be a pistol tucked into his waist. Last week Shakur was arrested in Atlanta and charged in the shooting of two off-duty police officers...
After a concert at Clark Atlanta University, cars carrying Shakur and his friends nearly struck Mark and Scott Whitwell, brothers and suburban police officers, who were walking in civilian clothes with Mark's wife. In the argument that followed, Shakur allegedly shot Mark in the back, his brother in the buttocks. Some witnesses say one of the Whitwells may have pulled a gun and fired first. Mark Whitwell's attorney says they were surrounded by Shakur and at least a dozen others, some of them armed and screaming threats...
Last week, just a day after Shakur's arrest, Flavor Flav, 34, court jester of the otherwise unsmiling rap group Public Enemy, was arrested for attempted murder. On Tuesday morning Flav, whose real name is William Drayton, accused a neighbor, Thelouizs English, of fooling with his girlfriend. After Drayton pulled a gun, English fled to the lobby, where Drayton allegedly caught up with him, took a shot and missed. Released on $15,000 bail, Drayton, who once served 20 days in jail for punching his girlfriend, checked into the Betty Ford Center. His record company says he is seeking treatment...
...Lucky (Tupac Shakur), an amiable postal worker, does not at first seem the ideal partner for that enterprise. But he too has compelling reasons to break out, and a dream of redemptive creativity roughly analogous to hers: he wants to be a rapper. When they and another couple are thrown together on a weekend trip to Oakland, California, in a post-office van, edginess slowly gives way to an understanding that survives even a sudden lurch toward the tragic...
...DEBUT LAST YEAR WITH boyz n the Hood, director JOHN SINGLETON was asked what sort of film he would make next. "A masterpiece," said the young tyro. Not according to insiders who have seen a rough cut of Singleton's latest, Poetic Justice, starring Janet Jackson and rapper Tupac Shakur. The audience turned thumbs down when Columbia Pictures held a test screening last month. Singleton lately has been reshooting some scenes...