Word: shakur
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Puff Daddy's portion of the concert paled in comparison to Busta Rhymes' honest lyricism. Accompanied by his long-time sidekick, Mase, Puff spent more time changing costumes and addressing the audience than actually performing. He did a number of tributes to slain rapper Tupac Shakur during which he played Tupac songs and asked the audience to sing along with the records. There were also a number of tributes to Puffy's former rap partner, the Notorious BIG, who was shot to death last year...
...years ago, Interscope was a small record company that became a huge political problem for its then owner, Time Warner (parent company of TIME's publisher), by releasing gangsta-rap albums such as Tupac Shakur's 2pacalypse Now. Capitulating to critics, Time Warner severed its joint agreement with Interscope and sold its 50% stake back to Iovine and Field for $100 million. Four months later, the two resold that stake to hit-starved Universal for $200 million. This is not an industry big on morality plays...
Interscope still has a management problem with Death Row Records, given that the label's president, Knight, isn't making many meetings from his jail cell in San Luis Obispo. Suge is doing nine years on parole violations for stomping a man in a Las Vegas hotel shortly before Shakur was gunned down. A few weeks later, the Los Angeles Times reported that the fbi was investigating allegations of organized crime at Death Row. Then, in April, Shakur's mother Afeni sued Death Row over money allegedly owed her son. She won several million dollars and control of Tupac...
...Soul Food at the Sony Meadows 6 in Secaucus, N.J., last week, she ended up doing something she never does: she talked back to the screen. Now, creative commentary during a film is an established custom among some urban moviegoers--catch a showing of Gang Related (the late Tupac Shakur's last film) in a major city, and it's a fair bet the action will not go unremarked on--but Stallings would rather listen. However, during Soul Food, there was just something about that part where the sisters (Vanessa L. Williams, Vivica A. Fox and Nia Long) start...
Here's a new growth industry: TUPAC SHAKUR litigation. In the year since Shakur's death, at least five suits have been brought against his estate, the most recent by a suspect in his murder. Last week Orlando Anderson filed a personal-injury suit that claimed he was beaten up by Shakur and friends hours before the rap star was killed. Shakur's lawyer, Richard Fischbein, immediately fired back with a wrongful-death lawsuit against Anderson. Earlier, Shakur's mother Afeni won control of Shakur's master recordings from Death Row Records, and settled a claim that the estate owed...