Word: shakur
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That lesson has played out in different ways for each woman. Having been unable to prevent her only son's death, Shakur, 59, has sought immortality for him. Armed with a seemingly limitless catalog of unreleased material, she has supervised the production of seven posthumous albums, the documentary Tupac: Resurrection and the new book Tupac Shakur Legacy. Plus she has opened the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, to encourage youngsters to pursue their artistic dreams. Mostly through her work, Tupac has become rap's first cult figure. For Wallace the issue is justice. She has spent the past...
Perhaps the mothers also grieve in different ways because of their contrasting relationships with their sons. Afeni Shakur was a black power--era radical who fell into drug addiction in the 1980s. Out of Tupac's difficult childhood, he crafted a tortured persona as a man both blessed and cursed. Throughout his career, he invoked the pride and shame he felt about his mother, making hits out of confessionals like Dear Mama and Keep Ya Head...
...broiling day in August almost a decade later, Shakur offers me a tour of her newly constructed ranch home in Lumberton, N.C. She shows off a bathroom the size of a small apartment and talks up the 56 acres of farmland where she's growing USDA-certified organic crops and raising animals. That is what her son has left her. And it's easy to see what she gave him. She is excitable and charismatic, and she talks--and curses--freely, laughing in the middle of crying. In the late '60s, Shakur was one of the more outspoken black power...
...Shakur is proud of her Panther past and of her son, but she is also brutally honest. Shortly before he was killed, Tupac attacked Biggie and virtually every other rapper of note in New York City in a profanity-laced tirade called Hit 'Em Up. Among things unprintable in this magazine, he claimed he had an affair with Biggie's wife Faith Evans. "To tell you the truth, I was proud that Tupac had found an excellent way to get back at [Biggie] without violence," says Shakur. "He could take a word and beat you to death." But now, given...
...While Shakur has concentrated on tending her son's artistic legacy, Wallace has been on a manhunt. Perhaps because Biggie left little to remember him by or to preserve his image for history, his mother fights for his memory the best way she knows how. She declined to be interviewed for this story but said through a representative that she was "sickened by the personal attacks and lengths the L.A.P.D. was willing to go to in order to keep the victim's family from getting to the bottom of this cover-up. All we have ever wanted was the truth...