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...already has the name, and now he's got the prefight talk down cold. In every speech he makes in Nevada, where Bush appointee John Walters has traveled to fight an initiative that would legalize marijuana, he calls out his three sworn enemies as if he were Tupac Shakur. The czar has a problem with billionaire philanthropists George Soros, Peter Lewis and John Sperling, who have bankrolled the pro-pot movement, and he wants everyone to know he's ready for battle. At an Elks lodge meeting in Las Vegas, he ticks off their names and says, "These people...
...blocking streets and suffocating the vines and the mulberry, fig and pomegranate trees that once blossomed here. The 600 villagers survive by gathering desert thornbushes?used for lighting fires?and trading them for access to fetid water from a ditch half a day's ride away by donkey. Abdul Shakur, 63, says every few weeks a huge sandstorm traps him, his wife and their 11 children inside their hut for days on end. Four months ago, the storm came at night and lasted four days; Shakur and his neighbors dug out a family of five after a dune enveloped their...
...storms are terrible," he says. "Even if you have something to eat, you can't open your mouth or it just fills with sand. All you can do is hide and sleep." Shakur has given up blaming anyone for Deh Naw's troubles. He knows the landowners for whom he once worked the fields around Deh Naw are the same people who now deprive that land of water for the sake of greater profits in the hemp-rich hills. But after 23 years watching a succession of conquerors?the Soviets, the Taliban, and now the Northern Alliance and the Americans...
...Killed Tupac? One of the rap world's most notorious crimes may be closer to a solution, thanks to some press sleuthing. The Los Angeles Times last week published the conclusions of a yearlong investigation into the murder of rapper TUPAC SHAKUR, who was shot in Las Vegas in 1996. While it has long been suspected that Shakur was a victim of feuding between East Coast and West Coast rappers and their affiliated gangs, the Times dropped a bit of a bombshell by placing Notorious B.I.G. at the scene of the crime. The paper says that B.I.G., one of Shakur...
...movie's funk-legend theme, and critic Elvis Mitchell explains how Curtis Mayfield's antidrug score for Superfly subtly rebuts the movie's pusher-glorifying plot (the same tension as exists in much gangsta rap). The documentary confirms blaxploitation's lasting influence on music and movies by interviewing Afeni Shakur (mother of late rapper Tupac) and Quentin Tarantino, the white boy whom blaxploitation made. The Oscars may not recognize the legacy of blaxploitation anytime soon. But, Julien shows, the world outside the academy is full of fans who know it and feel...