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Never mind the furor over the murder of rap star Tupac Shakur and the recriminations that are sure to erupt over the civil trial of a certain ex-football player. The hottest topic in black America, bar none, is whether the CIA was responsible for introducing crack cocaine to the ghetto. This idea is, of course, a hardy perennial among conspiracy theorists, who blame every plague that afflicts the black community on racist government plots. But this time it is not so easy to write off the talk as paranoid mumbo jumbo for two reasons: it springs, for once, from...
...former pro-football player, is an intimidating figure to some--and Death Row, whose roster of artists includes Snoop Doggy Dogg, is a driving force in the controversial genre of gangsta rap. Knight was behind the wheel of the BMW in which Tupac Shakur, a rapper on his label, was riding when he was fatally shot on Sept. 7 in Las Vegas...
...love, not violence or money, was on Shakur's mind at the end, according to Knight. "We were in the hospital, and I was sittin' on the bed," he says, in one of his first interviews since Shakur's death 1 1/2 weeks ago, "and he called out to me and said he loved...
...wake of the still unsolved murder of Shakur, all eyes have been on Knight, 30. He is a major player in the world of pop music--Death Row is rap's most successful label--and he is a key figure in the life, and death, of Shakur, a young rapper villainized by millions and idolized by millions more...
Kevin Powell, a Brooklyn-based music writer who is working on a book of essays that will deal, in part, with hip-hop and American culture, says Shakur, who grew up fatherless, was drawn to the charismatic Knight as a father figure. Knight, for his part, says the relationship was a bit more equal: "He was the little brother, and I was the big brother." The tie was cemented when Knight posted a $1.4 million bond last year, releasing Shakur from prison while he appealed his conviction on a sexual-assault charge...