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...moods of the American disposition, from moonglow to bloodlust. At Sam Goody's, the chain record store, the CD bins are stuffed with amiable releases by Hootie and the Blowfish and Boyz II Men. But they also hold the gangsta rap of Bloods and Crips and Tupac Shakur. Nearby, at the Time Out video arcade, Jordan Trimas, 16, is playing Primal Rage, a game in which dinosaurs tear one another to pieces. "Sure, the violence influences kids,'' he shrugs. "But nobody can do anything about...
...early 30s. The optimism of Forrest Gump rang false for a lot of us. The Lion King offered moments of uplift that faded when the lights came up. But hip-hop songs such as KRS-One's Build & Destroy, Gang Starr's Just to Get a Rep and Tupac Shakur's Holler If Ya Hear Me sound fierce and true, reflecting in mood and content the real world around me and many hundreds of thousands of fans...
...Tupac Shakur isn't the type of guy to let a little thing like incarceration put a crimp in his plans. The rapper, who is the first singer to have an album reach No. 1 on the charts while in the joint, has married his fianca Keisha Morris. Shakur is serving a one-to-four-year sentence for sexual abuse. The honeymoon has been postponed...
...film tells the story of budding young basketball star Kyle Watson (Duane Martin) who is supposedly torn between the influence of the fast-living Birdie (Tupac Shakur) and the more responsible Tommy Shepard (Leon Robinson). But the movie isn't very good at presenting a convincing moral dilemma...
...Shakur puts forth a lackluster version of the typical "Superfly" character. His Birdie is only slightly menacing and only slightly charismatic. Kyle becomes enamored of Birdie when they meet in a nightclub and Birdie hooks Kyle up with an attractive yet apparently mute woman in a mini-skirt...