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...been called the thug Elvis and Malcolm X reborn as a rapper. Since he predicted his own demise and since the movie of his life and death is called Tupac: Resurrection, we may as well surrender to hip-hop hype and say Tupac Shakur was the gangsta Jesus. True to his cult status, Shakur's myth blossomed after his death. So did his estate. It earned a lively $12 million last year. As with the deaths of so many celebs, his was a pity, an irony, a great career move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Retiring Was Not an Option | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Shop ’til You Drop.” An English tutorial close reads Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City, while the African American Studies department offers courses in hip-hop, and English 178x, “American Protest Literature,” studies Tupac Shakur. Vin Diesel is cited as a “Byronic Hero” in British Romantic Poetry, and Linguistics professor Alice Jardine explores why we “Like Ike” but “Love Lucy” in her class on 1950’s popular culture...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bubblegum Machine | 9/26/2003 | See Source »

...starring in and directing Rampart Scandal, about alleged cop corruption in the Tupac Shakur murder case. He's also defying age and logic by planning a Rocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Those Guys Look Like Rocky | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...call to jihad. In Tani, a village in Khost province a few kilometers from the border with Pakistan, parents say school enrollment has doubled, and a 14-year-old boy excitedly describes a curriculum that now includes science, math and English. At a fruit stand in Logar province, Shakur, 60, says his village now has a medical clinic. The Taliban, he says, "did nothing for this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Undefeated | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...year is 1995. Vanilla Ice is nothing more than a pop culture joke, Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. are alive, and an intensifying “East Coast/West Coast” rivalry is sending hip-hop albums to the top of the charts. In other words, it’s not quite the right moment for a random white guy from the Midwest to embark on the path to rap superstardom...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Eminem Show | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

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