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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...