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...Winners HIDEO NOMO First Chinese basketball player . . . wait, wrong sport. Japanese pitcher becomes the fourth to throw a no-hitter in both U.S. major leagues TUPAC SHAKUR Posthumous album by the rapper who went down in a hail of bullets in 1996 hits No. 1. Expect John Phillips to top the charts in 2007 GOLDEN LION TAMARIN The Brazilian monkey fights back from near extinction; immediately teams up with Clint Eastwood for Any Which Way You Can sequel...
...Internet and radio hot lines daily to swear they glimpsed you dancing in a nightclub or slipping out of a recording studio--five years after you were laid to rest--it's a sure sign something special is going on. So it goes with the firebrand rapper Tupac Shakur, whose celebrity has swelled into a mystique of near Elvis-like intensity since his death in a Las Vegas drive-by in 1996 at age 25. Shakur was an electrifying rapper whose flashes of gangsta bravado (like the petulant song Hit 'Em Up) were counterbalanced by a gentle sweetness (the tender...
...center of all things Tupac is his mother Afeni Shakur, 54, a former imprisoned Black Panther who has transformed herself into hard-nosed keeper of the flame, hiring advisers to watch over her son's legacy but calling the shots herself. After a court battle, Afeni won control of Tupac's master tapes, worth millions of dollars. (The court also ruled that Death Row--the label to which Tupac was signed at his death--is entitled to a cut of the proceeds from recordings he made under contract...
...plenty of material to work with. Shakur was a prolific artist who in life released four albums, made six films and wrote more than 100 poems. He also left behind hours of unreleased tapes. Using earnings from his earlier albums, Afeni created a new record label--Amaru (Tupac Amaru is an Incan name meaning Shining Serpent)--endowed a foundation and opened a performing-arts camp in Stone Mountain, Ga., like the one her son attended as a child. "The arts saved Tupac," says Afeni...
...Unborn (Shakur left no children), eerie in its prescience about dying childless, is the sort of work that will nourish his mystique. Says poet Nikki Giovanni, who has studied Shakur extensively: "There's an old Nigerian proverb: You're not dead until you're forgotten." By that measure, Tupac lives...