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2Pac’s Last Concert in The House Of Blues, 1996!
The show that almost never happened It’s been 25 years since the show that changed Rap. A lot of life has happened since then. A lot of death too. It was a moment...
Why Was Tupac Named Lesane Parish Crooks?
The G.O.A.T. was born Lesane Parish Crooks on June 16, 1971. A few days later (June 29, 1971), his mother, Alice Faye Walker (Afeni Shakur), changed his name to Tupac Amaru Shakur,...
Scarface Tells The Stories of Tupac & Recording ”Smile”
Scarface: ‘Pac and I used to record together, there was one time we were in the studio recording “Smile” and he spit his verse, and the engineer hadn’t put the mic on,...
Slow Tears Fell From ‘Pac’s Eyes: One Rare Story For Chuck D & Tupac [October 20, 1991]
One story from founder of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation, Adisa Banjoko: When THUG shed tears It was October 20th, 1991 and the hills of Oakland caught fire. What started as a small brush fire...
Nate Dogg – ”Me And My Homies” ft. 2Pac, Nanci Fletcher Talk About Story
Nanci Fletcher: ''Nate called me on day n told me him n Pac had jus finished a song n wanted me to come down to Can Am Studios n get on it....
The Story Of How Tupac Recorded ”California Love”
Chris Taylor, known as "The Glove", is a pioneer DJ and producer on the West Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
laweekly.com talked with Taylor about how it all went down...
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One Tragic Story of Robert ”Yummy” Sandifer
In September 19, 1994 Time Magazine covered the story about a Robert "Yummy" Sandifer (11 year old child gang member) who is coerced by older gang members into committing a string of murders....
Ronald “Riskie” Brent – His First Meeting with Tupac
Ronald "Riskie" Brent : One day, while I was in front of my house, I saw a line of ’64 Impalas driving down the street with different people from the Death Row...