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Tupac Shakur

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Sexist, Anti-Labor (Anti-Human?) Robots Take Over Customer Service Duty At Area Airports

    WNYC reported yesterday that five "avatars" are going to be taking up customer service duty at Port Authority airports. The above video is a demonstration of what one of these projected robots will do. They will not be interactive, nor holographic like Tupac, but rather be a kind of 2D video displ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2012

    Tupac Shakur, the Los Angeles Times, and Why I'm Still Unemployed: A Personal History by Chuck Philips

    Last week, a trial in Brooklyn started off with a strange twist. At the federal criminal trial of James Rosemond -- a/k/a Jimmy Henchman -- one of the first things Rosemond's attorney did was kick an unemployed journalist named Chuck Philips out of the courtroom by naming him a witness in the case. ... More >>

  • Music

    April 18, 2012

    Tupac's Hologram Asks, "Remember The '90s?"

    At what point does the nostalgia overwhelm the art?

  • Voice Choices

    January 11, 2012

    Digital Underground

    At what point does the nostalgia overwhelm the art?

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Back Forty Stages an Oyster Showdown. Slurpers Mark Calendar.

    ChefMattRockWellfleets will try their damnedest.​ There have been numerous East Coast-West Coast feuds: Biggie vs. Tupac, David Chang's "Fig-Gate," and now a bicoastal oyster rivalry. The country's bivalve bookends will go head-to-head at Alphabet City's Back Forty on November 19 from 3 p.m. t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    From The Archives: Download The Village Voice's 1996 Tribute To The Late Tupac

    The September 24, 1996 cover​ Today is the 15th anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur, and in 1996 the Voice paid tribute to the late rapper by putting him on the cover of the September 24 issue (above) and running remembrances by dream hampton, Nelson George, Natasha Stovall, and TourĂ©. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    The Five Best Moments On Yo! MTV Raps

    MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. ​ Debuting during the golden year of '88, Yo! MTV Raps revolutionized TV coverage of hip-hop music. Of course, hip-hop videos existed long before Yo! launched—Grandmaster Fl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Dexter Isaac Says That He Shot Tupac Shakur At Quad Studios In 1994

    ​ Tomorrow would have been Tupac Shakur's 40th birthday, and a new revelation involving his life has come out: An associate of James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond has confessed to shooting Tupac Shakur at Quad Studios 17 years ago in a statement to AllHipHop.com. Dexter Isaac, who's currently serv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Rap Made Me Do It: Ten Books I Read Because Of Hip-Hop

    ​When rappers reference items they consume--whether Cristal, Clarks Wallabees, or chronic--listeners seek them out, either out of curiosity or a desire to be like their heroes. And thanks to hip-hop's tendency to occasionally serve as an educated, sound-advice-giving older sibling, those refer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Tupac Is (Probably) Not Alive And Living In New Zealand

    Not a recent photo. ​Oh, those hacker kids, getting up to no good on a holiday weekend by reviving the hip-hop generation's own "Elvis Alive And Eating Giant Sandwiches Somewhere Far Away" myth. A hacker collective calling itself (sigh) The Lulz Boat got all up in PBS' web site over the weeken ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    10 Music-Related Revelations From The FBI's File On Biggie's Murder

    ​The 1997 murder of Christopher Wallace, b/k/a/ the rapper The Notorious B.I.G., remains unsolved. Last week, the case became both more transparent and more suspicious as the FBI opened up its files into an investigation about not just who shot Biggie Smalls, but also who helped orchestrate th ... More >>

  • Music

    October 27, 2010

    Greg Nice Is for the Kids

    An old-school MC warms himself in slightly trendier clothing

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Mike Tyson's Top Ten Rap Cameos

    ​Reggie Rock Bythewood's One Night in Vegas, airing on ESPN tonight as part of the network's "30 for 30" documentary series, shines a light on the little known friendship and many parallels between tortured souls Mike Tyson and Tupac Shakur. The title of Bythewood's documentary is a reference ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    The Ten Most Exploitative Posthumous Rap Projects

    ​Being a dead rap artist isn't much fun. Whether The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, or J Dilla, death has never seemed to do much to alleviate the constant pressure on artists to muster up new recordings to satisfy the bulging posthumous rap retail market. (In the hip-hop world, possessing a heart t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    The Top Ten Rap Supergroups That Never Happened

    Over the weekend, the rapper Sean Price took to Twitter to propose a collaboration album between his own Brooklyn-based Boot Camp Clik hip-hop crew and Staten Island's mighty Wu-Tang Clan. The idea has been received rapturously. But then again, theoretical hip-hop supergroups usually are. Rap's hi ... More >>

  • Music

    December 15, 2009

    Go Ham or Die Trying: Pill's Calm Path to Mixtape Stardom

    Over the weekend, the rapper Sean Price took to Twitter to propose a collaboration album between his own Brooklyn-based Boot Camp Clik hip-hop crew and Staten Island's mighty Wu-Tang Clan. The idea has been received rapturously. But then again, theoretical hip-hop supergroups usually are. Rap's hi ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2009

    The Cool Kids

    Over the weekend, the rapper Sean Price took to Twitter to propose a collaboration album between his own Brooklyn-based Boot Camp Clik hip-hop crew and Staten Island's mighty Wu-Tang Clan. The idea has been received rapturously. But then again, theoretical hip-hop supergroups usually are. Rap's hi ... More >>

  • News

    April 22, 2009

    Letters: April 23 Edition

    Over the weekend, the rapper Sean Price took to Twitter to propose a collaboration album between his own Brooklyn-based Boot Camp Clik hip-hop crew and Staten Island's mighty Wu-Tang Clan. The idea has been received rapturously. But then again, theoretical hip-hop supergroups usually are. Rap's hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    "They Put on Wigs, They Buy Dildos, They Put It in They Mouth"

    "That's stuff we would have done in middle school. When you're dealing with degenerates on this level, it's something you have to deal with. Did we think it was a threat to Khaled's mother? Of course not. That's what these dudes do: They put on wigs, they buy dildos, they put it in they mouth, they ... More >>

  • Film

    January 14, 2009

    Biggie's Small, in Notorious

    Notorious B.I.G. made B.L.A.N.D.

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2008

    Tiger, Paul McCartney and Diddy: Celeb Tabloid Roundup

    Notorious B.I.G. made B.L.A.N.D.

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2007

    DMX Has a Greatest-Hits Album

    Notorious B.I.G. made B.L.A.N.D.

  • NYC Life

    April 17, 2007

    Weighting for Lefty

    Solving for Malcolm X at a Brooklyn confab

  • Film

    January 2, 2007

    'Freedom Writers'

    Solving for Malcolm X at a Brooklyn confab

  • Music

    July 4, 2006

    Jesus Is My Hype Man

    The South Bronx's premiere hip-hop pastor expertly mingles the dope with the dopey

  • Music

    April 18, 2006

    Wild Wild West

    Hyphy from the Bay Area restores Dionysian lost balance to hip-hop's lopsided map

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Culture Clash

    '86–'95: From Evangelicals to Trannies, the First Gulf War to Tupac Shakur

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2005

    Status Ain't Hood Interviews Juelz Santana

    '86–'95: From Evangelicals to Trannies, the First Gulf War to Tupac Shakur

  • VLS

    May 10, 2005

    After Sebald

    German Shepherding with the notorious W.G.

  • Music

    February 22, 2005

    MCs Are Paid, Not Born

    Straight out the thug factory, rhyming for only a year, and ready for his cover story in Vibe

  • People

    February 8, 2005

    Thug Luvin'

    Straight out the thug factory, rhyming for only a year, and ready for his cover story in Vibe

  • Music

    August 17, 2004

    Too Young to Understand

    Tupac speaks from back when there seemed to be no choice

  • Film

    November 11, 2003

    Black Jesuz

    Tupac from Beyond the Grave, in His Own Words

  • Music

    June 17, 2003

    Music

    Tupac from Beyond the Grave, in His Own Words

  • News

    November 19, 2002

    World War of Words

    As Battles Turn Complicated, Murder Remains Bigger Than Hip-Hop

  • Film

    September 24, 2002

    An Interview With Biggie & Tupac Director Nick Broomfield

    As Battles Turn Complicated, Murder Remains Bigger Than Hip-Hop

  • Film

    September 24, 2002

    The Untouchables

    As Battles Turn Complicated, Murder Remains Bigger Than Hip-Hop

  • Film

    February 5, 2002

    Gimme Shelter

    Sundance's Real Deals

  • Art

    January 8, 2002

    Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

    Sundance's Real Deals

  • Books

    September 18, 2001

    Black Blueprint

    Sundance's Real Deals

  • Music

    August 21, 2001

    Crack, Commerce, and Conscience

    Sundance's Real Deals

  • News

    June 26, 2001

    Sex & Negrocity

    John Singleton on Shtupping, Shaft, and Spike

  • Theater

    April 3, 2001

    2Bad for 2Pac

    John Singleton on Shtupping, Shaft, and Spike

  • Specials

    January 30, 2001

    Letters

    John Singleton on Shtupping, Shaft, and Spike

  • News

    January 16, 2001

    Confessions of a Gangsta Rapper

    Murder, Robbery, Police Brutality, Hip Hop, and Other Tales From a Pioneer of the Crips Gang in New York

  • News

    January 2, 2001

    Daddy Under the Gun

    Publicly, Rap Mogul Won’t Beg; Quietly, He Pleads

  • Art

    October 24, 2000

    Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

    Publicly, Rap Mogul Won’t Beg; Quietly, He Pleads

  • Music

    July 6, 1999

    Diddily-Dee

    Publicly, Rap Mogul Won’t Beg; Quietly, He Pleads

  • News

    December 1, 1998

    Revenge of the Mad Rappers

    When hip hoppers use violence to silence their critics

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