Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore, and ...
Pac earns a surprise modern hit as “Hit ’Em Up” debuts on a Billboard chart, adding another posthumous milestone to the ...
But Still I Rise was an aptly named posthumous album that was released in 1999, and featured Outlawz. The album name came from a phrase that was first made famous by poet and civil rights activist ...
On this date in 1996, just two months after his tragic murder on the Las Vegas strip alongside Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, Tupac Amaru Shakur posthumously released what would become the final ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Sometimes, it’s hard to believe that it’s not 1995 anymore. Back then I ...
In a recording career that spanned barely five years, 2Pac released four solo albums that made him an icon of the burgeoning West Coast rap scene, topping the charts in a blur of controversies, court ...