2pac
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30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 16: 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre, 'California Love'
June 16 is Tupac Amaru Shakur’s birthday. Today—June 16, 2020—he’d be 49 years old. Since it’s Tupac’s birthday and one of his singles— “California Love”—happens to feature one of the most iconic hip hop videos of all time, it only makes sense to include him here. The video for “California Love,” which was directed by…
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Will Smith Admits Regret in Handling Jada Pinkett Smith’s Relationship With 2Pac: ‘I Was Deeply Insecure…Wasn’t Man Enough to Handle That’
Just because Will Smith is one of the most successful human beings in the history of ever doesn’t mean he’s not susceptible to jealousy just like every other husband. During a visit to the popular morning show The Breakfast Club, the Bad Boys for Life star admitted that the well-documented bond between his wife, Jada…
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The 15 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
Hip-hop celebrated its 46th birthday on August 11. The anniversary of the genre’s unofficial yet widely accepted formation in the Bronx just happened to coincide with the tail end of a conversation regarding everyone’s top 50 rappers list. The thought of putting together my own top 50 list always put me off; once you get…
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Keep Ya Head Up: Iowa Official and Tupac Superfan Forced to Resign After Sending Mass Email Quoting the Rapper
Jerry Foxhoven—his real name, not his rap name—was the director of Iowa’s social services agency. He was also a huge fan of late rapper Tupac Shakur and he reportedly let his workers know it. According to the Associated Press, Foxhoven—or “Hov-N” as he will be called for the rest of this article—sent messages to his…
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Church Accidentally Prints Lyrics to 2Pac’s ‘Hail Mary’ for Christmas Carol Service
OK, this one is pretty funny. A church in Sri Lanka intended to put the words to a popular Christian prayer in its Christmas carol bulletin but ended up sharing the lyrics to a popular Tupac Shakur song instead. Attendees at the Dec. 11 service thought they would see “Hail Mary, full of grace” in…
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10 Rap Songs That Would Be As Big (Or Bigger) Today As When They Came Out
Last weekend, I found myself in an actual (and serious) conversation about the merits of No Limit Records. I’m a southerner so I have a vast appreciation for the house that Master P built in terms of what it did for budding entreprenuers on a national scale (and by national I mean east coasters, southern and…