The mother of rap legend Tupac Shakur, Afeni Shakur, is being reported as dead at the age of 69 according to the Marin County Sheriff department.

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Erykah Badu is known and praised for her authenticity, but the songstress recently took to Twitter to show us all just how comfortable she really is in her own skin.

His time in prison came before he was shot to death in Las Vegas in 1996.   NEW YORK — A Tupac Shakur letter that appears to renounce the “thug life” he embodied is up for sale. The prison letters of Shakur are being sold 20 years after his death, but only for a buyer […]

A batch of previously unreleased works from Tupac Shakur is on the horizon thanks to a deal Afeni Shakur struck with JAM Inc. back in…

Earlier this month, RZA and producer Cilvaringz revealed that Wu-Tang Clan’s forthcoming single copy album The Wu – Once Upon A Time In Shoalin will only be released commercially and to the masses after 88 years have passed. Obviously this caused a ruckus among fans and spectators alike. Not long afterwards, XXL jumped on the phone with […]

A Tupac Shakur exhibit is set to open at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on February 2. “All Eyes On Me: The Writings of Tupac Shakur” is slated to include lyrics, notes and poems by the MC. Fans will also reportedly get a chance to see some of the outfits the rapper wore and some […]

Saul Williams just landed the role of a lifetime! The actor, poet, artist and musician will star in the upcoming Broadway musical “Holler If Ya…

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Jada Pinkett-Smith has been very vocal about her relationship with slain rapper-poet-actor Tupac Shakur and her appearance on Friday’s Arsenio was no different. “Pac was probably…

  *The long-gestating Tupac biopic has finally set a shooting date, with producers/financiers Morgan Creek and Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films announcing plans to begin principal photography on the film next spring, notes The Hollywood Reporter. The two companies held a reception for friends and supporters of the late hip hop artist at the Zanzibar in Santa Monica […]

Afeni Shakur, mother of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur, has reached a settlement over the $2.2 million she said her son’s estate is owed in the bankruptcy case of Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight. Earlier this month, a bankruptcy judge ruled that Afeni will receive a claim of $668,121.76 in Suge Knight’s bankruptcy case. […]