Are Rappers The Biggest Bullies?

Today is Anti-Bullying Day in British Columbia, and almost on cue with this day, rapper Lil Wayne has released a diss track about rapper 50 Cent. Shortly after hip hop and rap were created, rap beefs started. Biggie...

Crown Jewels: First-Ever Auction of Historic Hip-Hop Jewelry

You know hip-hop has gone beyond mainstream when uppity art auctioneers like Phillips de Pury & Co organize the first-ever auction of hip-hop jewelry. With the likes of 50 Cent, Pharrell, P. Diddy, Missy...

Death Row Records Auctioned for $24 Million

Suge Knight's infamous Death Row Records has been auctioned to Global Music Group for a cool $24 million. The gives Global access to the label's extensive back catalog of multi-million selling rap records by...

Bob Marley, Tupac Image Used In Mugabe Slander Campaign

Global marketing giant Young & Rubicam have begun a sell-off of their holdings in Zimbabwe after learning the company’s head was behind Robert Mugabe’s election campaign image makeover, as well as adverts that mock Britain and the opposition Movement for Democratic...

Judge Orders Suge Knight To Auction Death Row Starting At $24Mil

Judge Vincent P. Zurzolo has ordered Suge Knight to place Death Row Records on auction on June 24, 2008 at a starting bid of $24 million dollars.

LA Times Retracts Tupac Shakur Story

The LA Times has retracted stories about Tupac Shakur's murder that relied on information from 'fabricated' FBI reports. Now that's some Pulitzer-prize worthy reporting.At least they were called out on their...

The Times apologizes over article on rapper

"The Times apologizes over article on rapper"

LA Times Apologizes for Tupac Story

Update: The LA Times has issued an apology to Sean "Diddy" Combs following an internal investigation of the sources used for the story which linked Combs to the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur in a New York City...

Diddy Denies Diddling in Death of Tupac

The lack of knowledge about the murders of martyred hip-hop icons Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. has plagued the hip-hop community for more than a decade, so salacious suggestions like the one made in the LA...

Tupac's Hummer up for auction

How to maximize the obnoxiousness of driving a Hummer:"New ride?""Yeah it's Tupac's Hummer."" When Tupac Shakur passed away in 1996, he had two treasured automotive possessions — a Toyota Land Cruiser and a...

Vandals place noose on Tupac Shakur statue

vandals tie a noose around the neck of the bronze statue of Tupac Shakur (2Pac) Hat Tip: ThugLifeArmyThe Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF) regrets to report that a series of attacks have taken place...

"I take more pleasure in forcing a man to oral sex me than letting a woman" -...

BITCH MAKER"I TAKE MORE PLEASURE IN FORCING A MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN'T BE PUNKED TO ORAL SEX ME THAN LETTING A WOMAN DO IT" -ARTIST, FELON & THUG CRIMINALLY INSANEKirkland Perkins (ATL) - Recording spoken...

A Tale of Two Mothers

"Their sons Biggie and Tupac were slain. Now each has embarked on a mission: to honor their sons' legacies. In a season of grim anniversaries, another passed last week, little noticed. It has been 10 years since rapper Tupac Shakur was shot on a street in Las Vegas. And in...

10 years later, Tupac's legacy lives on (AP)

" NEW YORK - In the years since hip-hop lost its most dynamic figure, several superstars have embodied the qualities that made Tupac Shakur such a legend. 50 Cent's vicious raps and bullet-scarred body recall Shakur's reckless, dangerous side. Eminem's tortured lyrics remind...

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