Tupac

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police in Las Vegas say rap music mogul Suge Knight was arrested a traffic warrant and a misdemeanor drug charge. Officer Laura Meltzer says the 46-year-old former Death Row Records executive was stopped driving a black Bentley with California plates about 5:30 p...

Christmas is weeks away and Young Jeezy is finally gifting fans with his fourth album 'TM103,' set for release Dec. 20. As the holiday rolls around, the Atlanta native looks forward to giving more than he receives. But as he looks back on the season where gifts reign supreme, following Christmas traditions wasn't really something his family participated in once he hit adolescence...

15 years after the murder of West Coast rap legend Tupac Shakur, former LAPD Homicide Detective Greg Kading has offered the LA Weekly an advance glimpse at the pages of his self-published book 'Murder Rap,' which reveals several shocking developments about the unsolved case...

While Rick Ross and Meek Mill attempted to revive Tupac's spirit via song earlier this year, TMZ has reported a different kind of resurrection for the fallen hip-hop legend. The popular gossip site claims to have viewed a five-minute sex tape starring Tupac, and has published a blow-by-blow report...

Sept. 13 marks 19 years since Tupac Shakur left this planet. One of the most prolific MCs that hip-hop has ever seen, the West Coast native's early days of poetry were omnipresent in his music. His lyrics combined tongue-in-cheek bravado with cryptic lines predicting his early demise. 'Pac's catalog is intensely extensive, with posthumous releases still circulating to date.

Tupac Shakur's rap group the Outlawz have confirmed the long-standing rumors that they smoked the late MC's ashes at a memorial service in Las Vegas in 1996. Young Noble and E.D.I. told Vlad TV, "We twisted some of that great granddaddy California kush and mixed the big homie with it" and smoked the ceremonial blunt...

Weeks before his scheduled release from an Arkansas prison, T.I. has put pen to paper -- not to compose rhymes, but to write an impassioned letter he posted today (Aug. 16) on his website. In what he calls his final dispatch from the Forrest City Federal Correctional Complex, the Atlanta rapper thanks fans for years of support and promises that, come Sept...

While it has become acceptable for mainstream athletes, actors and even pop singers to bare visible tattoos, Tupac Shakur will always have some of the most memorable and recognizable body art. In honor of the 15th anniversary of Tupac's passing, the fallen rap legend's tattoos will be featured on the cover of the upcoming 21st edition of Urban Ink magazine...

With a new album in the books, Naughty by Nature made their way to the Essence Music Festival to showcase new music but to also pay tribute to slain hip-hop pioneers Tupac Shakur and Biggie, Saturday (July 2). Naughty frontman Treach, who was a longtime friend of Shakur, addressed the unsolved murders of both rappers, which occurred at the height of an East Coast West Coast beef...

Tupac may not really be back, but his music is still here. Last night (June 29), a pair of scathing diss songs recorded when the late rapper was at the heart of the heated East Coast vs. West Coast hip-hop feud hit the Internet. The two songs -- 'Watch Yo Mouth,' sometimes credited as 'Watch Ya Mouth,' and 'NY '87,' are not entirely unknown, with low quality versions of the former having made the