TupacShakur

Soulja Boy doesn't live the life of your average 20-year-old. In just four short years, he's taken what started out as a simple teenage rhyme and turned himself into a millionaire entrepreneur. Transitioning from potential one-hit wonder to a money-making machine before he can even drink legally has been a steady climb for the young rapper...

Singer Erykah Badu will be headlining a benefit concert in honor of the 40th birthday of Tupac Shakur in Atlanta on June 16. The respected singer will be joined by jazz legend Roy Ayers, West Coast rap pioneer Too Short and southern hip-hop heroes Bun B, 8-Ball & MJG and several more, in celebration of the life of one of hip-hop's fallen icons, who was gunned down on Sept. 13...

Soulja Boy received some pretty negative feedback for reprising the roll played by Tupac Shakur in the film 'Juice,' but now it looks like he might also end up playing the slain rapper. According to the 20-year-old, his talent agency wants to put him up for the part...

In March, producers of the Tupac biopic began the search for the film's lead actor and now a screenplay penned by the late rapper has sealed a deal for production. During an 11-month jail sentence in 1995, Tupac wrote and completed the screenplay 'Live 2 Tell,' which is now scheduled to begin production in 2012...

The FBI has released a file on Tupac "2Pac" Shakur that reveals the rapper and N.W.A. founder Eazy-E were targets of an extortion plot by alleged terrorist organization the Jewish Defense League. "This release consists of a 1997 investigation into allegations that extortionate death threats had been made against Shakur and another rap artist by a domestic terrorist group," read

Afeni Shakur Davis has to wait a little longer to deal with her case stemming from a drug arrest. Tupac's mom, who was arrested last April after getting caught with marijuana on her person, will now go before a judge on June 2, making it the third time that her case has been delayed...

After years of anticipation, it seems that Morgan Creek Pictures has finally gotten their ducks in a row and will begin filming a Tupac biopic in late Spring or early Summer. Set to be helmed by 'Training Day' director Antoine Fuqua and executed produced by none other than Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur, the film still doesn't have a lead actor set and much of the other casting remains in-progress...

The Los Angeles Grammy Museum has announced that it will be debuting it's first hip-hop exhibit next week, to coincide with the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. The interactive exhibit, titled "Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey," will open on Saturday, Feb...

In July 2010, it was revealed that 'Training Day' director Antoine Fuqua was in the process of bringing Tupac Shakur's life to the big screen in a biopic. Though the film was originally supposed to begin shooting in September, the flick is now slated to begin lensing in April in Los Angeles, with expected characters to include former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur

Thirteen years after the death of legendary Brooklyn rapper, Notorious B.I.G., Los Angeles police officials are investigating new evidence that might finally close the unsolved case. Christopher Wallace was shot and killed in his car, while leaving a music industry party in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, but a perpetrator has not been named in the case...