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Tupac memorial mural

on Houston Street. New York, N.Y., 1997.

Photograph: Al Pereira,

From the Eyejammie Hip Hop Photography Collection

From Duke Ellington to Public Enemy:

Images of Hip-Hop and Its Cultural Roots

An exhibition at a Smithsonian Museum

draws the connections

between hip-hop

and previous generations

of African-American musicians and activists.

NYT

July 26, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/
lens/from-duke-ellington-to-public-enemy-images-of-hip-hop-and-its-cultural-roots.html

Tupac Shakur in 1992.

Photograph: Eli Reed

Magnum Photos

A Tupac for Everyone

‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur

NYT

JUNE 4, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/
theater/holler-if-ya-hear-me-uses-songs-by-tupac-shakur.html

Tupac Shakur, New York City, 1991.

The rapper was captured on the cusp of stardom,

about to release his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now

Albert Watson's celebrity portraits – in pictures

G

Wed 29 Nov 2017    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/nov/29/
albert-watson-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

2Pac & Dr. Dre     California Love

2Pac & Dr. Dre - California Love HD LYRICS

YouTube > no one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiWoF5tvLG4

Tupac Shakur on Life and Death

Blank on Blank    PBS Digital Studios

Tupac Shakur on Life and Death

Video    Blank on Blank    PBS Digital Studios

"If I was white I would have been like John Wayne...

I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur

Interview by Benjamin Svetkey

March 1994

Microcassette recorder

Related profile appeared in Entertainment Weekly

Executive Producer: David Gerlach

Animator: Patrick Smith

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x2FqX2YZws

Tupac Amaru Shakur    1971-1996

rapper and actor

who built a career on controversy

(...)

Mr. Shakur was a complex

and sometimes

contradictory figure,

with a career featuring

million-selling albums,

gunshot wounds

and run-ins with the police.

He was

an intelligent, vivid writer

who had studied acting

at the High School

of Performing Arts in Baltimore;

he was an accomplished rapper

with a husky baritone

and crisp enunciation.

He was also

a convicted sex offender,

and the words

''Thug Life'' and ''Outlaw''

were tattooed on his body.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/14/
arts/tupac-shakur-25-rap-performer-who-personified-violence-dies.html

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
tupac-shakur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thug_Life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thug_Life,_Volume_I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Hate_U_Give_(soundtrack)

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/29/
1202716171/tupac-shakur-killing-duane-davis-indicted

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/06/
who-murdered-tupac-shakur-william-shaw-keefe-d-nevada-raid

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/
1188565874/tupac-murder-investigation-house-search

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/
arts/music/shock-g-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/
lens/from-duke-ellington-to-public-enemy-
images-of-hip-hop-and-its-cultural-roots.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/nov/29/
albert-watson-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/06/23/
534122055/tupac-shakur-biopic-all-eyez-on-me-hit-with-copyright-infringement-lawsuit

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/
movies/all-eyez-on-me-review.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/10/
chi-modu-best-photograph-tupac-shakur-2pac

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/09/14/
493014365/realizing-tupac-wasnt-cool-20-years-later

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/13/
493671606/tupac-shakurs-legacy-20-years-on

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/11/
493176227/tough-love-kwame-alexander-remembers-tupac

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/
403362626/the-racially-charged-meaning-behind-the-word-thug

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/13/
399351658/how-young-people-went-underground-during-the-70s-days-of-rage

http://www.npr.org/2013/07/24/
205220949/remembering-tupacs-breakout-album-20-years-later

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2013/07/19/
203360557/in-1993-tupac-breaks-through

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/20/
174839318/tupac-encouraged-the-arab-spring

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/
opinion/tupac-live-and-onstage.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/16/
tupac-shakur-shooting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/jul/24/
urban.2pac

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/
movies/film-tupac-shakur-dead-man-talking.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_2_My_Unborn

song released as a posthumous single

from his album Until the End of Time in 2001.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/14/
arts/tupac-shakur-25-rap-performer-who-personified-violence-dies.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
All_Eyez_on_Me

- e fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac

and the last to be released during his lifetime.

Released on February 13, 1996,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Me_Against_the_World

- third studio album by American rapper 2Pac.

Released on March 14, 1995,

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/08/
nyregion/rapper-faces-prison-term-for-sex-abuse.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/02/
nyregion/wounded-rapper-gets-mixed-verdict-in-sex-abuse-case.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/01/nyregion/
for-a-rapper-life-and-art-converge-in-violence.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/30/
nyregion/rap-artist-tupac-shakur-shot-in-robbery.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Ya_Head_Up

from Tupac's  second studio album,

Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...(1993).

It was released on October 28,

1993 as the album's third single.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/02/
us/rapper-charged-in-shootings-of-off-duty-officers.html

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