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That may sound heavy to most, but 2Pac spent his career on Interscope Records. Maybe Jimmy Iovine is right?

Find out more about Iggy Azalea’s new deal right here. And check out the links below to get familiar with her.

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Get details on the million-dollar offer involving Tupac, the Michael Jackson Tribute concert and why Drake pushed back his album below! Get more of “That’s What’s Up” right here!

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“I do remember doing a tape, I knew eventually it would come out,” he told a TMZ reporter in Hollywood. “I didn’t know who had it, but I knew it was out there. I’m not surprised. I knew eventually that one would surface.”

Money B, a member of Digital Underground, has no idea what the unreleased Tupac track playing on the tape might be but joked that he wouldn’t mind “getting some money” from the sale since he appears on it.

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Where were you when 2Pac died? What do you miss most about him? Do you think his murderer will ever be brought to justice? Please leave your comments and thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of this page.

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XXL celebrates all things 2Pac, catching up with people who knew him best. One person XXL spoke with was Tupac’s biological father Billy Garland.

Check out the quote below and a video clip from a documentary by David Beckham where Billy speaks on Tupac.

Issue hits stands August 16th.

“[Tupac] cared for people,” he said. “That was his main thing. He really cared for people. I think that’s why he would get so upset when people tried to question his commitment, his love for Black women or Black men. The East Coast/West Coast, you know, that’s a fabrication. I don’t have to begin to tell you that. So when that was questioned, it bothered him. Because he would give his heart or soul. He was a giving person. He would give anything to people. He would go in a store. [If there was a] Black man who couldn’t afford a $1,500 pair of boots, he would buy ’em for him. Think that Black man would ever forget Tupac? That’s just the way he is. But I don’t think that he did it for that. He did it because he had it, and he didn’t. That’s the way he is.”

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Can Am Studios
Tarzana, CA 18730 Oxnard Street

When: August 1996

What: The fifth and final studio album from the iconic Tupac Shakur was finished in a total of seven days, barely a month before his death.

In celebration of Black Music Month, TheUrbanDaily’s “It’s All Black Music” presents 100 Rewarding Black Music Moments, sponsored by Southwest Airlines.

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Baltimore School for the Arts.
712 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-5298

When: June 25, 1986

What: In 1986, Afeni Shakur relocated her daughter and son Tupac from Harlem to Baltimore.  After two years at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, the late rapper transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he got an education in acting, poetry and dance. He also became close friends with classmate Jada Pinkett.

In celebration of Black Music Month, TheUrbanDaily’s “It’s All Black Music” presents 100 Rewarding Black Music Moments, sponsored by Southwest Airlines.

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He states:

I want to apologize to his family [Tupac Shakur] and for the mistake I did for that sucker [Jimmy Henchman]….. I am trying to clean it up to give [Tupac's and Biggie's] mothers some closure.

Since the news of the confession broke, Tupac fans have been torn in whether to believe Isaac or not. What do you think? Take the poll on BlackPlanet.com and let us know if you think he’s telling the truth or just trying to get his 15 minutes of fame.

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“It’s a flat out lie, Dexter Isaac is not claiming this 17 years later to clear his conscience. He’s doing it because he’s told anybody who will listen he doesn’t want to die in prison. He has kids and wants to work off his sentence. He can’t be trusted.”

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According to Variety.com, the film has a budget of $11 million. Production will begin on the film during the first quarter of 2012.

The film tells the story of a young thug who is attempting to put his criminal ways in the past.

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President Obama’s speech at the White House Correspondents dinner made headlines for its relentless roasting of Donald Trump, who President Obama silenced earlier in the week after releasing his birth certificate, proving that he was born on American soil.

“Donald Trump is here. I know he’s taken some flack recently, but no one is more ready to put the birther issue to rest than the Donald,” President Obama said. “So he can focus real issues at hand facing America, like ‘Did we really land on the moon?’ ‘What really happened in Roswell?’ And, ‘Where are Biggie and Tupac?’”

During a video, which poked fun at Vice President Joe Biden, Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” was used as background music.

President Obama’s speech was widely praised for its lightheartedness, which included the President releasing his “birth video” which turned out to be a scene from Disney’s The Lion King, and the video introduction which featured the President’s birth certificate flashing on the screen while Rick Derringer’s “Real American” (aka Hulk Hogan’s theme music) played.

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“Basically, it’s your boy Soulja and I’m Bishop in 2011, running around in the streets, man,” SouljaBoy told Vibe. “Cam’Ron reached out to get in the movie. Some of the original actors that were in the original reached out too.”

Filming for the movie begins April 28th in Atlanta.

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“On September 11, 1996 [redacted] reported that JDL, and others yet unidentified have been extorting money from various rap music stars via death threats,” the report states. “The scheme involves [redacted] and other subjects making telephonic death threats to the rap star. Subjects then intercede by contacting the victim and offering protection for a ‘fee’. Source reported that ERIC WRIGHT, also known as EAZY-E, who owned RUTHLESS RECORDS, Woodland Hills, California, was a victim of this extortion scheme prior to dying from AIDS. [Redacted] had also reportedly targeted TUPAC SHAKUR prior to his recent murder in Las Vegas, Nevada.”

The investigation into the Jewish Defense League was closed in May 1999 after the FBI were unable to get anyone to corroborate their initial source’s claims.

The document is available in full at the FBI’s website and can be viewed here.

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“I always felt like Biggie and Tupac’s death were bigger than how they made it to be,” Kim says. “It’s bigger than Suge Knight being involved, I think it’s even over his head. Them two were very powerful guys; they both could’ve ran for mayor just like Arnold Schwarzenegger and probably won. So I think the government was looking at it like we cannot have these two hood dudes with this much power…”

Somebody tell Kimmy Blanco that Schwarzenegger was Governor, not Mayor….

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In this candid moment he shares some personal memories about Christmas in Baltimore and the challenges of growing up Black in the inner city.

I wish more rappers emulated THIS Tupac and not just the Thug Life persona.

“No one should have a lottery for $36 million and there are people starving…you only need one house…” –Tupac

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The original Star Wars Trilogy?

That was George Lucas.

Indiana Jones?

George Lucas was behind that one too.

But over the years, Lucas has become a bit of a villain in the eyes of many die-hard film fans.

It all started with the special editions of the original Star Wars trilogy that came out at the end of the ’90s and continued with the generally maligned Star Wars prequels.

Now it seems that George Lucas wants to do something that may propel him to supervillain status:

Work with dead actors.

Thanks to incredible advances in computer-generated imagery (CGI), it’s now possible to use “digital actors” in films.  The upcoming Disney film Tron Legacy features a digitized version of the still-very-much-alive) Jeff Bridges that appears just as he did in the original Tron film from 1982.

Lucas is looking to capitalize on this by buying up the film rights of deceased actors for the purpose of using them in his upcoming projects according to Mel Smith, a friend of Lucas and director of the 1994 film Radioland Murders, which was co-written and produced by Lucas.

George has been buying up the film rights to dead actors in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together, so you’d have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck alongside today’s stars.

Granted, this news comes from The Sun, a British tabloid.  But considering Lucas’ other crimes against cinema, we wouldn’t be surprised if this really were true.  Plus, Lucas owns Lucasfilm, LTD and Industrial Light & Magic, two of the leading companies in creating special effects.

We just hope he’ll bring back Tupac, Ossie Davis, Madge Sinclair, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Lynne Thigpen, Bernie Mac, Fred “Rerun” Berry, and Rosalind Cash.

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Powell just inked a book deal to write Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography.

“It is an honor to write what will be the definitive biography on the life and times of Tupac Shakur, one of the greatest icons in hiphop and pop culture history. Our relationship began when I documented his journey while at Vibe in the 1990s. And I will never forget being there at that Las Vegas hospital when Tupac’s death was announced. He remains, all these years later, one of the most dynamic and complicated humans I’ve ever encountered. I will present Tupac as the very whole and multi-layered being he was, as I remember well his asking me, quite prophetically, to be Alex Haley to his Malcolm X.”

Tupac’s mother and executor of his estate, Afeni Shakur, has given her blessings to the project. “Kevin Powell is doing this Tupac Shakur biography with my full blessings,” says Afeni. “I trust him and his history of documenting my son’s life, and I know he will do the book from his heart.”

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Waka also talks about how 2Pac’s Makaveli album introduced him to the work of Italian philosopher, Niccolò Machiavelli, who Waka claims to have read a lot about.  We kinda doubt that Waka’s read any of it.  We aren’t even certain Waka can read.

“We don’t believe you!  You need more people!” – Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter

If Waka really is playing dumb, it really bothers us that A) he feels the need to do that, B) that he’s ridiculously successful because of it while people who have something of substance to say struggle in the music business, and C) that he’s playing the entire country like this.

While there have always been Waka Flockas in the music business, at least there were Mos Def’s around to balance it out, but judging by what comes over the airwaves and what we see on television, that balance is absolutely gone.

The terrorists have won.

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Fourteen years ago today Tupac Amaru Shakur, one of the most influential MCs ever, died of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest at Las Vegas’ University Hospital after being shot four  times in a drive by six days earlier. He was pronounced dead at 4:03 p.m.

A prolific MC and actor, Tupac sold over 75 Million records and starred in almost a dozen movies including Juice, Poetic Justice and Above The Rim.  Despite rampant speculation,  Shakur’s murder  remains unsolved.

Even in death he remains one of the most controversial and debated hip-hop artists ever, but there is no denying the influence he’s had on the game to this very day.

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A drunken Keith Murray was spotted outside of BB Kings’ in Times Square reminiscing about the time he fought Tupac in Vegas and a separate incident where he broke a bottle over Dame Dash’s head.

Is he foaming at the mouth?????

Let’s remember Keith during happier times…

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ESPN Films has announced a new season of their series 30 for 30, which will feature four new films, including a documentary on the night Tupac Shakur was shot multiple times in Las Vegas.

ESPN has tapped filmmakers like Ron Shelton, John Singleton, Steve Nash and Alex Gibney to create the Fall series of 30 for 30.

In addition to stories on sports legends like Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova (Unmatched), George M. Steinbrenner (The House of Steinbrenner) and Steve Nash (Into the Wind), the series will highlight the night Tupac Shakur was gunned down (One Night in Vegas).

One Night in Vegas will focus on the night of September 7th, 1996, the evening Tupac Shakur attended the Mike Tyson Vs. Bruce Seldon fight.

The story will delve into the friendship between Mike Tyson and Tupac Shakur, who were supposed to attend the after party together to celebrate Tyson’s first round “knockout” of Bruce Seldon.

One Night in Vegas was directed by Reggie “Rock” Bythewood (Notorious) with Mike Tyson’s full cooperation.

The documentary is slated to air on September 7, 2010, 14-years-to the date of Shakur’s shooting.

It’s a common occurrence in music for an album to be recorded and never see the light of day.

Sometimes the public doesn’t respond to any of the singles released, or record label politics get in the way.  Other times, the artist just decides that the material isn’t up to par and decides not to release it.

Unfortunately, music fans often miss out on some great work because an album isn’t released.

On the flipside, sometimes these unreleased albums find their way out of a record label’s vault and get bootlegged.

Here are some of our favorite unreleased albums that a crafty internet user could hunt down with a few properly worded Google searches.

50 Cent Power Of A Dollar.

Get Rich Or Die Trying was not 50 Cent’s first album.  In 2000, young Curtis was signed to Columbia Records and was starting to generate a buzz thanks to the song “How To Rob,” a song where 50 fantasizes about robbing several of R&B and Hip-Hop’s most prominent figures. Shortly before the video shoot for the album’s second single, “Thug Love” featuring Destiny’s Child, had been released, 50 was shot and hospitalized.  His label dropped him as a result.

If only they had the foresight to know that two years later, 50 Cent would use being shot as one of his big selling points!

Power Of The Dollar is an interesting listen to hear the similarities and differences between what 50 started out as and what he would eventually become.

Listen to “How To Rob”

Jack Herrera Retro Futuristic

Consisting of three members, R&B singer Jon B and two of his background singers, Jack Herrera recorded one of neo-soul’s greatest albums, but sadly the album would never be released.  The group was signed to Dreamworks Records and were set to release Retro Futuristic on the label.  The group only had two songs released officially — “High Off You,” which appeared on the Red Star Sounds Vol. 1: Soul Searching compilation, and “Free To Believe” from the Light It Up soundtrack. Why the album never came out has never been explained, but the album, which features guest spots from Will.I.Am and Black Thought of the Roots, lives on the internet!

Listen to “Jack Shuffle” featuring Will.I.Am.

Jean Grae & 9th Wonder Jeanius

Female MC Jean Grae and North Carolina producer 9th Wonder teamed up in 2004 to record a full album together titled Jeanius.  The album was eventually released in 2008, but had been drastically altered, mainly replacing samples with live instrumentation.  The original, sample-heavy version of the album is the one to own, and it’s out there if you can find it!

Listen to “Love Thirst” (original version)

Bilal Love For Sale

By 2006, fans of Bilal had grown tired of waiting for the follow up to his 2001 debut album, 1st Born Second, and knowing that his label, Interscope, had shelved his second album didn’t make things better.  Fortunately, some kind soul decided to leak the album in full.  The album showcased Bilal as more than just a neo-soul singer, with forays into jazz and blues. Bilal has since recorded an entirely new album, Airtight’s Revenge, scheduled to drop in September 2010.

Listen to “White Turns To Grey”

Q-Tip Open

After his 2002 album, Kamaal The Abstract, was shelved by Arista Records the label soon shut down, and Q-Tip signed with Dreamworks Records.  Deciding to cut his losses and start from scratch, Q-Tip began recording an album called Open. The album was slated to feature guest appearances from D’Angelo and Andre 3000. Dreamworks decided not to release the album. After Dreamworks closed its doors, and Q-Tip moved over to Universal Motown Records, who also passed on releasing the album.  After a little reworking, Open evolved into Q-Tip’s 2008 album, The Renaissance.  An official release of Kamaal The Abstract soon followed.

Listen to “That’s Sexy” featuring Andre 3000

Young Zee Musical Meltdown

Young Zee was a member of the Outsidaz, the New Jersey crew of emcees that put down a few classic guest spots on The Fugees’ The Score album.  In 1996, Young Zee was planning the release of his debut album, Musical Meltdown, but for whatever reason, the album never dropped.  It’s a shame too, as the album could have possibly been a classic east coast album with its clever lyrics and witty punchlines.

Listen to “Stay Gold” featuring Lauryn Hill

J Dilla Pay Jay

In 2002, the late J Dilla completed his major label debut album for MCA called Pay Jay. Dilla put his production skills on the back burner for the album and enlisted the likes of Pete Rock, Nottz, Kanye West, and ?uestlove to handle production duties. MCA decided not to release the album, and it remained unheard by the masses for several years until it leaked in 2008, 2 years after Dilla’s death.

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Dwele Unknown Title

Detroit’s Dwele created an insane buzz on the internet in the early 2000′s with his locally released Rize album.  Shortly after that album got a wider release, an entire album’s worth of songs started making the rounds.  It’s unknown whether or not the songs were intended to be an album, or if they were just a bunch of random songs Dwele had put on a CD-R.  Either way, fans of Dwele downloaded the songs in droves.  A few of them would wind up on Dwele’s major label debut, Subject, but several of them remain unreleased.

Listen to “High” featuring Bahamadia

Prince & The Revolution Dream Factory

1986 was a very prolific year for Prince. Though his movie Under The Cherry Moon was a commercial, critical, and artistic failure, the multi-talented musician was inspired enough to record a few dozen songs for the follow up to the film’s soundtrack. Dream Factory would have been an 18 track double album and is the last album project Prince completed with The Revolution before disbanding the group later that year. After The Revolution parted ways, the album went through tons of changes and became a triple album called Crystal Ball. Prince’s label, Warner Bros., refused to release a three album set and forced Prince to trim it down to two albums. The end result? 1987′s fan and critic favorite Sign O’ The Times.

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2Pac & The Boot Camp Clik One Nation

In 1996 at the height of the East Coast – West Coast feud, 2Pac sought to end it by teaming up with Brooklyn’s Boot Camp Clik for an album titled One Nation.  After 2Pac’s murder in September of 1996, the album was put on indefinite hold and has only seen the light of day through bootlegs.  Several of Pac’s verses from the album have been used on various posthumous releases over the years.  Last year, a label called A.E.G. acquired the rights to the original album and claimed that a digital-only release would happen later that year, but it didn’t and the album remains unreleased.

Listen to the original version of “Military Minds”

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Tupac Shakur’s mother Afeni Shakur was honored that the Library of Congress included her son’s tribute song “Dear Mama” in the National Recording Registry.

The song was one of 25 important recordings chosen by the Library of Congress for preservation due song’s cultural and historical importance.

“I’m incredibly touched.  It could have been any song, but I’m honored they chose ‘Dear Mama’ in particular,” Afeni Shakur said. “It is a song that spoke not just to me, but every mother that has been in that situation, and there have been millions of us. Tupac recognized our struggle, and he is still our hero.”

Read the whole article at AllHipHop.com!

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The Library of Congress has selected a 2Pac song for the 2009 National Recording Registry.

Pac’s 1995 song, “Dear Mama” was lauded by the Library of Congress for being “a moving and eloquent homage to both the murdered rapper’s own mother and all mothers struggling to maintain a family in the face of addiction, poverty and societal indifference.”

“Dear Mama” joins Public Enemy’s 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s 1982 single “The Message” in the Library’s preservation archives.

Recordings selected by the Library of Congress are nominated by the Library’s preservation board and online suggestions from the general public. The recordings must be at least 10 years old and be culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.

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