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Fan Drops
Serious Cash for
Tupac's Old Hummer

May 21, 2016 9:45 AM CDT

Fan Drops Serious Cash for Tupac's Old Hummer

The fully customized vehicle also included a cassette of Thriller

(Newser) - An anonymous 2Pac fan in the Midwest just paid more than $337,000 for the late-rapper's customized Hummer H1 at auction, CNN reports. Tupac Shakur bought the vehicle three months before he was killed in 1996 at the age of 25. An executive vice president at RR Auction calls...

Tupac's Mom Dead at 69

OBITUARY

May 3, 2016 10:11 AM CDT

Tupac's Mom Dead at 69

Afeni Shakur suffered apparent cardiac arrest at home

(Newser) - Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac, died Monday at a Northern California hospital after apparently suffering cardiac arrest at her Sausalito home. The Marin County Sheriff's Department confirmed her death on Twitter after deputies responded Monday night; she was pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later. She was...

New Documentary: Diddy Ordered Tupac's Murder

Feb 4, 2016 10:59 AM CST

New Documentary: Diddy Ordered Tupac's Murder

Retired LAPD detective says department covered up the truth

(Newser) - Two decades later, the mystery still hasn't been officially solved: Who killed Tupac Shakur? In a new documentary, a retired LAPD detective says the department actually did solve the case but covered up the truth: Sean "Diddy" Combs was behind the murder, alleges Greg Kading. His film Murder ...

Tupac's Letter
Explaining
'Thug Life
Is Dead':
$225K

Oct 5, 2015 10:03 AM CDT

Tupac's Letter Explaining 'Thug Life Is Dead': $225K

Rambling, emotional letter is up for sale

(Newser) - After Tupac Shakur declared from jail in 1995 that "Thug Life ... is dead," he explained himself in an emotional letter to Nina Bhadreshwar, a staffer at his record label, Death Row Records. That five-page letter is now for sale for $225,000 from Moments In Time , the New ...

Lyrics Tupac Wrote
in Jail Going Up
for Auction

Sep 10, 2015 10:52 AM CDT

Lyrics Tupac Wrote in Jail Going Up for Auction

One set could fetch nearly $80K

(Newser) - While Tupac Shakur was in jail in 1995, a year before his shooting death, he hand-wrote lyrics that are now going up for auction, ITV News reports. The original penned lyrics for "Ambitionz Az a Ridah" and "Tradin' War Stories" are expected to fetch high prices (as much...

Madonna: Reporting Rape 'Not Worth It' for Me

Mar 12, 2015 10:53 AM CDT

Madonna: Reporting Rape 'Not Worth It' for Me

She also reveals she dated Tupac Shakur

(Newser) - During the first year a young Madonna lived in New York, she was raped , and she opened up about it during an interview with Howard Stern yesterday, E! reports. She needed money for a payphone, and a man she asked for change convinced her to make her call from his...

7 Musicians-Turned-Actors

Sep 7, 2014 9:35 AM CDT

7 Musicians-Turned-Actors

You may have forgotten about some

(Newser) - Who says a celebrity can only do one thing? HLN rounds up 14 musicians who tried their hands at acting. A sampling:

Prince, Purple Rain
Mick Jagger, The Man From Elysian Fields
David Bowie, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Michael Jackson, The Wiz

Tupac's
Last Words
Were Kind of
Obscene

May 23, 2014 10:43 AM CDT

Tupac's Last Words Were Kind of Obscene

Said F-you to a cop, the retired officer reveals

(Newser) - Eighteen years after a Las Vegas cop pulled a dying Tupac Shakur from the passenger seat of the car the rapper had been shot in, now-retired Chris Carroll is telling his story. In an extensive interview with VegasSeven.com , Carroll says he heard the rapper's last words: He asked...

Amy Winehouse
May Go on Tour
as Hologram

Mar 28, 2014 1:23 PM CDT

Amy Winehouse May Go on Tour as Hologram

Show would use same technology that put Tupac Shakur at Coachella

(Newser) - Tupac paved the way , and now Amy Winehouse may follow. British tabloid the Sun reports that the late Winehouse may go on a world tour as a 3D hologram. "The idea is in its early stages, but it’s hoped that Amy’s dad Mitch will maybe join...

20 Movies That
Debuted After
a Star's
Death

Dec 7, 2013 3:15 PM CST

20 Movies That Debuted After a Star's Death

Paul Walker died less than two weeks before 'Hours' release

(Newser) - Paul Walker died less than two weeks before the Dec. 13 release of Hours, a movie about Hurricane Katrina he starred in. The San Francisco Chronicle rounds up many more examples of movies released after one of their stars died. Click through the gallery for a sampling, or check out...

10 Eerie Hollywood Deaths

Nov 23, 2013 1:19 PM CST

10 Eerie Hollywood Deaths

Mysterious circumstances surround these celebrities

(Newser) - Brittany Murphy's sudden death has always been mysterious, especially when it was followed by the death of her husband, months later, apparently from the same cause. Now her dad wants the investigation into Murphy's death re-opened, because he thinks she was poisoned. The Huffington Post rounds up 30...

Elvis Lives Again
—As a Hologram

Jun 7, 2012 8:28 AM CDT

Elvis Lives Again —As a Hologram

Will be created by firm who remade Tupac

(Newser) - Another dead music legend is set to reappear: Like Tupac Shakur at Coachella, Elvis Presley will soon be back in hologram form. Digital Domain Media Group, which created Tupac's festival hologram, is reconstructing the rock 'n' roll icon, the AP reports. Elvis' hologram will appear live and in...

Tupac Ready for Tour

Apr 17, 2012 2:10 AM CDT

Tupac Ready for Tour

'This is just the beginning, says creator

(Newser) - The wildly popular virtual Tupac that debuted at Coachella is ready to hit the road. Representatives for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg are discussing plans for a concert tour involving the rappers and Tupac, sources tell the Wall Street Journal . A tour might only include the trio, or could involve...

Tupac Performs
at Coachella

Apr 16, 2012 10:50 AM CDT

Tupac Performs at Coachella

Shakur appears with Snoop Dogg ... in hologram form

(Newser) - All of Snoop Dogg's guests during his set last night at Coachella were impressive—Dr. Dre, Eminem, 50 Cent—but none could quite match an appearance by the late Tupac Shakur. Death didn't stop the legendary rapper, who appeared as a hologram, from dueting with Snoop on songs...

Sean Combs
Ordered
Tupac
Murder:
LA Cop

Sean Combs Ordered Tupac Murder: LA Cop

And Suge Knight had Biggie Smalls killed in revenge, says book by former LAPD detective

(Newser) - Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were murdered by the order of rival record company bosses, according to an LAPD detective who investigated Tupac's slaying in 1996. Gang informant Keffe Davis claims Sean Combs—then known as Puff Daddy—offered him $1 million to kill Tupac and Death Row records...

NYPD Probing
Felon's Claim
He Shot Tupac

Jun 16, 2011 9:23 AM CDT

NYPD Probing Felon's Claim He Shot Tupac

Dexter Isaac says he still has a chain he stole from rapper

(Newser) - New York City police have begun an investigation into an online posting supposedly from a convicted felon who claims to have shot and robbed (but not killed) slain rapper Tupac Shakur. If police determine the post is legitimate they will seek to interview the prisoner, a police spokesman said yesterday....

Felon Admits He Shot Tupac in 1994 Assault

Jun 15, 2011 7:29 PM CDT

Felon Admits He Shot Tupac in 1994 Assault

It happened two years before rapper's murder

(Newser) - Tupac Shakur would have turned 40 tomorrow, and his 1996 murder remains unsolved. But a felon serving a life sentence is claiming to clear up the 1994 assault of the rapper: Dexter Isaac tells AllHipHop that he robbed and shot Shakur in Manhattan after being hired to do so by...

Rapper
Nate Dogg
Dead at 41

OBITUARY

Mar 16, 2011 4:51 AM CDT

Rapper Nate Dogg Dead at 41

Gangsta rap legend started out with Snoop Dogg, Warren G

(Newser) - West Coast gangsta rap star Nate Dogg has died at the age of 41, reports his hometown newspaper, the Long Beach Press-Telegram . The cause of death is not yet known, but the rapper—real name Nathaniel D. Hale—had battled health problems in recent years and suffered strokes in 2007...

13 Years Later, Notorious BIG
Investigation Back On

Jan 7, 2011 7:45 AM CST

13 Years Later, Notorious BIG Investigation Back On

Task force investigating new leads, say sources

(Newser) - Thirteen years later, the murders of rappers Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur remain two of the music industry’s highest-profile unsolved mysteries—but that could soon change. Police “reinvigorated” the Notorious BIG murder case months ago, sources tell CNN , and they are actively looking into leads and new information...

'Conspiracy' Video
Claims to Show
Jacko Still Alive

Aug 27, 2009 3:45 AM CDT

'Conspiracy' Video Claims to Show Jacko Still Alive

(Newser) - A new "conspiracy" video making the rounds on YouTube purports to show Michael Jackson being escorted from a coroner's van after his death, reports the Telegraph. The poster claims to have received the video from a "trustworthy" source, though there is absolutely nothing on the video that supports...