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Tupac Shakur’s Father Reacts to ‘Coward’ Line in ‘Dear Mama’

[ad_1] Tupac Shakur's biological father is opening up about being dissed by the rapper on 'Pac's hit song "Dear Mama."On Tuesday (June 6), The Art of Dialogue released the latest segment of their full-length interview with Billy Garland, Tupac Shakur's estranged biological father. During the sit-down, Garland was asked directly to address how he felt about being called a "coward" on 'Pac's maternal ode.Tupac's Dad Reacts to "Dear Mama" Lyrics"At first, I was upset ’cause I’m trying to see you and, you know…but then it hit me," Garland said. "For one, I ain’t dead, so you really didn’t know me. Because if you would have known me, you would know that I wasn't dead....

Rappers in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

[ad_1] Hip-hop has proved itself as a force to be reckoned with over the course of nearly 40 years. While embraced by many facets of mainstream media and popular culture, rap was once shunned and looked at as inferior by other musical genres, with many taking jabs at the art form as a whole.Initially writing it off as a fad, time would show that rap music was indeed worthy of the same accolades and respect as genres like rock, country, R&B and other musical formats with a number of rap albums and songs slowly bridging the gap between hip-hop and the rest of the musical world. Today, unlike in the 1990s, when Aerosmith...

Tupac Shakur Drops Me Against the World – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:March 14, 1995: Tupac Shakur released his third solo studio album, Me Against the World, on this day in 1995. Featuring classic tracks like "Dear Mama" and "So Many Tears," the album was hailed by critics as one of the best releases of 1995, and Tupac's most personal work to date at the time.The project included leftover tracks from Thug Life Vol. 1, which were recorded during the period between 1993 and 1994. Me Against the World was released while ’Pac was serving a one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for sexual abuse.One of the most obvious and eerie themes of Me Against The World was ’Pac...

Tupac Sentenced in Sexual Assault Case – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Feb. 7, 1995: Although Tupac Shakur will always be remembered as a hip-hop legend with a lyrical flow and being a freedom fighter, he was sentenced as a sex offender on this day in 1995.In November of 1993, Tupac Shakur and members of his entourage were charged with sexually assaulting a female fan who would later be identified as Ayanna Jackson. The Brooklyn woman, who had previous sexual relations with the West Coast star a few days earlier, claimed she was raped by 'Pac and his entourage when she met them in a hotel room at New York's Parker Meridien Hotel. The late rhymer...

The Game Says NBA YoungBoy Will Be This Generation’s Tupac

[ad_1] Although The Game found YoungBoy Never Broke Again's feature verse price hilarious, he does respect the young man's rap legacy. In an interview, the Compton, Calif. rapper said NBA YoungBoy will be the Tupac Shakur of this generation.In a video interview with Montreality, which premiered on Wednesday (Aug. 31) on YouTube, The Game was asked about the rap game and he ran down a list of artists he likes and how today's rap generation views them. When it came to YoungBoy Never Broke Again, he said that he is this generation's Tupac Shakur and explained why."NBA YoungBoy will be the Tupac of this generation," he said at the 15-minute mark in...

T-Pain Thinks Tupac Would Be ‘Ate the F*!k Up’ Lyrically Today

[ad_1] T-Pain thinks if Tupac Shakur were still alive, he would've gotten washed lyrically by today's rappers.On Monday (July 11), T-Pain joined DJ Akademiks for a live video on Twitch and dropped a controversial opinion. During a conversation about how old-school rappers would fare in the age of social media, the "I'm Sprung" rap-crooner said if Tupac Shakur were still around to pop off the way he did in the 1990s, his legacy would be a lot different than it is currently. In fact, Pain is of the belief that by 2022 standards, the iconic West Coast MC's bars couldn't hold a candle to what rhymers are offering these days."I feel like, and I'm not...

The Current Status of Every Murdered Rapper’s Case

[ad_1] It was on a late August night in New York City in 1987 when hip-hop may have first lost its innocence. Almost 14 years to the day after DJ Kool Herc spun the genre into existence with his first-ever block party in the Bronx, Scott La Rock of Boogie Down Productions was shot in the head and neck in the same borough, later dying of his wounds at Misericordia Hospital. He was 25 years old.La Rock's murder was the first, but certainly not the last, hip-hop slaying that has gone unsolved by the police. For a genre of music that is no stranger to discussing the realities of the struggles in the inner cities, hip-hop artists have fallen...