Tupac Shakur

In a podcast interview, Snoop Dogg spoke about seeing his late friend Tupac Shakur hospitalized before his death following a 1996 shooting.

Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyrics from classic songs such as “California Love” and “Dear Momma” along with galleries that pay homage to his upbringing and late mother are among the features in a massive touring museum exhibit. The Shakur Estate announced Tuesday that “Tupac Shakur. Wake Me When I’m Free” will open Jan. 21 in Los Angeles. The exhibit is described...

Pinkett Smith took to Instagram to celebrate the birthday of the late rapper and her longtime friend.

Shock G, who blended whimsical wordplay with reverence for ’70s funk as leader of the off-kilter hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57.

It’s no joke — Tupac Shakur lives in Kentucky and needs unemployment benefits to pay his bills.

Singer Sheryl Crow says the original tapes of albums such as “Tuesday Night Music Club” and the track “All I Wanna Do” perished in a 2008 fire at Universal Music Group.

A lawsuit from a photographer who was suing Kendall and Kylie Jenner’s fashion label over T-shirts with the late rapper Tupac Shakur’s image on them is being dropped.

Jada Pinkett Smith says she was a drug dealer when she first met late rapper Tupac Shakur in high school. Smith opened up about her past and her relationship with Shakur on SiriusXM radio Wednesday. She and Shakur were high school classmates in Baltimore. She says she changed her life after “something very bad” happened, but didn’t give details. She...

The fashion label for Kendall and Kylie Jenner said Sunday it only sold two “vintage” T-shirts with late rapper Tupac Shakur’s image on them before pulling the items from stores. The Kendall + Kylie brand released a statement in response to a copyright infringement lawsuit filed Friday by a commercial photographer who shot the images on the shirts. The lawsuit...

A commercial photographer has sued Kendall and Kylie Jenner over the use of two of his images of late rapper Tupac Shakur that were used on T-shirts the sisters briefly sold for $125 apiece....
Michael Miller sued the Jenner sisters in a Los Angeles federal court on Friday for copyright infringement over the “vintage” T-shirts that featured their likeness or designs...

A magazine writer has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the creators of the new Tupac Shakur biopic, saying that portions of the film are based on his articles about the late rapper. Kevin Powell says in the suit filed Friday that “All Eyez On Me” borrows from articles he wrote and interviews he did with Shakur in the 1990s...

Demetrius Shipp Jr. never acted before playing Tupac Shakur in “All Eyez on Me.” But his connections to the rapper, and to acting, go back to his childhood....
Shipp’s uncanny resemblance to Shakur inspired his friends to call him “Pac” in high school. And even before that, Shakur’s music was part of his life. Shipp’s dad is a music producer who...

David Letterman will replace an ailing Neil Young as the person inducting Pearl Jam into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Friday.

Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain says former singer Steve Perry will be in attendance when the band is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot is for sale, with an asking price of $1.5 million. California memorabilia dealer Moments in Time has listed the 1996 BMW 750iL that once belonged to Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight on its website.