Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore, and ...

Thirty years later, California Love remains one of the defining singles of the nineties and a moment that helped solidify ...

OPINION: In recognition of the 30th anniversary of 2Pac's sophomore release, theGrio examines how the contradicting themes of the album's biggest singles,"Keep Ya Head Up," and "I Get Around," ...

As the first performance of its kind, the 2Pac hologram became national news, and sparked worries that a wave of holo-tours, featuring ghostly apparitions of long dead stars, would soon be filling ...

In his new book “Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur, “Jeff Pearlman explains how he tracked down the real “Brenda” and her “baby” from the 1991 2Pac song. The opening chapter of ...

Barack Obama had genre-spanning selections on his new summer playlist, but rapper and podcaster Danny Brown can't stop laughing at his 2Pac song choice. On the latest edition of Obama's summer ...

In the years since Young Dolph‘s untimely passing, Key Glock has quietly established himself as one of the biggest rap stars out of Memphis. Since emerging with Glock Season in 2017, each of Glock’s ...

2Pac, also known as Makaveli, and of course Tupac Shakur, lives in hip-hop lore with a legacy of powerful albums that shaped the genre and enhanced perspective on both personal storytelling and ...