Evans, Jennifer June 21, 2001 | Aside from "If My Homie Calls," the singles "" and "" poetically depict individual struggles under socioeconomic disadvantage |
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" Sexual assault conviction In November 1993, Shakur and three other men were charged in New York with a woman in his hotel room | com, while ranking him fifth among the greatest rappers, nonetheless notes, "Tupac Shakur is the most influential hip-hop artist of all time |
Suge Knight: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Death Row Records: The Story of Marion 'Suge' Knight, a Hard Hitting Study of One Man, One Company That Changed the Course of American Music Forever | "Rapper Shakur Gets Prison for Assault" |
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I don't remember his songs but I remember that I didn't like them due to the foul language with all the swearing and the excessive use of the "F" WORD! | At the 1996 Soul Train Music Awards, Shakur won for best rap album |
from the original on June 6, 2012.
8Martin, Douglas June 3, 2011 | The next Shakur album, released in March 1995, lacks Stretch, and Shakur's album after that, released in February 1996, has lines suggesting Stretch's impending death for betrayal |
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from the original on October 26, 2014 | At the end of 1993, the rapper organized the Thug Life band out of his friends, with whom he managed to record only one album Thug Life Vol |
" Philips writes, "The slaying silenced one of modern music's most eloquent voices—a ghetto poet whose tales of urban alienation captivated young people of all races and backgrounds.