Tupac Shakur just can’t get a break lately. Even though he’s been dead for over fifteen years, he’s still making headlines in the most awkward ways possible. First there were those bizarre reports by the rapper’s former bandmates who claim to have smoked his cremated remains in a blunt. Those rumors were furiously denied by [...]
Here’s a story they didn’t prepare us for in Fab Life school. The family of slain rapper Tupac Shakur is denying reports that his ashes were smoked in tribute. This follows a video that was posted on VladTV yesterday by Tupac’s former group The Outlawz, who claimed that they cut some marijuana with their dead [...]
Eric Breed, a rare “breed” of MC in that he was both from the midwest and artistically influential during the 90′s, died in his sleep at a friend’s house near Detroit on Saturday. In September, the Flint, Michigan-based rapper collapsed due to kidney failure while playing a game of pickup basketball in Atlanta. MC Breed [...]
There’s no tradition in hip-hop more exciting than the feud. Since the earliest days of street-corner rhyme battles, MCs have been taking each other head-on, fighting to be the best on the block, the hottest in the neighborhood, or the king of the whole game. Rap beefs can originate anywhere, from a subtle slight to [...]
