However, Hammer did record tracks with Shakur and others, most notably the song " Too Late Playa " ( along with Big Daddy Kane and Danny Boy ).

A part of additional record labels, he has associated / collaborated / recorded with VMF, Tupac Shakur, Teddy Riley, Felton Pilate, Tha Dogg Pound, Whole 9, Deion Sanders, Big Daddy Kane, BeBe & CeCe Winans and Jon Gibson, as well as others.

However, Hammer did record tracks with Shakur and others, most notably the song " Too Late Playa " ( along with Big Daddy Kane and Danny Boy ).

Hip hop music and culture has a big influence on the Namibian youth, with influence from American slain rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B. I. G., and others like Nas, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Eminem.

Crouch has criticised, among others, author Alex Haley, the author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Roots: The Saga of an American Family ; community leader Al Sharpton ; filmmaker Spike Lee ; scholar Cornel West playwright Amiri Baraka ; as well as Tupac Shakur, in reference to whom he wrote " what dredged-up scum you are willing to pay for is what scum you get, on or off stage.

A year later, Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Anderson in response to a lawsuit Anderson filed against Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, Tupac's estate and others in the Death Row organization.

He has worked artists like TLC, Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder, Babyface, and Jay-Z, among others.

The top 25 moments included incidents involving Marion Barry, Terrell Owens, Wilson Goode, Michael Jackson, Flavor Flav, Whitney Houston, and Tupac Shakur amongst others.

Using this against Biggie in " Hit ' Em Up ", Shakur continued to fuel the rumors of a sexual relationship with Evans in the line " You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.

** Assata Shakur ( née Joanne Chesimard ), a former member of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, escapes from a New York prison to Cuba, where she remains under political asylum.

Shakur was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, on July 16, 1947, where she lived for three years with her parents and grandparents, Lula and Frank Hill.

That same year she changed her name to Assata Shakur and joined the Black Liberation Army ( BLA ), " a politico-military organization, whose primary objective ( was ) to fight for the independence and self-determination of Afrikan people in the United States.

Shakur then allegedly displayed a revolver and a struggle ensued, during which she was shot.

Shakur is alleged to have said that she was glad that she had been shot since now that she had experienced what it was like she was no longer afraid to be shot again.

In 1972, Shakur was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the FBI alleged that she was the " revolutionary mother hen " of a Black Liberation Army cell that had conducted a " series of cold-blooded murders of New York City police officers ", including the " execution style murders " of New York Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones on May 21, 1971 and Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie on January 28, 1972.

Assata Shakur testified that she was on her way to Baltimore for a job as a bar waitress.

In Congress, she advocated unsealing records pertaining to the CIA's role in assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the murder of Tupac Shakur and continued to criticize the Bush Administration over the 9 / 11 attacks.

According to Shakur, she was beaten and tortured during her incarceration in a number of different federal and state prisons.

Guy was a good friend of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, whom she met through her A Different World co-star Jada Pinkett Smith.

According to Shakur she had given him gifts of clothing, which he offered as proof of a relationship in an interview.

The assistant had even mistakenly lost the pager, but by the time she found it Shakur had grown wary of her, so he fired her.

" Shortly after the release of " Hit ' Em Up ", Evans went on the radio, denying that she had been with Shakur.

Despite initial critical cynicism of the program's concept, it quickly gained cult status and was praised for the quality of its production, witty and often cringe-induced humour ( one recalls a contestant's sobbing lament of the deaths of two icons she held dear-Diana, Princess of Wales, and Tupac Shakur ).

Wilkerson exhausted his final appeal to Judge Jan Krocker in February 2000, a dramatic scene involving community activist Njeri Shakur ( member of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement and the Allen Parkway Village Residents Council ) shouting at Judge Krocker led to a contempt charge against Shakur ; she served 30 days in the Harris County Jail albeit several demonstrations outside the Harris County Courthouse.

During recording, she also landed a role in John Singleton's 1993 film Poetic Justice starring pop singer Janet Jackson and hip-hop artist / actor Tupac Shakur.

Assata Olugbala Shakur ( born July 16, 1947, as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard ) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party ( BPP ) and Black Liberation Army ( BLA ).

Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur was accused of several crimes and made the subject of a multi-state manhunt.

In May 1973 Shakur was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike, during which New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur were killed and Shakur and Trooper James Harper were wounded.

Between 1973 and 1977, Shakur was indicted in relation to six other alleged criminal incidents — charged with murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, bank robbery, and kidnapping — resulting in three acquittals and three dismissals.

Shakur was then incarcerated in several prisons, where her treatment drew criticism from some human rights groups.

Shakur was arrested for the first time in 1967 with 100 other BMCC students, on charges of trespassing.

On April 6, 1971, Shakur was shot in the stomach during a struggle with a guest at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan and was arrested on a string of charges.

Following an August 23, 1971, bank robbery in Queens, Shakur was sought for questioning, and a photograph of a woman ( who was later alleged to be Shakur ) with thick rimmed black glasses, a high hairdo pulled tightly over her head, and a steadily pointed gun became ubiquitous in banks and full page print ads paid for by the New York Clearing House Association.

On December 21, 1971, Shakur was named as one of four suspects by New York City police in a hand grenade attack that destroyed a police car and slightly injured two patrolmen in Maspeth, Queens ; a 13-state alarm was issued three days after the attack when a witness identified Shakur and Andrew Jackson from FBI photographs.

Shakur was one of those wanted for questioning for wounding a police officer attempting to serve a traffic summons in Brooklyn on January 26, 1972.

Specifically, documentary evidence suggests that Shakur was targeted by an investigation named CHESROB, which " attempted to hook former New York Panther Joanne Chesimard ( Assata Shakur ) to virtually every bank robbery or violent crime involving a black woman on the East Coast ".

According to police, Shakur knocked on the door of a room occupied by an out-of-town guest and asked " Is there a party going on here?

On May 2, 1973, at about 12: 45 a. m., Assata Shakur, along with Zayd Malik Shakur ( born James F. Costan ) and Sundiata Acoli ( born Clark Squire ), was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick by State Trooper James Harper, backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle ( Car 820 ), for driving with a broken tail light.

Questioned by prosecutor C. Judson Hamlin, Harper said he saw Foerster shot just as Assata Shakur was felled by bullets from Harper's gun.

Three of the most famous drive by shootings were the murders of Tupac Shakur on September 13, 1996, and The Notorious B. I. G on March 9, 1997 and The Steve Harvey Show's Merlin Santana on November 9, 2002.

Gang Member, a memoir by Sanyika Shakur

East Brunswick was also the site of the gunfight at Turnpike Exit 9 shortly after midnight on May 2, 1973, in which a car being driven by Zayd Malik Shakur ( born James F. Costan ), with Assata Shakur ( formerly JoAnne Chesimard ) and Sundiata Acoli ( born Clark Squire ) as passengers, was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike State Trooper James Harper, backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle.

* Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations by the Detective Who Solved Both Cases, Greg Kading, One Time Publishing, 2011.

: The truth behind the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls by Randall Sullivan, Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2, 2002, 384 pages, ISBN 0-87113-838-7

Earth, Wind & Fire's songs have been sampled by numerous artists, including UGK, A Tribe Called Quest, Wyclef Jean, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg, Nas Jay-Z, Amerie, The Fugees, LL Cool J, De La Soul, Common, Frank Zappa, Naughty by Nature, P Diddy, The Roots, Will Smith, Cee-Lo Green, Lisa " Left Eye " Lopez of TLC, Public Enemy, EPMD, Lupe Fiasco, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Tupac Shakur and MC Lyte.

The basic riddim of his hit " Zungguzungguguzungguzeng " can be traced throughout the hip hop scene as it was reused by such hip hop giants as KRS-One, Sublime Notorious B. I. G., Tupac Shakur, and Blackstar, formed by Mos Def and Talib Kweli.