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.

Since the 1990s, he has produced, written, arranged and remixed artists including Nas, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Kimberley Locke, Maxwell, Avant, Tupac Shakur, and Shaquille O ' Neal.

She has also since launched a fashion clothing line, Makaveli Branded ; all proceeds go to his charity, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation.

Maryland has produced popular musicians from many fields, including doo wop and hardcore punk, as well as the gangsta rap of Tupac Shakur, the contemporary R & B of Toni Braxton and the pop of Cass Elliott.

Documents relating to the death of rapper Tupac Shakur, in which McKinney has taken an active interest, would be released under another bill introduced by Rep. McKinney.

It has since been sampled by at least six rap artists, including Tupac Shakur, E-40, and Mase.

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.

Hall was friends with Tupac Shakur and it has been reported that a young Puff Daddy ( P Diddy ), joined Uptown because of Guy.

LaChapelle ’ s striking images have graced the covers and pages of Italian Vogue, French Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone and i-D, and he has photographed personalities as diverse as Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Madonna, Shakira, Amanda Lepore, Eminem, Philip Johnson, Lance Armstrong, Pamela Anderson, Lil ' Kim, Uma Thurman, Elizabeth Taylor, David Beckham, Paris Hilton, Jeff Koons, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, and Britney Spears, to name a few.

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

It has also been noted for erroneously stating the amount of money the jewellery was worth that Shakur had taken from him during the shooting incident.

In retrospect of the events which ensued only a few months afterward, the song has been viewed as the turning point in the feud between Shakur and Biggie, where things were said and sung which could never be taken back during the remainder of Shakur's life.

Eminem has support from D12 on his version like the Outlawz supported Shakur on the original.

She has also collaborated with the Bay Area based R & B group, Somethin ' for the People ; and with Tupac Shakur on his hit single, " Me Against the World ", which was featured on the Bad Boys movie soundtrack and his album of the same name.

Epps has also dedicated his time and money to the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation for the Arts in Georgia.

Surkov reportedly has portraits of Argentine-born revolutionary Che Guevara and American rapper Tupac Shakur next to one of Putin in his Kremlin office and is fond of poets such as Allen Ginsberg of the Beat Generation.

Amaru Entertainment has also released eight posthumous albums by Tupac Shakur and one documentary, Tupac: Resurrection.

She has since done many other films including Any Given Sunday, The Chamber, Gang Related with Tupac Shakur and Jim Belushi, and Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Knock Off, and The Big Hit as love interest to Mark Wahlberg.

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.

As of February 17, 1972, when Shakur was identified as one of four BLA members on a short trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Shakur was wanted for questioning ( along with Robert Vickers, Twyman Meyers, Samuel Cooper, and Paul Stewart ) in relation to police killings, a Queens bank robbery, and the grenade attack.

Shakur was announced as one of six suspects ( pictured left ) in the ambushing of four policemen — two in Jamaica, Queens, and two in Brooklyn — on January 28, 1973, despite the fact that the assailants were identified as male.

In the October that followed, towards the end of the same year, Tupac Shakur had been bailed out of jail by Death Row's Suge Knight in exchange for releasing his following four albums on Death Row Records.

Rap artist Tupac Shakur attended the fight and shortly after was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in the Las Vegas metropolitan area of Nevada.

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.

Oakland was the birthplace or home at one time of several rap acts, including MC Hammer, Digital Underground, Hieroglyphics ( including Souls of Mischief and Del tha Funkee Homosapien ), The Luniz, Tupac Shakur, and Too Short.

After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlawz and Tha Dogg Pound, Death Row Records stagnated after Knight's incarceration on parole violation charges in September 1996.

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.

Late 1993, Tupac Shakur formed the group Thug Life with a number of his friends, including Big Syke, Macadoshis, his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur, and Rated R. The group released their only album Thug Life: Volume 1 on September 26, 1994, which went gold.

The group usually performed their concerts without Shakur. Shakur's music and philosophy is rooted in many American, African-American, and World entities, including the Black Panther Party, Black nationalism, egalitarianism, and liberty.

Digital Underground is also notable for launching the career of member Tupac Shakur, as well as spinning off side projects and solo acts including Raw Fusion, Saafir, and female singer Mystic.

The show's traditional reliance on the character-driven sketches featuring Damon and Keenen gave way to an increasing reliance upon walk-on cameos and guest appearances, including Nick Bakay, Barry Bonds, James Brown, Rodney Dangerfield, Bret Hart, Sherman Hemsley, Biz Markie, Peter Marshall, Ed O ' Neill, Chris Rock, Macho Man Randy Savage, Tupac Shakur, and players from the National Basketball Association.

During the 1990s, Riperton's music was sampled by many rap and hip-hop artists, including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest, Blumentopf, and Tragedy Khadafi.

Subsequent work was primarily collaborative, including work with Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B. I. G., and Scarface.

He is also recognized as a producer, featuring on his own mixtapes several " Green Remixes ," including, most notably, a remix of the Nas and Tupac Shakur collaboration, " Thugz Mansion.

The Black Liberation Army members ; including Jeral Wayne Williams ( aka Mutulu Shakur ), Donald Weems ( aka Kuwasi Balagoon ), Samuel Smith, Nathaniel Burns ( aka Sekou Odinga ), Cecilio " Chui " Ferguson, Samuel Brown ( aka Solomon Bouines ) were also all eventually captured by 1986 and sentenced to long prison terms.

Shakur was charged with two bank robberies, the kidnapping of a Brooklyn heroin dealer, attempted murder of two Queens police officers stemming from a January 23, 1973 failed ambush, and eight other felonies related to the Turnpike shootout.

As a result, DMX was the second rapper in history ( following Tupac Shakur ) to have released two albums in the same year, which both debuted at number one on Billboard 200.

Shakur is best known for planning the infamous $ 1. 6 million robbery of a Brinks armored truck in New York in which a guard and two police officers were killed.

Two months after the death of Shakur, Kadafi was killed in a housing project in New Jersey ; after two years, Napoleon convinced his cousin to turn himself in for shooting Kadafi.

These events led to public speculation, but after two days of questioning Anderson in detention the Las Vegas homicide detective Lt. Larry Spinosa told the media, " At this point, Orlando Anderson is not a suspect in the shooting of Tupac Shakur .".

The following year, Rouleau contributed two tracks to the video game 25 To Life, which also featured music by Tupac Shakur, Public Enemy, DMX, Geto Boys and Tech N9ne.

* In 1979 three members walked into the visitor ’ s center at the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women near Clinton, took two guards hostage, and freed Assata Shakur, a member of the Black Liberation Army.

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 ).

Stretch appeared on numerous albums and movies with Tupac Shakur before the relationship between the two allegedly turned sour after Shakur was shot in New York City, New York, on November 30, 1994.