Johnny J was a multi-platinum songwriter, music producer & rapper who was perhaps best known for his production on Tupac Shakur's albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World.

Among other things, the podcast featured the band's thoughts about their 2005 South American tour, some information on their new album, a mash-up of " Drive " and Tupac Shakur's " Better Dayz ", a cover of Soundgarden's " Black Hole Sun ", and a few live interludes.

Much of the album's production was being handled by famed Tupac Shakur's producer Johnny " J ".

Prior to its release, Brown had been in negotiations with rapper Tupac Shakur to get signed to Shakur's new label Makaveli Records.

Soon Knight would sign rapper Tupac " 2Pac " Shakur, incarcerated on a sexual abuse conviction, after agreeing to post Shakur's bail.

* Bishop, the last name and nickname of Tupac Shakur's character in Juice ( film )

He was referenced by Richie Rich in Tupac Shakur's song " Rather Be Ya Nigga ", in the line, " Smoke blunts, but leave them stunts up to Super Dave ," in the Ice Cube song " Wicked ", with the line " We'll have to break his ass up like Super Dave ," in the A Tribe Called Quest song " The Chase, Part II " with the lyric, " We flippin ' on niggas like we Super Dave ," in the Cool Calm Pete song " Lost " with the line " You ( r ) fake stunts that's strictly for Super Dave ".

This came after Madonna and producers decided to remove Tupac Shakur's rap ( which he did while he and Madonna were dating in 1994 ), after he had criminal charges filed against him.

They had both eventually left the crumbling Death Row Records in 1999 after Daz left due to long-lasting internal struggles on the label after friend and labelmate Tupac Shakur's murder in 1996.

Tupac Shakur's debut album 2Pacalypse Now generated significant controversy stemming from then Vice President Dan Quayle's public criticism after a youth in Texas shot a state trooper and his defense attorney claimed he was influenced by the album and its strong theme of police brutality.

* Kastro ( born 1976 ), an American rapper and member of Tupac Shakur's rap group, Outlawz

Phyllis Hyman for her Living All Alone album, Go West's version rose high in the adult contemporary charts, and Boyz II Men's version in 2004, Tupac Shakur's " Do for Love ," which samples the lyric, also attained a good deal of popularity.

It placed third, behind Tupac Shakur's eighth posthumous release, Tupac: Resurrection, which moved 430, 000 albums, and Jay-Z's The Black Album, which sold 463, 263 copies.

Parts of the song were also used for the chorus of rap artist Tupac Shakur's ' No More Pain '.

Other famous cover subjects are, Trey Songz, Brandy, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Amerie, Jennifer Lopez, Keyshia Cole, Janet Jackson, Lil Wayne, The Fugees, Eminem, T. I., R. Kelly, Michael Jackson ( whom Quincy Jones ' daughter Kidada had dressed in hip-hop clothing, reportedly for the first and only time in the entertainer's career ), Ciara, who also appeared on the cover numerous times and rap legend Tupac Shakur's famous cover story in which he reveals important details about his non-fatal 1994 NYC shooting ( two years before his death in Las Vegas, Nevada ).

Outlawz, formally known as Outlaw Immortalz, is an American hip hop group founded by Tupac Shakur in late 1995 after Shakur's release from prison.

Dramacydal first appeared on the B-side of Tupac Shakur's 1993 single Holler If Ya Hear Me, the track " Flex ".

* In 1996, " The Way It Is " was heavily sampled in Tupac Shakur's hit song " Changes ", which was released in 1998.

Also in 1993, she played the mother of Tupac Shakur's character in Poetic Justice.

* The bassline from " Friends " is sampled in Tupac Shakur's " Troublesome ' 96 ".

He was slated to direct Tupac Shakur's official biopic.

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 genre-crossing Frank Zappa was also from Maryland, as was Tupac Shakur, who was born in Harlem, though he began his career in Baltimore, eventually becoming one of the most famous rappers in hip hop history.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

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.

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.

In 2004, Saadiq produced a remix of the song " Crooked Nigga Too " by Tupac Shakur which is featured on the album Loyal To The Game.

The Biggie and Tupac documentary was based solely on one disgruntled ex-cop's theory.

* Tupac: Resurrection, a 2003 documentary

Shakur was interviewed in the Oscar-nominated documentary Tupac: Resurrection, in which he described how he wrote a " Thug Life Handbook " with Tupac, expressing an anti-drug and anti-violence message.

He was interviewed in the documentary Biggie & Tupac.

Biggie & Tupac is a 2002 feature-length documentary film about slain rap icons The Notorious B. I. G.

Clips of Soren's interviews with Tupac Shakur were included in the 2003 documentary film Tupac: Resurrection.

As of 2010, Epps was the executive producer on a documentary about the life story of a former member of Tupac Shakur's Outlawz, Napoleon: Life of an Outlaw.

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

He later explained his concern about this circumstance in an interview on Trinity Broadcasting Network since he was in Las Vegas with Tupac the night of his death.

They cite the song " A Song For Assata " about a member of the Black Liberation Army and step-aunt of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur named Assata Shakur, previously known as Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted in 1977 of the first degree murder of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster.

He later explained his concern about this circumstance in an interview on Trinity Broadcasting Network since he was in Las Vegas with Tupac the night of his death.

The actress recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's ' Hip-Hop Literacy ' campaign, encouraging listeners to read books about Tupac Shakur.

He also recorded a radio PSA for Deejay Ra's " Hip-Hop Literacy " campaign, encouraging reading of books about Tupac.

Rappers have sung about Newport in songs, some include Ill Bill ; Max B ; Tupac Shakur ; Notorious B. I. G.

In particular, the internationally-famous rap legend Tupac Shakur, came out with his video hit called " Thug Passion ", and rapped about Hennessy, Alize and Moet.

In 1994, Jones garnered attention with an open letter responding to scathing remarks made by Tupac Shakur about her parents ' interracial marriage.