Posts Tagged: Tupac
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Man Confesses To Shooting And Robbing Tupac in 1994

| June 15th, 2011

"In 1994, James Rosemond hired me to rob Tupac Shakur at the Quad Studio. He gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took. Except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time… I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery." —Whoa! A man named Dexter Isaac tells the AllHipHop website that he committed the heretofore unsolved shooting and robbery that touched off the terrible Tupac vs. Biggie beef which later [...]

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Whassup With Jay-Z? "Run This Town"

| August 20th, 2009

Live from, uh, MTV Germany: the new video for Jay-Z's "Run This Town." Despite the natural excitement accompanying molotov cocktails and a torch-bearing mob, the whole Mad Max thing-well, we've seen all that before. California was partying like that back 1995.

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John Edgar Wideman On The Sadness Of Emptiness

| October 8th, 2010

Soon after moving to New York in 1995, I was walking down Avenue A one afternoon when a guy with a frown on his face beckoned me over to him. He was a black guy, standing next to a suitcase he'd placed on the curb. "Excuse me," he said. "But could you hail me a cab?"

I looked out on onto the street, where there were many cabs with their vacancy signs lit up driving past us. I looked back at him puzzled.

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Oh, You're Traveling To New Zealand To Apologize To A School Of Salmon? Perhaps I Could Be Of Some Assistance.

| March 22nd, 2010

Did you read the article in the Times this weekend about the Winneman Wintu, the native American tribe from northern California who are traveling to New Zealand to apologize to salmon? If not, do. Here's this: "As the Winnemem see it, the tribe's troubles began in early 1940s, with the completion of the Shasta Dam, which blocked the Sacramento River and cut off the lower McCloud River, obstructing seasonal salmon runs, and according to the tribe, breaking a covenant with the fish.

'We're going to atone for allowing them to build that dam,' said Mark Franco, the tribe's headman. 'We should have fought harder.'"