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John Singleton Signs On To Direct Tupac Biopic

Tupac Shakur continues to be one of the most profitable men in show business even 15 years after his death. Tracks recorded before his murder have since been released to create chart-topping albums, a documentary film premiered in 2003 and script he penned in 1995 is in talks to be made sometime in the near future.  read more

Tupac-Penned Film to See Production in 2012

While serving time in prison in 1995, West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur wrote a screenplay. The film, entitled Live 2 Tell is now set to go into production next year....  read more

Film Bosses Behind Tupac Biopic Ask for Video Auditions for Lead Role

The Antoine Fuqua-directed biopic Tupac about late West-coast rapper Tupac Shakur is set to begin shooting this summer, but at the moment, the film is lacking an actor to fill the lead role. Those in charge of the film hope to remedy this conundrum with the recently-launched website InSearchOfTupac.skeetv.com....  read more

Oscar-Nominated Nixon Writers to Pen Tupac Biopic

Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson, screenwriters behind 1995’s Nixon, are confirmed to compose a movie chronicling rapper Tupac Shakur’s life. Training Day director Antoine Fuqua joins forces with the pair for the unnamed picture....  read more

The Nine Most Untimely Rock 'N' Roll Deaths

Yeah, but how do you define untimely? Like this: The artists on our list died when they clearly had their best work ahead of them. ...  read more

The Beatman Prophecies: Six Hip-Hop Predictions To Die For

This week, a 2002 video interview between DJ Whoo Kid and Kanye West bubbled to the surface of the blogosphere. It was originally shot on Oct. 23, the day of the latter’s infamous car accident, and, get this, he mentions his first car crash on it. Now, that could easily be a coincidence if Kanye were a normal human being, but he’s a rapper, and, like cave-dwelling sages and lecturing moms, they tend to have a gift for seeing the future. If you need proof, just look to the Internet; examples of MCs’ clairvoyance are more multitudinous than Gucci Mane’s...  read more

Vatican Picks Tupac, Fleet Foxes, Muse for MySpace Playlist

The Vatican recently compiled a suggested list of tunes, and the included artists might just surprise you....  read more

Earliest Tupac Recordings To Be Released As Shakurspeare

Before he was a rap legend, Tupac Shakur was 17-year-old MC New York with dreams of becoming a Shakespearean actor. So says Darrin Keith Bastfield, CEO of Born Busy Records,  the main force behind the upcoming release of the rapper's earliest recordings, on an album titled Shakurspeare. ...  read more

Tupac estate joins lawsuit over defunct biopic

When Notorious pulled in more than $20 million in its first weekend in January, roughly the same amount it cost to produce, a deal for a proposed biopic of Tupac was in its final stages. Amaru Entertainment (founded by Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s mother and controller of his estate) was close to selling the rights to the production company Morgan Creek, but within a couple weeks the pact spiraled into courtroom finger-pointing. ...  read more

The Nature of Mother

Mother's Day is an ideal time for listening to the sons of popular music riffing on one of humanity's most universal concepts. So here are Paste's notes toward a schema of motherhood in rap, indie rock and points outlying. Could there be a more obvious starting point than Danzig?  read more