2Pacs

Donald Trump’s attorney compared the newly-indicted, former president to 2Pac—an analogy that upset the late rapper’s sister.“My brother was measured by his integrity, his principles and personal and collective responsibility,” Set Shakur told TMZ, saying that Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba made “blasphemous” comments.Habba drew a parallel between 2Pac and Trump on the day the former president traveled to New York City for his indictment. “Donald Trump is 2Pac. Donald Trump is Biggie Smalls,” she said in a clip from The…

72-year-old Mutulu Shakur, the stepfather of late rapper 2Pac, has been released from prison after 37 years for medical reasons, per the New York Daily News.The Bureau of Prisons has confirmed that Shakur, who was sentenced to 60 years in prison for his involvement in the 1981 robbery of an armored truck that resulted in two officers and a guard being murdered, was released on Sunday. He was previously denied bond in April this year, and in 2016 when he was being held at a Victorville, California federal prison.“The…

After spending more than 35 years behind bars, 2Pac’s stepfather Mutulu Shakur will be released from prison.Per NBC News, Shakur had a release request granted by the U.S. Parole Commission in October, although the decision to let him out on parole was only made public on Thursday. Now 72 years old, Shakur was sentenced to 60 years for his involvement in the 1981 robbery of an armored truck that saw two police officers and a guard murdered. “We now find your medical condition renders you so infirm of mind and body that you…

Though it’s been 26 years since 2Pac’s death, many of his words still ring true.On Ari Melber’s MSNBC interview series Mavericks, Snoop Dogg reacted to powerful footage of the late rapper discussing the Black Panthers, how the organization helped Black Americans, and how Shakur used that same model to support people through music. Melber played a brief montage of 2Pac clips where he detailed the ways he and his community were tired of asking to be treated better.“We was asking with the Panthers; we was asking with the…

The lengthy legal battle between 2Pac’s sister Sekyiwa Shakur and music executive Tom Whalley over control of her late brother’s estate has escalated, as Sekyiwa now claims that Whalley has been withholding information as he mishandles her brother’s assets.In a new court filing obtained by Billboard, Sekyiwa alleges that Whalley has not been transparent in reporting information about the estate to its beneficiaries, despite the court ordering him to do so on several occasions. She says that Whalley has demonstrated a…

As part of a Twitter Spaces hosted to celebrate what would’ve been the Notorious B.I.G.’s 50th birthday, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs told Jay-Z he “filled” the shoes of Biggie and 2Pac after their deaths.Hov and Diddy were in attendance at the TIDAL-hosted event, when Jay said the death of Biggie and Pac left a “void” in the rap world.“As far as Big and ‘Pac and pushing forward, that’s just me being a student of the game and loving the game and loving the culture and wanting to push the culture forward," said Jay, as heard in the…