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unusual facts about 'Abd Allah II ibn 'Ali 'Abd ash-Shakur


Hirna

A night attack by Emir 'Abd Allah's army routed the Dejazmachs force, sending them fleeing westward towards the Awash River.


A 2Pac Tribute: Dare 2 Struggle

The album features contributions from rappers behind bars as well as those on the outside, including Mutulu Shakur's children Mopreme Shakur and Nzingha, as well as Outlawz, TQ, Slick, Imaan Faith and T-Jay.

Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988–1991

CD Universe noted that Shakur's "flow and lyrical content are more reminiscent of late-1980s/early-1990s icons like Big Daddy Kane and Rakim" than of the later songs of 2Pac himself.

Big Gipp

Big Gipp gained radio airplay when he was featured in Nelly's hit song Grillz with Jermaine Dupri, Paul Wall, and Ali.

Bill Plaschke

He also had a cameo in the film Ali as a sports reporter before the first fight against Sonny Liston.

Boughetto

"Boughetto" is a 2002 rap single from the album Heavy Starch by Ali featuring Murphy Lee about being boughetto.

East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry

A two-part 2002 article by journalist Chuck Philips called "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?" reported that: "the shooting was carried out by a Compton gang called the Southside Crips to avenge the beating of one of its members by Shakur a few hours earlier. Orlando Anderson, the Crip whom Shakur had attacked, fired the fatal shots. Las Vegas police discounted Anderson as a suspect and interviewed him only once, briefly. He was later killed in an unrelated gang shooting."

Gang Related

Renegade police detectives Frank Divinci (James Belushi) and Jake Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) gun down narcotics dealer Lionel Hudd (Kool Moe Dee), after the three engage illegally in drug trafficking; this is in order to recover the cocaine Hudd purchased from them.

Gridlock'd

The New York Times editor Janet Maslin praised Shakur's performance: "He played this part with an appealing mix of presence, confidence and humor".

Gundamma Gaari Manavadu

Gundamma Gaari Manavadu(Mrs.Gundamma's grandson) is a Tollywood film starring Ali as hero and Sindhuri, Nicole as heroines.

I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto

In the Lionel C. Martin directed music video from July 14-15, 1997, the perspective is a first-person viewpoint of Shakur.

Kyjuan

As well as appearing as a guest on Murph's solo project Murphy's Law and each of Nelly's CDs and other fellow St. Lunatics Ali (rapper), and his solo project Heavy Starch.

Madatha Kaja

Being a comedy film, it features most of the Telugu comedians like Ali, Subbaraju, M. S. Narayana Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Ahuti Prasad, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Jeeva, Raghu Babu, Vennela Kishore and Chalapathi Rao.

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

In 1992 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Morgan Entrekin, publisher of Grove Atlantic Inc., announced that he had acquired world publication rights to Shakur's memoir, setting off a storm of interest in the book as an authentic document of the urban African-American experience.

Murder of Tupac Shakur

Evidence gathered by Philips showed that: "the shooting was carried out by a Compton gang called the Southside Crips to avenge the beating of one of its members by Shakur a few hours earlier. Orlando Anderson, the Crip whom Shakur had attacked, fired the fatal shots. Las Vegas police discounted Anderson as a suspect and interviewed him only once, briefly. He was later killed in an unrelated gang shooting."

Mykelti Williamson

His most recent film appearances have been Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Ali (2001),The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) ATL (2006), August Rush (2007), Black Dynamite (2009) and The Final Destination (2009).

Orlando Anderson

In 2002, The Los Angeles Times published a two-part series by reporter Chuck Philips, titled "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?," based on a yearlong investigation that reconstructed the crime and the events leading up to it.

Parents Just Don't Understand

Shakur and Pinkett had been attending the Baltimore School of Performing Arts.

Shamim Karhani

Shamim Karhani was a contemporary of eminent poets like Faiz Ahmed 'Faiz', Ali 'Sardar' Jafri, 'Majaz Lucknawi', Moin Ahsan ‘Jazbi’, Ali 'Jawad' Zaidi, etc.

Stephen T. Owens

He represented Afeni Shakur, the mother of Tupac Shakur, and the Estate of Tupac Shakur in a racketeering (civil RICO) lawsuit against Marion "Suge" Knight, Death Row Records and their attorney, David Kenner, which resulted in the Estate's recovery of the unreleased master tapes recorded by Tupac prior to his murder in 1996.

Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts

In 2006 the music video for the single Pac's Life for the self-titled album was shot at the The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts.

Tupac Remembered

It was compiled with the participation and support of the Shakur family, contributors include Maya Angelou, Snoop Dogg, DJ Quik, Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Powell, Common, E-40, Sonia Sanchez, and others.

Tupac: A Thug Life

Writings from contributors include interviews with Shakur's music producer Suge Knight, rapper Snoop Dogg, actor Tim Roth, and Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur, with a chapter by crime writer Cathy Scott.


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