“Tupac on Trial” [Article by Touré – 1995 Village Voice]

“This [trial] is all about my image, this has nothing to do with me… I’m selling records. This is what I do for a living: I’m selling records. Don’t get it twisted. This is not my real life.”
—Tupac, Monday evening

Riding across the Brooklyn bridge around 9:30 on Thursday morning, the day the verdict in Tupac Shakur’s sodomy trial is delivered, a day after he was shot five times, feels like riding into the front lines of a warzone. Waiting just across the approaching shore are warring generals and soldiers—lawyers and reporters who battle to shape and/or report an event that could stretch on interminably or, end at a moment’s notice—at least one man who is injured and, at the moment, MIA—Tupac—and the gnawing probability, call it tension, that soon, maybe before the day is over, there will be a casualty to report. Tupac’s.

Now What?

The NBA has just crowned their champion and on June 30th their CBA will expire. NFL suits are amidst a lengthy lockout that doesnt seem to have a end in the forseeable future. I often see & hear fans lambasting the owners & players for not getting a deal done. I think most fans are selfish because it is a game we lve to watch but this is their livelihood. With 2 of the big 3 sports leagues maybe having lengthy work stoppages this year, fans need to be very patient.

[New Music] Kanye West – Mama’s Boyfriend

This was first heard in summer 2010 when he performed it acapella at the Facebook HQ.

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