Subject: Tupac Shakur

• Ladies Love Cool Clifford -- Hip-Hop Pinup for the Naughties!

  June 27, 2007

• Tupac's Fam to Broke Death Row: Get Off My Nuts!

  July 24, 2007

• Vanilla Ice Tells SFWeekly His Top Nine Records of '07

  December 5, 2007

• Today's Rapper Shot: Spice 1 (But He's OK, Thank G-d)

  December 7, 2007

• Digital Underground Announces Final Show, Hangs Up Groucho Nose and Glasses For Good

  February 13, 2008

• Tupac’s 1995 Jaguar Up for Auction on eBay

  July 18, 2008

• Obama and Hip-hop: Better than "Beef"?

  EKAphotography copyright 2007. all rights reservedOur shoulder-brushin', fist-bumpin' POTUS in Oakland, 2007 For a long time, hip hop debates have tended toward the tawdry and tabloidesque--i.e., Is Kanye Gay?; Is Alicia Keys creepin' with Swizz Beats?; Joe Budden vs. Saigon, T.I. vs. Mysonne, Charli Baltimore vs. Lil' Kim, Lil Kim vs. Faith Evans, 50 Cent vs Everybody; Is LL Cool J Gay?; Stop Snitching: pro or con?; Are Video Vixens Hip-Hop's 5th Element?; Is Busta Rhymes Gay?, etc. While we'

  February 3, 2009

• Signed, Sealed and Misdelivered

  May 17, 1995

• Samples

  June 7, 1995

• Tastes So Good Straight From the Hood: Bay Area Rap Energy Drinks Pt. 1 (the Mac Dre Battle)

  There is vibrant life beyond Red Bull in the energy drink market, and the Bay Area rap music scene in particular has inspired several of these beverages. In fact, two local brands offer cans inspired by the same beloved rapper, the late Mac Dre of Vallejo, whose life was tragically cut short in a drive-by shooting in Kansas City, MO in 2004. Oakland company 100 Racks Inc. (aka Hunid Racks) has "Mac Dre Feel'N Myself," while Fairfield's Hyphydration Beverage Co. offers "Thizz Juice." The stu

  March 31, 2009

• Tupac's Mama Sues Hollywood Production Company

  Boy in da Corner: TupacYesterday, the Hollywood Reporter announced the latest development in the ongoing fight over the rights to a major motion picture biography of the late Tupac Shakur: Amaru Entertainment and Shakur's mom Afeni Shakur are suing Morgan Hill entertainment for what basically amounts to player hating. Details are here . Earlier, Morgan Hill had sued Amaru, claiming breach of contract--a move industry analysts said may have been in retaliation for Amaru refusing to sign an agree

  March 17, 2009

• '90s Night Tonight at Madrone Lounge

  '90s Style Icons: the TeletubbiesAre the '90s back already? If so, is it too soon? After all, we can think of several dubious trends from that decade - grunge 'uniforms' (flannel shirts and scruffy faces), sugar-coated teenie pop (think Britney Spears, 98 Degrees, 'N Sync, Backstreet Boys), stomach tattoos ( i.e. Tupac's "Thug Life"), Thighmasters, "the G-Funk Era," Cross Colors, Kriss Kross, extra extra baggy day-glo raver pants, "mobb music," acid jazz, big floppy hats (a la Jamiroquai)

  April 2, 2009

• Recordings

  March 13, 1996

• Samples

  April 24, 1996

• Biggie, Small

  Notorious B.I.G., made B.L.A.N.D.

  January 14, 2009

• Keak da Sneak

  July 9, 2008

• A brief history of vocal fakery from Zapp to "Lollipop"

  June 25, 2008

• Patriarch

  February 28, 2007

• Our top DVD picks for the week of October 10:

  October 11, 2006

• Moky's Life 101

  Moky Huynh, self-help jackhammer, is inspiring, abrasive, and one of a kind

  April 12, 2006

• Misc. Reviews

  If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: Mack Minister on America's Most Wanted.

  March 22, 2006

• Some of My Best Friends Are Records

  SF Weekly writers pick their favorite Bay Area records of all time

  March 15, 2006

• My Name Is Earl

  E-40 blows up, and takes the rest of the Bay Area with him

  March 15, 2006

• Department of What the Fuck?

  Beef, it's what's for dinner: Hip hop feuds we'd like to see

  December 21, 2005

• A New Dawn, a New Bay

  May 4, 2005

• BeatBox

  Diplo teaches dancefloors new Hollertron-icks; the EndUp turns 31; rapper Nas makes a rare live appearance

  November 10, 2004

• No Joke

  Shock-G, the MC who told us to "do the Humpty Hump," is back, and this time he's brought his sensitive side

  October 6, 2004

• 2003: Year of the Wonka Record

  For the year's 10 best records, go somewhere else. For the year's 10 best "Wonka Records," you've come to the right place.

  December 17, 2003

• Holy Shit

  November 12, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  June 18, 2003

• Cinderella Gets Her Groove On

  December 24, 2002

• House of Tudor

  September 18, 2002

• California Loved

  August 14, 2002

• Persistent Visions

  This season's cinema demands attention

  May 15, 2002

• House Of Tudor

  "Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

  January 17, 2001

• Personality Crisis

  As commercial hip hop radio becomes tired, turf wars flicker out, and the underground diversifies, does the Bay Area have its own identity anymore?

  June 28, 2000

• Reviews

  July 22, 1998

• Stakes Is High

  Bay Area hip-hop artists and the art of the hustle

  January 21, 1998

• Stage

  June 4, 1997

• Riff Raff

  February 19, 1997

• Slap Shots

  October 2, 1996

• Samples

  June 14, 1995

• Samples

  March 15, 1995

• Netta B. Freaks Berkeley, Oakland, SF

  Erban Image PhotographySex Shooter: Netta BrielleBay Area R&B/Hip-hop singer/MC Netta B  (aka Netta Brielle) is on fire. Her new video "Dirty Boyz" premieres today, and tonight, she headlines "Electrik Rebel Sounds: The Concert" at La Pena in Berkeley. On Saturday, you can catch her at Oakland's Club Anton, and next Wednesday, she'll be at SF's Club Element. But then, hotness is nothing new for Netta. As a child rapper, she performed with legends MC Hammer and Tupac Shakur. Coming u

  May 21, 2009

• The Jacka reprises hyphy with a gangsta twist

  June 10, 2009

• Tupac's Birthday Today

  Everyone's favorite thug angel, Tupac Amaru Shakur, would have been 38 today. Born in 1971 to a Black Panther mother, 'Pac came to symbolize the voice of his generation like no one except maybe Jim Morrison, another societal rebel who became a pop culture phenomenon. (Interestingly, neither 'Pac nor Mr. Mojo Rising rate a mention in Peter Hautlaub's "resurrect-a-dead-celebrity-for-one-concert"  article in today's Chron. Blame it on the a-a-a-a-alcohol - or the copy editing.) In honor of '

  June 16, 2009

• Ten Known (and Little-Known) Facts About Tupac

  Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac Amaru II , the leader of an 18th-century uprising against Spanish colonialists and by the Tupac Amaru rebels , a Communist anti-government group which formed in 1984. Clearly, the name Tupac Amaru is n

  June 16, 2009

• Be His Valentine

  July 1, 2009

• J. Valentine

  July 8, 2009

• Do the Humpty Dance, Score a Free Beer

  Impersonate the original big-nosed rapper, get sloshed.​Eater SF reports on a pretty funky freebie in its "Dealfeed": Head on over to Showdogs (1020 Market at 6th) today, perform the "Humpty Dance" (as imagined by legendary Oakland rap group Digital Underground), and you will score a beer on the house. If you don't know the dance, it's real easy to do. "First, I limp to the side like my leg was broken/Shakin' and twitchin', kinda like I was smokin'/Crazy wack funky/People say, 'You look like

  August 26, 2009