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...That film concerned the killings of rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., implicating Knight and the Los Angeles police....
...Dre was formerly part of the west coast group NWA, signed to Death Row Records – the same label that signed Tupac Shakur....
...The musical range is as impressive, from Radiohead and Sufjan Steven samples to the P-Funk-meets-G-Funk time-travelling tricks of “You Ain’t Gotta Lie (Momma Said)”....
...Pharrell Williams calls him “this era’s Bob Dylan”; the sold-out crowd who braved London’s icy slush to see him on Sunday would be content with a worthy successor to Tupac Shakur....
...The impresario and producer Quincy Jones (whose daughter Kadida was engaged to Shakur at the time of his murder in 1996), makes the point that, as “gangstas”, Shakur, his adversary Biggy Smalls and their...
...She went on: “But the greater part of him, for me, is his strong streak of Tupac-like truth-telling” - referring to rap’s most famous fallen hero, Tupac Shakur - “[with] raps that aren’t about the dream...
...The final line prefigures hip-hop’s East Coast-West Coast rivalry of the 1990s, which culminated in the murders of the rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G....
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