Tupac Shakur: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Murphy is in early talks to play Parliament-Funkadelic leader George Clinton. Murphy will also serve as producer with John Davis and Catherine Davis through their Davis Entertainment banner. They are tying down rights with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and they will then set writers and shop the project. Murphy has a three-picture deal with Amazon that came after the success of Coming 2 America. This is a passion project for Murphy.

Tupac Shakur’s childhood poetry book is currently up for auction at Sotheby’s.The previously unpublished book features haiku poems written by a young Tupac aged 11, as well as illustrations.Sotheby’s describe it as “an unpublished booklet of haikus written and illustrated by Tupac Shakur when he was just 11 years old, on offer from his godfather, Jamal Joseph, a Black Panther activist who was gifted the booklet by Tupac 40 years ago while incarcerated with fellow Panthers at Leavenworth Prison.” You can see a video of Joseph discussing the poems below.The collection of items for the late rapper also includes a “selection of love letters from Tupac to a cherished sweetheart” written at the age of 17 before his career began.The public can bid on the piece here as part of an auction dedicated to hip hop until March 30.

“Life After Death” — his second and final studio album — the rapper was making plans to hypnotize London in support of the ambitious double LP. And while the bottles were popping at Vibe magazine’s post-Soul Train Awards party in Los Angeles, he was trying to convince DJ Clark Kent to be his spinning sidekick across the pond.“He was like, ‘Yo, you gotta go on the road with me. We gonna go to London for this new album,’ ” Kent — who at the time was senior vice president of A&R at Motown Records — told The Post.

Naman Ramachandran Premium documentary titles featuring iconic musicians including John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, Tupac Shakur and Amy Winehouse have sold widely for BBC Studios.Rogan productions’ feature-length documentary for BBC Two, “Freddie Mercury: The Final Act,” charts the final chapter of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury’s life story. International sales include the U.S.

Tupac Shakur, has been announced.Peace, Love & Respect; the Afeni Shakur/Panther 21 story will follow a crucial two years in her life between 1969 and 1971, and her involvement in the Black Panther Party.Afeni, who passed away in 2016, was a prominent member of the organisation. She joined in 1968 and was arrested as a part of the ‘Panther 21’, who were put on trial accused of organising bomb attacks in New York before they were acquitted.The new biopic is set to be executive produced by Jasmine Guy and Jamal Joseph, while Dina LaPolt is producing.

Seven-time Grammy winner Madonna spent Monday cheering on her toyboy Ahlamalik Williams and her 16-year-old son David Banda Mwale as they played on the full basketball court at her $19.3M seven-bedroom Hidden Hills mansion.The 63-year-old Queen of Pop wore large shades and was bundled up in a black hooded puffer vest over a black sweater, tweed pants, and black studded boots.Madonna - who boasts 46.1M social media followers - Instastoried several videos of the pair shooting hoops with four other young men as she exclaimed: 'Good one, wooo!' 'BallerZ!' Seven-time Grammy winner Madonna spent Monday cheering on her toyboy Ahlamalik Williams (R) and her 16-year-old son David Banda Mwale (M) as they played on the full basketball court at her $19.3M seven-bedroom Hidden Hills mansionAt one point, the twice-divorced mother-of-six cringingly asked if one of the young men was 21 before saying: 'Y'all are in shape, yo!'Michigan-born Madge (last name Ciccone) began dating the 27-year-old Sacramento native in 2018 - three years after she hired him (then 20) to dance in her 82-date, $169.8M-grossing Rebel Heart Tour. The self-made superstar's videos were set to her late ex-boyfriend Tupac Shakur's 1996 hit All Eyez On Me as well as Jay-Z's 2000 track I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me).Madonna was joined by her 16-year-old daughter Chifundo Mercy James, whom she adopted from Malawi in 2009.

Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant and John Salley, musicians like Prince, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg, and celebrities like Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and Mike Tyson. In ET's exclusive clip, Torry details his move from St. Louis to Los Angeles, and how he immediately spied a need for somewhere for Black comedians to flaunt their talent. The comedian explains how Black comics were suffering from the still-rising tensions rippling through the city after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. Agents and executives were wary of traveling «in the hood» for fear of their own safety, which limited opportunities for Black talent to be seen.

Juice, the feature film written and directed by Ernest R. Dickerson was released to a national audience.

Los Angeles will be home in January to a limited-run immersive museum exploring the life, music and legacy of the late rapper Tupac Shakur. It was created in collaboration with Shakur’s estate. Additional North American cities and dates will be announced later, according to the exhibit’s website.

The Tupac and Biggie murders continue to be two of the most talked about events in hip hop culture, perhaps even more so now over two decades since they happened. Documentarian Nick Broomfield has returned to explore the unsolved deaths of two of rap’s most legendary stars in Last Man Standing, almost 20 years after his critically acclaimed film, Biggie & Tupac. Broomfield’s new release will look more widely at gang warfare, celebrity and corruption in Compton, Los Angeles, but it meant he had to once again revisit the infamous East Coast vs.

posted a clip of her reading on social media Tuesday, a day before the deceased hip-hopper’s birthday. “As many of you know, today is Pac’s birthday — he would have been 50 this year,” announced Pinkett Smith, 49, who was reportedly good friends with the “Changes” singer when they attended Maryland’s Baltimore School for the Arts together in the 1980s, People reported.

“Will Smith is a multimillionaire still losing the affection of his wife to a man who died 25 years ago,” tweeted one fan shortly after Jada Pinkett Smith shared a never-before-seen poem written by her close friend, the late Tupac Shakur, on June 15. “Tupac Amaru Shakur would have been 50 midnight tonight!” Jada captioned the Instagram video showing the unreleased work. “Over the years, Pac wrote me many letters and many poems, and I don’t think this one was ever published – he had a song called ‘Lost Souls’…but I believe this was the original concept,” she said in the clip before reciting the poem. While it was a touching gesture from Jada to her late friend, some fans decided to troll her husband over her deep connection to Pac.

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith has showed fans a "never-before-seen" poem written by late rapper Tupac Shakur.

More than three years after the film was initially slated for release, the new trailer for Johnny Depp’s crime drama “City of Lies” has arrived.

Black History Month, a time to pause and appreciate the undeniable impact Black people have had on the history of the United States and the world. We acknowledge the struggle, yes, and all of the things Black people have overcome — but we also celebrate life, love and Black joy.

Tupac Shakur has a front row seat to tonight’s Vice Presidential Debate.

Notorious B.I.G.'s iconic crown is heading to a hip hop themed auctionTupac Shakur 'living with Navajo tribe in New Mexico after faking death' filmmaker claimsThe car Tupac Shakur was shot dead in is up for sale for $1.75 million with ‘bullet dent’‘Throughout the sale, we saw strong bidding from across age brackets and countries, with significant interest from leading cultural institutions in the US.’A portion of the profits from the sale were donated to Queens Public Library Foundation’s hip hop programmes in New York and Building Beats, a community organisation teaching young people through DJ and music courses.Got a showbiz story? If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by

A crown worn by the rapper Notorious B.I.G. in what is said to have been his last photoshoot has sold for nearly £500,000.

LL Cool J linked up with Cheryl “Salt” James of Salt-N-Pepa for an intimate Instagram Live interview on Rock The Bells.

hip-hop mogul Master P by his grandmother when he was a kid. And judging by how he built his No Limit Records empire — a journey that is covered in the new BET docuseries “No Limit Chronicles,” premiering Wednesday at 9 p.m.

Back in June, Soundgarden, Steve Earle, and Hole, as well as the estate of Tupac Shakur and a former wife of Tom Petty sued Universal Music Group for over $100 million in damages. The suit was in response to The New York Times Magazine’s bombshell investigation of a 2008 fire at UMG’s Hollywood warehouse that left hundreds of thousands of master tapes destroyed.