 Tupac
Amuaru Shakur, who died in a drive-by shooting at the age of 25, was one of rap music's
most controversial and influential performers, as evidenced by this collection of heavily
illustrated articles from VIBE magazine, including interviews, features on the singer, and
reports on the increasingly heated conflicts within rap music that may, it has been
suggested, have played a part in Shakur's death. Those unfamiliar with Shakur's hard life
and his gangsta rap, which celebrated violent defiance of a... read more |