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I Read The News Today... For June 16, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 16, 2011 2:32 pm
Really? This guy says he only got $2,500 to allegedly shoot Tupac? Doesn't that seem a little low to you? Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta's solo album will feature guest appearances from members of Lamb Of God, As I Lay Dying and All That Remains, along with Black Label Society's Zakk Wylde. Play it around your mom to annoy her. Metallica are...
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I Read The News Today... For May 30, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 30, 2011 3:46 pm
Somebody call 911! Sean Kingston was critically injured yesterday evening while jet skiing in Miami... he apparently crashed his water craft into a bridge. We want him to get better, but how do you not notice something like a bridge is right in front of you? Supertramp are playing Vancouver this Thursday! Their date got moved to accomodate the...
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I Read The News Today... For May 18, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 18, 2011 4:16 pm
Next major trend: orchestras playing indie rock. Case in point: The Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra. Watch them do The Black Keys' "Tighten Up" and MGMT's "Time To Pretend." Not only are Devo playing North By Northeast this year, with a free show at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square on June 18, but they'll head out to the 'burbs...
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I Read The News Today... For April 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 14, 2011 3:30 pm
Rihanna leads the nominees for this year's Billboard Music Awards, while Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber are also among those with ridiculous amounts of nominations. You're not alone if that makes you puke in your mouth a little. —Billboard LCD Soundsystem's final show earlier this month at New York City's Madison Square Garden will be...
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I Read The News Today... For June 1, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 1, 2010 3:11 pm
Temptations lead singer Ali-Ollie Woodson passed away from leukemia on Sunday (May 30) night. —New York Daily News Apparently not content to have one fragrance, Avril Lavigne is launching another. It's called Forbidden Rose and smells like "red apple, winepeach, black pepper, lotusflower, heliotrope, shellflower, praline agreement,...
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New 2Pac Album Coming

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 13, 2010 11:24 am
Here's the perfect Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gift for that gangsta-rap obsessed friend of yours who keeps insisting 2Pac is alive — another Tupac Shakur record. New Wideawake/Death Row Records president John Payne — the Canadian company who bought Death Row in 2008 — recently told Vibe magazine that the tracks on the as-yet-untitled release were...
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Vatican Shows California Love, Endorses Tupac

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 4, 2009 4:21 pm
What do you think would appear on a MySpace playlist created by the Vatican? If you said "religious music about Jesus" or "songs featuring the Pope," you'd be right. But you'd also be correct if you jokingly said, "2Pac." Yes, 2Pac's "Changes" shows up on a 12-song MySpace playlist that the Vatican...
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Another Tupac Record Coming

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 30, 2009 10:27 am
Tupac Shakur's first hip-hop recordings will surface on a compilation titled Shakurspeare that will be released digitally Sept. 13 through Born Busy Records. 2Pac made the recordings back when he was known as MC New York and the project is being helmed by Born Busy Records CEO Darrin Keith Bastfield. Bastfield and Shakur were in a hip-hop group...
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Tupac Victim Of Bad Boy Shooting Plot, According To Reporter

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 17, 2008 2:00 pm
A Los Angeles Times reporter says new information indicates members associated with the Bad Boy recording group knew about and were behind rapper Tupac Shakur's November 1994 shooting outside a Manhattan recording studio. Chuck Philips writes in today's Los Angeles Times that the newspaper obtained FBI records from 2002, in which an informant (...
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Tupac Shakur's Thug Life Extended On Two More Albums

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By Michelle Singerman (CHARTattack) November 22, 2007 4:30 pm
Tupac Shakur chose the right alias with Makaveli. Like the 16th century Italian politician and writer he adapted the name from, his work keeps living on long after he's gone. The rapper, who was shot to death 11 years ago, will release two more 11-song albums through Amaru/Universal just in time for the holidays on Dec. 4: The Best Of 2Pac —...
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Tupac's Father To Release Tribute Album

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By CHARTattack Staff May 25, 2006 5:30 pm
Dr. Mutulu Shakur will commemorate the 35th birthday of his late son, Tupac Amaru Shakur, by releasing A 2Pac Tribute: Dare 2 Struggle on June 16. The 55-year-old, self-described "freedom fighter" has a long association with a number of black activist groups, including the Black Panthers. The acupuncturist has been in prison since...
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