Leila Steinberg deserves all her flowers. Best known for being Tupac’s first manager, Steinberg wears many titles including artist, businesswoman, manager, activist, and educator. The Los Angeles ...
Fourth in a series of Retropolis stories looking back at moments in hip-hop history during the week of the music genre’s 50th anniversary. It was August 1989, and an 18-year-old Tupac Shakur commanded ...
Tupac Shakur wasn't always the cool, stylish and tough figure who came to define 1990s hip-hop. As a teenager, he was awkward and eccentric. He wore braces over his gapped, slightly brown teeth and ...
Ever since his childhood, Dean Van Nguyen has felt a connection with Tupac Shakur. The journalist and cultural critic first encountered the late rapper’s music as a student in an all-boys Catholic ...