... of businessman/producer Sean "Puffy- Combs, Bad Boy Records. In fact during the summer of 1997, most of the songs on the upper reaches of the music charts were either by, featuring, or about "The Notorious B.I.G."" (Cox News, Nov. 28). Combs and Wallace, joined by 19 year old protégé rapper ... MA$E, were at the top of the charts almost the entire year. Nothing prepared the label for the biggest selling single to come. Combs and R&B super group 112, together with Faith Evans recorded a tribute to ... mother. Combs even donated his production salary to the fund. His image is still in ta...

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... album was very popular as "Brenda's Got a Baby" reached number 3 on the Billboard's Hot Rap Singles chart. His second album "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., crossed over to the pop charts with hits "I Get Around" and "Keep Ya Head Up". The album went platinum, selling more than a million albums and sky rocketing Shakur's popularity. While Tupac was ... four and a half years in prison for his sexual assault case. His third album "Me Against the World" was released in 1995, and was Number one on the Charts as many critics praised it. Shakur often rapped about an early death in many of his son...

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... to the Billboard top 10 in the weeks following his death. His latest CD, The Don Killuminati: The Seven-Day Theory, recorded under the alias Makaveli, debuted on the Billboard charts as the number one album in the nation. By selling 664,000 copies, it surpassed the "gold" plateau in one week and is now a multi-platinum hit. Sales of his ... other CD's also increased dramatically, w/ his third solo album, Me Against the World (1995), actually climbing back onto the Billboard charts. Las Vegas is a payoff city, meaning all sorts of folks have been known to be on the take, like lawyers, do...

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... the altercation. Shakur made it out of 1992 and into 1993 in which he recorded and released another album. This album "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z," carried him over into the Hip-Hop charts. Soon after he found himself acting again. This time in John Singleton's film "Poetic Justice," in which Shakur played a single father and Janet Jackson's love intrest. Tupac's name was beginning ... toward big fame and big money. Soon after "All Eyez On Me" was released. He followed it up with "Me Against The World," which debuted at number 1 on all US charts. This album is what sent Tupac's music car...

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... keep his name alive. His influence continues to stretch out amongst the millions of loyal fans; everyday reaching further and further into our very lives. Tupac continues to top the charts with each album release, and with his latest double album, Better Dayz, the fans have once again realized the hard work Tupac put into his music before his death. One ... , concentrated, an intense life. He lived a 70 year life in 25 years. He went out the way he wanted: in the glitter of the fast life, hit record on the charts, new movie in the can, and money in the pocket. All 'Pac wanted was to hear...

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... the birth of such acts as, RUN-DMC, De La Soul, The Beastie Boys, Ice-T, and LL Cool J. RUN-DMC was among the first rap groups to climb the pop charts in a major way, they also were among the first to make incursions into the Rock-n-Roll element, when they teamed up with Aerosmith's Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry for the ... critics find their line between art and reality much too thin for the youth of America, and hate to see them spreading their gospel from the top of the music charts. Gangsta rappers such Snoop Doggy Dogg, Slick Rick, and 2Pac Shakur not only take the controversial subj...

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... that involved sex, gangs, and fights, but when Tupac was released from prison he made a song called "Me Against the World" which became number one on the music charts, "Dear Mama" showed a different part of Tupac's life ("Shakur"). All of Tupac's song had a meaning/reasoning to them for the making of the song "Life ... ...

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... name "2Pac" and released his first album 2Pacalypse Now. This album rendered Tupac his first hit single with "Brenda's Got a Baby" which reached No. 3 on Billboard Charts (Riaa.com "RIAA Gold & Platinum Searchable Database - Platinum Singles".)Tupac featured a lot of violence in his music, which was understandable due to the fact that the crime rate in New ... ...

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... . These songs are simply about having fun and is music made to dance to in a nightclub, what Hip Hop is supposed to be about. With commercial rap now topping the charts and winning Grammy Awards, Hip Hop has gained the respect of general audience who once looked at rap as being a bad thing. Soon gangster rap will be apart of the ... ...

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... with a couple of popular rap artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He made a number of songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. This really helped boost his reputation. In November of 1994, he was shot five times during a robbery and the thieves made off with $40,000 worth of his jewelry. Shakur ... ...

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... . Also in that same year he starred in the movie "Juice". Then in 1993 he recorded and released "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z", an album that got Tupac to cross over the pop charts. But along with these successes, Tupac began to get into trouble with the police once again, when he was accused of a violent attack on an off-duty police officer. Then ... ...

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... of the block, saw the need for something different and put it out for an expansive audience to hear. Changes and Dear Momma were both number one on the billboard charts and were heard by an expansive audience. The rhetoric of Tupac will hopefully carry through these songs and maybe Tupac won't be looked at as a thug, but more of a visionary ... ...

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... to the beat of dj-manipulated drum machines and turntables. In 1979, rap had its first hit single with the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." Since then, rappers haven"t left the charts. Along with rap come many sub-types of rap. Hardcore, underground, east-coast, jazz, and old-school rap are just a few types that have been created since the 70's. Throughout ... ...

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