Globally Urban

This is Part Two of our ‘Exclusive’ web interview with Afeni Shakur-Davis, mother of the late hip hop icon, poet, actor, and social activist Tupac Shakur (2Pac).

In the second part of the interview Afein Shakur-Davis goes into Pac’s Kids and the summer camps, the publishing of Tupac hip hop music, the Tupac Amaru Shakur [...]

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Milwaukee’s thriving hip-hop scene gave birth to Arrested Development, the Rusty P’s and Black Elephant.
But there’s also a growing subset of hip-hop artists claiming the genre for themselves. They’re not gangbangers. They’re not decked out in bling and designer clothes, surrounded by scantily clad women and free-flowing champagne. They’re not black.

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