• Notorious B.I.G.’s crown, Tupac Shakur’s love letters headed to Sotheby’s auction

    Notorious B.I.G.’s crown, Tupac Shakur’s love letters headed to Sotheby’s auction

    Tupac Shakur’s teenage love letters and the Notorious B.I.G.’s “King of New York” crown are two of the top lots up for sale at the first Sotheby’s auction dedicated fully to hip-hop, taking place Sept. 15 in New York. The auction will feature more than 120 items spanning hip-hop’s history, from its late-1970s origins through …
  • Drake honors Tupac with matching $300K diamond chains

    Drake honors Tupac with matching $300K diamond chains

    Drake is paying tribute to late hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur with some bespoke bling. The Toronto rapper, 33, took to Instagram Wednesday to give his nearly 70 million followers a glimpse of his latest acquisitions: a pair of matching Tupac Jesus pendants, one blue, the other red. Dreamt up by Drake himself and crafted by …
  • ‘No Limit Chronicles’ traces Master P’s rise to rap stardom

    ‘No Limit Chronicles’ traces Master P’s rise to rap stardom

    “It’s gon’ be no limit to your success when you dream big.” Those words of wisdom were instilled in hip-hop mogul Master P by his grandmother when he was a kid. And judging by how he built his No Limit Records empire — a journey that is covered in the new BET docuseries “No Limit …
  • Tupac Shakur wanted journalist Ed Gordon’s advice, Gordon says

    Tupac Shakur wanted journalist Ed Gordon’s advice, Gordon says

    Tupac Shakur asked journalist Ed Gordon to be his mentor, Gordon told Page Six. And he said he warned the late rapper that he was keeping dangerous company two weeks before he was murdered. “The first time I interviewed him, he asked if he could have my cellphone number,” the “Conversations in Black” author revealed. …