Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Sometimes, it’s hard to believe that it’s not 1995 anymore. Back then I ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore, and ...

On this date in 1996, just two months after his tragic murder on the Las Vegas strip alongside Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, Tupac Amaru Shakur posthumously released what would become the final ...

Tupac Shakur, one of the most controversial and respected figures ever in rap, returns to the album bestseller list for the fifth time since he was killed in Las Vegas almost five years ago by unknown ...

Pac earns a surprise modern hit as “Hit ’Em Up” debuts on a Billboard chart, adding another posthumous milestone to the ...

But Still I Rise was an aptly named posthumous album that was released in 1999, and featured Outlawz. The album name came from a phrase that was first made famous by poet and civil rights activist ...

Outlawz member Young Noble (1978-2025) has died at the age of just 47. The rapper had his big breakthrough in hip-hop after joining the rap group Outlawz in early 1996. He was the last member ...

Sometimes, it’s hard to believe that it’s not 1995 anymore. Back then I was 15 years old, turning 16 that June, and the possibilities of the world seemed endless. I was a sophomore in high school in ...