Subject: Tupac Shakur

• Last Night: Common @ The Fillmore Auditorium

  September 14, 2007

• Friday Rap-Up: Pimp C Dies, Spice 1 Shot, Lauryn Hill Still a Pain in the Ass

  December 7, 2007

• Delegating Denver #36 of 56: New York

  March 24, 2008

• Friday Rap-Up: The Pirate Signal, Remy Ma, Tupac, Diddy, 50 Cent

  March 28, 2008

• 2Pac + Outlawz

  Still I Rise
  (Interscope)

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  Born Again
  (Bad Boy)

  February 17, 2000

• KRS-One

  May 24, 2001

• Backwash

  October 17, 2002

• The Beatdown

  December 23, 2004

• Critical Fatwa

  August 11, 2005

• The Game

  March 5, 2009

• A player himself now, the Game is still paying homage to rap's finest

  March 5, 2009

• Notorious is B.I.G. made B.L.A.N.D.

  January 15, 2009

• The Game

  LAX
  Geffen

  September 4, 2008

• Vanilla on Ice

  The hip-hop trivia question wants to prove that he's still cool.

  March 26, 1998

• 2PAC

  Pac's Life
  Amaru/Interscope

  December 7, 2006

• Brother Ali

  Tuesday, April 17, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

  April 12, 2007

• The Coup

  Wednesday, December 6, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772.

  November 30, 2006

• Burning the Yule Log

  November 9, 2006

• A Cut Above

  Taking a whack at circumcision.

  January 18, 2007

• What's My Line?

  I once waited for Dave Matthews. I'm not making that mistake again for a snowboard.

  September 7, 2006

• The BellRays

  Have a Little Faith (Cheap Lullaby)

  May 25, 2006

• No Kidding Around

  Kid rocks, the Colorado Convention Center doesn't.

  April 27, 2006

• Critical Fatwa

  Diddy

  December 8, 2005

• DJ Quik

  Saturday, August 27, Ogden Theatre, 303-831-2525.

  August 25, 2005

• Tupac Lives!

  Get some Juice at the Hip-Hop Flix Film Series.

  August 18, 2005

• Tupac's Mom Remembers

  Tupac’s mom, Afeni Shakur, makes peace with the artist’s legacy alive.

  February 3, 2005

• Ja Rule

  R.U.L.E. (Def Jam/The Inc. Records)

  December 2, 2004

• Mobb Rules

  After six albums, Mobb Deep is still creating hell on earth.

  July 15, 2004

• Tech N9ne

  Thursday, April 29, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-2525.

  April 29, 2004

• For the Record

  For national releases, 2003 wonked as much as it rocked.

  December 25, 2003

• Free Bird

  Me'Shell NdegéOcello may not have platinum sales, but she's got peace of mind.

  October 9, 2003

• Mercy Mercy Me

  MURS is already a legend. Now if he can just get folks to stop thinking of him as the new guy.

  June 12, 2003

• 50 Cent

  Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)

  February 27, 2003

• Nas

  God's Son (Columbia)

  February 13, 2003

• Happy Birthday, Havu

  The William Havu Gallery celebrates its fourth anniversary in the Golden Triangle.

  November 14, 2002

• Faith Evans

  Faithfully (Bad Boy)

  January 17, 2002

• Snoop Dogg Presents Tha Eastsidaz

  (Dogg House/TVT Records)

  April 13, 2000

• Ice-T

  The Seventh Deadly Sin
  (Coroner Records/Atomic Pop)

  December 23, 1999

• Rooting Interest

  The Roots make rap for both your hips and your head.

  July 17, 1997

• Feedback

  March 20, 1997

• Not Your Typical Shoot-'em-up

  February 6, 1997

• To Buy or Not to Buy

  Reviews of 23 recent superstar recordings--just in time for your holiday purchasing pleasure.

  December 19, 1996

• Our Gangstas

  Is gangsta rap getting more profound? Well...no.

  November 21, 1996

• PLAYING IT COOLIO

  HOW DO YOU GO FROM BEING A JUNKIE TO A RAP STAR? COOLIO KNOWS.

  July 5, 1995

• If this alleged photo of Tupac is A) authentic and B) current, dude's got some 'splaining to do, Lucy.

  borrowed from TMZ.comAll right, so, yesterday, the always dependable, completely reliable, trustworthy sleuths over at TMZ posted a series of photos of some guy, who looks a helluva lot like Tupac, that were allegedly snapped in some bar in the Big Easy last weekend. Seems viable. I mean, everybody knows that a cat who presumably (if this picture's to be believed, anyway) faked his own demise, walks around in broad daylight in one of the most visible cities in the world, knowing full well that e

  April 30, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 30 edition

  Danielle Ate the Sandwich, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt... May flowers on the way. Today in Backbeat Online: • Danielle Ate the Sandwich (and became an internet phenomenon). • My Bloody Valentine at the Fillmore. • Dialed in: This week's local music radio playlists. • Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist -- 04.29.09. • Sound Bites: Quiet Company, Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Doherty, the Fratellis, the Life and Times and the View. • If this photo of Tupac is A) authentic and B) current,

  April 30, 2009

• When music meets movies: Ten Great Hollywood Decisions

  ​All right, a few weeks ago we offered up our take on the ten worst moments of crossover disaster, ill-advised efforts to mate movies with music. Now it's time to look at the flip side of the coin, the ten movies in which music and Hollywood made great bedfellows, outstanding cinematic turns that were win-win in terms of elevating the film and as being a boon to the artist in question. Follow the jump for the full list.

  September 17, 2009

• MP3 Freeloader: DJ Ktone's We The West Vol. 6 mixtape

  ​Those wanting to get to know the Colorado hip-hop scene a bit more intimately should check out the latest offering from DJ Ktone. His latest mixtape, We the West Vol. 6, features a collection of Colorado MCs such as Young Doe, Kajmir Royale, Innerstate Ike and Hawkman, mixed with classic and current joints from Warren G, Tupac, Messy Marv and Nipsey Hussle. Check out the mixtape cover and the download link after the jump.

  October 7, 2009

• Music as a weapon: Make it stop for chrissakes! This is torture, man.

  SoKabs (via Flickr)​Did you see this yet? We just caught a link to this on Twitter (thanks, MyBodySings), a list of artists whose music was used "during the detention and interrogation of" to torture "prisoners at Guantanamo and other US facilities"? The list, published by the National Security Archive and reportedly culled from recently declassified documents, contains an range of music, from the Barney Theme Song and Meow Mix Jingle to Limp Bizkit and Matchbox Twenty. We see where they're go

  October 22, 2009

• Hey, DJ! Q&A with Kid Hum

  ​Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up to them half cocked and ask them to play that new song by such and such -- you know, the one that goes... This week's subject: Kid Hum.

  October 23, 2009