Tupac Shakur : the Life and Times of an American Icon. by Johnson, Fred L.

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Tupac Shakur : the Life and Times of an American Icon. by Johnson, Fred L.

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A life in ten pictures. Tupac Shakur / produced and directed by Matthew Hill. by Hill, Matthew (Producer)

“…Tupac Shakur…”
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Holler if you hear me : searching for Tupac Shakur / Michael Eric Dyson ; [with a new preface by the author]. by Dyson, Michael Eric

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Afrofuturism 2.0 : the rise of astro-blackness / edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones.

Table of Contents: “…Hip hop holograms: Tupac Shakur, technological immortality, and time travel /…”

Assassination : Battle for Compton / MVD.

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The Vibe history of hip hop / edited by Alan Light.

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Biggie & Tupac / Razor & Tie presents a Lafayette Film production for Channel Four Television ; a Nick Broomfield film ; producer, Michele D'Acosta ; director, Nick Broomfield.

Hip hop in American cinema / Melvin Donalson. by Donalson, Melvin Burke, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Representin' in the beginnin': the 1980s -- Chillin' and killlin': hood rats and thugs, 1990-1999 -- Skimmin' the phat: players, poets, and professionals, 1996-2005 -- Tupac Shakur: hip-hop icon and screen idol -- Queen Latifah: from MC to mainstream diva -- Beyond the reel: rappers, bling, and floss.…”

Rhymin' and stealin' : musical borrowing in hip-hop / Justin A. Williams. by Williams, Justin A.

Table of Contents: “…Dre's "Jeep beats" and musical borrowing for the automotive space -- The martyr industry : Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G., and postmortem sampling -- Borrowing and lineage in Eminem/2Pac's Loyal to the game and 50 Cent's Get rich or die trying.…”
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Rhymin' and stealin' : musical borrowing in hip-hop music / Justin A. Williams. by Williams, Justin A.

Table of Contents: “…The martyr industry: Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G., and postmortem sampling -- 5. …”

Nuthin' but a "G" thang : the culture and commerce of gangsta rap / Eithne Quinn. by Quinn, Eithne, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…: rap performance and trickster tales -- It's a Doggy-Dogg world : the G-funk era and the post-soul family -- Tupac Shakur and the legacies of gangsta.…”

Tupac: Before I Wake. by Long, Sean

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If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript / Angus Croll ; illustrations by Miran Lipovača. by Croll, Angus

Table of Contents: “…Jack Kerouac ; Jane Austen ; Samuel Johnson ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; James Joyce -- "Macbeth's Lost Callback" / inspired by William Shakespeare -- HAPPY NUMBERS. J.D. Salinger ; Tupac Shakur ; Virginia Woolf ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; Vladimir Nabokov -- "The Refactor" / inspired by Dylan Thomas -- PRIME NUMBERS. …”
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Rock over the edge : transformations in popular music culture / edited by Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders.

Table of Contents: “…Warren Zanes -- Mourning becomes...? Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, and the "waning of affect" / Roger Beebe -- D.C. punk and the production of authenticity / Jason Middleton -- Queen theory: notes on the pet shop boys / Ian Balfour.…”

Conspiracy nation : the politics of paranoia in postwar America / edited by Peter Knight.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A nation of conspiracy theorists / Peter Knight -- Spinning paranoia: the ideologies of conspiracy and contingency in postmodern culture / Skip Willman -- A poor person's cognitive mapping / Fran Mason -- Agency panic and the culture of conspiracy / Timothy Melley -- If anything is possible / Jodi Dean -- My body is not my own: personalizing disempowerment in alien abduction narratives / Bridget Brown -- Injections and truth serums: AIDS conspiracy / Jack Bratich -- White hope: conspiracy, nationalism, and revolution in the Turner diaries and Hunter / Ingrid Walker Fields -- All eyez on me: the paranoid style of Tupac Shakur -- Douglas Kellner, The X-files and conspiracy: a diagnostic critique / Eithne Quinn -- The commodification of conspiracy theories / Clare Birchall -- Forget conspiracy: Pynchon, Delillo, and the conventional counterconspiracy narrative / John McClure.…”

Hollywood bad boys : loud, fast, and out of control / James Robert Parish. by Parish, James Robert

Table of Contents: “…Fields -- Errol Flynn -- Mark Frechette -- Clark Gable -- John Gilbert -- Kelsey Grammer -- Hugh Grant -- Rodney Harvey -- Pee-Wee Herman -- Howard Hughes -- Don Johnson -- Paul Kelly -- Peter Lawford -- Rob Lowe -- Dean Martin -- Steve McQueen -- Robert Mitchum -- Eddie Murphy -- Tom Neal -- Jack Nicholson -- Nick Nolte -- Sean Penn -- Matthew Perry -- River Phoenix -- Elvis Presley -- Richard Pryor -- George Raft -- Wallace Reid -- Brad Renfro -- Burt Reynolds -- Mickey Rourke -- Tupac Shakur -- Charlie Sheen -- O.J. Simpson -- Frank Sinatra -- Christian Slater -- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer -- William Desmond Taylor -- Lawrence Tierney -- Spencer Tracy -- Rudolph Valentino -- Jean-Claude Van Damme -- Jan-Michael Vincent -- Mark Wahlberg -- John Wayne -- Bruce Willis -- Gig Young.…”

Continuing perspectives on the Black Diaspora / edited with introductions by Aubrey W. Bonnett and Calvin B. Holder.

Table of Contents: “…Holder -- The notion of realness in the success of Tupac Shakur and Bob Marley / Walter F. Edwards -- "What happens in Haiti has repercussions which far transcend Haiti itself" : Walter White, Haiti and the public relations campaign, 1947-1955 / Millery Polyné -- Media and the diaspora / Arnold Gibbons -- The West Indian diaspora to the U.S.A. : remittances and development of the homeland / Aubrey W. …”
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Juice / Paramount Pictures presents in association with Island World ; a Moritz/Heyman production ; an Ernest R. Dickerson film ; screenplay by Gerard Brown and Ernest R. Dickerson ; story by Ernest R. Dickerson ; produced by David Heyman & Neal H. Moritz and Peter Frankfurt ; directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. by Dickerson, Ernest R., 1952-, Dickerson, Ernest R., 1952-

To the break of dawn : a freestyle on the hip hop aesthetic / William Jelani Cobb. by Cobb, Jelani

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