Snoop Dogg dropped his debut album and welcomed his first child within a nine-month timespan in the 1990s, forcing him to try to balance fame and fatherhood just as his music career was flourishing.

In an excerpt from the new biography Only God Can Judge Me, friends and family of the slain rapper detail the pain, poverty, ...

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Marion ‘Suge’ Knight claims a group of Tupac Shakur’s closest friends and family smoked his cremated ashes in a blunt. This revelation has shocked the hip-hop community and fans worldwide. Speaking ...

A jury has been selected in the trial that will decide whether the suspect in the fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur is guilty of battery in connection with a jail altercation. Duane “Keffe D” ...