Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

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.

I lived 32 years without knowing,” Davonn Hodge says of the revelation. The subject behind one of 2Pac’s most iconic ...

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” ...