Afeni Shakur Archives

Yesterday, the world was hit with sad news as word spread that Afeni Shakur, civil rights activist and the famous mother of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur, died Monday night at the age of 69. Since then, fans across the globe have been sharing their sorrow online over Shakur’s death. Now, Jada Pinkett Smith, who was a close…

Sadly, the mother of Tupac Amaru Shakur, arguably the most respected hip-hop artist in history, died Monday night. Afeni Shakur suffered from cardiac arrest at her home in Sausalito, California and was later taken to a hospital where she died at around 10:30 p.m. She was 69. Although the life of her rap superstar son’s…

The woman who gave birth to rap legend Tupac Shakur has died. Afeni Shakur died on Monday, May 1. Authorities raced to her home in response to a 911 call of a possible cardiac arrest. She was transported to a local hospital and died around 10:30 p.m. that evening. Shakur, born Alice Faye Williams, changed her name…

A new musical featuring the songs of the late Tupac Shakur is preparing to make it’s debut on Broadway. According to Entertainment Weekly, Holler If Ya Hear Me is expected to open on June 19th, with a preview at the Palace on May 6th.

After several delays over the past two-and-a-half years, the long-awaited Tupac Shakur biopic is officially set to begin filming in 2014. The date was confirmed at a reception held by the film’s production companies, with producer Randall Emmet making the official announcement.

Emmett, Furla, and Oasis Films have teamed up with Morgan Creek Productions to co-finance and co-produce Tupac, a biopic based on the 25-year-old late rapper Tupac Shakur. The project, which is said to have a $45 million budget, will bring big business to Atlanta, where it will begin filming in February of next year. The biopic, which…

A mother is always supposed to be buried by her sons. When it happens the other way around, it is undoubtedly the most excruciatingly painful experience of a woman’s life, creating a canyon-sized hole in her soul that can never be filled during the remainder of that mother’s existence on earth. Sybrina Fulton has refused…

Afeni Shakur, the mother of fallen hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur, has announced plans to release never-before-heard music from the rapper.

The mother of the late Tupac Shakur is speaking out about a hologram of her son performing on Sunday, April 15, at the Coachella music festival. As previously reported, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre were joined onstage by a hologram of Tupac that rapped and spoke directly to concertgoers, “What the f— is up Coachella?!”…

Over the last seven years, R&B singer Trey Songz has worked his way to the top of the charts. After nearly a decade of trials and successes, Songz has come out a different man than he was when he first entered the music industry years ago. In his four-page feature for the spring fashion issue…

Tupac Shakur’s iconic catalog of music has been raking in major bucks since his tragic death in 1996. But as interest grows in the late rapper’s recently discovered sex tape, ‘Pac stands to generate another substantial posthumous check after a bidder recently offered up $1,000,000 for the unreleased song heard playing in the background of…

Last month, late rapper Tupac “2Pac” Shakur’s former rap group, Outlawz, confirmed the long held rumor that following ‘Pac’s death, they smoked his cremated ashes in memorial to the iconic rapper. Now, Tupac’s family is now denying the claim, saying it would have been impossible for the Outlawz to smoke Tupac’s ashes. According to TMZ,…

Tupac Shakur has been the focus of several documentaries and films over the years and now the life and times of Shakur will be brought to the small screen in a new TV mini-series, produced by Quincy Jones III, son of legendary music producer Quincy Jones. In a recent interview with XXL, Jones, who was…

Posts Tagged ‘Afeni Shakur’

Jada Pinkett Smith pens open letter for Afeni Shakur

5 things to remember about Afeni and Tupac Shakur

Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac, dead at 69

2Pac musical ‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’ coming to Broadway

Tupac Shakur biopic finally set to begin filming after numerous delays

Tupac Shakur’s biopic will be filmed in Atlanta

Afeni Shakur, Voletta Wallace and famous mothers whose sons were murdered by gunfire

2Pac’s 10 worst posthumous albums

Tupac’s Mother ‘Thrilled’ by His Holographic Performance

Trey Songz Talks Musical Growth, Charity

Tupac Shakur Sex Tape Soundtrack Draws 7-Figure Offer

Tupac Shakur’s Family Denies Outlawz’s Claim of Smoking Rapper’s Ashes

Tupac Shakur TV Mini-Series in the Works