Dre’s 1992 The Chronic, one of rap’s most influential albums ever. The decision to branch out on his own with a business partner known for violence and gang ties was potential career suicide, a possibility both Dre and The Source milked with its startling November 1992 cover. Dre was already seen as a musical savant, a producer who helped make N.W.A a name America had come to love, loathe and fear. With Knight, a former bodyguard, Dre launched Death Row Records. Dre had split from Eazy E personally, N.W.A as a group and Ruthless Records in 1992. These magazines satisfied a pre-Wi-Fi audience’s yearning for news and images about rap’s greatest, most dissected and, at its lowest, most heartbreaking era.Īmid financial disputes, Dr. The transcendent XXL didn’t launch until the summer of 1997. By the outset of 1996, two publications were responsible for driving the conversation around hip-hop and R&B, its biggest stars and its most provocative news: VIBE (created by Quincy Jones in 1992) and The Source (launched in 1988). Let’s take it back to an era before the internet, blogs and social media reigned, to when hip-hop magazines were the unrivaled scripture for America’s most beloved, bemoaned culture. The strange legacy of Tupac’s ‘hologram’ lives on five years after its historic Coachella debut.The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honor Tupac Shakur knew he'd never live to see.Kendrick Lamar, Drake and the definition of a ‘classic’ rap album.The notorious night Biggie was murdered in Los Angeles.To understand the significance of the cover image is to understand the chain of events that led to it - and to the label’s downfall shortly thereafter. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur in a Goodfellas-inspired collage. Also after Tupac Shakur’s death, Billy Garland took Afeni Shakur to court, claiming half of Tupac’s estate, but was denied.Appropriately titled “Live From Death Row,” VIBE ’s February 1996 cover featured the already-notorious label’s faces: Dr. A laboratory tested Shakur’s DNA and found out the probability of Afeni and Billy 99.97% parentage. Tupac, to V ibe magazine’s Kevin Powell, June 1996 Tupac and Billy Garland at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, 1995Īfter Tupac’s death, Afeni and Billy sent his blood to Long Beach Genetics. We still didn’t take no blood test but the nigga looked just like me and the other nigga’s dead so now I feel that I’m past the father stage.” And he was my father that’s when I found out. After I got shot, I looked up there was this nigga that looked just like me. Tupac mentioned William Garland once: “I thought my father was dead all my life. Tupac’s Father, William “Billy” Garland Interview approached him at the hospital while visiting Tupac, and he believed that he wasn’t involved in the shooting. Garland claimed that The Notorious B.I.G. Shakur was told by his Mother that his father was dead. He later visited Shakur in Bellevue Hospital when he was shot in 1994. He didn’t see Tupac again until he starred in the movie ‘Juice’ in 1992. Garland did very little to help raise his son, only seeing him a few times until Tupac was around the age of 5. He was a black activist belonging to the Black Panther Party, maintained a relationship with Afeni Shakur (also affiliated with the party) and is the biological father of Lesane Parish Crooks, who is better known as Tupac Shakur. He was given the birth surname “ Garland” meaning “The Crown of a King” for his kinship-relation and lineage of a royal descent to the Sub-Saharan African kingdom called the Garamantes civilization, modern the direct descent of today Tuareg people. Garland’s great-grandparents were the “first generation immigrant” Sub-Saharan African-Americans. William “Billy” Garland (born March 14, 1949) to African American parents.
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