Report: man admits to shooting Tupac: A day before what would have been Tupac's 40th birthday, AllHipHop.com is reporting that Dexter Isaac has admitted to being responsible for a 1994 attack on the rapper (not the one that killed him — Tupac got shot a lot) inside Manhattan's Quad Studios, after allegedly being paid $2,500 by James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond.
The 13 most surprising rap collaborations: It all started when When Run-DMC joined forces with aging rockers Aerosmith on the breakthrough 1986 hit "Walk This Way." In honor of Black Music Month, AOL Black Voices has a list of other unexpected but memorable matchups.
Cee-Lo set to host new show: Cee-Lo Green, already on TV as a judge on NBC's The Voice, will soon be hosting his own music show on the Fuse network. It's called Talking to Strangers, and in one of the first episodes he tells Kerri Hilson, "You can say all the most absurd s—- on this show cause it's cool."
Mandela charity ex-chief innocent in diamond case: Jeremy Ratcliffe, the former head of a charity started by Nelson Mandela, has been acquitted on a charge of illegally possessing uncut diamonds, the South African Press Association reports. Ratcliffe said that he received three gems from model Naomi Campbell, and he kept them because he didn't want her to get into trouble.
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