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For almost thirty years, the murder of Tupac Shakur belonged to everyone except a courtroom. It lived in documentaries and podcast episodes, in barbershop theories and message-board deep dives, in the mouths of men who claimed to know and t...
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On Monday, August 24, 2026, a jury in downtown Los Angeles heard opening statements in the government’s case against Durk Banks, the Chicago rapper known as Lil Durk, over an August 2022 shooting that killed a 24-yea...
Every allegation described here comes from federal charging documents and reporting on them. An indictment is an accusation, not a conviction; Eugene Henley has denied wrongdoing and is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at tr...
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UPDATE — Aug 19, 2026. This piece updates our earlier explainer, The Tupac Shakur Murder Case Goes to Trial, which ended with the trial still pending and an immunity appeal unresolved. Both questions now have...
Every origin myth needs a scene, and one of Jay-Z’s most durable happened in a New York nightclub in December 1999. But an origin myth has an author and a subject, and those are rarely the same person. Jay-Z wrote himself as the author. Lan...
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