A drama about the life of Tupac Shakur is sprawling but sketchy in a standard biopic way, yet Demetrius Shipp Jr.'s performance nails the hip-hop superstar as the ferocious role-player he was.
Sleekly shaven-headed, with a pirate bandana, a gangsta’s dripped-in-death tattoos, and the liquid stare of an Arabian prince, Tupac Shakur was the matinee idol of hip-hop superstars: not the fiercest rapper, not the most virtuosic or visionary, but a figure of “hard” ferocity who elevated street nihilism by fusing it with a certain lovesexy bravura. Read More...
Profession: Drug Lord
Biography: Frank Lucas was an American drug lord from New York City who controlled the heroin trade in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He made a deal directly with sources in Southeast Asia which allowed him to cut out the middleman, allegedly smuggling heroin back in the coffins of dead American soldiers.
Lucas was the subject of American Gangster (2007), a film based loosely on his life, in which he was played by Denzel Washington. Read More...
Nigerian comedian cum actor Bovi has shared a touching story of a lady who had secured admission to study history in America but died in the gruesome Catholic Church attack in Owo, Ondo State. In the lengthy post on Instagram, Bovi narrated how the lady, identified as Jumoke opted to study abroad over the ASUU strike which has lingered for over three months now.
From the conversation, Jumoke laments the negative effect of the strike and how her life timetable has consistently been altered by the faulty system of education in Nigeria. Read More...