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December 20, 2001 - Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake is due to hit shelves Tuesday, January 15, 2002 in a documentary depicting the events of that final year of Tupac Shakur's life, depicted by a man who was there through it all, Tupac's personal bodyguard Frank Alexander. Loads of never-before-seen footage, including recording sessions of "Until the End of Time." His bodyguard tells Muchmusic, "I was with Tupac in the last year of his life and the night he was shot in Las Vegas. I want people to know what really happened. The film shows that." You can pick up the DVD for only $10.89 at CD Universe. Check out more here.

December 10, 2001 - SepiaTone Entertainment is releasing "Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake," a documentary on the life and murder of the greatest selling rap artist of all time, Tupac Shakur. The video is distributed by Xenon Pictures and is scheduled to hit stores on January 15th, 2002. Amongst those commenting on the video are Rev. Jesse Jackson, Russell Simmons, and the late Eric 'Eazy-E' Wright. Read more.

December 9, 2001 - Sonicnet talked with Nas about the video for 'Got Ur Self A ...' which will include created scenes from the shooting deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Nas said, "I love hip-hop, and they died for hip-hop. And I just wanted to represent their love for hip-hop by re-enacting the scenes the last time we saw them. ... A lot of other artists were ripping them off, and I just wanted to pay homage to those brothers in a big way. I didn't want nobody to forget about them, the originators." 

November 25, 2001 - Blender talked with TLC's Lisa Left Eye Lopes in the August/September issue now archived online where she was asked, "If you were a man, who would you want to be?" Lopes responded, "Tupac. He's everything, plus some. And the 'plus some' is what I would do away with if I were him - then maybe he would still be here today." Read more.

November 3, 2001 - Despite his not so recent death, Tupac Shakur has remained a hot search on the internet, no doubt helped by the mysterious nature of the murder. For the month of September on seach engine Overture.com, searches for '2pac' eclipsed 61,000 while Tupac and Tupac Shakur got around 66,000 more. Layered in the usual lyric and MP3 searches are searches for death related speculation and the infamous autopsy photo. Read here for a full list of related searches and misspellings.

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