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October 25, 2002 - Vibe magazine features Eminem on the cover of its November issue. In the article, Zadie Smith compares Eminem to Tupac Shakur on a number of levels, and Slim gives credit to Tupac. "I love that Tupac cared about his people, from his background, his generation," Eminem says. "He cared what they thought, and anybody else who didn’t understand him could go to hell." Check out the entire interview here.

October 19, 2002 - MuchMusic caught up with 'Biggie And Tupac' director Nick Broomfield and asked him what Notorious B.I.G.'s mother Violetta Wallace thought of his work. "She was the first person that I showed the film to," said Broomfield. "I think she was very moved by the film and it really mattered to me what she thought of it. And she said, 'This is the film I wanted, this is the film I think that will find those responsible for killing my son.'" Tupac Shakur died September 1996 and only six months later, Violetta's son died as well.

October 19, 2002 - Sister2Sister's Jamie Foster Brown called into the Tom Joyner show on Thursday to talk about the beef with Toni Braxton and Jay-Z on Jigga's collaboration with Destiny's Child star Beyonce Knowles, which uses the same sample of Tupac Shakur's track. Tom says he's representing old school, and both of them are stealin' 2Pac's track so there really is nothing for Braxton to be complaining about. He says sampling is thievery. Listen to the five minute clip here.

October 16, 2002 - Chart Attack spoke with Nick Broomfield about his latest documentary, 'Biggie And Tupac', which points the murder of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls in the direction of Suge Knight. That conclusion differs completely from Los Angeles Times reporter Chuck Philips, but Broomfield doesn't buy Philips account. "Well, he's Suge Knight's boy," says Broomfield of Philips. "I didn't get any real feeling from Chuck's piece that he had really interviewed Orlando Anderson's friends, his family or his lawyer, all of whom I interviewed. The impression I developed of Orlando Anderson was that he was not very bright and that he was set up as a patsy by Suge Knight. Mysterious payments were made to him and he had a very expensive car that he was driving around shortly after the [Shakur] murder. He was a patsy if anything, he was the Lee Harvey Oswald of the story. I think Chuck's piece was a load of bollocks, quite frankly." Read more.

October 1, 2002 - Nick Broomfield's new documentary on the murders of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur is bringing a new conspiracy theory to the forefront. Watch a video clip from WB11 featuring highlights of the film here.

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