2Pac: Until the End of Time
Until The End Of Time, a double CD of songs written and performed by 2Pac during the last year of his life, arrived in stores on Tuesday. The double album consists of more than 20 previously unreleased tracks that were recorded after his release from prison in late 1995 up until his death on Sept. 13, 1996. Until The End Of Time is the first of two double CDs scheduled to be released this year. All of 2Pac's posthumous albums have reached at least platinum status. Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory was released under the name Makaveli just weeks after his death and went quadruple platinum. A double album of tracks 2Pac recorded between 1991 and 1994, R U Still Down? (Remember Me), dropped in 1997 and went quadruple platinum. His Greatest Hits double album hit stores in 1998 and went platinum nine times over, and the 2Pac & Outlawz collaboration, Still I Rise, was released in 1999 and certified platinum.
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Keith Murray was released from a halfway house on Monday after serving three years behind bars for hitting a man in the head with a barstool during a fight in 1995. Murray was convicted in 1996, but was released on bail while awaiting an appeal. He was sentenced to three years in prison in 1998, but he avoided capture for a month before turning himself in in October of that year. Murray struck a deal to have three months dropped from his sentence by dropping his lawsuit for a new trial. Murray was transferred to the Maple Street House facility in Bridgeport, Conn., earlier this year. Murray's last album, It's a Beautiful Thing, was released in 1999 while he was imprisoned. He next appears on "Wrong 4 Dat," a track off Redman's Malpractice, which will hit stores on May 22. 
A Superior Court judge in Los Angeles refused Friday to issue a temporary restraining order barring Suge Knight from marketing what Jennifer Lopez' representatives called a sex videotape. Lopez sued Knight and Death Row Records for invasion of privacy after the Star tabloid reported that Knight was planning to market a videotape titled "J. Lo Uncut: The Real Story" that featured Lopez and a former boyfriend engaging in sexual relations in the early '90s. However, Knight's lawyer denied the existence of any sex videotape. According to the packaging of "J. Lo Uncut," the "uncut, unauthorized, unbelievable, raw and uncensored" video uses reenactments and real footage to show Lopez and P. Diddy "like never before." So expect Knight to produce something along the lines of Dr. Dre's "Dre Day" video, but instead of poking fun at Eazy-E and Jerry Heller, Lopez and Puffy will be the targets.
Death Row Records will release 
No, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs hasn't patched things up with longtime rival Suge Knight. And, no, the Miami police department didn't throw the book at him for 
Kane & Abel face up to three years in jail after pleading guilty in a federal cocaine case in New Orleans on Friday. It was the second time the twin brothers had been arraigned in the case. Kane & Abel, whose real names are Daniel and David Garcia, admitted to concealing knowledge of a felony that they did not participate in (officially known as misprision of a felony) as part of an agreement with prosecutors. Kane & Abel allegedly lied to federal agents about the activities of drug kingpin Richard Pena. Pena, who lawfully financed Kane & Abel's music career, was arrested in 1997 and pleaded guilty to eight murders. Prosecutors claim that Pena also put them to work in his drug ring. Kane & Abel reached an earlier plea agreement that carried a sentence of two years in jail, but the deal was rejected by a judge who deemed it too lenient. In it, the twins would have pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges, admitting that they received 10 kilograms of cocaine from Pena in 1996 and 1997. The deal would have required Kane & Abel to include anti-drug literature in future albums, film anti-drug television ads and give school lectures. Kane & Abel released their third full-length album, Most Wanted, last year. 
Juvenile filed a written plea of not guilty in Dade County, Florida, to charges of aggravated battery with a bottle, battery on a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest without violence. Juvenile, who chose not to appear in person at the arraignment, allegedly hit a 28-year-old man over the head with a champagne bottle and grabbed a police officer after a fight broke out earlier this year outside the Improv Comedy Club in Miami. His record company released a statement shortly after the plea was entered: "Juvenile is a young, hardworking, extremely talented and gifted artist who is beginning to enjoy the fruits of his hard work and talent. Juvenile regrets any incident that may have occurred on March 28, 2001. It is unfortunate that some people seek to cash in on celebrities in the hopes of gaining fame, fortune and notoriety. Because of the status that he enjoys, Juvenile is extremely vulnerable to this type of incident. Juvenile and his attorneys are confident that his innocence will be conclusively established in a court of law and he will be vindicated by a jury of Miami-Dade County citizens." Juvenile's next scheduled court appearance is June 8. 
A man who was injured in a car accident with Shyne claims that the Bad Boy MC caused the wreck by running a red light and is suing him for $5 million. Mark MacKenzie claims that he suffered a serious head injury in the accident and required surgery. However, Shyne's lawyer, Murray Richman, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the lawsuit was without merit and that a police investigation showed MacKenzie caused the accident. Jury selection in Puff Daddy and Shyne's trial was delayed by the incident, which took place Jan. 21. Shyne was arrested and charged with driving without a license. Shyne remains in New York's Rikers Island jail after being convicted of assault, gun possession and reckless endangerment earlier this year in connection with the December 1999 shooting at a New York nightclub. He will be sentenced June 1. 
A New York City Council committee voted against a proposal Wednesday that would have named a Bronx intersection after Christopher "Big Pun" Rios. The committee said it was uncomfortable with the profanity and the references to violence and drug dealing in some of his lyrics. Pun, who was 28 years old and weighed nearly 700 pounds when he died of a heart attack on Feb. 7, 2000, was the first Latino hip-hop artist to go platinum. Fans collected 7,000 signatures requesting that the intersection of 163rd Street and Rogers Place in the Morrisania section be renamed Big Pun Place. 
The opening date of 
The Associated Press is reporting that 
De La Soul and the Beastie Boys' DJ, Mix Master Mike, are among the more than 70 acts that will be participating at the second annual Detroit Electronic Music Festival free of charge. Yes, you read it right. The festival, which is sponsored by Ford Motor Co., will take place on four stages in downtown Detroit's Hart Plaza on May 26-28 and admission is free. Some of the artists involved also are expected to stop by local schools to speak about music. For those of you who might make the trip from out of town, area hotels also are offering a special rate for fans attending the event. 
After being delayed for almost two years, Run DMC's long awaited comeback album, Crown Royal, finally arrived in stores on Tuesday, April 3. Of course, the album wasn't quite as eagerly anticipated after it was revealed that many of the hip-hop collaboartions, including appearances by Slick Rick, ODB and Ja Rule, were scrapped in favor of more rap-rock crossovers with the likes of Sugar Ray, Kid Rock, Everlast, Fred Durst and Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins. Nas, Mobb Deep's Prodigy, Method Man, Jermaine Dupri and Fat Joe survived the final cut, but DMC, who revealed on VH1's "Behind the Music" that he wasn't really involved with Crown Royal, is not expected to appear much due to the loss of his voice and the desire to move in a different direction with his music. He will live on in samples and previously recorded material, though. 
Ice-T will join Special K and Teddy Tedd as they kick off their new show, "The Ghetto," on BringTheNoise.com on Friday, April 6. Ice-T, one of the leading figures in hip-hop, released his first album, Rhyme Pays, in 1987 after landing a major label record deal with Sire Records. The record reached gold status. That same year, he recorded the theme song for Dennis Hopper's "Colors," a film about inner-city life in Los Angeles. Since that time, Ice-T has forged ahead, establishing himself as a respected actor, landing roles in major feature films and television programs, in addition to forming his own record label, Rhyme Syndicate, and continuing to release albums and tour the world. 