Scope and content Papers include magazine and newspaper articles, photographs, posters, photocopies and ephemera documenting Hip Hop in the 1980s and 90s. Included are FOIL copies of the FBI's files on Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E, a recording contract for an album featuring Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys, a press release for NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" video, which was banned by MTV. Other documentation focuses on the rise of gangsta rap, the censorship of rap lyrics and the controversy over the Recording...

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156 fan letters written to Tupac Shakur within their original envelopes, the majority of which are unopened, variously address c/o Interscope Records, Atlantic Recording Corporation, and others, ca. 1995 and 442 envelopes with content relating to the Digital Underground, mostly unopened, the majority containing fan voting ballots for the Humpty Dance Awards (where fans voted for their favorite song containing a Humpty Dance sample), most addressed to The Humpty Dance Awards, 1993.

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One three-page letter addressed to Simi Chouhan dated August 17, 1995 written by Tupac when he was incarcerated in the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY, accompanied by a poem written for Simi entitled "Thinkin' of U" and a Polaroid photograph of Tupac pictured with members of his crew.