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USA TODAY
Published · reached Usenet November 22, 2002
"The intensifying exploitation of slain rap artist Tupac Shakur highlights the sick, shameless show-business tendency to glorify violent and self-destructive black thugs."
This story circulated on the newsgroup rec.music.hip-hop and reached the archive on November 22, 2002. It is reproduced as posted — headlines, typos and all. Original source, as credited in the post: USA TODAY.