uplifting music playing] ♪ i had a dream that someday ♪ ♪ i would just fly, fly away ♪ >>> rap star tupac shakurgster rap has been gunned down. >> smals' death may be payback for the killing of tupac shakur. >> when tupac and biggie were assassinated, it was a watershed moment in hip-hop culture. kind of the death of a revolution. >> these two men were two of most successful rap artists, phenomenally wealthy. why are we seeing this happen? >> both biggie smalls and tupac had talked of trying to break out of the violence but many said they were trapped in the world they created. they were forced, as they say, to keep it real. that's a sad commentary. >> i remember seeing news reports of how violent it was. i remember editorials about how can we let our children listen to this when artists are being killed at an incredible rate. i thought rap was going to end. >> at least one radio station in in los angeles who has made money from gangster music has stopped playing it. >> we lost two of the greatest in hip-hop history. that vacuum was there for a while. it was like, okay, what are we going to do.

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and tupac shakur argued successfully for michael williams to be given the part tupac�*s brother in the landing that role that was to define him, of course, as omar little, in the wire. it was perhaps the most memorable role in a series that has been called one of the best in television history. so good that then senator barack obama called the wire his favourite tv show and omar little the favourite character in it. so his death at 5a much mourned in hollywood today. absolutely. david willis there. one of the biggest stars of french cinema, jean—paul belmondo, has died at the age of 88. he began his acting career in the theatre — but became a key figure in french new wave cinema, making him a household name in france. mark lobel looks back at his life. he mastered playing the seductive tough guy. he had the look of a battered boxer. but his punctured nose wasn't the result of his brief teenage foray into this, at amateur level, rather an earlier playground altercation. after doing poorly at school, he found his calling in acting. translation: when you consider all that jean-paul— has d

at a bar fight when he was 25 but he said it changed the course of his life and career because tupac shakurt him in his first role after seeing a picture of him. thought he looked thugged out enough. and he got the role, and it changed the course of his life and career. >> so powerful. we didn't even talk about his dance moves. >> he was a dancer back in the day. >> so loved in the community. >> such a loss. t.j., thank you. >>> we are following a lot of other headlines this morning including that lawyer now saying he was shot in the head after his wife and son were both murdered, and he's checking himself into rehab. >>> and the investigation into a tragic amusement park accident. but first let's go back to ginger. >> and we have the tuesday trivia now sponsored by amazon. >>> we'll be right back. today, things can be pretty unexpected. but your customers, they still expect things to be simple. and they want it all personalized. with ibm, you can do both. businesses like insurers can automate it processes across clouds. so agents can spend more time on customer needs. and whatever comes yo