Looking Back on the Life and Legacy of 2Pac on What Would Have Been His 50th Birthday
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We celebrate 2Pac’s 50th birthday. We go back in time and play one of our interviews with 2Pac from 1991.

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Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.
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We celebrate 2Pac’s 50th birthday. We go back in time and play one of our interviews with 2Pac from 1991.
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We speak with Cree Ray about the San Francisco Black Film Festival and the legacy of her being a third generation to run it. We also speak with film maker Ellis Sutton. And Peter Pitt Mukuria reflects on mental illness in prison. photo: Denise Jans via Unsplash
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Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
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Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
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