Rap icon Yo-Yo has plenty of stories to share about the glory days of hip hop from when she stepped on the scene back in the late 1980s. The 48-year-old has shared stages alongside her fellow hip hop legends and during a recent chat with the Murder Master Music Show, Yo-Yo talked about releasing “Out of Control,” her first single in 10 years. The Compton rapper also discussed those days back in the 1990s when she dated Tupac Shakur and fondly remembered him as a man with unmatched confidence.

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“Pac, he was a hothead, he was a sh*t talker!” she said with a laugh. “He thought he was the best. He was the best entertainer that I remember. He had a swag about him when he touched that stage. I fell in love with him as an artist, first. Just, his love for music, his passion for people, he was a young rider. He was a young Malcolm X, he was a young Black Panther, he was a street n*gga,” she added with another laugh. “He was all of that mixed up in one and he had a penmanship when it came to writing lyrics like nobody else. He lived it, he breathed it, it was in his walk.”

YoYo teased her late friend once again. “Cocky ass n*gga! Very cocky. I loved him, though!” the rapper continued with a chuckle. “I loved him. I loved his confidence. He was… It’s sad that he is not here today because I always say our families would still be in contact with each other. I’m in contact with his family and I work with his sister and their organization the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation… The fact that he’s not here seeing our kids grow up.” Listen to a clip of Yo-Yo talking about Tupac Shakur on the Murder Master Music Show below.

Remember HBO’s 2015 documentary The Jinx? The explosive six-part miniseries led to the arrest of its subject, New York real estate heir Robert Durst, before the finale even aired. It now looks like art will bleed into life once again with the assassination of Malcolm X following Netflix’s new docuseries Who Killed Malcolm X?

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Reports from CNN and other outlets claim the doc has inspired the Manhattan district attorney’s office to reevaluate the case following new information revealed in the six-part series. Historian and activist Abdur-Rahman Muhammad spearheaded this journey into justice, starting from asking the proper questions to even working on clearing the names of those originally convicted of the crime. The latter portion is getting help from the Innocence Project, a non-profit dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted people, which is currently partnering with the Manhattan D.A.’s office.

Here’s the official statement from the DA office, CNN:

“District Attorney Vance has met with representatives from the Innocence Project and associated counsel regarding this matter,” Manhattan DA spokesman Danny Frost said in a statement. “He has determined that the district attorney’s office will begin a preliminary review of the matter, which will inform the office regarding what further investigative steps may be undertaken.”

Speaking on behalf of Muhammad Abdul Aziz, one of the men convicted back in 1966 along with Khalil Islam and main suspect Mujahid Abdul Halim, The Innocence Project showed gratitude to the district attorney with the following statement from co-founder Barry Scheck: “Given the historical importance of this case and the fact that our client is 81 years old, we are especially encouraged that Mr. Vance has assigned two highly respected prosecutors, Peter Casolaro and Charles King, to work on this re-investigation.” 

Watch the trailer for Who Killed Malcolm X? below, and watch the full series right now over on Netflix:

After Suge Knight revealed from prison that Nick Cannon would be penning a book on his life back in October, many have been eager to figure out when and how the publication would ultimately come to fruition. Now, it’s looking like Nick is taking a short break from his beef with Eminem to give more details on the project, and he’s even comparing to the autobiography of an iconic civil rights leader.

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Ironically sharing the news during Black History Month, Cannon spoke on his Suge book during a recent interview with VLAD TV where he compared his work with Knight to what Alex Haley, the legendary journalist who penned Roots, was able to accomplish with The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Haley’s book was published using in-depth interviews he conducted with Malcolm X (seen above) between 1963 up until his assassination in February 1965. Cannon explained his wild comparison of Suge and Malcolm X by stating, “There’s no bigger villain in our culture, specifically in hip-hop, than Suge Knight. I’m gonna use this as an assignment to go in and tell the real story and allow him to tell his story.” Nick further explained that he wasn’t coming in “as a reporter” but more in the fashion of how Haley was influential in bringing The Autobiography Of Malcolm X to life. “I’m doing the same thing with Suge,” he concluded, to which Vlad was a bit confused like the rest of us. Cannon then cleared up his statement by adding, “If we met Malcolm X in his earlier years, or if you stopped that book at page 200something — Malcolm X was a cold motherfucker!”

Watch the full interview below, and let us know if you agree with Nick Cannon‘s comparison of Suge Knight to Malcolm X: