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'Bloated,' 'Lofty,' and Out of Work:  LA's Newest Claim to Fame

The folks over at Forbes are taking their cues these days from the late rap icon Tupac Shakur as they explain why they selected Los Angeles as their top pick of America's Most Overpriced Cities. But it's not the cost of pimping your gas-guzzling ride, decking yourself out in bling for a red carpet event, or bathing in champagne that makes life here so expensive. It's actually, well, just plain ol' life here that's overpriced, with our "bloated housing prices, lofty living costs and unemployment rates among the highest in the nation."

As noted earlier in a brief, the LA Times, having eaten more crow than a Lance Armstrong-Eric Clapton Constructicon, have fully retracted their most recent annual Tupac Article.

And so it ends... for now. Pulitzer Prize winner Chuck Philips' Tupac Shakur story from March 17 has been officially retracted and with a lengthy explanation. It begins...

If you were writing a text book titled “How to Put on a Cliché Hip Hop Concert,” it would have been in your best interest to attend last night’s Bone Thugs N Harmony concert at the House of Blues. The thirteen year veterans who revolutionized the sound of hip-hop with their groundbreaking style, mixing rapid fire lyrics mixed with layered harmonies did nothing revolutionary at last night’s show. Bone Thugs, who’s latest album Strength &...

LAist is still dazzled by Kurupt's pontifications on the nature of the love in the Snoop Dogg classic "Ain't No Fun," and is pleased to see this new development. Let's all hope he manages to space boogie Tha Row back to global prominence.

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