"LA Times" Apologizes for Erroneous Tupac Shooting Story

The Los Angeles Times has issued an apology following yesterday's revelation that their March 17th report which implicated Sean "Diddy" Combs and his associates in a 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur was partially based on fabricated documents. "In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job," Chuck Philips, the author of the report said in a statement. Deputy managing editor Marc Duvoisin added: "We should not have let ourselves be fooled. That we were is as much my fault as Chuck's. I deeply regret that we let our readers down." An imprisoned con man, James Sabatino, is believed to have forged the FBI documents that were at the center of the report.

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Song Stories

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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