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  Republican Senator Marco Rubio Agrees That Lil Wayne Is No Tupac

  February 27, 2013 – Republican senator Marco Rubio has already made it quite clear that he's a learned Tupac Shakur fan. …
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  Tupac's Dear Mama Will Share Shakur's 'Entire Body of Work'

  February 20, 2013 – Last year was a big weird one for Tupac Shakur despite the fact that the iconic artist has been dead since 1996. Auditions were held for the musical about the man's life, conservative writer David Brooks awkwardly shoehorned him into his column, author Chuck Phillips purported to blow the lid off of the MC's murder (but didn't), and Quentin Tarantino commissioned a 2Pac-James Brown mashup for Django Unchained. …
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  Hear Quentin Tarantino's Brash 2Pac-James Brown 'Django Unchained' Mind-Meld

  December 11, 2012 – Rappers have been rapping over James Brown samples basically ever since there's been rapping. Tupac Shakur did it while he was alive; according to producer Shock G's since-deleted MySpace post on the making of "I Get Around," the entire beat of 2Pac's first big hit was built out of sampled drum noises from Brown records. Mystikal bellowed over a fake-J.B. …
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  Hear Rick Ross' Menacing Song for Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' Soundtrack

  November 30, 2012 – In the newly released final trailer for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film Django Unchained, between gunshot after gunshot, there's the unmistakable roar of Rick Ross. The song is titled "100 Black Coffins," and its chanted title hook definitely suits the ultraviolent visuals, with Jamie Foxx playing a bounty hunter. …
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  Tupac, Biggie Murders Still Drive Writer to Investigate

  September 13, 2012 – The back story: In 2008, Pulitzer-winning former L.A. Times staff writer Chuck Philips wrote a story naming names in the murder of Tupac Shakur, who died 16 years ago today. He'd been faithfully, doggedly researching and writing about rap's East-West rivalry and the deaths of its two stars, Pac and the Notorious B.I.G.; but the 2008 story was retracted over an allegedly forged document, and Philips left the Times shortly thereafter. …
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  RIP HoloPac: Tupac Hologram Makers File for Bankruptcy

  September 12, 2012 – Hologram 2Pac is dead. Digital Domain Media Group, the company responsible for the projection of Tupac Shakur that dominated discussion of this year's Coachella, has filed for bankruptcy protection, CNNMoney reports (via Vulture). …
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  What David Brooks Got Wrong About Tupac and Springsteen

  June 27, 2012 – Conservative columnist David Brooks is just smart enough to get by. He's armed with hubris that allows him to wander out of his house and fit whatever he sees into an already formed thesis that sounds pretty reasonable if you don't think about it too hard. Yesterday's column by Brooks, a wide-eyed, close-minded Stanley Crouch rip-off called "The Power of the Particular," is ostensibly about seeing Bruce Springsteen in Spain and France. …
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  Queen's Freddie Mercury Will Perform as 'Optical Illusion'

  May 11, 2012 – Freddie Mercury will make a technology-enhanced appearance from beyond the grave at a tenth anniversary performance of the Queen musical We Will Rock You. But to be clear, the frontman — who died in 1991 — will not be a hologram. He will be an "optical illusion." Yesterday, Queen guitarist Brian May all but told the BBC that Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg scooped his band with Holo-pac's performance at Coachella last month. …
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  Dr. Dre Dismisses Then Stokes Rumors Hologram Tupac Will Go on Tour

  April 23, 2012 – It's the one-week anniversary of the day we couldn't stop talking about the weird hologram version of Tupac Shakur that joined Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg during their headlining set at Coachella. Actually, the world spent most of last week obsessed with the 2-D rendering of the slain Cali rapper and rumors Dre would take 'Pac on the road. …
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  Jackson 5 Reunion Tour May Unfortunately Star Hologram Michael

  April 19, 2012 – The Hologram Coachella lineup making the Internet rounds this week isn't looking quite so ridiculous anymore. While discussing the recent announcement that the surviving members of the Jackson 5 would be playing a 27-date Unity Tour, Jackie Jackson dropped an interesting bomb on E! News yesterday. …
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