Tupac Shakur has made quite an impact on pop culture since his death in 1996, so we shouldn't be too surprised that his eye-popping and downright magical materialization at the Coachella music festival on Sunday night alongside Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre is dominating the headlines.
The spectacular surprise has caused such a stir that there's a chance we might be seeing a lot more of this "new" Tupac very soon. According to a Wall Street Journal interview with Ed Ulbrich of Digital Domain Media Group Inc., the visual-effects house responsible for making the rapper's image (as well as the virtual versions of Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), there are plans to take the 2-D image on tour. (Although 'Pac's ghostly figure has been widely reported as a hologram, Ulbrich told theJournal that its technical description is a 2-D image and not a hologram, which is 3-D.)
Three women who attended the Coachella music festival on Sunday night have come forward with allegations that Tupac is the father of their children.
When asked about the after party activities that night Snoop Dogg said, “Yeah, he was f—king them ho’s. At first I thought the hologram machine was still on, but they told me it wasn’t. He was with two white girls and a Latino. Then again, I was smoked outta my head, ‘cause I also saw Biggie rapping with Yosemite Sam. And just so you know. Yosemite’s shit is tight!”
Dr. Dre spoke of the matter, “I’d like to tell you it wasn’t him, but then those bitches will claim that I’m their baby’s daddy, so yeah, ‘Pac f—ked the shit out of them that night.”
Dre continued, “Hey, what a second. That one girl who claims to have his baby…her name ain’t Brenda is it?”
California • El rapero estadounidense Tupac, muerto en 1996, volvió a la vida a través de un holograma y dio un concierto ayer junto a los populares raperos Dr. Dre y Snoop Dogg, dejando espeluznado al público del festival de música de Coachella, en California.
"Este sitio se puso muy silencioso. La gente estaba genuinamente horrorizada por el holograma de Tupac", escribió en Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, la cuenta del blog musical del diario Los Ángeles Times.
Varios videos del show, disponibles en YouTube, sumaban entre 5.000 y 8.000 visitas a pocas horas de haber sido subidos al sitio, y "Tupac" se volvió un "trending topic" en Twitter, con al menos 40 menciones por minuto.
En el video del concierto, se ve a Tupac, una de las principales figuras del rap 1990, emergiendo desde el piso del escenario, con un pantalón blanco por debajo de los calzoncillos y su tatuado y musculoso torso desnudo.
Gracias a la tecnología, el fantasma incluso saluda a la multitud diciendo "¿Qué tal, Coachella?" y luego canta dos de sus hits, "Hail Mary" y "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted", acompañado de Snoop y Dr. Dre.
Tupac Amaru Shakur murió a los 25 años tras recibir cuatro disparos en Las Vegas y el caso aún no está resuelto, aunque el artista ha vendido al menos 75 millones de discos en todo el mundo.
El Festival de Música y Artes de Coachella (210 km al este de Los Ángeles), que comenzó el viernes y terminó el domingo, atrajo este año a 80.000 espectadores. La entrada por tres días costaba 285 dólares y actuaron, entre otros, Bon Iver, Radiohead, Feist, The Shins, The Buzzcocks, Pulp y Black Keys.
