2Pac’s Hologram Creator Explains Making; 2Pac’s Mother Reacts To Performance

The creator of 2Pac’s Hologram, Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, which sort of resurrected the rapper live on stage at Coachella yesterday has spoken on the idea and cost behind the concept with MTV.

“We worked with Dr. Dre on this and it was Dre’s vision to bring this back to life,” said Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, the San Diego company that created the hologram. “It was his idea from the very beginning and we worked with him and his camp to utilize the technology to make it come to life.”

Nick did not reveal the exact cost but said that a comparable one could cost anywhere from $100,000 to more than $400,000 to pull off.

TMZ also spoke to rep of Pac’s mother Afeni Shakur who expressed her happiness with the show. The rep says Dr. Dre asked for prior approval from his mother and as a thank you, made a donation to the rapper’s charity, The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation.

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Rest in Peace, Pac!

This is the 15th anniversary of Tupac Shakur’s death at age 25. It’s hard to believe that 15 years has elapsed since the death of 2Pac. On Sept. 7 1996, Tupac Shakur was shot several times in Las Vegas after attending a Mike Tyson boxing match. He died in the hospital six days later while being treated for his injuries. He was 25.

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Video: Tha Outlawz Confirm They Smoked 2Pac's Ashes In Blunts!

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I see everybody goin crazy about us smoking sum of Pac ashes right or wrong we dont regret it it was a request from Pac himself if he died!

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Since Tupac Shakur's death there have been all kinds of rumors flying around about what happened to his body. Was he really cremated? And if so where are his ashes?

One crazy rumor was that 'Pac's group Tha Outlawz, smoked his ashes. That rumor was finally confirmed by Young Noble, E.D.I. Mean and Hussein Fatal.

"I think it was the night we had a little memorial for him," Young Noble told VladTV. "We had hit the beach and threw a lot of sh*t [2Pac] liked on the beach. You know some weed, some chicken wings and orange soda, he loved all of that. We were just giving him our own farewell. I don't know which one of us came up with it, but they had his ashes."

'Pac came up with that sh*t," E.D.I. says. "If you listen to 'Black Jesus' he said 'last wishes n*gga smoke my ashes.' So that was a request that he had. Now how serious he was about it... we took the sh*t serious."

Hussein is quick to point out that he wasn't there that night, but confirmed that he heard it did happen.

"We twisted up some of that great granddaddy California Kush and mixed the big homie with it," Noble says. "So he's flowing through our system."

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2Pac Covers XXL

Pac is on the cover of XXL. On the 15th anniversary of his death, XXL reaches out to the people that knew him best, including his biological father, Bill Garland. Issue on stands August 16th.

“[Tupac] cared for people,” he said. “That was his main thing. He really cared for people. I think that’s why he would get so upset when people tried to question his commitment, his love for Black women or Black men. The East Coast/West Coast, you know, that’s a fabrication. I don’t have to begin to tell you that. So when that was questioned, it bothered him. Because he would give his heart or soul. He was a giving person. He would give anything to people. He would go in a store. [If there was a] Black man who couldn’t afford a $1,500 pair of boots, he would buy ’em for him. Think that Black man would ever forget Tupac? That’s just the way he is. But I don’t think that he did it for that. He did it because he had it, and he didn’t. That’s the way he is.”

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Unreleased Music: 2Pac - “Road To Glory”

This track has been floating around for 2 years now but bad quality and had an announcer talking over it. Now we finally get the CDQ version. This track is dedicated to Mike Tyson.

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2 Unreleased 2Pac Songs – “Watch Ya Mouth” & ”NY 87″ ft. Tha Dogg Pound

2 unreleased 2pac song surfaced on the net today. On the first one ‘Watch Ya Mouth’ , 2Pac takes shots at Biggie, Nas, Dr. Dre, Bad Boy and more. On the second track titled ‘Ny 87′ , we hear Pac dissin Mobb Deep, Biggie, Jeru and more.

2Pac – “Watch Ya Mouth”




2Pac - ”NY 87″ ft. Tha Dogg Pound

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The Feds Catch Up with Jimmy Henchmen

The Feds finally caught up with Jimmy “Henchmen” Rosemond earlier today in the middle of Manhattan, only a few blocks from his Czar Entertainment offices. Rosemond will now face federal drug trafficking charges and whatever else the prosecutors may have up their sleeves.

NBC NY reports:

Rosemond, owner of Czar Entertainment, was taken into custody by Drug Enforcement Administration agents who got a tip that he was at the W Hotel in Union Square, law enforcement sources tell NBC New York. He was arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn, and did not enter a plea.

Sources tell NBC New York that Rosemond, who is known as “Jimmy Henchman” and has managed Brandy, Sean Kingston and The Game, fled and was chased by marshals up Park Avenue. He was carrying a fake I.D. and a passport application in a fake name, sources said.

Authorities believed Rosemond, who lived in Brooklyn until he went on the run in recent months, was planning to leave Thursday for the Bahamas.

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Jimmy Henchmen Cronies Charged with Murder of Tony Yayo Associate

Last month federal prosecutors charged Rodney Johnson, 37 and Brian McCleod, 40 with the 2009 murder of Tony Yayo associate Lowell Fletcher. According to the feds, Johnson and McCleod arranged and carried out the murder of Fletcher as retaliation for the widely publicized assault on Henchmen’s teenage son back in 2007. You may recall that Fletcher basically took the fall for Yayo, who was believed to be the person who actually smacked the kid around.

In other news, something about Dexter Isaac’s now infamous jailhouse confession doesn’t smell right. The Smoking Gun received the same statement from Isaac as AllHipHop, but passed on publishing it for whatever reason. Their analysis of the confession raises a few questions about the validity of the claim, as does this post by Miss Info. In any event, the Feds are investigating Isaac’s claim and are out diligently trying to locate Henchmen, who is still on the lamb, so no doubt we’ll be hearing more about these stories real soon. (nr)

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New Music: The Outlawz – ‘Tupac Back’

If anybody should be making a song like this, it’s The Outlawz. RIP Tupac.

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Jimmy Henchman Associate Admits to Role in Robbery/Shooting of Tupac; Apologizes To Pac & B.I.G.'s Mothers

A convicted murderer, long suspected of involvement in the 1994 Quad Studios shooting of Tupac Shakur, has finally admitted to committing the crime, and has accused Game's manager, Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemond -- founder of Czar Entertainment -- of masterminding the botched robbery, which left the legendary rapper shot five times.

"I want to apologize to his [Tupac's] family and for the mistake I did for that sucker [Rosemond]," Dexter Isaac told AllHipHop (June 15), on the eve of Tupac's 40th birthday.

In an explosive confession dedicated to his former friend, whom he helped to launch entertainment company Henchmen Entertainment in 1989, Isaac explained that he has "stayed silent in prison for the past 13 years, doing a life sentence like a real soldier should," but that he is "tired of listening to your [Rosemond's] lies."

"In 1994, James Rosemond hired me to rob 2Pac Shakur at the Quad Studio," said Isaac, who is currently housed in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Metropolitan Detention Center. "He gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Cynthia Ried. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery."

While Tupac survived the shooting, which took place on November 30, 1994, in Manhattan's Quad Recording Studios, and left him shot twice in the head, the incident directly instigated the deadly East Coast-West Cost rap feud, which resulted in the shooting deaths of both Tupac and his East Coast rival Biggie Smalls.

Isaac's shocking statement goes on to hint at future revelations regarding the fallen rappers, even drawing Bad Boy honcho-turned-entertainment mogul Diddy into the fray, claiming that Rosemond will "flip" on Biggie's former cohort for his involvement in the shootings.

"Now I'm not going to talk about my friend Biggie's death or 2Pac's death, but I would like to give their mothers some closure. It's about time that some one did, and I will do so at a different time," Isaac continued ominously. "Jimmy, you and Puffy like to come off all innocent-like, but as the saying goes: You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Mr. Rosemond, I ask you: Are you going to flip on Puffy when the feds get you? To save yourself like you have done in the past?"

Rosemond, who manages rapper Game, singer Sean Kingston and Mike Tyson, among others, is currently still on the lam, facing federal cocaine conspiracy charges, and has been accused of being a government informant by the New York Daily News, 50 Cent and others.

Isaac is currently serving life in prison for the robbery and murder of a Brooklyn taxi-cab driver.

You can read the whole statement below (click on it to read):

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Video: Lil Wayne To Cover Tupac's "Hail Mary"

Lil Wayne is set to cover 2Pac’s hit ‘Hail Mary’ on his MTV Unplugged special which airs on June 12th.

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Video: Rare footage of Tupac in 1996 at the photo shoot for the Makaveli artwork.

Nearly fifteen minutes of extremely rare footage of the late rapper on the set of his infamous photoshoot with photographer David LaChapelle, shot in 1996 shortly after his release from prison. Below is an interview of LaChapelle discussing the shoot.

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Tupac Uncencored & Uncut: The Lost Prison Tapes

As Tupac’s interviewer announces, ‘Tupac, this interview is not about your trial, or your court appeals it is about Tupac, the inner man, then, and now.’ Featuring an uncut and never-before-seen interview at the Clinton Correctional Facility,

Tupac Uncensored and Uncut: The Lost Prison Tapes presents a raw look into Tupac’s world, as the rapper riffs on topics ranging from his involvement with gang life to prisons in America to his relationship with his mother.

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New Music: H.O.P.E. ft. 2Pac – F*ck Ya’ll

H.O.P.E. just released his project "Believe In Hope Wright," and he's back with a dope new track featuring 2Pac's old "fuck All Ya'll" verses. Track produced by J. LBS.

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Tupac & Notorious B.I.G. FBI Files

Nearly 15 years after the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., the FBI has finally released their files on both cases. Last week, the bureau divulged more information surrounding Biggie’s murder and today, they released ‘Pacs.

Tupac Shakur Files l Notorious B.I.G. Files

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Media Gasface: Method Man On B.I.G. & 2Pac

As many of you know, Meth was fortunate to work with both the late Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. In the latest installment of Media Gasface, Johnny Blaze discusses the collaborations and weighs in on their controversial feud.

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