If 2pac lives, why would he waste his time at a Lil Wayne concert?
March 24th, 2009 by Rodney Carmichael in Music newsFor years, rumors persisted that Tupac Shakur wasn’t dead, he was just laying low in Cuba, chilling with his godmother Assata Shakur, perhaps. The circulating video footage of a 2pac look-a-like spotted at a Lil Wayne concert has fanned those flames.
Maybe dude is just trying to get a head start on the audition process that’s sure to round up thousands if and when the troubled Tupac biopic deal is ever struck.
The ironic thing about look-a-likes is how much they can diminish the prestige of the icon they’re attempting to honor. Reason being, look-a-likes don’t evolve like living artists do. Thirty years later, Elvis is still immortalized wearing polyester pimp suits and rhinestones — which, even at its height, was a questionable fashion statement. Today, the look just confirms what we’ve already come to know: the King polished off a lot of nose candy in his day.
In the case of Tupac Shakur, we’re talking about a cat whose taste shaped the style (and sound) of hip-hop for, arguably, ten years past his death. For every rapper who rocked the Aunt Jemima bandanna around his head well past its expiration date, we still have 2pac to blame. At least it was cutting edge when he did it, eclectic even, the way he mixed a retro, slave-era accessory with high-end couture like Versace.
To see him wearing the same outfit nearly 15 years later proves that 2pac is definitely not alive. Hell, dude wouldn’t be caught dead wearing last season’s fashions — let alone last decade’s.
Then again, maybe dressing up as a look-a-like is the best way for an icon of Tupac’s stature to disguise himself.
Want more supposed proof that Pac lives? Check out the lyrics from “This Life I Lead,” painstakingly played in reverse, which features him decrying: “Yes I’m alive and me missing you.” The YouTube clip has been viewed over 3 million times.
Apparently, you can find the answers to a lot of unsolved mysteries by playing songs backwards. Still not sure how the pyramids were built? Reverse “The Big Payback” by James Brown and bingo! Trying to solve the age-old debate between evolutionists and creationists? Wouldn’t you know, it’s hidden in the 1979 disco hit “Born to be Alive.” Imagine how much speculation we could end if people would just listen and obey.
No offense to all the ardent fans that still cling to the belief that Tupac’s alive. I just imagine that, being as articulate as he was, if Tupac were still among the living he wouldn’t contradict himself by saying, “Yes I’m alive and me missing you.”
C’mon Pac, you can’t have your cake and eat it, too. That’s just being greedy.
March 24th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
clever take… so glad you pointed out the obvious– tupac would not still be dressing like that 15 years later, sheesh.
March 25th, 2009 at 9:50 am
According to all available reports, Elvis Presley used Lidocane (liquid Cocaine, 8% solution) for a very brief time in the 70s. The rest of his drugs were prescribed, by a physician, who was convicted of that crime. The jumpsuits had nothing to do with coke, just a formerly poor hillbilly cat’s bad taste in cloting and an infatuation with Liberace’s wardrobe.
Tupac, like Elvis, is still dead. News at 11.
March 31st, 2009 at 7:28 pm
That’s Josh Harraway the Tupac impersonator! http://www.TupacImpersonator.com