All posts containing the tag: "2Pac"
Posted May 1st 2009 1:11PM by TMZ Staff
So we've gotten to the bottom of the mysterious pic of the dude who looks very much like Tupac Shakur ... kinda.
Here's what we know. The man walked into Bourbon Rocks in New Orleans last Sunday, and he caught the eye of the D.J. on duty -- MC Difficult. Mr. Difficult grabbed the mic and hollered, "Tupac's alive!" The crowd cheered and Difficult went over to the guy and asked his name. The man said, "My name is My Lord."
Mr. Difficult then took a pic with Mr. Lord/Tupac (above), who then drank Budweiser for three hours with a hot chick. On his way out, Mr. Lord/Tupac asked Mr. Difficult if he knew where he could score some good weed.
Sounds like Tupac to us ...
Filed under: Music
Tags: 2pac, bourbon rocks, BourbonRocks, new orleans, NewOrleans, photos, pic, tupac, tupac shakur, TupacShakur
Posted Apr 29th 2009 2:20PM by TMZ Staff
TMZ has obtained photographic evidence that Tupac Shakur is alive and well and drinking Hand Grenades in New Orleans -- unless we're terribly mistaken.
13 years after he was shot and "killed" in Las Vegas ... a man appearing to be 2pac was spotted in a bar on Bourbon Street last weekend.
We were unable to get any sort of DNA evidence -- but this photo is good enough for us.
Thug life, bitches.
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Filed under: Gossip/Rumors, Music, Photo Galleries
Tags: 2pac, 2pac lives, 2pacLives, photos, pictures, tupac, tupac is alive, tupac shakur, TupacIsAlive, TupacShakur
Posted Jan 4th 2009 9:41AM by TMZ Staff
Imagine going to a garage sale, but being afraid to buy that old tiki lamp because you're scared the guy who sells it to you is just going to come to your house that night and beat you up and take it back. Welcome to the Death Row Records sale!
Unreleased songs by the likes of 2Pac and Snoop Dogg are set to go on sale in a couple of weeks, but people are scared to buy them because they don't want to come across as crossing Suge Knight, the Daily News reports.
Knight was forced to turn over the songs when he declared bankruptcy in 2006. A source tells the paper, '"It could be a tough sale. Some people don't want to go near the catalogue because they think Suge still believes it's his."
Filed under: Music, Suge Knight
Tags: 2Pac, auction, Death Row Records, DeathRowRecords, Snoop Dogg, SnoopDogg, Suge Knight, SugeKnight
Posted Jul 13th 2006 7:00PM by TMZ Staff
After being dead for three years, Johnny Cash has again topped the Billboard music charts -- for the first time in 37 years. Interestingly, TMZ did some digging and found out that The Man in Black is not the only artist who has had posthumous albums skyrocket to #1.
Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, was gunned down on a Las Vegas street in 1996 at the peak of his hip-hop career. Since that time, the rapper has released two albums that hit #1 on the charts-- once in 2001 and the other 2005. His mother Afeni Shakur is now controlling the artist's new album releases.
Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious B.I.G or Biggie Smalls, was killed the following year. 2Pac and Biggie were engulfed in a very heated East vs. West Coast rap war that played out in their music. Biggie had two albums hit #1 following his death -- "Life After Death" and "Born Again."
Seattle band Nirvana, a band fronted by Kurt Cobain, lost its leader to suicide on April 5, 1994. The band released "MTV Unplugged in NY" shortly after the singer's death -- which shot to #1. Two years later, the band released "From the Muddy Banks of Wishkah," which also launched up the charts to #1.
This album success trend doesn't only appear in Generation X artists. Long before those musicians picked up an instrument or microphone, dead celebrities were raking in the album sales; Bob Marley, Janis Joplin and Elvis Presley all had #1 one records after their deaths.
Filed under: Music
Tags: 2Pac, Bob Marley, BobMarley, Elvis Presley, ElvisPresley, Janis Joplin, JanisJoplin, Johnny Cash, JohnnyCash, Nirvana, Notorious B.I.G, NotoriousB.i.g
