Spoken like a true warrior. I subscribe to the philosophy that some broken pictures are simply not meant to be fixed. Even if you bully your way through the process and eventually mend that picture, it will never look as good as it was before you broke it. So, I concur wholeheartedly with Mr. Shakur’s view here. OK, enough of that. Back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Homer and Marge can now boast of some gangstafied company, thanks to the clever minds at Moxy Creative. What follows is an epic concept which turns hip-hop figures into Simpson characters. The set features Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Flava Flav, Eazy E, Andre 3000, Eminem, and Fat Joe alongside iconic O representations for each artist. Too bad Buckshot didn’t get one. Buck is a huge fan of The Simpsons.
Hit the jump for some Simpsonized hip-hop figures.
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Ever since 2Pac disappeared in 1996, there have been widespread reports of Pac sightings all over the world. In fact, rumor has it that Pac currently lives in Africa where he works as a goat herder. But he does get around a bit. Whether catching a Lil Wayne show in New Orleans or partying in Brazil, Pac’s presence is all around us. In fact, 2Pac is the new Big Foot.
In honor of his 38th birthday, here are the Top 10 2Pac Sightings.
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Freddie Foxxx – “Killa” (Feat. 2Pac)
“If they wanna rumble with the Foxxx /Then they get shot.”
“Killa” is the first single from Foxxx’s mysteriously shelved 1994 album Crazy Like a Foxxx. Bumpy Knuckles and 2Pac trade bars about inner-city violence over a furiously grimy beat. It’s not the best song on the album, but it will definitely get your head nodding and your blood pumping.
The 1995, 6 cylinder Jaguar XJS 2Pac used in his “To Live & Die in LA” video is on sale on eBay. I know many of you have $40,000 lying around carelessly for these kinds of things.
Go ahead and bid on it if you’re interested.
[Props: Thug Life Army]
If you’re among those who seriously believed that Diddy had anything to do with 2Pac’s 1994 shooting, then you got your April Fool’s a little early this year. The Smoking Gun examined documents used in the LA Times story and found that they were created by a convicted con man and rap fan notorious for exaggerating his place in the hip-hop world. They also noticed that the so-called FBI documents seemed phony because they were written on a typewriter instead of a computer. Apparently the dumbass who created the fake documents didn’t realize that feds stopped using typewriters 30 years ago.
They also found structural errors, grammatical deficiencies, phrases and acronyms that are inconsistent with FBI lingo, among other things.
Chuck Philips who did the story apologized on LAT’s website, saying: “In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job. I’m sorry.”
Diddy’s reading the retraction right now going “I told you so.” I’d be surprised if he doesn’t sue them for defamation or something.
As if it’s not bad enough that Afeni Shakur and Suge Knight have made a hobby out of releasing half-assed posthumous 2Pac albums, heaven knows why they chose to release the latest one as two separate CDs with two different themes. Did it ever occur to them that Shakur is best consumed as ThugLife? The one billed Best of 2Pac, Pt. 2: Thug shifted a mere 22,500 units, but it outsold the Life side by 3,600 units. This implies that people are more drawn to the grimier side of Pac’s music. And you wonder why there’s a proliferation of pseudo gangstas in the game.
Anyhoo, Pac’s Greatest Hits CD wasn’t the only new rap album that debuted this week. Here’s how the rest of them performed on the chart: Read the rest of this entry »
