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Tupac Shakur, The Zion 2012 Olympics And The Rise Of The Holograms

So, following Will-i-Am at the last presidential elections, the latest rapper to appear in hologram form was the long-dead and perma-productive Tupac Shakur, who’s Obi One Kanobesque visage joined Snoop Dogg onstage at the Coachella festival this weekend.

“Fans were left stunned by the life-like hologram that appeared on stage, with Tupac telling the crowd: ‘What up Coachella?’” reported Metro.

http://youtu.be/8L73tGfOam4

All I can say is that it’s interesting timing. After hearing talk of using massive holograms of religious figures being used on battlefields for the past few years, and with the purported “Zion 2012 Olympics Staged Alien Invasion” (which I’ll be able to see from my studio windows, popcorn in fist) on the horizon, these are interesting times to have full blown super-realistic holograms strutting around in. They sure have come a long way from when I was a kid in the early nineties, when they adorned action figures like The Visionaries and comics like the legendary X-Factor #92 (now on sale in Mega City Comics for a crazy £1.99!), and the alleged Project Blue Beam leaked documents suggested they were going to be used to stage some fake rapture event to unite nations under a world government at some point in the near future.

Incidentally, do you know where the first admitted use of such a hologram in public was?

The War of The Worlds musical.

DAN DAN DAAAAAAAAA!

Yes, these are interesting times, and I am lucky enough to have my wits about me and the skills to document them in the form of Amazing Pop Songs. I recorded the forst vocal demo for my third album on Saturday night, which was an incredible and powerful moment in history that left me with my hairs standing on end and tears in my eyes.

I have also been working hard on two mixtapes and a pair of collaborative records. One of those is with the boy wonder Issue…

I will be flying out to San Francisco next month to work with the aforementioned Boy Wonder, and anyone else I come across that’s awesome. I’ll also be flying over to LA to see Wade and work on some LP3 stuff and track down Riff Raff and TKO Capone to make some legendary sonics. So if you’re in either area, holla! I wanna do some shows and shoot some videos, so I’ll be needing hooks ups with people those areas…

Exciting, and again, Interesting Times are afoot, brothers and sisters.

Ale Jaca Est…

— Monday, April 16th, 2012

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=759138150 Alexander Shackles

    Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds isn’t the same without Phil Lynott and David Essex.  
    But I hear that the “Next Generation” is going to play Liam Neeson as the journalist/narrator.  A far cry from Richard Burton, but the closest you can probably get in this day and age. 

    • Anonymous

      I heard they were getting the bloke from Kaiser Chiefs! OH GOD HOW I LAUGHED!

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=759138150 Alexander Shackles

        Tell you the truth, the first time I heard the musical version was on a dark, stormy night by my mum.  I had an overactive imagination.  Scared the living shite out of me.  Thought the trees behind our house were the tripods of the martians after some lightning. 

        • Anonymous

          I had a very similar experience. In later years I used to take liquid acid and listen to it in the dark. ZOOOO LAAAARGH!

          • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=759138150 Alexander Shackles

            *nods* I imagine it would be quite a trip.  I got over my fears after about five or six years.  But even now, listening to this in a dark room with headphones on, that bit from Horsell Common when the martians are unscrewing the cylinder, and you have that eerie bassline just slowly picking up volume…Oh, it’s still creepy as hell.  In the best of ways, but still.

          • Anonymous

            Yeah, it’s peerless in the musical terror stakes. And the artwork that came with thr LP was amazing too, something about the colours and texture that evoked pure DREAD…

  • http://twitter.com/RaydomeWho Raydome

    Now being dead is no excuse to miss out on a reunion tour

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=759138150 Alexander Shackles

      How long will it be before The Beatles start touring again?  I give it a couple of years, tops.