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A representative for Pac's family reached out to the website calling Knight's claims "totally false," confirming that the West Coast MC not only had no problem with anyone's sexual preference, but was friendly with openly gay fashion designer Gianni Versace. Shakur also participated in a Versace fashion show in 1996, the same year that he was gunned down on the Las Vegas strip, following a Mike Tyson fight.

Knight has yet to respond to the family calling him a liar, but if Pac was accepting of gay people— as a noted member of the Hip-Hop community— he was most definitely ahead of  his time. The long-standing debate over same-sex marriage became a major topic of discussion within the political sector, after President Obama announced his support of gay marriage in an interview with ABC. Following his statements, Jay-Z threw his support behind the Commander in Chief, noting that the issue is "holding the country back." Jay went on to say that whatever people chose to do behind closed doors "is their business" and that everyone deserves the right to "choose to love whoever you love."

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Juvie told Hip-Hop Wired, "If somebody came to me to do a hologram, a situation just like [Tupac's], for Soulja Slim, my first reaction would be, 'Okay, how do Ms. Linda feel about this?' How do his family feel about this? Will his family be compensated for this?' These are things that [have] to be answered before I give my real opinion on how I feel about it... Maybe, if it's a good thing and his mom agree with it, Yeah I'll go with it. But like I said, a lot of people would like their loved ones to rest in peace."

Check out the rest of the "Ha" rapper's thoughts on Tupac, holograms and tech in the video below.

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Tupac's Greatest Hits album from 1998 returned to the Billboard 200 for the first time since 2000, landing at No. 129 with 4,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan (a gain of a staggering 571% over the previous week). Pac's also saw gains on All Eyez On Me (2,000; up 95%) and Me Against the World (1,000; up 53%).

After performing "Hail Mary," and "2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted" at the Coachella festival, the singles moved 13,000 downloads last week for a 1,530% sales increase and 9,000 downloads for a 881% increase, respectively.

When we said that Tupac's hologram had the biggest buzz of any rapper since the performance, we weren't kidding.

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A rep for Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas announced the tour news to TMZ Wednesday (April 25), and according to the site, Left Eye will "pull a Tupac."  Her music will be incorporated into the show, while her image will be projected onto a big screen. As of now TLC has booked five venues for the tour, and are in the midst of locking in more dates.

If they are to follow Dr. Dre's lead in making Tupac appear at Coachella, TLC may want to travel down a more frugal road to bring their deceased group member back on stage.  The Good Doctor shelled out $10 million for the imagery, plus made a hefty donation to the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, as a thank you to his mother for her approval.

In commemoration the 10-year anniversary of Left Eye's passing, T-Boz and Chilli reflected on the day she died. "She died a day before my birthday," she told Essence. "I remember everything. I was with security in my Porsche and I said to them, 'I feel like I'm going to get in a wreck and I want to go home.' The driver said: 'Well, that's on the other side of town.' I didn't care; I wanted to go home. I just felt something was going to happen to me, but it wasn't me — it was Lisa. I was sitting in a rocking chair in my daughter's room after putting her down when I got a call from Chilli. She was screaming. I had just gotten out the hospital from fighting sickle cell so I had to be careful about getting upset. Everybody was trying to keep me calm."

Lopes died in a car accident during a trip to South America, which she filmed for a VH1 documentary.

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Knight, threatened to "beat the dog s--t" out of Ross if given the opportunity blasting the Maybach Music frontman for his affiliation with Diddy-- who, he believes is to blame for Tupac's 1996 death. Despite not knowing Ross personally, Knight launched into a full-fledged attack, calling the rapper out on just about everything. "This a guy who uses somebody else's name," he said, referencing the Miami MC's namesake, Freeway Rick Ross. "This is a guy who comes from being a corrections officer. I don't have nothing negative about him personally, I just feel that he do good music, and you can't take that from him. That boy got bars, he writes, it might be somebody else's story [he's] writing, but at least he's writing. But at the same time, I think it's a line you cross and Rick Ross crossed that line. If you're gonna be with the guy [Diddy] who promotes he killed Tupac, you can't go turn around and do a record saying 'Tupac Back.' Rick Ross is a grown a$$ n--a. I'll beat the dog s--t out of Rick Ross because I feel it's wrong to manipulate these people out here."

Ross has yet to respond, but this isn't the first time he's found himself the target of beef. His infamous rift with 50 Cent ended in 2010, when Ross decided that he'd had enough of going back and forth with the G-unit head honcho.

Back in the day, Knight had a reputation for handing out fades, but being that he already caught a vicious two-piece while partying in 2008, then again in 2009, he might not want it with Ross.

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Some weren't impressed, but to others seeing Pac on stage 15 years after his death was the best thing since sliced bread. Surely at least two people in the crowd pissed their pants from the sheer excitement of thinking Tupac was back, literally. It was a moment for the ages, as far as Hip-Hop concerts are concerned. But do we want to see it again? I don't, and here are five reasons why.

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The ghost of Tupac was on point during his set alongside headliners, Dr. Dre and Snoop, and while Afeni did not attend to concert, she watched it over the Internet. She also gave Dre approval to go forward with the hologram, prompting the Compton native to make a donation to the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, a charity launched in honor of the slain MC.

Apparently bringing someone back from the dead isn't cheap. CNN reported that the cost of the digital marvel was $10 million. Meanwhile, Nick Smith of AV Concepts— the company behind the lifelike digital depiction— kept fell short of disclosing the final bill for the hologram. "I can't say how much that event cost, but I can say it's affordable in the sense that if we had to bring entertainers around world and create concerts across the country, we could put [artists] in every venue in the country,” he said.

We're still a little shaky about this whole "Tupac back" situation, but it's interesting that Dre can hit the stage with someone who has been dead for 15 years, but can't lock down a release date for Detox.

Also, somebody should teach Soledad O'Brien how to pronounce Tupac's name correctly.

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Pac's one of my favorite artists. When we saw each other, I feel like he's in my city I gotta step to this guy. So we stepped to Death Row and really just got to the bottom of it. What he said to me was, ‘Me and you are brothers. We're not supposed to, me and you are never supposed to go out [after each other] but I heard you dissin' me on mixtapes… it was a very dangerous situation right there, but greater heads prevailed and we both knew we was supposed to continue that conversation and probably even squash the whole thing but.. I was scheduled to meet him in Vegas. But you guys, you [former manager Steve Stoute] and Jimmy Iovine called me about 4 in the morning and told me he might not make it… it was a moment.

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"What [Tupac] said to me was, 'Me and you are brothers. Me and you are never supposed to go at it. But I heard you was dissing me on mixtapes'," recounted Nas. "I'm like, 'I heard you was dissing me on this new Makaveli album.' You were there, you know how none of us could be sitting here, me and you right now because it was a very dangerous situation right there and greater heads prevailed. We both knew we were supposed to continue that conversation and probably just squash the whole thing. I was scheduled to meet him in Vegas; you and Jimmy Iovine called me at 4AM and told me he might not make it."

Their have been a bunch of versions of the story Nas described, with Snoop Dogg saying that the Queens MC got punked, although he gives Nas credit for not letting his goons loose. However, the Outlawz say Pac and Nas basically squashed their beef, which stemmed from a line in "The Message" from It Was Written.

In the second video, Nas discusses his ghostwriting for Will Smith's Big Willie Style album but it's more about Nas and Stoute, the rapper's former manager, discussing how at times they weren't on the same page as far  the former taking advantage of opportunities.

Nas On Tupac

Nas On Ghostwriting for Will Smith

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