Let’s be honest; if there’s one thing that everyone wants more of it’s Tupac. People just can’t get enough of that little guy. Sadly he’s been dead for over a decade. And what’s worse is that his posthumous output has been reduced to a trickle.
I got to thinking last week, one of these days Tupac isn’t going to have anymore posthumous albums to release. One day his throngs of fans won’t have a “new” Tupac album on the horizon. Does that sound like a world that you want to live in? Me neither!
During my brainstorming session I really struggled to come up a way to get more “new” ‘Pac material and give him some added relevance. And then it hit me… technology!
We’ve already seen Tupac giving shout-outs to Eminem and G-Unit, so why not take it that extra step? If Fred Astaire can sell vacuums and Audrey Hepburn can hawk the Gap, why not utilize some of that technology on Tupac?
Imagine hearing Tupac spit slang from this century, hearing him reference Myspace and the net and even television shows like The Wire. It could happen.
Tupac had plenty of acting roles on television and in the movies, plus he’s never refused to talk into a microphone when it was shoved in his face. Just think about all of the individual words that the man spoke and were captured by a recording device. All someone needs to do is to catalogue those words and create a rhyme out of that collage of words.
Couldn’t you just hear a Tupac Christmas or Kwanzaa themed album? How great would it be to hear Tupac’s version of “My Favorite Things” or perhaps having “Dear Mama” transformed into “Dear Santa”? I’m telling you this idea would do gangbusters!
Using this technology Tupac could also narrate PSA’s on a variety of topics. The inevitable AIDS one could include the tagline “Get tested, just on the off chance you get the opportunity to kiss Janet Jackson.”
Hell, all of those picture where ‘Pac is flipping off the camera could be digitally retouched into ads for gloves. Just imagine the possibilities.
Of course it’ll probably never happen. But a guy can dream can’t he?
