It was bad enough on Wednesday when TMZ tried to convince us that someone had snapped a picture of a very lively looking Tupac Shakur — who was gunned down in Las Vegas in September 1996. Granted, the unidentified dude hanging out and looking very mellow after downing a few hand grenades at a bar in New Orleans does kinda resemble 'Pac, down to the small stud in his left nostril, the bushy eyebrows and goatee-with-unattached-mustache.
Then they went and confused us today when they posted a second set of pictures of an alleged Tupac, who they're not even sure is the same 'Pac from the day before. To be honest, the second undead Tupac doesn't look as much like the rapper as the first one, though the picture is pretty blurry. And if you look at the additional image of him, he sort of resembles Tim Meadows.
The first guy is convincing and the photo certainly got lots of people talking as far away as Singapore, where The Straits Times weighed in on the matter, and as close to home as the Weekly World News, which did TMZ one better by posting an interview with the alleged zombie rap legend.
According to that, ahem, "newspaper," Shakur's label paid off medical examiners to claim he was dead so the embattled rapper could escape his would-be killers and legal issues, allowing him to retire to a more sedate life under an assumed name in rural Pennsylvania.
Asked how he spends his time now, the rapper explained, "Ya know, same old same old. Shop at the Farmer's Market. Keep my bees, get some honey. Flirt with the girls at Dairy Queen. Nothin' big."
You know, come to think of it, there was a kinda heavy dude in my Pilates class the other day that was a ringer for Biggie Smalls ...
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