Setting:
Calvin Broadus Jr. AKA Snoop Dogg AKA Snoop Doggy Dogg AKA Snoop D OH Double Gee and Dr. Dre are sitting in the family room of Dr. Dre's Beverly Hills mansion at 10PM, 3 weeks before their Coachella performance.
Scene:
Snoop Dogg takes a drag on an illicit substance and looks at a platinum record hanging on the wall. That record is the 1995 single California Love.
Snoop Dogg
Yo Dre.
Dr. Dre
Whattup Dog?
Snoop
Gotta give em what they want.
Dr. Dre
What's that G?
Snoop
We gotta break em off somethin'.
Dr. Dre
Hell yeah.
Snoop
And it's gotta be bumpin.
Together
CITY OF COMPTON!
Dr Dre
(Rap Laugh) Haha, good times man.
Snoop
Oh fo sho.
Dr. Dre
You man, though seriously tho, did you want to tell me something?
Snoop
What ever happened to him?
Dr. Dre
What do you mean.
Snoop
I mean Pac. What happened with him?
Dr. Dre
(Somewhat confused) Uhh, what are you serious right now dog?
Snoop
(Takes a hit) Yeah G, I literally mean 'what happened to him'. I feel like it's been years since I seen him around and I was wondering why he wasn't comin to Coachella with us. Fo real tho.
Dr. Dre
Snoop...
Snoop
What.
Dr. Dre
Man, he's dead.
Snoop
Dead? Dead like Interscope or dead like Eazy?
Dr. Dre
Dead like Eazy. Like 187 dead. How did you not know this? We even went to his funeral, you sent flowers to his family.
Snoop
Man I've been to tons of funerals. Remember that time I killed that dude? I even went to his funeral. I'M INNOCENT.
Dr. Dre
You woulda remembered this one dog. (shakes his head) Honestly, remember East vs. West? Suge Knight? Biggie Smalls? People still try to solve the case.
Snoop
...
Dr. Dre
...
Snoop
Man, I think the all the chronic is goin to my head. Especially that real sticky icky, oo wee.
Dr. Dre
Yeah.
Scene:
Snoop doesn't speak for a few minutes. Dr. Dre sits at his mixing console and turns on a tv. Snoop sits up suddenly.
Snoop
What about a hologram?
Dr. Dre
What tha fuck you talking bout?
Snoop
I mean, I know Pac is dead and can't go to Coachella but like, what if not Tupac showed up.
Dr. Dre
Man, I seriously think you have a problem.
Snoop
Hear me out, hear me out. Yesterday, me and my son were watching some wack movie about space or some shit. It was a trilogy like the Godfather movies.
Dr. Dre
Star Wars?
Snoop
Man, I guess. Anyway I wasn't givin a fuck until, this tiny chick appears on the ground and asks for help and I say to my son, yo why is this chick so small? And he said to me, 'dad' thats a hologram she isnt actually there. He said it was like a 3D movie but without the screen.
Dr. Dre
Dude, what does this have to do with Coachella?
Snoop
Remember that song, Unforgettable, where that chick sang with her dad after he died? Well what if we did that with Tupac, but, not for the radio. For peoples eyes.
Dr. Dre
Is that even possible?
Snoop
That space movie is like 35 years old, shit we gotta have that technology now. Get those scientists who worked on your headphones on it. They ain't doin anything.
Dr. Dre
You know, Snoop?
Snoop
What's that Andre?
Dr. Dre
At first I wasn't sure that what you were saying made any sense. And honestly, after thinking about it a little bit, I'm still not sure that if we could pull it off that it wouldn't seem tacky or maybe even come across like a big joke. It's been a lot of years since Pac died, man. He's meant a lot of things to a lot of people and I wonder if he would even want us to remember him in this way. Would people think we were just cashing in on his fame? Trying to squeeze every last dollar and cent from an artist that has already been wrung dry of all he is worth? Would people think that this is just one more egotistical act of a couple of formerly innovative musicians trying to feign relevance while at the same time showing how out of touch they really are?
Snoop
Man, those people can eat a big fat dick.
Dr Dre
That's what I was thinking too, Snoop. Coachella is gonna be tight as hell.
Snoop
Hell yeah.
Dr Dre
Wanna watch a movie before you go? I got Blade or Scarface, which one?
Snoop
Both.
Dr Dre
Hell yeah.
And that is how the hologram performance of Tupac Shakur came to be part of 2012 Coachella.
The End
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