In the not-so-famous words of Bill Bellamy in Love Jones, “Immortalize my shit!”
Well, the sculptors at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum are doing just that for 2 Pac.
On April 5 at the museum’s Las Vegas location, the exhibit titled Tupac Eternal and the statue will be unveiled in proper ceremonial style for the late member of rap’s royal court.
Tussauds hopes to attain the rights from Interscope Records and Universal Music Publishing to use some of Pac’s recordings to make the experience that much more realistic for visitors. 2 Pac will appear how he’s remembered best—donning a bandanna and shirtless.
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Jeni Fairey of Tussauds’ London Museum is the tapped sculptress. Fairey also worked on the Beyonce sculpture which is housed in the New York branch of the museum.
Pac joins many celebrities in the tradition of being captured in wax, including Prince, Shaquille O’Neal, Will Smith, J.Lo, and James Brown.
The 55-pound finished product was sculpted using hundreds of photos of 2 Pac, and true-to-life measurements supplied by Pac’s mother,Afeni Shakur.
As Tussauds prides itself on making celebrity sculpting an exact science, each of his infamous tattoos will be redrawn and hand painted onto the wax figure. The entire project took over 700 hours. To see the sculpture in its beginning stages, visit http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060316/LATH043.
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After the unveiling, the much-requested figure will get to do something 2Pac himself never got to—go on a world tour.
To commemorate the ten years since his transition, the figure is scheduled to be displayed in Hong Kong, London, Shanghai and New York, before it reaches the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Atlanta, where it will be housed for a month.
Reported by:Crystal Braboy
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