Tupac Shakur would have turned 38 earlier this week, and to celebrate, let’s look at eHow’s super-straight-faced “How To Write Songs Like Tupac”! I think my favorite step might very well be the last one, in which possible heirs to his throne are encouraged to practice their powers of prognostication: “Step 6: Write prophetic lyrics. Albums such as The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory include songs that seemed to foreshadow Tupac’s untimely death, and have also encouraged the conspiracy theory that he is in fact alive and well.” Er, so perhaps I should amend that first sentence to “Tupac Shakur may have turned 38 earlier this week…” [eHow] More »
Or is TMZ just using some out-of-focus, badly aimed pictures of an African-American male with a nose ring and some facial hair to gin up flatlining traffic? The fact that these photos are presented to the reader in the always-pageview-inflating gallery format would lead me to believe the latter, but I’m something of a skeptic. [TMZ] More »
