Besides being an uncanny physical match, Shipp persuasively embodies the late rapper’s sweet charm and sex appeal, though he is less convincing at summoning his volatile, violent, self-destructive side. ![]() The saving grace here is big-screen debutant Demetrius Shipp Jr., whose father actually worked with Tupac on one of his later albums. There is plainly a large potential audience for Boom’s film it is just a shame they are being served up such a conventional cookie-cutter affair. He even performed in hologram form at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2012. ![]() The bulk of his 75 million album sales have been posthumous, and his annual earnings often surpass today’s hip-hop royalty. Two decades after after his death, Tupac remains big business. In purely financial terms, is it easy to see why All Eyez on Me got made.
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