![]() The hologram controversy has been covered from many angles-artistic integrity, capitalistic overreach, bad taste-but one question has been missed: What's it actually like for a rapper to share a stage with a dead friend? Starting tomorrow, two more late legends-NWA's Eazy-E and Wu Tang's Ol' Dirty Bastard-will be performing virtually at the annual Rock the Bells tour, in a spectacle that threatens to start the cycle of endless blog rants and boom-bap purist righteousness anew. Especially since the company responsible for that spectacle-Digital Domain-has since filed for bankruptcy. Dre at Coachella last year-disbelief, scorn, horror-you'd think such virtual posthumous performances had gone the way of Smell-O-Vision. ![]() Judging by the responses to a Tupac "hologram" performing alongside Snoop Dogg and Dr.
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