In its second week on the charts, the soundtrack for Tupac: Resurrection
sold 180, 000 copies, falling from Second to the Seventh position on the
Billboard 200. The soundtrack has sold an impressive 747,000 copies to date.
'Shakurspeare?'
In the Baltimore School For The Arts, Tupac (under the alias MC New York),
Dana "Slick D" Smith, Darrin Keith Bastfield and Gerard "DJ Plain Terror"
Young, started the rap group known as Born Busy.
Bastfield, who wrote the book Back In The Day: My Life And Times With Tupac
Shakur (which was released by the publishers One World/Ballantine a division
of Randomhouse). Is now currently in the process of working on a project
entitled "Shakurspeare." The project is a painting of an original concept,
which Tupac posed for in 1988. Bastfield has plans to sell the limited
edition paintings and donate portions of the proceeds to "Art Imitates Life" Foundation a program designed to nurture kids in the arts.
"Shakurspeare is basically my vision of Pac after he shared with me his love
for Shakespeare and his desire to be a Shakespearean actor," Bastfield told
HitEmUp.com. "Pac posed for me after I made a joke about him being dressed
like Shakespeare, and after doing a sketch of him, I told him that I would
call the painting Shakurspeare. This is to commemorate the seventh
anniversary of his death."
"I want people to see a different image of Pac that they will never see,"
Bastfield continued. "Whatever you felt from reading the book, I aim for
viewers to feel something close when they see Shakurspeare. There are places that words can't go or touch, but art has no limitations on its
possibilities to touch the soul. I aim to touch people's souls the way Pac
touched mine."
The painting will also feature an unpublished Tupac lyric from a song titled
"Who The Hell Are You" written in Tupac's very own handwriting
"I feel that people should hear them, because Pac says some interesting
things on the recordings," Bastfield said
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