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Tupac Shakur’s appearance at Coachella may have been little more than smoke and mirrors, yet the late rapper’s widely discussed on-stage stint has resonated in a galaxy far, far away.
YouTuber Sethward Pilton Monroe Allison III spliced some of Shakur’s performance into a scene from Star Wars, where R2-D2 projects a hologram of Princess Leia. The mashup may have been inspired by a similar image created by The Frogman.
“R2-D2’s Other Message” was picked up by Reddit, where it reached the top 10 posts in the site’s r/videos section Wednesday. Most redditors who commented loved the clip.
“This was absolutely brilliant,” wrote NRB. Meanwhile, 8bit_porno_plumber offered a casting suggestion for a hypothetical hip-hop Star Wars flick: “Biggie Smalls as Jabba the Hutt.”
Perhaps the best part of the video is towards the beginning, where a puzzled Luke Skywalker inquires, “What’s this?” Shakur replies in inimitable style.
In tribute to the video, we’ve come up with a few Star Wars-inspired tunes Shakur might have appreciated.
- “I Ain’t Mad at Chewie”
- “Greedo Gospel”
- “I Wonder If Hoth Got a Ghetto”
- “Sithdalouz”
- “If My Han Call”
- “Who Do Yoda Believe In?”
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