I imagine the brainstorming for this new series to have gone something like this:
Team Leader: What kind of shows are popular?
Overzealous Cubicle Warrior: Crime shows! CSI! Mystery! Crazy plots like Lost!
Team Leader: Are you thinking what I’m thinking? [writes on whiteboard] Behind the Music + Crime + Death = BRILLIANT. Guys, why didn’t we think of this sooner? Areti: Cause you’re desperate?
There ya have it. Show premieres on Friday, Feb. 12th with Tupac, and will feature John Lennon and Notorious B.I.G. in future episodes. In all seriousness, maybe viewers will learn a lot, it’s just hard to imagine how VH1 can shed new light on these cases. Video after the jump>>
Fresno, CA rapper Fashawn’s solo debut, Boy Meets World, dropped a day after his 21st birthday. He already had several mixtapes under his belt, toured Europe and appeared on tracks with super producer The Alchemist (who produced Fashawn’s latest mixtape, The Antidote). A fatherless group home kid with a drug addict mother, he could have easily been led astray. Instead, Fashawn tempers his gritty lyrics with uplifting and hopeful messages.
Tupac Shakur sits at the edge of the bed and shakes his head at the flicker coming from the boxy, carefully worn television set. He’s watching his former rival Notorious B.I.G. sit next to George Wendt on Saturday Night Live, yukking it up in the infamous “Da Bears” sketch. As Biggie feigns a heart attack in the middle of nominating Mike Ditka for sainthood, Shakur—whose own heart gave out for nearly six minutes a decade ago—smiles at the screen, looks down and chuckles. Seeing B.I.G. matured and vulnerable enough to succeed at comedy is making him feel his age. Fifteen years ago, Shakur met a paranoid Brooklynite fresh off the block and downright petrified of the camera. With a decade and a half drowning out the sound of studio laughter, he shuts the television off.
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