primetime said:
for Oddjob, Elvis is releasing BRAND NEW music? if he is, he damn sure isnt leaving clues that he may be alive. 2pac is leaving a bunch of lyrics that talk about his resurrection. why would a man talk about resurrection if he is NOT dead? again, 2pac may be very well dead. but you have to admit, there is room for doubt.
No new music from Elvis post-death that I know of, just occasional new releases from The Sex Pistols, Nirvana, The Beatles, John Lennon (solo), Lynard Skynard, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, The Doors, Roy Orbison, Tex Ritter, Frank Zappa and whoever else I'm leaving out. I'll bet we'll be hearing from Johnny Cash as well. There's always box sets or retrospectives featuring never-released tracks and what not featuring either the original artist or hired sound-alikes (Paula Abdul got involved with a lawsuit involving that same thing years ago and she was alive!). The resurection question I don't even understand.
The music coming out now is most likely unreleased material and outtakes (that should be clear since - as an artist - he has had nothing substantial to say about current topics and events since 1996. There is nothing distinct, timewise, about what's being released currently; ergo, everything coming out now could have been recorded pre-1996). Record company execs know that dead artists with a legend surrounding them sell as much as living artists - known it for decades. By releasing all the unreleased stuff at once they lose potential money; however, if they milk it over the years, bouyed especially with rumors surrounding an artist, they stand to make a lot more $$$. The execs have been living really well off 2Pac for several years, and to actully "kill him off" now by ending the rumors and saying he really is dead they'd be losing a highly valuable commodity.
The remaining music is probably being created by one of those hired sound-alikes. And if he is alive and faked it all, he's ignoring the potential market he could have by pitching his music to upcoming generations who know 2Pac only as some mysterious rumor subject. There are 14-16 year olds now who are seeing these movie posters and are going "who"? It would be like us discusiing what Mary Miles Mintor did or did not really know. Then there's the entire acting career that he seemed to give up if he is indeed alive - unless he's hiding in plain sight as a Wayans brother. Music styles change while good acting is always in style, and it would seem that as a business decision, he took an incredible risk in picking the wrong thing to retire from.
And this whole messiah complex, other than living pretty well for himself, he's never done much for the greater society, unlike the good works of Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons and the Hip Hop Action Network and others (and despite thier good works, they make no messiahic claims). Worse, he scammed his fans who mourned for him, tricking them and adding more doubt into their lives in a world where there is already so much uncertainy in what to believe. He wants them to belive in him, but he isn't giving them anything to believe in; he's done the opposite, in fact, by abusing their trust. So IF he is alive I hope this stunt backfires on him spectacularly.
You have to admit, his death is all much more likely and realistic.
