Hip-Hop Icon Tupac (2Pac) Wax Figure Photos

Last month the news was released that one of the greatest figures in hip-hop culture, rap artist Tupac Shakur (2Pac) would be immortalized in wax at the world-famous Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel. Now there are photos of the sculpture in the making.

[USPRwire, Thu Mar 02 2006] Last month the news was released that one of the greatest figures in hip-hop culture, rap artist Tupac Shakur (2Pac) would be immortalized in wax at the world-famous Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel.

The unveiling of the sculpture will be on April 5, 2006 during a special ceremony commencing at 11:00 A.M. at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.

The wax portrait of Tupac is being sculpted by Jeni Fairey of The Tussauds Studios based in London. Unlike the bronze statue that was unveiled at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts (TASCA) Peace Garden in Stone Mountain Georgia, which portrays Tupac the man in a suit; the wax sculpture will be based on the now-iconic hip-hop / rap ‘Thug Life’ image of a shirtless rap artist Tupac (2Pac) sporting a bandana and proudly displaying his tattoos.

Thanks to Amaru www.ThugLifeArmy.com is proud to give you a ‘sneak’ peek at the sculpture through a few photos of it being sculpted.

The Tupac wax figure is being created from hundreds of photographs and measurements provided to Madame Tussauds by Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur Davis. Each of Tupac’s tattoos will first be redrawn and then individually hand-painted onto the sculpture.

The finished figure of Tupac will take months to complete, involving more than 700 hours of work and over 330 pounds of clay. The entire figure will weigh around 55 pounds. To put Tupac in his own environment, Madame Tussauds is in negotiations with 2Pac’s old label, Interscope Records, to obtain original music from Tupac’s world and add a further layer of reality to the unique “Tussauds experience.”

To commemorate the historic 10th Anniversary of Tupac’s (2Pac) murder, Madame Tussauds is considering sending the new wax figure on its own world tour later this year. Once it has been viewed at the Las Vegas museum, the sculpture may travel to the museums in New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai and London before it will be exhibited at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts (TASCA) in Atlanta for a full month. The figure is scheduled to arrive at the Center by the end of this memorial year.

The sculpture’s unveiling arrives nearly ten years after Tupac’s unsolved murder in Las Vegas and it will be exhibited for years to come.

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