{"id":99030,"date":"2015-12-21T15:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=99030"},"modified":"2015-12-21T15:49:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:49:54","slug":"meet-the-actor-wholl-play-tupac-in-forthcoming-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/meet-the-actor-wholl-play-tupac-in-forthcoming-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Actor Who\u2019ll Play Tupac In Forthcoming Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWinvKFWEAAwqNY.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"99031\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/meet-the-actor-wholl-play-tupac-in-forthcoming-biopic\/cwinvkfweaawqny\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWinvKFWEAAwqNY.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CWinvKFWEAAwqNY\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWinvKFWEAAwqNY.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWinvKFWEAAwqNY.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CWinvKFWEAAwqNY\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWinvKFWEAAwqNY.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWinvKFWEAAwqNY.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWinvKFWEAAwqNY.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With production underway for <strong>Tupac<\/strong>\u2019s highly-anticipated biopic <em>All Eyez On Me<\/em>, details have surfaced little by little on the film\u2019s synopsis. Now, the actor who\u2019ll assume the role of the late rapper has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Demetrius Shipp Jr<\/strong>. was named as the person to portray <strong>Pac<\/strong> on the silver screen, and was asked by producer <strong>L.T. Hutton<\/strong> to take on the role because of his similar features with the <em>Ghetto Gospel<\/em> MC. <strong>TMZ<\/strong> reports that <strong>Shipp<\/strong>\u2019s father also met the legendary artist during his career in the music industry. This will be <strong>Shipp<\/strong>\u2019s first major acting job, and he\u2019ll appear alongside <strong>Jamal Woodard<\/strong>, the same person who played <strong>Biggie Smalls<\/strong> in the biopic <em>Notorious<\/em> (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibe.com\/2015\/12\/demetrius-shipp-play-tupac-in-forthcoming-biopic\/?utm_source=sc-fb&#038;utm_medium=ref&#038;utm_campaign=Tupac\" target=\"_blank\">vibe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With production underway for Tupac\u2019s highly-anticipated biopic All Eyez On Me, details have surfaced little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-pLg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}