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Tupacs' credit(s) in Ike 'Turner and Hooch'?

posted 12 years ago by Maximinion
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… Himself/Musical Guest

Those are 2 the credits the IMDB.com website is giving Tupac for Series 5, Episode 3 of In Living Color.

I never really got to see the show when it was on but I have all five DVD sets.
(I was born in 1987 and had typical D.S.A. unfit, powerdrunk parents; go figure.)

I watched the episode again just a few minutes ago and he was only in the skit where he was trying to get in the venue for his own live concert, past Bishops' and Davidsons' hustler characters.

That was it. He wasn't shown doing any musical numbers in the episode.
His credit in the episode should have only been 'himself'. Why was he also given a 'musical guest' credit?

[–] MrBlondNYC 12 years ago

The musical performances are not on the DVDs because they couldn't get the rights to the music. Most of the episodes in the earlier seasons ended with a live music performance.

George Carlin: It's all bullsh-t and it's bad for ya.

[–] Maximinion 12 years ago

They actually couldn't get the rights? Or did they just not want to pay, what ever the price was?

When the episode actually aired (intact), what song(s) did Tupac do?

And how many did he do?

[–] MrBlondNYC 12 years ago

They probably couldn't afford to pay for the rights. It's at least six figures for the music licensing for a hit song. To get the rights for each song would have been in the tens of millions. I remember that episode began with a parody of "Informer" by Snow but it's not on the DVD.

You might be right that 2Pac didn't perform in that episode because I don't remember what song he performed. How does it end on the DVD?

If he did perform, considering the time frame, it would have been "Holla If Ya Hear Me". The musical guests always did one song at the end. But I think they had stopped having musical guests in the fifth season.

George Carlin: It's all bullsh-t and it's bad for ya.

[–] dpcole7 12 years ago

Wow!

That's a lot of money for one dated song...

I wonder how many units were sold... divide that by 500k or whatever and then see how expensive the real cost is. Per song, of course... of course, at the time, one would have to estimate the number of sales and price accordingly, or cut the skits and go with more predictable numbers.

Still, with the number of shows that get their first few seasons released but end up never being completed...

[–] lkiezy 12 years ago

Pac does appear in a season 4 episode as a musical guest.

[–] Maximinion 12 years ago

As one member, among others, of the music group (forgive me, the band name escapes me.)?