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Late hip-hop icon Notorious B.I.G.‘s mother Voletta Wallace has come forward to speak out on buzz about her son having a hologram in the works.
According to Wallace, the new hologram opportunity will only help extend B.I.G.’s legacy for generations to come.
“I am very pleased to announce that the estate of my son Christopher Wallace – also known to the world as Biggie or Notorious B.I.G – we have partnered with ARHT Media, a technology company, to create a Humagram of Christopher’s image, body and movements. No other company has the rights to any hologram or his name or likeness or imaging. We are humbled and very excited about this new venture with ARHT Media and the endless opportunities it presents to further extend my son’s legacy.” (XXL Mag)
ARHT Media founder Rene Bharti dished on the hologram technology this week.
The first order of business for the Biggie Humagram is a music video appearance for the first single off Faith Evans’ duets compilation titled The King & I. Last month, the Brooklyn MC’s former wife revealed on Dame Dash’s radio show that a potential hologram tour was in the works, which Bharti confirms. “What we’re gonna start with is a video with the first single from The King & I then I think Faith wants to do a little tour,” he says. (Billboard)
Last month, B.I.G.’s ex-wife Faith Evans talked about putting together their The King And I joint album and possibly performing alongside a Biggie hologram.
“Right now I’m actually recording this project, a duet project with me and Big, called The King And I. It’s something I’ve been thinking and doing for a while with [Big’s mom] Ms. Wallace – I’m in the finishing stages. I had no idea how I was going to even go about it but it’s been coming along pretty awesome. … If he were alive, we would have done something like this. … We’re actually in development with a hologram [company] but I don’t necessarily know to what extent I’m going to perform with it but I definitely want to debut it probably with the first video from the album and use it a little bit performance-wise and that depends on a lot of things. It’s expensive. … If this Bad Boy tour ever really happens, it might be something that really happens.”
Faith released a couple Instagram posts on the album title back in January.
#TKAI ? ‘The King And I’ Duets album. BIG & Faye 2016 Stay tuned — it’s gonna be ???
A photo posted by Faith Renée Evans (@therealfaithevans) on
