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Tupac Shakur To Be Cloned

CNN HEADLINE NEWS

Los Angeles, CA - Rapper and actor Tupac Shakur, is scheduled to be cloned later this month. According to his mother Afeni Shakur and Death Row Records, the cloning procedure was chosen "for the good of hip hop." The associates of President and CEO of Death Row Records, Marion 'Suge' Knight, informed Ms. Shakur on the prosperity that this new form geneological resurrection would bring to both Death Row Records and the Shakur family. Doctors and scientists will take blood samples that were preserved from Shakur's 1996 shooting, and will activate his cells and genes for the artificial geneological new 'birth' of Mr. Shakur.

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This story circulated on the newsgroup alt.rap and reached the archive on August 11, 1999. It is reproduced as posted — headlines, typos and all. Original source, as credited in the post: CNN Headline News.