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14 Years Ago Today, Fans Were Left Baffled When Tupac Shakur Played Coachella From Beyond the Grave

On this day in 2012, Dr. Dre surprised 80,000 fans by appearing to bring the late Tupac Shakur out on the main Coachella stage.

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On the night of April 15, 2012, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s Coachella headlining set was the main stage finale. Eminem was scheduled as a special guest, and Dre and Snoop had already gone through 20 songs with 80,000 people gathered. But as the set went on through the night, the iconic rappers had one more surprise waiting.

Almost 16 years after his murder, Tupac Shakur appeared on the stage with a triumphant shout of “What the f**k is up Coachella!” Was this lost footage of the rapper from performances gone by? Some sort of space-age hologram? Did Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg summon Tupac’s ghost?

Fans were baffled and surprised, and in the time that followed, speculations swirled. The consensus was that it was a hologram made in........

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