Tupac is alive. Well, at least it appeared that way during Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s headlining set at Coachella on Sunday. The hip-hop icon was resurrected as a hologram, performing “Hail Mary” and “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted” with Snoop. The lifelike digital image was the most-talked-about moment during Dre and Snoop’s star-studded set, which also featured Eminem, 50 Cent, and Wiz Khalifa. Watch the eery performance below.

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Justin Bieber put his rap skills to the test once again. During an interview with Power 105’s “The Breakfast Club,” the 17-year-old pop superstar named Tupac as his favorite rapper. He then proceeded to spit some bars from Pac’s classic “Thugz Mansion” (starting at the 9:13 mark).

“Pac for me, he talked about real stuff, he was just inspiring,” explained Biebs.

While in the hot seat, he was also asked about working with Drake and Kanye West on his next album, reports of him being rejected from the BET Hip-Hop Awards cypher (“I don’t even know if I was asked to do it”), his love for hip-hop, and intimate details about his relationship with girlfriend Selena Gomez.

Watch him tackle the tough questions.

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Hip-hop lost one of its greatest talents when Tupac Shakur was killed in Las Vegas 15 years ago on September 13, 1996. We look back on the West Coast icon’s legacy with some of his most memorable videos—from the emotional “Dear Mama” and “Brenda’s Got a Baby” to toasting to the gangsta life with Snoop Dogg in “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted” to Hype Williams’ big-budget desert party in “California Love.” Celebrate ‘Pac’s life with 15 essential videos.

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Tupac Shakur’s legacy lives on. On what would have been his 40th birthday, the late rap icon is remembered around the world as one of the greatest who ever did it. Born on June 16, 1971 in Harlem, Tupac Amaru Shakur would go on to become one of hip-hop’s preeminent figures with a storied career that began in 1991 with his debut 2Pacalypse Now, and classic albums that followed including Me Against the World, the groundbreaking All Eyez on Me, and his first posthumous release The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory.

We look back at some of the West Coast hero’s moments in the spotlight—from attending the 1993 Soul Train Music Awards with actress Rosie Perez to his close friendship with high school classmate Jada Pinkett Smith and rarely seen photos of him with KISS, MC Hammer, Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight, and Mickey Rourke, culminating with his final public appearance at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards before he was fatally shot.

Pour out a little liquor and celebrate the life of the legendary rapper, poet, and actor in 18 photos.

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Here we go again. TMZ is claiming that Tupac Shakur has been spotted, this time in New Orleans. Even though we don’t buy it, a supposed sighting of the late rapper is always worth a post. Just last month, a 2Pac look-a-like was seen at a Lil Wayne concert. If Pac was alive, he would be 37.

“Thirteen years after he was shot and ‘killed’ in Las Vegas … a man appearing to be 2pac was spotted in a bar on Bourbon Street last weekend,” writes TMZ. “We were unable to get any sort of DNA evidence—but this photo is good enough for us.”

See for yourself.

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A Tupac Shakur look-a-like was spotted at Lil Wayne’s I Am Music tour. Check out the look on homegirl’s face. Priceless.