To my taste, Broadway shows have too much prancing around. Too many? spunky orphans and sullen phantoms, homicidal yet plucky chorus girls. It's tired … but what it needs to reinvigorate itself is clear: a little bitta gangsta rap.

Apparently, Afeni Shakur, Tupac?s mom, was thinking the same thing, because it was recently confirmed that she's producing a new?rap musical called ?Holler If Ya Hear Me??using Tupac?s music.

On the surface, it sounds ludicrous … nearly as ill-conceived as a musical about Rocky (and, yes,?that’s happening too!). Thankfully, the story is not biographical. Tupac will not be a character in the show ? not even in hologram-form … and the story is simply inspired by his music.