Yesterday I had the pleasure of watching the MTV News Now Special Report: Who Killed Tupac? Inspired by a recent two-part series in th LA Times, which isn't available free online any more, the "special report" takes on the controversial theory that the Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls sponsored the death of Tupac Shakur. The narration by John Norris had the tone of Dan Rather discussing critics of the Warren Commission; essentially, the show tried to debunk any evidence that Smalls had anything to do with it. I was surprised by the tone; I'd thought that the Smalls theory was a fairly prominent one, but based on this special, it first surfaced a few weeks ago, and is a dangerous crackpot thing only shared by conspiracy theorists and LA Times reporters.

One of the allegations in the Times article was that Smalls was in Las Vegas when Shakur was killed. This leads to the report's funniest part, as two rappers offer identically-worded alibis for Smalls, apparently not realizing that saying the exact same thing to protect someone makes it less convincing, not moreso.

Faith Evans, like many a woman whose thuggish, unattractive husband came to an early end along with the marriage, has blossomed since Biggie's death. Man, what a hottie. She argues that a big star like her husband could never visit Las Vegas unnoticed. First, I suspect there are less B.I.G. fans in Las Vegas than she suspects. Second, there are probably less fans worldwide.

In conclusion, if one were to add up the IQs of all the playas in this tragedy, the sum wouldn't exceed room temperature.