What's more, Holo-Biggie will move and act just like his fleshy predecessor. "We'll use input from virtually anywhere so we'll talk to people, we'll obviously look through existing footage," ARHT CEO Paul Duffy told Billboard. "We'll meet with family members and just look to alternately capture the essence of Biggie. Then we'll have their eyes on all the content and material that's being built. Of course, nothing would be released until they felt comfortable and signed off on it."

B.I.G's resurrection is part of a wider trend in digitizing famous performers. We've already got a veritable menagerie of holographic dead celebrities including Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx -- even Mariah Carey and Chief Keef (despite not being dead yet); or Hatsune Miku (despite not being alive in the first place) have been digitized.