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Greg Rosalsky

It was a classic rap beef. Then Drake revived Tupac with AI and Congress got involved

Rapper Tupac Shakur performs at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois in March 1994. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

In late April, Senator Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) began his testimony before a Senate subcommittee hearing by doing something unusual for a stuffy institution like Congress: He played a new song from the rapper Drake.

But it wasn't Drake's rap verse that Tillis felt was important for Congress to hear. Rather it was a verse in the song featuring the voice of the legendary — and long dead — rapper Tupac Shakur.

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