Yesterday we brought you footage of Bone Thugs ‘N Harmony resurrecting fallen rap icon Eazy-E during their performance at Rock The Bells in San Bernardino, California. The response was mixed, just like our reaction, and this morning we have footage of another legend being brought back to life at the West Coast festival.

In the midst of a closing night performance on Sunday (Day 2) at Rock The Bells, Wu-Tang Clan resurrected Ol’ Dirty Bastard via hologram for a handful of minutes. ODB — who’s been dead since November 2004 – appeared alongside his Wu-Tang brothers and son (Young Dirty Bastard) for renditions of “Shame on a Nigga” and “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.” You can view video of the entire event at the end of this post.

According to MTV, the Eazy-E and ODB holograms were created by director Chris “Broadway” Romero with help from AV Concepts, who was also behind the Tupac hologram at Coachella. A chunk from their article on the story of bringing both emcees back to life can be found below:

To recreate that feeling, Romero and a team of about 15 different people used a myriad of different reanimation techniques and even some motion capturing. “With Eazy-E, I actually worked with all of his kids,” he revealed. “One of his kids helped with the voice of Eazy-E talking to the crowd, one of his kids did his actual body movements and one of his kids did his facial movements.”

Broadway also was sure to include ODB’s son Young Dirty, who regularly performs with Wu-Tang in his dad’s place. “In terms of embodying his father, straight A-alike. There’s no one closer you’re going to get to bring that performance out,” he said. “There’s digital DNA infused into these projects and it’s the only way I like to work, as much as I can. I don’t like to coldly separate from stuff, especially if there is willing family involvement.”

It is unclear at this time whether or not we have seen the last dead rapper resurrected via hologram, but I am willing to be we have not. This gimmick is still pulling in tens of thousands of hits for the groups behind them, and as long as it helps sell a few extra tickets you can bet we’ll see fallen icons returning to the stage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MWEtQXnxTpE

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