2Pac’s New Nixon Watch Collection Faces Backlash: ‘Who Approved This Bullsh-t?!’

2Pac has now turn into the face of Nixon watches, and followers can’t assist however surprise who is perhaps behind this little bit of ill-advised product placement.

Billboard introduced the brand new partnership on Tuesday (October 3), and so they revealed that the late “I Get Round” rapper was the face of a group of 5 watches that vary in worth from $175 to $600.

Although the gathering was meant to have fun Pac’s “legacy and timeless model,” there have been quite a lot of followers who couldn’t bear the concept of the partnership.

“WHO APPROVED THIS BULLSH**?” wrote one fan. “First the “PROUD” merch & now a model he didn’t put on? You suppose Massive’s individuals would enable his face to be positioned on some STADIA footwear? HELL F NO!!!”

One other fan replied: “Two phrases: TOM WHALLEY.”

Try the put up beneath.

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— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) October 5, 2023

The “Tom Whalley” in query is the previous chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers, who can also be the executor of 2Pac’s mom’s property. Whalley’s choices for the property have, prior to now, been the topic of lawsuits.

Again in 2021, Sekyiwa Shakur — Pac’s sister — sued Whalley as a result of she believed he’s “embezzled tens of millions” and accused him of refusing to relinquish a few of 2Pac’s private objects that maintain “great sentimental worth,” together with gold data.

She additionally accused Whalley of “blatant violations” of his duties because the executor of Afeni Shakur’s property.

“He has successfully embezzled tens of millions of {dollars} for his personal profit,” Sekyiwa wrote. “Whalley has unreasonably enriched himself on the expense of the beneficiaries and in unhealthy religion by taking extreme compensation ready from which he ought to correctly be barred based mostly on the inherent battle of curiosity.”

She added, “Whalley has already obtained greater than $5.5 million that he has paid himself within the final 5 years by way of Amaru. It’s clear that he has used and abused his powers as executor and particular trustee of the property and the belief to transform the private property belonging to Sekyiwa as a piggy financial institution from which he has drawn substantial funds for his personal profit.”

The late Afeni Shakur was made executor of the property following 2Pac’s 1996 homicide. When she handed in 2016, duties have been then transferred to Whalley. However Sekyiwa says he’s since employed himself because the supervisor of Amaru Leisure, the report label that launched a few of ‘Pac’s music and is the “principal income-producing asset of the Belief.”