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WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- Wax figures of slain rap rivals Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls are to be posed together for three months at Madame Tussauds Washington D.C.
The exhibit is to open at the museum Wednesday, which is Shakur's birthday.
The Shakur figure is on loan from Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, while the Smalls statue was borrowed from Madame Tussauds New York.
"Tupac and Biggie are widely recognized as two of the greatest hip-hop artists and rappers of all time," Madame Tussauds said in a news release Tuesday. "Their influence on and absence from the hip-hop community can still be felt today -- more than a decade after their tragic deaths. At Madame Tussauds Washington D.C., their figures will be displayed together for the first time in the attraction's Glamour Room."
Both performers died after drive-by shootings said by police to be related to a West Coast-East Coast rap rivalry. Shakur was 25 when he was killed in 1996 and Smalls was 24 when he died in 1997. Both homicides remain unsolved.
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