Nas has described Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre’s idea to use a hologram of late rapper Tupac at Sunday’s Coachella Festival performance as 'genius.'

The New York MC, who was supposed to meet with Shakur on the weekend that he died in 1996, told Billboard.com that the visual stunt was a ground-breaking moment in hip-hop:

"Tupac has almost become Elvis, where people still think he's alive, so the hologram thing I thought was genius of Dr. Dre and Snoop. It just shows you how amazing Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg are, and how they hard they're riding for their West Coast brother Tupac, in the name of hip-hop music.

"I thought it was a great look for hip-hop as a whole -- it stepped hip-hop up a notch. And it was also revolutionary on a performance scale."

The influential rapper, who recently admitted he had doubts about contributing to Amy Winehouse’s posthumous album, also believes that the spectacle could be the first of many:

"It's a historic thing that they did it, but I think that technology will get better and we'll find new ways of doing it. I think someone had to do it first, and who better than Dre to make a hologram of Tupac?

“Hip-hop shows are becoming bigger and bigger by the day, and I think as times goes on, it can be done in a way where everyone's happy -- where it's not just creepy, where you don't know how you feel about it. The first time it's done, it's the first time, so that's the experience we're having. Some people don't like it, some are gonna be creeped out by it, but all of those reactions are great."