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Memphis Rapper Buys Out Opry Mills Showing Of Tupac Film, Draws A Huge Crowd

Memphis rapper Blac Youngsta announced he was buying out a showing of "All Eyez On Me," drawing a huge crowd to Opry Mills.

NASHVILLE, TN — Hundreds of people were turned away as a massive crowd grew at the Opry Mills Stadium 20 theater, drawn by a social-media promise from a Memphis rapper he'd buy out a theater showing Tupac Shakur biopic "All Eyez On Me."

Blac Youngsta posted on Instagram — the post has since been removed — that he wanted his fans in Nashville to watch Saturday's 9:15 showing of the movie with him and on his dime. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)

Mall security said "several hundred" people rushed the theater and when the doors to the theater were closed, those left out were beating on the doors until the crowd dispersed without injuries or arrests.

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Blac Youngsta, whose real name is Sammie Benson, turned himself in to police in Charlotte, N.C. in May and was charged in connection with the February 26 shooting of fellow Tennessee rapper Young Dolph, whose SUV was hit more than 100 times following a concert. Young Dolph is engaged in a dispute with Yo Gotti, the rapper who owns the label to which Blac Youngsta is signed.

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