New Tupac Music From the Vaults Headed for Release
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Previously unreleased recordings by Tupac Shakur will come out as new releases now that a new company has begun handling the late rapper's estate.
Shakur's mother, Afeni, has been working with JAM, Inc. since 2013, according to Billboard, and has given the company access to everything in her collection. The company has consulted with the Michael Jackson estate and has worked with the Doors, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding, among others, on enriching their legacies.
Jeff Jampol, who owns JAM Inc., said he's dug through "unreleased music, released music, remixes, original demos, writings, scripts, plans, video treatments [and] poems." Despite the fact that several posthumous Tupac albums have come out since the rapper's death in 1996, there is apparently still plenty of unreleased material. Jampol described his company's intention as giving the Shakur estate a "total reset."
"Some of [the material] is in bits and pieces, some of it is complete; some of it is good, some of it needs work," said Tom Whalley, who signed Shakur to Interscope and is working with Jampol on the project. "But I think the work that is left can be completed, and is worth his fans hearing."
One of the first steps was a recent Powerade commercial, which featured Shakur reciting the "rose that grew from concrete" line from "Mama's Just A Little Girl." Another was the conversation between Shakur and Kendrick Lamar on the latter rapper's recent "Mortal Man," a track on To ? a Butterfly, which was culled from a 1994 interview with Shakur.
Whalley said he'd considered doing a project similar to the Bob Dylan project Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, in which other musicians sang "lost" Dylan lyrics in songs they wrote. The Lamar interpolation came around the time he was considering that.
Other components in the project include the rapper's recent Grammy Museum exhibition and a biography. Jampol is currently negotiating with an author for that, whom he describes as a "very serious writer."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/new-tupac-music-from-the-vaults-headed-for-release-20150327
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Muthafuckas always going to find a way to keep Pac relevant...good ?
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Hope it's nothing like Pac's Life
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Please no mainstream artists of today features. I'm good with features that pac ? with tho.
I don't wanna see no 2pac featuring Iggy Azelia produced by DJ Mustard. -
Hope it's nothing like Pac's Life
i went and listened to that ? in ? records and ? was shouting out g unit. I threw the headphones down and left. -
BarryHalls wrote: »Please no mainstream artists of today features. I'm good with features that pac ? with tho.
I don't wanna see no 2pac featuring Iggy Azelia produced by DJ Mustard.
I swear if I hear Pac yelling 'Mustard on the beat hoe hahahahaha thuuuug life baaaaaaby'... -
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I was ? when Afeni let Eminem get the vocals and throw wack ass beats over them!
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Sucks that johnny J is dead, they couldve given the whole project to him if they was going to remix them
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Built 4 cuban linx wrote: »Sucks that johnny J is dead, they couldve given the whole project to him if they was going to remix them
Shock G, DJ Quik, Daz and Easy Mo Bee can do remixes since they actually worked with Pac -
Built 4 cuban linx wrote: »Sucks that johnny J is dead, they couldve given the whole project to him if they was going to remix them
Quik is still alive -
south4life wrote: »Built 4 cuban linx wrote: »Sucks that johnny J is dead, they couldve given the whole project to him if they was going to remix them
Shock G, DJ Quik, Daz and Easy Mo Bee can do remixes since they actually worked with PacBuilt 4 cuban linx wrote: »Sucks that johnny J is dead, they couldve given the whole project to him if they was going to remix them
Quik is still alive
True she can afeni can choose them also, I was just thinking about johnny J more cause he did alot of the posthumous albums also -
Built 4 cuban linx wrote: »south4life wrote: »Built 4 cuban linx wrote: »Sucks that johnny J is dead, they couldve given the whole project to him if they was going to remix them
Shock G, DJ Quik, Daz and Easy Mo Bee can do remixes since they actually worked with PacBuilt 4 cuban linx wrote: »Sucks that johnny J is dead, they couldve given the whole project to him if they was going to remix them
Quik is still alive
True she can afeni can choose them also, I was just thinking about johnny J more cause he did alot of the posthumous albums also
Plus before J died he said he had a lot of unreleased songs from Pac that he never released -
yeah he also had an album he was working on called all eyez on us but afeni didnt greenlight it
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I thought I was tripping when I first heard that powerade commercial.
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they better do him justice since they lack wid the others
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? goin to be good
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Lurkristocrat wrote: »
I remember first listening to Loyal To The Game and lost it when Pac said "g-unit in the muthafuckin house.....FIFTY!" towards the end.
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Did they ever answer as to how/why they made pac vocals to shout out current artist? I was listening like naa this dont even sound like pac. Em must of found a book of rhymes and had one of them d-12 flunkies rap that ? .
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Oh im thinkin of loyal to the game I think
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Want atleast one track with K Dot.
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To this day I still don't know how they did they g unit ? . I mean I do but at 15, that ? was shocking to me
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Some new pac music would be ill
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The work they've done so far with that commercial and the kendrick interview has been good. I hope they continue to use it in creative ways.
Im interested to see what kind of scripts he has -
I don't want it if they're going to release pieced together vocals and remove disses, shorten outros, etc.
Release it as it is or don't release it at all.
