2Pac -2003- Resurrection (O.S.T.) (Amaru / Interscope)

• November 11, 2003
• Eminem adding things to the legend of a Tupac still alive or becoming a real ghost rapper, and adding himself to the legend by the occasion.
  

Discogs page - Listen in Youtube

 

1. Intro

2. (Ghetto) Ghost [remix] / Eminem

// - Dante OG Vibe ; Joehaindl OG Vibe

3. One Day at a Time [Em's Version] feat. Eminem & Outlawz / Eminem

// - Original Unfinished Version ; Original Spice 1 Version

4. Death Around the Corner / Johnny J

// already available in Me Against The World - Original Version (with outro)

5. Secretz of War [remix] feat. Outlawz / Johnny J

// already available in Still I Rise - Alternate song feat. Kurupt Unfinished Version ; One Nation Version

6. Runnin' [remix] (Dying to Live) feat. The Notorious B.I.G. / Eminem

// Different version released in One Million Strong (cf. Rarities) - Original Thug Life Version

7. Holler If Ya Hear Me / Stretch

// already available in Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. - Original Riot Version feat. Live Squad Original New York Stretch Version ; Original Broadway Remix

8. Starin' Through My Rear View feat. Outlawz / Hurt-M-Badd

// already available in Gang Related O.S.T. (cf. Rarities) - Original Version

9. Bury Me a G feat. Thug Life / Johnny J

// already available in Thug Life Volume One - Solo Version

10. Same Song (Short Edit) feat. Digital Underground / Shock G
// already available on Digital Underground's This is an EP release - Alternate All Around The World Mix ; Funky 7 Mix ; CJ's Extended Mix

11. Panther Power feat. Ray Luv (Strictly Dope) / Dj Chopmaster J

// already available on Beginnings : The Lost Tapes - Original One Nation Emcees Version ; Strictly Dope Force One Network Remix

12. Str8 Ballin' / Easy Mo Bee

// Released in Thug Life Volume One - Original First Take Angry Version ; Original No Soulja Version ; Original Thug Life Promo Version

13. Rebel of the Underground / Shock G

// already available in 2Pacalypse Now. - Alternate Outro Snippet

14. The Realist Killaz [remix] feat. 50 Cent / Red Spyda

// remix of "Let's Fight" for One Nation album. - Original Version, Daz Version

Tracks 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 were already available in albums.

2Pac's coming back as a ghost !

Not a lot of things to say about this compilation that mixes many well known songs and 4 unreleased remixed songs. Among them "Ghost" and "Runnin' (Dyin' To Live)" could sound totally new to fan ears because no originals have leaked yet at that time (Runnin' Thug Life version was not in Makaveli bootlegs sold in late 90's). The single alternate version of "Runnin'" was a kind of voice from the graveyard by the two killed superstars, sad song spiritually elevated by the chorus. But "Ghost" really realizes the eponymous idea of the compilation by Eminem. 2Pac is back with a voice modified over new music and with new guests : a kind of ghost (he will also soon return as a hologram).

02. Ghost (Remix) / DJ Pooh REMIXED by Eminem

• 1992/12 (?). Originally recorded during Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. at the end of 92 like other songs produced by Bobcat and featuring Ice Cube or Deadly Threat, or during 2Pac's Thug Life Original at the time he recorded St. Ides with DJ Pooh in mid 93. But there could be even two versions, one being a reference track for the Kidz album project commonly labelled as "Street Got Ya Babies" in tracklists of the project (cf. Ghetto Gospel). This Eminem remix remains the only source for this still unleaked original. But some OG vibes and remakes could be closer to the original (Dante's one remains the most appreciated). Pac's voice is here heavily slowed to sound older than in 93. And it is said that other parts of the lyrics were rapped by Pac's Souljah alter ego pitched voice.
  
• Original Versions : Ghetto Ghost (Dante OG Vibe) ; Ghetto Ghost (Joehaindl OG Vibe)
  

03. One Day at a Time (Remix) feat. Eminem, Young Noble, Kastro & Edi / Hen Gee REMIXED by Eminem

• 1996/08. Probably recorded for One Nation second sessions in summer. If a version featuring Spice 1 and Headstrong has been leaked, it is said that it is a posthumous addition and that the real original had only 2Pac, awaiting for guests : it could have been the Outlawz or maybe more E-40 and The Click or Outkast who were announced in One Nation papers. 
• Original Versions : One Day At A Time (Original Unfinished Version) ; One Day At A Time (Original Spice 1 Remix) feat. LP, Spice 1 & Headstrong ;
  

06. Runnin' (Remix) (Dying to Live) feat. The Notorious B.I.G. / Easy Mo Bee REMIXED by Eminem

• 1993/11. The song originally features Dramacydal (then called Thoro Headz) at the first verse and Stretch of the Live Squad who share the second one with Biggie. So restricted to Biggie & 2Pac, there is a imbalance because Biggie has only a half verse. There were two different Pac verses recorded for this song (eventually one aimed for his solo album - Out on Bail / R U Still Down -, one for Thug Life original Volume One album). The first one was released in One Million Strong compilation, Eminem chose to use the second one that was still unreleased. The song was originally an anti-cop song, it here becomes a kind of homage song to the two killed superstars.
  
• Sample : "Dying to Live" by Edgar Winter
• Original Versions : Runnin' From The Police (Original Memories Version) feat. Dramacydal, Stretch, The Notorious B.I.G. & Brown Man ; Runnin' (Original Alternate 2Pac Verse) feat. Dramacydal, Stretch, B.I.G. & Lil' Vicious ; Runnin' (Released One Million Strong Moe-Z Mix Alt 2Pac Verse) feat. Dramacydal, Stretch, The Notorious B.I.G. & Radio ; Runnin' (Stop The Gunfight Trapp Remix) feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Trapp

14. The Realist Killaz (Let'z Fight Remix) feat. 50 Cent / Daz REMIXED by Red Spyda

• 1996/06. Recorded for One Nation. Original guests are Capital LS, Boot Camp Clik, Outlawz & Numskull. Red Spyda also remixed "Hennesey" for 2Pac's Loyal 2 The Game.
  
• Original Versions : Jawz Tight (Original Let'z Fight) feat. Capital LS, BCC, Outlawz & Knumskull ; Jawz Tight (Let's Fight Daz Version) feat. Daz
  
• Sample : "Hail Mary" by 2Pac
  

 

 

 

187 Proof (Spice 1) -1991- Dope Lika Pound or a Key (feat. DJ Pizo, The Coup, Mopreme...) (Wax that Azzs)

• First mini album by Spice 1
  
• One of the very first appearance of Mopreme Shakur
  

Link to Discogs page

Listen to the album here or there

  

A-Side

1. 187 Proof (Original Version) - Spice 1

2. Lights Start Flashin (Scratch Interlude) - Spice 1

3. Foul Play (Original Version) - The Coup

4. One Nation - Spice 1 (??), ???? (??), Female (?), Jay (?) & Mocedes (Mopreme)

5. Oakland California (interlude)

6. East Bay Gangster (Original Version) - Spice 1

 

B-Side

7. 976-Spice (Interlude) - Spice 1

8. Foul Play Remix (Instrumental)

9. 2 B Reel - Spice 1

10. One Nation (Jazz Appella) - Spice 1 (?), ??? (?), Female (?) & Jay (?)

11. 211 At 711 (Interlude)

12. Gangster Thang - Spice 1

   

Producer - DJ Pizo the Beatmaker

 

According to Boots Riley from The Coup, this album is a compilation featuring Spice 1, Boots Riley & Mocedes aka Mopreme Shakur, produced by Pizo the Beatmaker. In fact, 187 Proof is Spice 1 first name and the tape is filled of his early songs except for The Coup's first song.

Spice 1 second official release after his song in Dangerous Crew mini album with notably Rappin' 4 Tay who also made his beginnings, long time before "Only God Can Judge Me".

What a surprising title for one of the first official Mopreme records : "One Nation" !! after DJ Pizo was also the producer of his first songs with Tony ! Toni ! Tone !

Pizo the beatmaker will release a solo album in 1995, in which he will invite Spice 1, Money B, Pooh-Man and even Pee-Wee at the keyboards for one song...

Saafir -1992-1993- Boxcar sessions Demo (prod. Jeremy JZ Jackson) (2020, Hip-Hop Enterprise)

• Pre-first album sessions
• Saafir started exactly like 2Pac as a featured artist for Chopmaster J's Force One Network, Money B's Raw Fusion and as a Shock G's Digital Underground official member.
  
• Mainly produced by Jeremy JZ Jackson, the one who produced "Something Wicked" and "Troublesome" for 2Pac.
  

Discogs page

Listen or grab it there

 

1. Light Sleeper (Original Version)

2. Joint Custody (J Groove's Spliff Mix)
3. In The Future

4. The Heavyweight
5. Prime Time After Seven
6. Running From 5.0

7. Bones

8. Killen Kydz
9. No Return - The Set Up

10. No Return (Original Version)

11. Ball Point

12. Whomp 2000

  

Bonus Tracks : 

. Quest For Survival feat. Plan Bee & Pooh-Man

. Rock The Show (I Wanna Know) - "Battle Drill" B-Side

. Pull Ya Card - "Just Riden" B-Side

 

Producer – Jeremy JZ Jackson (tracks: A1, A4, B3, B4), Big Nous (tracks: A3), J Groove (tracks: A2, B1, B2, B6)

Remastered By – Justin Perkins

 

These tracks were recorded before Saafir's first album Boxcar Sessions. Some of them had been released earlier in the Promo CD Unreleased Boxcar Sessions in 2002.

Track 6 was released in Hobo Juction's member Plan Bee's Quest For Survival in 1994.

  

 

 

Saafir started like 2Pac, as a member of Digital Underground

Saafir doesn't have had the occasion to record many songs with 2Pac. They are just featured together in Raw Fusion's "Pass The 40" (cf. Tales of a 90's N.I.G.G.A.), a posse song only released in 92 in Hollywood Records Sampler promo. From West Oakland, Saafir appeared in 1991 in the background vocals in Money B & DJ Fuze Raw Fusion's "Do My thang" (cf. Live in Styleetron), probably recorded at the same time than "Pass The 40". The same year, he is featured in two tracks of Chopmaster J & Dave Hollister Force One Network first album The MME Program 1. The next year, he is an official member of Digital Underground for their third album, The Body-Hat Syndrom (credited for 9 tracks). He will also be featured in their 96's Future Rhythm album.

In 1994, Saafir appears in the very famous "Wake Up Show Anthem '94" with Nas, Pharoahe Monche, Ras Kass, Lauryn Hill... in Street Fighter OST with Ras Kass and Ahmad. The same year, his collective the Hobo Junction (with notably Big Nous and Jeremy JZ Jackson from The Underground Railroad) recorded one of the most the most infamous clash versus Del's Hieroglyphics group (cf. Battle), prolonged with his clash with Hiero's main member Casual (cf. unofficial Saafir tape). He is even featured in Casual's first album Fear Itself in 1994.

The same year, he published some 12'' : "Battle Drill" prod. by J Groove, "Light Sleeper" prod. by JZ, "Just Riden" prod. JZ. His first solo album Boxcar Sessions got released the same year with notably a speaking interlude by Pee Wee of Underground Railroad. In 1995, he released the EP Limited Edition with the Hobo Junction. 

In 1997, he released the album Trigonometry under the alias of Mr No No, with 6 songs produced by JZ and two featuring with and produced by Shock G. In 1999, in his album Hit List, 3 tracks were produced by Shock G, one by Tony Pizarro and it features Kam, Jayo Felony and Chino XL.

 

Snoop Dogg -1996- Tha Doggfather Sessions (Death Row Unreleased)

• Snoop Doggy Dogg's second album recording sessions : second half of 1995 / March-November 1996
  
• Material for a triple album ? probably mixed with a new LBC/Pre-Eastsiders project (after original album being shelved because of Snoop/Lil C-Style dispute about royalties)
• The album was ready to be released in September but the death of 2Pac seems to have deeply modify the project.
1. Tha Doggfather Original Demo LP (pre-Vegas tracklist)
   
2. Corleone's Revenge : The OG Mafioso album (leftover tracks)
3. The Eastside Party (various released tracks outside Snoop's album)
   
4. Unused Instrumentals 
• SPECIAL THANKS to Bomb1st Forum & Jay2Chill   
  

 

back cover of Tha Doggfather

said to be the original cover planned for the album

### Tracklist by Jay2Chill. We chose to not follow the "Demo LP" leaked by Bomb1st Forum in 2016, just a random compilation of demo versions of retail songs. It is much more interesting to use the tracklist purposed by Jay2Chill of Bomb1st Forum (in a thread of June 2023), trying to rebuild the album sequence of September '96, right before 2Pac's death, following newspapers, interviews and other collected info. Except that we included demo versions instead of any retail songs. ###

The Sessions Part 1 : The Original Demo LP (Pre-Vegas) - LISTEN 

1. Freestyle Conversation (Rough Mix) (4:26)

2. Downtown Assassins (Rough Mix) * 2001 (Rough Mix) feat. Nate Dogg (backing vocals) (4:24)

3. Gold Rush (Original) feat. Kurupt, Techniec & Bad Azz (4:39)

4. Head Doctor (Original) (5:32)

5. Sixx Minutes (Rough Mix) (4:36)

6. You Thought (Rough Mix) * Doggyland (Rough Mix) (4:42)

7. C-Walkin' (Original) (4:40)

8. Snoop's Upside Ya Head (Rough Mix) * Off The Hook (Rough Mix) feat. Charlie Wilson, Val Young & James DeBarge (5:42)

9. Out The Moon (2Pac Version Rough Mix) feat. Bad Azz, Soopafly, Techniec, Tray Deee & 2Pac (5:13)

10. Change Is Gonna Come (Rough Mix) feat. Val Young (5:33)

11. Up Jump Tha Boogie (Rough Mix) feat. Kurupt & Charlie Wilson (4:31)

12. Midnite Love (Rough Mix) * Wake Up (Rough Mix) feat. Tray Dee (5:14)

13. Too Black (Rough Mix) (5:29)

14. Doggfather (Original) (4:28)

15. Doin' Too Much (Soopafly Original) ** Hit Rocks (Rough Mix)

16. Street Life (2Pac Version) feat. Prince Ital Joe, 2Pac & Val Young (5:33)

17. Vapors (Rough Mix) (5:35)

 

Leftover demo :

. Me & My Doggs (Rough Mix) (4:39) - identical, no intro

 

• Producer -  Daz (2,6,7,8,14,16), DJ Pooh (7, 8, 11, 17), Soopafly (1, 6, 10, 12, 15, 15), LT Hutton (10,13) Arkim & Reg Flair (3,14), Kurt Kobane (4)
• This unreleased demo material is taken from leaked DATs (raw studio material) from 11/06/96 (PO781966 : tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15), 10/07/96 DAT (PO781867 : track 16) and from Bomb1st's bootleg album (1, 16).

• * Tracks 2,6,8,12 haven't been leaked yet in an alternate form so we chose to not include them in this bootleg (because available in the official released album). 
• ** Track 15 is unleaked. We can hear a snippet of it in Smokefest Video, at 5:28. A re-recorded version of the song has been released in No Limit, Top Dogg.
• Tracks 1,3,5,11,14,17 are close to the released version but with many different elements.
• Tracks 4,7,9,10,12,13,15,16 were not included in Tha Doggfather LP (Death Row, 1996).
  
• Tracks 3,7,10,13 have been released in a close form in SmokeFest World Tour (1998, Dogghouse) / Fuck Death Row (1999, No Limit).
  
• Tracks 8 and 9 have been released in Gridlock'd Soundtrack (1997, Death Row)
• Track 8 was included in a previous sequence of the album and would have been replaced by "Snoop's Upside Ya Head".
  

 

 

Doggfather single

The original Doggfather LP : if 2Pac wouldn't have been killed in Vegas...

In 2016, Bomb1st Forum leaked a Bootleg with a compilation of alternate mixes and unmixed songs from Tha Doggfather, and a compilation of leftover tracks. All these unreleased materials are taken from early sequences of recording of the album, mainly from circa summer of 96.

Jay2Chill, in a Bomb1st forum's thread of June 2023, shared his work of reconstruction of what could be the state of the Doggfather album, right before 2Pac's death in early September. This has been deduced from the known tracklists of the DATs and the various info collected here and there in interviews, articles... After Pac's death, Snoop notably took off songs with 2Pac, remixed some other and shelved some which will end up in the SmokeFest World Tour album. More than half of the album was totally changed. We miss only four demo songs (if there are any existing alternate mixes) and a totally unleaked one (we can only hear a bit of it in Smokefest Video - maybe somebody could put the retail vocals of the song over the original beat remade) to get that sequence. It has no interludes, what is often said as a weakest point in the released album.

With this rebuild tracklist, we can listen to a different Doggfather album. Would it have changed the destiny of Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records ?

dates and tracklists of existing sequences of the album

First steps of the album : Don Corleone & Don Makaveli

When 2Pac joined Death Row label in the fall of '95, Snoop Dogg was still struggling with his justice case (what ended in February of 96). It is said that at that time he had troubles to write new lyrics... 2Pac would even have told him that his original verses in "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" were weak, what led him to re-write and re-record his parts (some people even said that this lost original could have become "Wanted Dead or Alive"...). That could explain why 2Pac and Daz wrote reference songs like "This Ain't Livin" and "Street Life" in February-March of 96 when he started recording sessions for Doggfather.

So the Doggfather sessions really started in the end of February of '96, right after the end of the case, in the night of the 20th to the 21st. 2Pac was then recording his second solo album for Death Row (cf. Me Against The World pt. 2). After or before Pac recorded "Changed Man" with Nate Dogg (lyrics that refer to Carlito's Way could be also applied by Snoop's situation), Snoop recorded with 2Pac the freestyle song "If There Was A Cure", and maybe "Word on The Street" with his L.B.C. friends Bad Azz and Techniec. But it could be also this day he recorded the first "Eastside Party" with Nate Dogg, Daz and the remaining member of L.B.C. Tray Deee (Lil' C-Style was already left in Dec. - Jan., cf. Haven't You Heard ?). Five days later, he recorded "Just Watching" with 2Pac, the Dogg Pound and Hurt-M-Badd, and 2Pac recorded the reference song "This Ain't Livin'" for him...

But this is mostly the following month (March of '96) he recorded a first amount of songs for his album : "Gangsta Walk", "May I", "Doggfather", "I Will Survive", "Change Is Gonna Come", "Wake Up", "Come On Home", "Tommy Boy", "Never Leave Me Alone", "2001"... And Daz recorded the reference song "Street Life" for him. In April '96, Snoop recorded new songs : "Gangsta Life", "Smoke Enough Bud", "Dogg Collar", "Doggyland", "Too Black", "Poly High"... what leads him to reconsider the direction of the album.

 

 

Front cover of the Bomb1stForum's Doggfather bootleg presented as :

"20th Anniversary Sessions Edition"

 

## Tracklist by Bomb1st Forum. For this second part, we give the tracklist of the Bomb1st Anniversary unofficial bootleg and not the rebuild tracklist of a known sequence of the album because it would have had a lot of tracks in common with the Original Demo LP. This gathers most of the other leftover tracks still unreleased (in their original form) that were recorded during Doggfather sessions. ###

The Sessions Part 2 : The OG Mafioso Album (Corleone's Revenge) - LISTEN

1. Gangstaz Life

2. Definition Of A Homeboy

3. 21st Street (Shhh For This Original) feat. Tray Deee & Bad Azz

4. May I Funk With You (Rough Mix)

5. Tell Her What She Wants (Interlude)

6. Pop Bloccin' (Original Quite Obvious) feat. Techniec, Kurupt & Big Pimpin'

7. County Blues (Rough Mix) feat. Unknown & Kevin Vernado

8. Dat Bumpin' feat. Daz

9. Usual Suspects (Original) feat. Deadly Threat

10. Some Other Shit

11. Eastsiderz (Soopafly Original) feat. Tray Deee & Daz

12. Get In 2 Dis feat. Charlie Wilson

13. Street Life (Original) feat. Prince Ital Joe

 

Bonus Tracks :

14. C-Walkin' (Rough Mix) (4:40) Get Up 2 Get Down (Interlude) feat. Smitty & James DeBarge

15. Vapors (Battlecat Remix) Just Watchin' (Ruff Mix) feat. 2Pac, Dogg Pound & Hurt-M-Badd

16. Head Doctor (Rough Mix) (5:32) Eastside Party (Rough Mix & Alternate) feat. Daz, Tray Deee & Nate Dogg (5:05)
17. Change Is Gonna Come (Rough Mix) What's My Name (Daz Remix) feat. Daz

• Producer - Daz (3,8,13,15,16, 17), LT Hutton (10), Soopafly (4,11), Sean Barney Rubble (14), DJ Battlecat (1, 15)
  
• Tracks 1,7,9,13,15 are taken from 7/10/96 DAT
• Tracks 14,16,17 are taken from 6/11/96 DAT and were planned to be in Doggfather OG (Pre-Vegas Version)
  
• Track 15 was planned to be released in Doggumentary EP

back cover of the 20th Anniversary Bomb1st's bootleg album

Corleone's Revenge ? 

This collection of songs was gathered by Bomb1st forum for the 20th Anniversary of the release of Doggfather album. All the tracks included are leftover songs from Doggfather sessions and were then unreleased in their original forms ("Vapors Battlecat Remix" has been released one year later in Neva Left, and was initially planned to be included in Doggumentary EP).

If we put apart the four last songs (used in the Original LP), the album so organized starts by the whole story of the birth of a mafioso, and it ended in "Street Life" by these words : "Corleone, rest in peace". So the subtitle of the known bootleg of Doggfather II, "Corleone's Revenge" could be more than a random title. The Doggfather sessions has enough material to constitute that legendary Doggfather II. 

 cover of a bootleg (picture taken from the booklet of the album) 

with a selection of featurings, soundtracks...

Was the "real" Doggfather 2 a Pre-Doggfather ?

The commonly known Doggfather II bootlegs, single disc (here) or double disc (available here and there), were constituted of songs taken from SmokeFest album and from various featurings (2Pac, Nate Dogg...), compilations and soundtracks (like "Freaky Tales", "Let Me Hit Something") and some well known unreleased leaked songs (like "Lil Crip A Lot", "Last Man Standing") which are not from Doggfather sessions, but more from Snoop's late times at Death Row or just after he left...

On the contrary, the songs here have been all recorded during the Doggfather recordings (1996), before the final mix which took place after Tupac's death in September '96. They can constitute a full forgotten album, a Doggfather pt. 2 or more exactly a pre-Doggfather. But nothing indicates that Snoop once thought to release a double album or a follow-up to Doggfather album, especially because these leftover songs were about mafioso subjects, that he seems to want to give up... These songs were put aside with the progressive constitution of the album we know and would probably have been given or re-used for various projects even if Snoop would not have left Death Row. 

  

 

Promo picture

 

### This tracklist is based on Lost Sessions Vol. 1 tracklist and completed with all non-album released tracks recorded during the Doggfather sessions. ###

The Sessions Part 3 : Tha Eastside Party

1. Get Up To Get Down (Interlude) feat. Smitty & James DeBarge (5:38) - unreleased

2. Keep It Real Dogg

3. Usual Suspects feat. Deadly Threat

4. Eastside Party feat. Nate Dogg

5. Smoke Enough Bud feat. Jewell

6. Dogg Collar feat. Bad Azz, Lady V, Kevin Vernado, 6'9, Twin & Big Pimpin'

7. Word On The Street feat. Bad Azz & Techniec (5:31) - unreleased

8. The Shhh For This feat. Tray Deee

9. The Genie feat. Bad Azz & Bo-Rock

10. Eastside feat. Tray Deee & Daz

11. Caught Up feat. Charlie Wilson & Val Young

12. Too High (Poly High) feat. Twinz, Daz & Big Pimpin'

13. Gravy Train feat. Bad Azz & Tray Deee

14. Keep It Real (Party People) feat. Mack 10, Bad Azz, Techniec, Deadly Threat & Kurupt 

15. Been So Long feat. Jewell (5:20) - unreleased

 

Bonus Tracks :

16. Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto feat. Daz, Bad Azz, Tray Deee & Nate Dogg

 

• Producer - LT Hutton (1,3,6,9,10,11,12,13,14), Soopafly (2,14), Daz (4), DJ Pooh (7), Snoop Dogg (15), Sean Barney Rubble (16)
  
• Tracks 2, 9, 11, 13 have been released in Lost Sessions, vol. 1 (2009, WIDEawake) 
• Tracks 3, 4, 10, 12, 14 have been released in Death Row's Snoop Doggy Dogg Greatest Hits (2001, Death Row)
  
• Track 5, 6 have been released in Chronic Re-Lit : From The Vault (2009, WIDEawake)
• Track 8 has been released in Gangsta Shhh 12'' (2009, DPG recordz)
  
• Track 16 has been released in Christmas on Death Row (1996, Death Row). 
• Track 1 has been released as a b-side of Snoop's Upside Ya Head Promo Single.
  
• Tracks 7, 15 have not been released yet and are taken right from the leaked demo tapes and DAT.
  

Other unused found demos :

• Hit Rocks (Ruff Mix) ==> LBC Crew album
• I Will Survive (Ruff Mix) feat. Techniec & Kurupt ==> Fuck Death Row
• Tommy Boy (Ruff Mix) - identical ==> Fuck Death Row / Dead Man Walking
  
• Eastside Party (Ruff Mix & Alternate) feat. Nate Dogg ==> Snoop's Greatest Hits
  

L.B.C. Crew about to become the Eastsiders ?

In the beginning of '96, Snoop & Doggystyle's project L.B.C. Crew went shelved because of Lil' C-Style and Snoop arguing about royalties. So in parallel of his album, it seems Snoop was probably thinking to record a new LBC Crew project without Lil' C-Style who does not appear in any Doggfather sessions (except if we consider that "Doggystyle 96" and "Out The Moon OG" that appear in a July DAT could have been recorded later than 95 - what is not believable). 

The group name "LBC Crew" itself was not used anymore (except by 2Pac in "Untouchablez". In late Feb. - March of 96, Snoop recorded "Eastside Party Original" with Daz, Tray Deee and Nate Dogg, "Eastsiders Original" with Daz & Tray Deee (produced by Soopafly), maybe a new version of "21 Jumpstreet" called "21st Street" with Tray Deee & Daz, "Gangsta Walk" with Dogg Pound, "I Will Survive" with Techniec & Kurupt, "Tommy Boy" with Daz, "Smoke Enough Bud" with Jewell, "Dogg Collar" with Bad Azz & Big Pimpin, and very probably "Word On The Street" with Bad Azz & Techniec...

The group name eventually changed to "Eastsiders", a first version of the group that Snoop will later form with Tray Deee and Goldie Loc. Was that name restricted to Snoop, Daz and Tray Deee or was it supposed to include other close partners for a party album like we chose to consider it. Some songs from one project moved to Doggfather and other came in.

It is funny to notice that "Eastside Party", probably recorded circa end of February of 96, starts in its final mix version (probably mid of 96) by 2Pac's voice (something like "nigga ya yop..."), the exact same mix than in the end of "Initiated Remix" (with the blow sound during the whole song) that has also been produced by Daz.

The Sessions, pt. 4 : Unused Instrumentals -

1. Bugsy (LT Instrumental #1) (5:20)

2. LT Instrumental #2 (1:00)

3. Priest Instrumental (4:53)

4. Hot Line (Sean Barney Instrumental) (6:03) 

. LT Untitled Instumental #1 (0:56)

. LT Untitled Instumental #2 (0:52)

. LT Untitled Instumental #3 (5:45)

. Doggfather Instrumental #1 (5:48)

. Doggfather Instrumental #2 (5:06)

. Doggfather Instrumental #3 (1:03)

. Doggfather Instrumental #4 (5:31)

. Keep It (Interlude) (1:24)

. Dat's The Way (Interlude) (2:00)

 

 

Street Thugs (Nutt-So's group) -1996- Not To Be Fucked With (Snake Pit, Wiged Out)

• Nutt-So, one of the favourite partner of 2Pac in 96, was for a short time a potential new member of the Outlawz in Ghetto Starz tracklist, in summer of 96.
• With Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony and of course Thug Life, Street Thugs is one of the other groups to use a word 2Pac popularized or even appropriated for himself. But if 2Pac disses Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony in interviews and in the outro of "Late Night (Til My Dying Day Moe-Z Remix)", unleaked song from Dramacydal shelved album in 95, he early invited Nutt-So in his projects (cf. Thug Pound).
  

LISTEN to that album or grab it there.

1. Car Chase (Intro)

2. Nut Case

3. We Don't Love 'Em feat. Duce Life & PLESOR

4. The Weekend

5. Cock Your Glock (Interlude)

6. Based on a True Story

7. Where Was You At

8. Not To Be Fucked With

9. The Family feat. Next 2 Kin, A.M.W., Jet, NTO, Confusion & Duce Life

Produced by GO Twice (2, 3, 4, 6, 9), Chucksta (7, 8) & Bust a Bitch (3, 9)

Rappers from the Bay Area : Nutt-So, Mo $avage and Len B. aka Pound. 

Street Thugs appear with a bunch of Demo Tapes in the 90's (here and there, probably in 95 or maybe 94). But they were particularly noticed with "Deep in the Game" in the compilation Bay Area Playaz, alongside rappers like Knumskull of Luniz produced by DJ Fuze (of Digital Underground), Sh'Killa (who had record "Don't Make Enemies With Me" with 2Pac in late 94), The Link Crew (with Ant Dog, Ray Luv...), and also JT The Bigga Figga and The Delinquents. They also appear in Lil Big's group America's Most Wanted second album The Real Mobb (whose one member, Chucksta, is also the producer of two songs in this EP, and two in his solo album ; A.M.W. is featured here and Lil Big will be featured in "Don't Sleep OG" with Nutt-So).

Go Twice is the main producer of the group and will be known for having produced original "Ghetto Star" feat. Nutt-So (released in Better Dayz album), and a remix of "Don't Sleep" featuring Outlawz and Nutt-So. The funny thing is that he also produced songs for The Govenor's album Floss Mode in 1995 (in which Gov' sings Pac's "Po' Nigga Blues").

 

Nutt-So is the older brother of Keyshia Cole (who also met Tupac at the age of 16 - maybe the day he got killed). He appears solo in 1996 in Blackjack's album Addicted 2 Drama for the song "Fuck Your Life", album which as well features regular Street Thugs friend Jet (here featured), Luniz, The Notorious B.I.G., MC Eiht, Spice 1... and 2Pac ! in the Promo sampler for the song "Can't Turn Back" recorded in the beginning of '94. It is said that he was firstly invited by MC Hammer - also from Oakland - to come to record with him (in late '95 ?), but he was invited to give verses with Dogg Pound, Gonzoe from Kausion and 2Pac in January of 96 for Thug Pound Project. So maybe he met Hammer through Death Row connection at that time where 2Pac was also recording reference song "Too Tight" for him. Nutt-So will record "Too Late" with Hammer and 2Pac (but also "Can U Feel It pt. 1" with Storm, Kurupt, Mac Mall & Spice 1 probably after Pac's death). With 2Pac he recorded many more songs after "Too Late" : "Wordz 2 My First Born", then "Ghetto Star" and later during Pac's last summer "Don't Sleep" and "Runnin' on E" with the Outlawz. He was not listed in One Nation first sessions (with east coast artists) but would have been in the final album for sure ("Runnin on E" was probably initially recorded for One Nation if we listen to the last dedication to Boot Camp Clik in the original version, cf. Ghetto Starz).

During his time alongside Tupac, he was also recording for his first solo album, already announced in this group mini album, then titled as "Thug Livin'" but which will finally be released under the title "The Betrayal", but really later in 2000 and without "Ghetto Star" and "Don't Sleep"...

Smif-N-Wessun (Cocoa Brovaz) -1998-2002- CB's Shinin' / Still Shinin' Rawkus Unreleased (Bucktown USA / Rawkus unreleased)

• Step 1 : Shelved album recorded for Rawkus circa 2000-2002
• Step 2 : Singles and b-sides, first draft for a new album in 1997-2000 
  
• in 2004, Smif-N-Wessun released a Mix-CD titled Still Shinin' which included some of these shelved tracks.
  

fanmade cover made from an old picture

the group was then signed as "Cocoa Brovaz" 

 

Step 2 : Unreleased Rawkus Still Shinin' - Listen here or there

1. Get Off

2. Autobiography (Family Portrait)

3. Glass (We Generalz)

4. Tools of The Trade

5. Smif-N-Wessun Is The Reason

6. La Familia

7. M.N.C.B. (Come Back)

8. Young Man (Likke Youth's)

9. Pete Rock Track

10. That's Boss

11. I Wanna Get High

12. Luv Makes Life

13. Watch Ya Mouf

14. Understand (What You Think)

 

Bonus Tracks :

15. Spit Again feat. Dawn Penn, Geraldine Nicholas & Nyoka Nicholas

 

Producer - Mr. Walt (4), Pete Rock (9), Curt Gowdy (15)

 

Tracks 4 and 15 were released in Spit Again / Tools of the Trade 12'' (2002, Rawkus)

Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, have been released in Still Shinin'... the Mix CD (2004, Bucktown USA)
Tracks 10, 11 have been released in The X-Files Mix CD (2006, Bucktown USA)

 

 

That only single features "Spit Again" that is strangely not included

in the regular tracklists of the shelved album (maybe because it was the promo single)

Rawkus... kind of Death Row east ?

This album was about to be released when 2Pac's Better Days was published in 2002 with the song "Military Minds" fairly remixed by Edi with Cocoa Brovaz and Buckshot. But there are some common points between Death Raw and Rawkus... They both were able to gather many very very talented artists, kind of underground Dream Team they but failed to release the projects of their protégés and were sometimes accused to be dishonest with money... Some well known projects have been shelved by Rawkus like Kool G Rap's original Giancana Story, Mad Skillz' I Ain't Mad No More, Novel's The World... and the Cocoa Brovaz.

Almost nothing is known about that third album of Smif-N-Wessun who were still officially signed as "Cocoa Brovaz" on Rawkus. Surprisingly, there are no featurings here... like 2Pac in 96, just before One Nation, 2Pac also thought to release a full album without almost any featurings, a project initially titled Me Against The World pt. 2 to get back the intimate mood of his album Me Against The World.

 

taken from the same shooting than "Bucktown Remix" single cover

it has been used for an old bootleg with the title "CB's Shinin'"

 

 

Step 2 : CB's Shinin' (Singles & B-sides, 1997-2000)

 

1. Get Up (Instru) Drama (1997)

2. Get Up (2000)

3. More Fire (2000)

4. You Can't Take Me Out (2000)

5. Super Brooklyn (Instru) What's Poppin' Niggas feat. 50 Cent (2000)

6. Super Brooklyn (2000)

7. Intrigued feat. Buckshot (1999)

8. What You Gonna Do (by Steele) feat. Buckshot (2000)

9. Bucktown USA (Remix Instru) Do That feat. Starang Wondah (1998)

10. Bucktown USA (Remix) feat. M.O.P. (1998)

11. Shiestee (1999)

12. Swollen Tank (2001)

13. We Pledge Allegiance feat. Prodigy (2000)

14. Holocaust (Instru) Take It To The Limit (1999)

15. Holocaust (1999)

16. Living Legends (2001)

17. Teenage Luv (1997)

18. No Justice No Peace (2000)

Bonus Tracks :

19. Midnite Run (by Tek) feat. Mike Zoot (1998)

20. Weed For Life (Remix) feat. Roundhead & Otloud (Blahzay Blahzay)

Producer - Tek & Steele (7,8,11,14,18), DJ Rob (3,4,6), Baby Paul (12,15), Mr. Walt (1?,10,17?,19), Easy Mo Bee (13), Jeff Brown (9), Hi-Tek (2), Cut Killer (16), Massive B All Stars (20)

 

Tracks 1, 5, 9, 14, 19, 20 were not in the so-called "CB's Shinin'" bootleg, today impossible to find.

Tracks 1 and 2 have been released in Rawkus' Oh No / Get Up 12'' and Lyricist Lounge 2 (2000) 

Track 3 has been released in More Fire 12'' (2000)

Tracks 5 and 6 are taken from Super Brooklyn 12'' (2000)

Track 4 is taken from Game Over (2000), which includes original and remixed version of "Super Brooklyn" with Mr. Cheeks (replacing one CB verse), "More Fire" remixed and retitled as "Punch Out" with guests, and the eponymous track with Steele featuring guests.

Track 5 has been released in What's Poppin' Niggaz 12'' (2000) ; it will be re-released in Collect Dis Edition (2003) but without 50 Cent's verse.

Track 7 has been released in Whiteboys OST (1999).

Track 12 has been released in Tony Touch's In Da Lab mixtape (2001).

Track 13 has been released in Easy Mo Bee's Now or Never Odyssey 2000.

Tracks 1 and 17 are b-sides of Spanish Harlem 12'' (1997)

Tracks 9, 9 and 10 are taken from Bucktown Remix 12'' (1998)

Tracks 11, 14, 14 and 15 are taken from Holocaust 12'' (1999)

Track 16 is taken from Cut Killer's Living Legends 12'' (2001)

Tracks 8 and 18 are taken from No Justice, No Peace 12'' (2000)

Track 19 is the b-side of Mike Zoot's Urban Harvest 12'' (1998, Guesswyld), who will record songs at that time with Mos Def, Hi-Tek, DJ Spinna, Baby Paul...

Track 20 is a b-side of Bounty Killer's It's A Party 12'' (1998)

Track 20 is taken from Massive B All Stars Weed For Life Remix 12'' (1998)

 

Tracks 1, 6, 10, 14, 15 and 16 in a remix form have also been released in The X-Files mix-CD (2006, Bucktown USA) 

 

 

Still Shinin' was the title of the planned third album of the Smif-N-Wessun then called Cocoa Brovaz (since 96, at the time of One Nation).

 

We chose to follow the tracklist of that old bootleg titled "CB's Shinin'" (for Cocoa Brovaz' Shinin'). We just took off the instrumentals and replaced them by four forgotten singles & b-sides of the same era. We added a Tek solo feature as a bonus track and a b-side by reggae superstar Bounty Killer to finish the selection.

 

 

Dah Shinin'. Beginning of '95, 2Pac is behind bars. 

"Bucktown" and "Let's Git it On" are underground hits. "Sound Bwoy Bureill" is among the 100 most important hip-hop songs !! And what to say about the hell infamous remix of "Wrekonize" remixed by Steele himself ??? It could pretend to enter the ten biggest tunes in all the Hip Hop history !!!!! How could Tupac in his cell escape to this explosion of sound ? Especially when we know that Pac always had love for ragga/reggae music and for reggae/hip hop connexions (he invited in his songs many ragga artists : Don Jaggwarr, Prince Ital Joe, Lil' Vicious, Brown Man, Radio, Aunt Glo, Lady Levi, Rah Rah...)

In march of 1995, went out the soundtrack of Bad Boys. Interscope finally chose to promote Pac's upcoming album with its eponymous track "Me Against The World". But 2Pac had earlier recorded a track with Dee Tha Mad Bitch from Bo$$, "Mind of a Bad Boy" with Daddy Marco repeating the famous anthem of Inner Circle : "bad boy bad boy what you gonna do, when they come for you" (cf. Thug Life : Honor Among Thugz). And in that soundtrack there is a remix of this famous anthem song by Inner Circle featuring... Tek !! Not possible for him to ignore !!

After this break through album, Smif-N-Wessun had a big trouble with legal issue about their name, because of the famous weapon trademark. That's why they were invited in June of '96 by 2Pac for One Nation project under the nickname of Cocoa Brovaz (a remembrance of the reggae star Cocoa Tea ?). 

 

  

 

A planned new album in 99-2000 : Still Shinin'

The disappointing sells from The Rude Awakening lead Priority to drop them. They quickly thought to record a new album titled "Still Shinin'" like it was announced in the More Fire single. Maybe at that time, they were planning to record their new album with DJ Rob & Domingo who recorded the underground compilation Game Over with Cocoa Brovaz on 5 tracks ("Super Brooklyn", ""You Can't Take Me Out", remixes of "Super Brooklyn", "More Fire (Punch Out Remix)" and one Steele's verse in eponymous song).

 

 

A few time later, with their feature in Rawkus Soundbombing 2 in 1999 (on "Every Rhyme I Write" by Shabaam Sahdeeq) and the release of the single "Super Brooklyn" prod. by DJ Rob, they got a contract with the super label. So they put "Get Up" in Rawkus Lyricist Lounge 2 in 2000 and "Spit Again" in Rawkus Soundbombing 3. The b-side of that last one was surely a promo for their upcoming album on the label but... 

 

 

2000, back cover of "More Fire" single : 

Music from the forth coming album : "Smif N Wessun : Still Shinin'"

 

In 2004, Smif-N-Wessun finally released a mixtape titled "Still Shinin'". But it contains no songs recorded in the late 90's except "Super Brooklyn" and just half of the songs taken from the planned Rawkus album.