Darryl Harper -1996- Darryl Harper Compilation (Death Row, unfinished work)

• Darryl "Big D" Harper, producer of 5 songs on Killuminati album, 3 on Still I Rise / Ghetto Starz, 1 or 2 on One Nation + original "Pac's Life", "Catchin' Feelins", "Smile"... 
• Singer on "White Man'z World" and on the superhit "Consider Me", erroneously attributed to 6 Feet Deep, initially supposed to be in Gridlock'd original Soundtrack. 
• With Tyrone Wrice aka Hurt M Badd (ex-B-Rezell), they were the less known workers of the so-called "wack room", but the main ingredients of Killuminati (10 tracks over 12).
• Source : DAT inventory. 

Darryl in the center,

engineers mixing his song "Because of You"

### - We followed the tracklists of the two "Darrell Harper" tapes, as listed in Death Row DAT inventory. We don't know if all tracks contain vocals or if it is mainly beats to be given to other Death Row artists. - ###

Tracklist : 

DAT 1 (06/23/96) 

1. Throw Ya Hands Up  -  such a title appears in a Too Gangsta For Radio early DAT, and in a 2001 tape with many names, among them Ray J (signed on the Row at the time)
2. I'll Funk
3. Untitled #1
4. OJ Theme - Darryl Harper
5. Lost and Found
6. Girls - appears in a floppy attributed to "Freddy (?)" in 03/27/96
7. Untitled #2
   
   DAT 2 (08/22/96)
   
   
8. Why  - only the good die young (?), instrumental to "As The World Turnz" (?)
9. Systers Gotta Have It - new let 'em have it (?), instrumental to "High Speed" (?)
10. Why Does It Hurt - Darryl Harper (?)
11. New Mellow Rap Beat
12. New One For Keesha
13. Debate
14. Farewell Tupac - Darry Harper - LINK
15. I'm For U - Hugg - (in Hugg's project DAT 96/08/05)

Darryl Harper interviewed by The Art of Dialogue, 2021 

Introduced to Death Row in mid 1995 

In his interviews, Darryl Harper tells how he had the chance to join Death Row, a little time before 2Pac came, in the summer of 1995 (he was notably at the Source Awards). He was introduced into Cam-Am studios by a friend named Chuck, notably met that day Snoop Dogg and gave some vocals for a LT Hutton introduction skit to a track. Then he started to write songs for Kevyn Lewis' (pianist and studio manager) protégée singer CeGe (is it possible he wrote the song "Cavi" for her ? track eventually produced by Sneed or Dre... recorded circa November 1995). Finally meeting Suge Knight in the kitchen, he made him listen to a demo tape he made with the help of Wilton Felder of The Crusaders, and Suge hired him. Around that period, he was also intensively following the OJ Simpson case, what led him to write and record a whole song upon that topic in the first months of 1996. 

In terms of production, Darryl was a "novice" (his words), "learning how to use the equipment". To work on Death Row was an opportunity for him to learn with professional engineers and artists and to improve his own skills. That's why he was only working in the so-called "wack" room. Some people were making fun of that, some others, like Big Syke, used to come and visit, maybe took him some beats...

Ghostwriting for 6 Feet Deep, producing for 2Pac 

Mainly hired for his writing skills, he was in charge of writing for 6 Feet Deep. A first song wasn't convincing : it was criticized at the meeting in February 21 (but Darryl wasn't happy with the way the group vocalized his text). Then he wrote and sung "Consider Me" as a reference track for them. All liked it and 2Pac wanted to have the song for his then project of soundtrack for Gridlock'd (cf. Original sessions). But 2Pac was still seeing him as a member of 6 Feet Deep.

They get closer in June 1996, when 2Pac received Lemika and Make A Wish Foundation at the Death Row studios (circa June 10). This day, 2Pac was beginning to work with Hurt-M-Badd as a producer (he was already giving him some vocals, notably "Fair Exchange", "Play Ya Cardz", "Just Watchin"). Hurt-M-Badd learnt how to produce at the same time than Darryl and alongside him, in the "Wack" room. A week later, whilst Darryl was working on a beat, 2Pac came in, listened to it and decided to get the beat for his then project One Nation. The 17th of June 1996, he recorded the song "Military Minds" over it with the Boot Camp Clik. Then 2Pac got used to come and listen to his work to get new beats from him.

Interview with JMix Exclusive, 2017

Darryl Harper's projects at Death Row ? 

The first 7 tracks tape has very likely that title "Darryl Harper Compilation" written on it. But it is not clear if Darryl Harper really had a project of "compilation" with other artists from Death Row, or if it was only "demo" material with his solo work and instrumentals to be given to other Death Row artists... But in that case, where are all the other important tracks ("Can't Hide", "Consider Me") he was working on around that time, they would be there too ? And as well, some tracks of these tapes are nowhere else to be found in Darryl material so they were could very well have been recorded with other artists... That's why we tend to think Darryl Harper got a real project of compilation on Death Row.

The track "I'm 4 U" is listed in a Death Row tape titled "Hugg Reasons 8/5/96", with 5 other tracks. Hugg was a singer and a friend of Suge Knight (his track "Miss Well To Do" recorded the 8th of June 96 is listed in Gridlock'd original in September 18 on side of Darryl's "Consider Me"). So, that Hugg "I'm 4 U" existing for at least two weeks, we can think it was copied like that on Darryl's tape, not just as a beat. But we don't know if it includes some vocals by Darryl Harper or only Hugg ones... 

The song "Why Does It Hurt" was certainly added in its new August 27 mix. Considering "I'm 4 U" was added after "Farewell 2Pac", we know the last material was added to that tape after the recording of it in mid September 1996 ; Darryl told he wrote it the day he learnt 2Pac was dead (September 13).

That REEL with Why/Sisters Gotta Have was recorded the 22nd of August (same date as the opening of that second Darryl Harper's tape - so the tape was initially for Darryl's project and only in a second time for 2Pac). Maybe it originally contained naked beats to be used by 2Pac (like mostly thought), maybe it had complete songs because it is not that usual to have plain beats copied on a REEL (but it happens)... The fact the new title and biffing are made with another color pen tends to indicate the new songs were added not the same day... (but is the date itself not added on a different day than the first copy of music elements ? usually it is noted the very first day they used the REEL...)

What we can be sure of, 2Pac re-used that REEL the 25th for the recording of "As The World Turnz" / "High Speed". Were both songs recorded that same day ? Why only one new title was added, why only the second was biffed... Maybe the front of the REEL could give more details... Obviously, the second track recorded on that REEL, "High Speed", has nothing to do with the concept "Sisters Gotta Have It", what would explain the biffing. On the other hand, the word "Why" is nowhere to be found in "As The World Turns"...

A song titled "Why" appears in the early tracklist "If Heaven Had a Ghetto" (presumably written circa late July / early August of 1996). Maybe 2Pac asked Darryl to have a beat for that concept and finally recorded something else when he got the beat...  

But we can't deny "Why" is clearly the same topic than the song "The Good Die Young", the word central in the chorus : "does anybody have an answer why / Can anybody tell me why (the good die young ?)"... Is it possible to think that the song was at a time given to Darryl Harper for his own project ? And at a time, the song having been copied in Darryl Harper's DAT, 2Pac finally overwrote the thing with a new song...

 So we could imagine that other tracks were for other Death Row less known artists... "Sisters Gotta Have It" could be a BGoti song (a group of girls singing and rapping, a bit in the like of Y?N-Vee, recently dropped from Motown with their first album shelved - but they only appear in Death Row inventory in late 96 for Christmas on Death Row), but it any other female singer/rapper...

We highly doubt it could be a 2Pac song, but there could be some Outlawz on it (we sometimes thought it was another title for "Breathin (GBM Version)", but it was too far). It could be Storm and Val Young for a remix/new version of "Let Them Have It" (originally produced by LT Hutton but was very likely not satisfying...). 

"Consider Me" credited to 6 Feet Deep by 2Pac in his interview for Gridlock'd... is logically not in that compilation. But even "Because of You" is not listed in the DAT inventory (maybe a later thing, after Pac's death). 

List of material in Death Row inventory

DAT 9/24/95 (? or 96)

1. I Don't Want You No Mo
2. Promise To Love You 

Darryl Harper says he joins Death Row not a long time before 2Pac, probably during the summer of 95. So it is way possible that this first DAT was made in October 95. Maybe Darryl copied/recorded old songs he had before in Cam-Am professional studios. Then he didn't use them on his further projects of compilation because he learnt how to produce within the time, improved a lot. 

Another possibility would be there is a mistake and Darryl recorded these new songs in late September 96, after Pac's death....

DAT 2/21/96 WORK DAT

1. Why Does It Hurt ?
2. Instrumental

DAT 3/16/96

1. When Jesus Come
2. Untitled

DAT 4/26/96 

1. OJ Theme
2. Player Hater

"Player Hater" will not be included in the compilation DAT, except if it is one of the "untitled" track...

 

Floppy Disc 5/07/96 / DAT 5/25/96 

1. Can't Hide

DAT 6/23/96 "Darrell Harper Compilation"

1. Throw Ya Hands Up
2. I'll Funk
3. Untitled
4. OJ Theme
5. Lost and Found
6. Girls
7. Untitled

That DAT strangely does not have "Can't Hide", which was copied in two different cassettes one month before.

 

DAT 6/29/96

1. Somebodies got a crush
2. Slow Ride 

DAT "Engraved In My Heart"

 

Another thing which won't be in the Darryl Harper Compilation tapes...

 

DAT Darrell Harper Compilation Work DAT 6/23/96 - 9/5/96

1. Untitled #1, 
2. Untitled #2
3. I'm For You

This DAT also titled "Harper Compilation" has the two untitled tracks of the first so titled DAT, but also a song listed in the other 8 tracks DAT Darryl copied. So it makes a link between both cassettes. Could they be the same project ?

 

DAT 8/22/96

1. Why  -  only the good die young (?)
2. Systems Gotta Have It - sisters gotta have it (?)
3. Why Does It Hurt
4. New Mellow Rap Beat
5. New One For Keesha
6. Debate
7. Farewell Tupac
8. I'm For U 

As usual, this DAT was opened for copy the 22nd, but was filled up track by track potentially much later. "Farewell 2Pac" was of course recorded and copied after his death the 13th of September. 

DAT 8/27/96 

1. Why Does It Hurt
2. Untitled w/ riff 

That song would definitely be the key track of the project, a single. Darryl worked on it from February to late August ! Could it the same thing than "Why" ???

Dogg Pound -1995- Dogg Shit (Death Row, unfinished work)

• 1995 : sessions for an unknown project, kind of E.P. companion to Dogg Food, maybe a collection of B-Sides or guests tracks bonus disc.
• Dogg Food was initially supposed to be released in July of 1995, but was delayed of three months, during that time the group recorded new songs, notably with guests.
• What happened ? With the arrival of 2Pac at Death Row and the top priority of his album, Dogg Pound gave some of their material for it (with Wu-Tang, with Dre & George Clinton). In late December, after The Notorious B.I.G.'s call to the boycott of "New York New York" video, Dogg Pound and 2Pac came to the idea of a mutual effort eventually titled Thug Pound, and so the Pound also recycled material for it (with Nas, Threat). In February of 1996, Kurupt seems to turn himself towards a solo project. Then in the summer of 1996, they returned to the idea of a second album titled West Coast Aftershock, and will again recycle material from this short lived project.
• The recordings were dispersed or remixed in various projects : soundtracks, Death Row compilations, Daz' Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back (1998), Tha Last of Tha Pound (2004), Doggy Bag (2012)...
• Sources : ?

fanmade cover for a DGC's bootleg (with random content from various projects),

made from an altered image of 2002 compilation

### - WORK IN PROGRESS... There are no known material sequence or info about that project, which was maybe only in the state of a collection of B-Sides/featurings. For the second album project, see West Coast Aftershock - ### 

Dogg Shit (1995 Sessions)

1. Don't Stop, Keep Going (Original) feat. Nas ***
2. Got My Mind Made Up (Original) feat. Lady of Rage, Method Man, Redman & Inspectah Deck - unleaked / Inspectah's verse edit 
3. You Can't See Me feat. George Clinton
4. Just Doggin' feat. Nate Dogg 
5. Started (by Kurupt) feat. Ricky Harris (?) ***
6. Let's Play House (Original) feat. Daz, Warren G, Michel'le, Nate Dogg & Big Pimpin' **
7. Me In Your World (Original) feat. Lady Of Rage **
   
   
8. It's Going Down (Original) feat. Prince Ital Joe & Kevin Vernado *
9. Gang Bangin' Ass Criminals (Original) feat. LBC Crew & Soopafly *
10. I'll Do (Original) feat. Kausion
11. N.Y. '87 (Original) feat. Deadly Threat & Soopafly (speaking) **
12. Our Daily Bread (Original) feat. Lady of Rage & Prince Ital Joe *
13. The Name And The Rap (by Daz) 
14. Farewell To My Enemies (Outro) (by Ricky Harris) ** 
    
    Bonus Tracks (Kurupt's work for a solo) :
     
15. Loc'd Out Hood (by Kurupt) 
16. Jack Move feat. Big Syke & Outlawz *** 
17. Everybody Needs To Slow Down (by Kurupt) **  
18. Would You Ride (by Kurupt) feat. Snoop Dogg  

Producer - Dr. Dre (3), Daz (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16), Overdose & Soopafly (15, 17, 18). 

* released in a slightly remixed form in Daz' Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back (Death Row, 1998)
** taken from Doggy Bag (WIDEawake, 2012)

*** taken from Tha Last of Tha Pound (Gangsta Advisory, 2004)

Not included tracks :

. Money, Cars, Bitches (prod. Dr. Dre) - unknown source & date of recording
. Killin' Niggaz (by Daz) - unknown source & date of recording

. Jack Move (Original w/o Kurupt) feat. Outlawz ------> Thug Life Volume 2
. Initiated (Wind Mix) feat. 2Pac & Outlawz ----> Thug Pound
. N.Y. '87 (Quik Mix) feat. Threat & 2Pac ----> Thug Pound
. Don't Stop (Kurupt 2 Verses Mix) feat. 2Pac ----> Thug Pound
. Don't Stop (Final) feat. 2Pac ----> West Coast Aftershock ; 2002
. Trump Tight (by Kurupt) feat. Big Syke & Kadafi ----> Thug Pound
. Um Dumpin' (by Kurupt) feat. Gonzoe, 2Pac, Scarlo & Nutt-So ----> Thug Pound
. This Life I Lead feat. Gonzoe, 2Pac & Nutt-So ----> Thug Pound 
. Don't Try To Play Me Homie (by Daz) -----------> Gridlock'd 

A totally unknown project 

The closest thing to this original Dogg Shit unknown projects is the WIDEawake compilation Doggy Bag. But like all releases from that sub-label, the result is... far from being satisfying. Songs were taken from various projects from 93 to 98...  Tha Last of Tha Pound also presents a couple of songs taken from that era of recordings - 95 -, at a time the second Pound album (or a kind of E.P. companion) was logically titled "Dogg Shit" (after the food they ate in first album...). Without the arrival of 2Pac at Death Row, we could imagine that Daz and Kurupt would have had the project ready to drop in mid '96 or even before, or it would simply have turned into a second album.

In late December, notably after the recording of "Initiated", Dogg Pound will recycle some of their material for that mysterious 2Pac/Dogg Pound short-lived project usually known as Thug Pound ("Stated" on "Trump Tight", "Don't Stop" re-recorded with 2Pac, "NY87" remixed by DJ Quik), what could also be a renewed idea (with 2Pac arrival) for the "Death Row Compilation" (cf. Thug Pound), announced in the booklet of All Eyez On Me in February 1996. Another hypothesis could be that this "E.P. companion" was already an update for this compilation.

After Thug Pound project was dropped for an unknown reason (dispute with Dr. Dre ? 2Pac was arrested the 22nd of January and changed his projects ? dispute with Kurupt in the studios ?), Kurupt recycled his things for his own solo project.

DETAILED INFORMATION

• "Don't Stop". Remix featuring 2Pac has been released in Dogg Pound's 2002 but was probably initially remixed for Thug Pound in early 96. In 2004, Daz released the real original version of the song in Tha Last of Tha Pound, with verses from Nas instead of 2Pac, of course recorded before the "New York, New York" controversy, presumably in the summer of 1995.
• Inspectah Deck's verse cut from "Got My Mind Made Up" has been leaked circa ~2010. It was at the end of the song, Inspectah kind of freestyling whereas the beat was finished (we can still hear the first words in the released song). It is said 2Pac replaced Lady of Rage when the song was given to him and 2Pac and the engineers chose to cut the song at the end of the beat for his All Eyez on Me version.
• "You Can't See Me" was later given to 2Pac for All Eyez On Me, we ignore if there is also a Dr. Dre version which could be from 93-94 for Chronic 2. Presumably recorded in the summer of 1995. 
• "Just Doggin'" was released in Sunset Park Soundtrack in 1996, alongside 2Pac's "High Til I Die" and then again in 2002. It is a remix of "Mobbin' With The Pound" recorded for Above The Rim, with Nate Dogg added for the hook.
• "Started" is a three verses Kurupt song. In the intro, Daz uses the old nicknames. In his first, Kurupt says '95. Second one was re-used on "Trump Tight (Dump On Site)" very likely recorded for Thug Pound in late December 95, and later in February on "Music Makes Me High (Remix)" with Lost Boys. So this song was likely recorded in Summer/Autumn of 95 before 2Pac gave them their new nicknames.
• "Let's Play House" was originally recorded with Warren G, in late 1994 or early 1995. Dr. Dre remixed the track and Daz replaced Warren verse for Dogg Food, maybe following a demand of Suge who didn't like him - but was Dr. Dre not totally agree with that ?). Big Pimpin' poetry outro was also dropped.
• "It's Going Down" was initially recorded in the second half of 95, finally released in a very close mix in Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back in 1998.
• "Bangin' Ass Criminals" with LBC Crew was recorded circa late December, you can clearly hear lines against East Coast in their verses. The song will be edited with a new intro for Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back in 1998.
• "I'll Do" was released in a close mix in Supercop soundtrack (in June of 96), maybe to promote the forthcoming Dogg Pound album that Daz was still planning at that time. It features Gonzoe and his group Kausion. Verses refer to "fuck New York", to Thug Life and 2Pac, so it was possibly recorded for Thug Pound. Gonzoe recorded two other songs with Dogg Pound, Nutt-So and 2Pac in early 1996 for that project ; he also claims to have recorded another song eventually titled "Outlaw Immortalz", very likely in August of 96 with Edi, Hussein and Kurupt (presumably for Ghetto Starz or One Nation).
• "Me In Your World" was recorded circa Dec. 95 and edited without Rage in the summer of 96 for the album, finally released in Death Row's Greatest Hits in late 96. The original was released in Doggy Bag (2012).
• "N.Y. '87" was recorded the 14th of December 95 with Threat only. 2Pac and Quik added their parts a few days later and the song was maybe consecutively given to Thug Pound new project.
• "Our Daily Bread" was very likely recorded circa Jan. 96 (Kurupt referring to the "two millions albums sold", the 5th of January), so why not specially for the 2Pac/Dogg Pound project Thug Pound ? It was edited in August of 96, Daz removing Rage... Lady of Rage has been removed from 3 Dogg Pound songs ! There should be some argument between them at a time... 
• "The Name & The Rep" is a Daz solo song where he names himself "Dillinger" : the lyrics will be partially recycled in "Roll Wit' Us (Original)" in late 96 so the song could be from the first half of '96 or even before. The rap style is mostly similar to "Initiated", "I'll Do", recorded in December of 95. Daz quotes the title of the song in "Our Daily Bread" recorded in January... But it could be from February of 96.
• "Farewell To My Enemies (Outro)". Ricky Harris was already on Doggystyle and makes the intro of Dogg Pound, so this was maybe recorded for being an outro to it.

 

• "Money, Cars, Bitches" is a curious track, presumably unfinished, with one Daz verse and Kurupt only speaking in the beginning, but space for another verse... Daz doesn't sound particularly pre-Dogg Food on it... Could be a Dr. Dre unfinished thing for Murder Was The Case... or simply a Daz/Kurupt track for unfinished DPG4Life. 
• "Killin' Niggaz" is a Daz solo song, presumably more from 1994...
• "Loc'd Out Hood" was released in Gridlock'd Soundtrack in 1997. Kurupt uses verses from "Life I Lead" and "Dumpin", but added some more lines with notably a dedication to "Mo Komeini" (Mopreme) in the second verse, so the song was recorded before Mo was thrown off of Death Row in Feb. 17 of 96.  
• "Jackmove" was firstly recorded for Thug Life Volume 2 in December 95 as Daz featuring Outlawz. Kurupt very likely added in February 96, the 27th.   
• "Everybody Needs To Slow Down" was recorded in April for an unknown Kurupt solo project before he was thrown to Philly (July 96) and he and Daz started a new second album project in August. 
• "Would U Ride" was very likely recorded in March-April 1996. Released in Chronic Re-Lit & From The Vault Edition Bonus Disc. The song is credited to Tyrone aka Hurt-M-Badd but very probably mistakenly. There is an "Overdose Work DAT 04/06/96" in Death Row inventory with content "Untitled/Would You Ride/Everybody Needs To Slow Down", and it is definitely his style (also producer for Dogg Pound "Sooo Much Style", Kurupt of "These Reasons/I Don't Bang No More / Up Down N Around", cf. DPG4Life).

Why so much hate on Rage ? Is it because of 2Pac ? 

Almost a member of the Dogg Pound initially, Lady of Rage will be removed from three Dogg Pound original tracks :  "Got My Mind Made Up", "Me In Your World" and "Our Daily Bread" ! She was kind of put apart of the label in the beginning of 1996... The famous original "Blunt Time" which had 2Pac and Rage is still unleaked... Lady of Rage even said once Pac destroyed her career (what is not entirely true considering that she released a very decent album in 97, contrarily to many Death Row artists who totally disappeared after 2Pac's death...). What is sure is that she wasn't getting on well with the stars of the label ; she is featured in no songs from Dogg Pound, 2Pac and Snoop Dogg in 1996 ! What happened ? Rage only re-appears after Pac's death in Gridlock'd in 1997 in featuring with J-Flexx to replace Sam Sneed in the new version of "Lady Heroin", and with a new solo song "Sho Shot", announcing her first solo album. Only the song "Rough, Rugged & Raw" will feature Daz and Snoop, but it was certainly recorded way before in 1995 (Snoop still saying "Rage representing the Pound")...

In this guest compilation / draft for a second album, we can see that Dogg Pound maybe wanted to create a bridge between L.A. and New-York. Unfortunately, the single "New York New York" (Sept. 17, 1995) created an inverted effect, started a huge feud, the biggest and the most violent Hip-Hop clash that ever occurred. And that's why this original East-West album turned into a war album in early 96 before again becoming a full West Coast album (West Coast Aftershock). 

Tha Dogg Pound erased the prints of that old east/west project starting in December of 95 by 2Pac recording with them in "NY 87", "Initiated", replacing Nas in "Don't Stop" and eventually "Got My Mind Made Up" (following what Daz and Snoop pretend). 

JV - Nayba'Hood Queen (Thump Records)

• 1994 : first album by the Latino rapper JV aka Jennifer Velarde.
• JV is the long time unknown voice of "Ride 4 Me" with 2Pac, Fatal & Kurupt. "Ego Trip !". The beat was very probably for her before being given to 2Pac or Kurupt.

Tracklist - Discogs - Listen - LINK

1. Stompin' On The Concrete (Like We Own The Street) feat. Chris Gunn (speaking)
2. G-String 
3. Dog U Out
4. Big Girl
5. Back To Da Hood Of Things 
6. Nayba'Hood Queen 
7. I Need A Man's Touch feat. Khrys Allen (chorus)
8. Time Keeps Slippin' Away (But I Keep Goin' On) feat. Melanie Taylor-Kimmel (chorus)
9. Slow Down feat. A.L.T. & Kid Frost
10. Give It 2 Me JV feat. Tony Gun & Rocky Padilla (chorus)
11. Girlz Do It Betta 

Producer - Chris Gunn (1, 5), Kid Frost (2, 3, 9), Tony Alvarez (4, 7), Baka Boyz (6), Jon St James (8, 11), Rocky Padilla & Tony Gun (10)

A gifted female rapper from the West Coast

First thing impossible to miss, we entered the album with the same Last Poets sample than on the intro of Dr. Dre's Chronic : "like we always do about this time", what was maybe also the idea of 2Pac for his album Out On Bail, announced in January of 1994 in the credits of Papa'z Song 12'', that sample being the introduction of "Nothing To Lose". The background vocals by Chris Gunn also remind of Dr. Dre's use to speak. But JV doesn't chose a side and her key eponymous track uses a sample taken from Eazy-E from NWA. 

Both from the beats and from the raps, this a really good album, with no filler, even if tracks 7, 8 sound quite classic 'girl rapping with a smooth voice and a touch of R&B at the hook'. On every tracks JV maintains a good level of rhymes. And the album doesn't lay on the eponymous track. JV doesn't sound weak at all on side of ALT and Kid Frost. Let's notice that Kid Frost, the first famous Latin rapper, will be signed on Ruthless the next year for his third album Smile Now, Cry Later, a sentence 2Pac had tattooed in his back, and a title he considered for his forthcoming album at the exact same period, cf. Hard 2 Kill / Euthanasia Prison drafts). The beats are provided by producers well known in the Latin Alliance (around albums of Kid Frost, ALT or Mellow Man Ace)

Thump Records - Lowrider Soundtrack Vol. 7

JV appears for the first time in Lowrider Video Soundtrack 7 in 1994, in "Bump Dat Ass" alongside Kid Frost, Rocky Padilla, Slow Pain and ALT.  

Latino rappers mostly appears in the volume 3 of the Lowrider serie (cf. Discogs), Kid Frost in the volume 4. Thump Records probably gave Kid Frost the hand for the 7th volume (he is on 4 tracks), with mostly Latin rap (Frost's group Latin Alliance with ALT, Hispanic MC's, Chicano Soul N Power, Deuce Mob) and the Latin funk group WAR on two tracks. JV appears on two funky hit tracks both with ALT and Slow Pain (who will aslo release his first album on Thump Records in 95). "One Night Stand" and "Bump Dat Ass" are awesome good bouncing tracks. On both tracks, it is obvious that JV shines with her raps.

What's the link with 2Pac ?

Let's notice that at least one song of the album was recorded at Echo Studios, California, so eventually in 1993, like many 2Pac songs throughout the year for the Original Thug Life concept albums (cf. Thug Life Original and Mr. Middle Finger) until the leak of the Thug Life demo circa late September of 93. So it is not impossible to imagine an early encounter between them...

Let's remember as well that 2Pac always gave love to the Latino rappers. He was featured in 1992 on the track "Salsa Con Soufood" of his labelmates the Funky Aztecs, for their album Chicano Blues (in which A.L.T. is also featured). And much later he launches that punchline : "L.A. wouldn't be L.A. without Mexicans" in "2 Live & Die in L.A." in Killuminati. But of course, how to forget Johnny J who was his most characteristic producer.

Considering 2Pac always supported women in rap (Yonnie, Nic-Nam of Y?N-Vee, Dee the Mad Bitch of B.O.S.S., MC Smooth, Storm, Sylk E-Fyne...), and considering the look of JV in his eponymous hit in 1994, we could understand that 2Pac would have accepted to record a song with her, and maybe more, who knows...

But, let's admit, it is strictly speculation, without any proof. He can very well not know her at all !  

 Nayba'Hood Queen Official Video 

Ride 4 Me... 

The girl rapping was unknown for a long time. People often said Storm because they didn't really paid attention, and then Starr-Loc because the story of the recording of her verse from "Um Dumpin" (cf. Thug Pound) was said recorded over a Johnny J beat (what could be the case with an original unleaked beat which could be the one we can hear in the acapella deep background and would be similar to Daz' remix on Makaveli & Dillinger EP)... Both Storm and Starr denied... It doesn't sound either like Sylk E-Fyne nor Sh'Killa... Because she repeats three times "ego-trip", we used to give her that pseudonym. I was recently told by a comment in YT that it was in fact JV, an American-Mexican rapper from Downey, LA County, California. 

 

Listen to the 1996 second album : LINK 

Second album on Thump Records 

In 1996, she was recording - or had recorded - her second album  It Gets No Reala notably produced by J-Swift and with Buckwheat. J-Swift is an American-cuban producer who notably produced most of the classic album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde in 1992, on which Buckwheat also appears. Both also appear in Candyman's 4th album Phukk Watch Goin Thru in 1995 ; if you remember well, Johnny J produced for his three first albums !

In a way, the vibe is sounding more "alternative" and boom bap than West Coast gangsta, but JV stays a strong rapper, not a pop singer at all. Unfortunately, the album received few promotion... Maybe the Latin community wasn't prepared for that artistic choice...  

It is said Thump Records were not satisfied of JV's second album. In Lowrider vol. VIII in 1996, they chose to feature a song from JV's first album, "Time Keeps On Slippin' Away"... 

What's the story behind the story "Ride 4 Me" ? 

"Ride 4 Me" was recorded the same day Death Row organized the porn star Champagne Pendavi's birthday party... Was she at that party ? Not impossible... Did she record in the same session than 2Pac, Fatal and Kurupt ? Not sure... probably not. JV does not sound to rap over the same "ride" topic, but over an "Egotrip" topic, word repeated multiple times in her two verses. So no ! She certainly recorded her verses before or without knowing 2Pac and Kurupt have recorded (otherwise she would of course have used the same topic than the stars).

Idea of scenario. Maybe Overdose (? could be somebody else but it sounds like his beats - "These Reasons", "40z & Bud", "Don't Bang No More" for Kurupt's first solo project), who might have produced the song, originally produced the beat for her - maybe for her album -, and so she recorded two verses, and the song was then probably waiting for a guest, maybe a Death Row guest ? Kurupt if it is well Overdose... And instead of that, Kurupt makes 2Pac and Fatal listen to the beat and they recorded together on it... And the engineer who copied the thing on the DAT decided to let the JV's verses. 

Let's add Kurupt was recording songs with Overdose around that time. There's a Kurupt tape named "Overdose Work DAT 4/6/96" with content : "Untitled, Would U Ride, Everbody Needs To Slow Down". Could one of the two first recordings be "Ride 4 Me" ? The second could well be an alternate title for "Would U Kill/Ride 4 Me (I'll Do)", but it is more likely a Daz produced beat.

Maybe JV (during that birthday party) or somebody else passing by in Death Row, simply gave the tape to the rappers and instead of giving her a featuring, they recorded their own song ! This song is kind of strange with JV two verses... Death Row would probably have removed her verses... Anyway, the song was unused.

It is also possible that JV was dropped from her label Thump Records and consecutively, the project of a featuring with a Death Row artist/producer was given up. 

She released another rap album in 2002, Ladybug, still in Thump Records, with Don Cisco as the only well known name (half of the rap group Ghetto Politix with DJ Assassin) but it didn't encounter any commercial success either.

Sylk E-Fyne & Ganksta Bytch Mentality -1995- Murderous Combination (Ruthless unreleased)

• 1994-1995 : sessions for a first EP with Ruthless Records.
• Sylk E-Fyne recorded two songs with 2Pac : "Breathin' (G.B.M. Version)" with her group and "Thug Luv (Original)" with Bizzy Bone. Less known member Big Chan formed the group Doggy's Angels in 2000.
• Is the death of Eazy-E in March 26 of 1995, the only reason for the project to have been shelved ? 

### - Not sure if there is any confirmed tracklists for this shelved project. We chose to not follow the eazye_ministry4life channel's one because "Gangsta Bitch Ruthless" seemed to be a kind of intro to the album, but it could be more legit than that. ###

Tracklist - LISTEN

1. Ganksta Bytch Ruthless (Intro) 
2. It’s Murda (Redrum) feat. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 
3. Shed No Tears feat. Eazy-E   
4. Woodworks feat. Eazy-E (speaking)
5. 4 Deep feat. Don Jagwarr & Eazy-E (outro) 
6. From The City of L.A. (South Central)
7. House Party feat. Eazy-E 
8. Neva Creep 

Credits : 

• Rap - Gangsta Bitch Mentality are : Sylk E-Fyne, Diamond Icegirl, T-Ski & Big Chan
• Producer - Rhythm D, DJ Yella, Mike Smooth, DJ U-Neek ("It's Murda" ; "South Central") 
• Executive Producer - Eazy-E
• Tracks "It's Murda" and "South Central" have been partially released in DJ U-Neek's Ghetto Street Thugs in 2005.

 

Since 1989, Eazy-E recorded material for a follow up to his first solo album Eazy Duz It. After two EP in 1992 and 1994, Str8 off Tha Streetz of Muthaphuckkin Compton will only be released posthumously in January 30 of 1996, with a featuring of Sylk E-Fyne, what was her first official release. In fact, Eazy-E had formed the Gangsta Bitch Mentality group back in 1994. In 1988, Ruthless already published the album of the female rap group J.J. Fad, Supersonic, produced by Dr. Dre, Yella and Arabian Prince. He also signed a white girl rapper named Tairrie B., who released The Power of a Woman in 1990, with Eazy-E, Schoolly D, Everlast of House of Pain and production by QD3 ! But Gangsta Bitch Mentality (G.B.W.) was a tougher act, more the woman side of N.W.A. (Niggaz With Attitude). 

Sylk E-Fyne is the most active and charismatic voice of the group. Apart of his two songs with 2Pac, she released her first single "Romeo & Juliet" in 1997 followed by her solo album Raw Sylk in 1998, published by RCA, entirely produced by Gerald Baillergeau & Victor Merritt, but with only one big guest : Too $hort featured in the opening track "Keep It Real". A second album Tha Cum Up will follow in 2000 in Rufftown with much less promotion, with only the significant "Ya Style" with Bizzy Bone and Snoop Dogg.

Diamond seems to not having been very active after these years, but she is featured with Sylk E-Fyne in a tribute album to Eazy-E in 2020 ! for the song "Ride It Out".

T-Ski gives some background vocals to "Mind Blown" in MC Ren's solo album The Villain In Black in 1996, album mainly produced by Cold 187um. 

Snoop's affiliate female group with one GBM member.

Big Chan who was not featured in "Breathin" maybe left the group as soon as the project went shelved. She was a part of a new female rap group named Doggy's Angels who appear in Eastsidaz first album in 2000 and published their first album Pleezbalivit! the same year with Doggystyle Records, mainly produced by DJ Battlecat, featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Eastsidaz, Kokane and Layzie Bone of the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, both primarly recording on Ruthless.

2Pac -2005- The Rose, Vol. 2 (Poetry) (Amaru / Interscope)

• 2005, September 20 : second compilation of music inspired by and poetry written by Tupac Shakur and interpreted by various artists
• Unfortunately clearly lacking of a musical direction.  

What a weak picture for a poetry album !

Tracklist - Discogs

1. Intro - Black Ice /  Jukebox
2. Power Of A Smile - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony / Kush & Kato
3. The Eternal Lament - Celina /  Jukebox
4. Fallen Star - Talib Kweli / 88-Keys
5. In The Depths Of Solitude - Ludacris / Icedrake
6. Movin On - Lyfe Jennings
7. Life Through My Eyes - Memphis Bleek / DR Period
8. When Ure Heart Turns Cold - Outlawz
9. Black Woman - Jamal Joseph & Che Davis
10. Only 4 The Righteous - Yo-Yo / Mr. Payback
11. Where There Is A Will… - Boot Camp Clik / Ayatollah
12. When Ur Hero Falls - Impact Kids / Rayedon Coleman & Vinney Idol
13. And 2morrow - Shock G
14. If I Fail - Dead Prez / Fabrizio Sotti
15. Poetry - Amber & Morgan Of Pacskids / Jukebox

is it useful to say something about that back cover ?

What is a potpourri ?

This compilation mixes up one third Rap (2, 4, 7, 10, 11), one third Soul and R&B (3, 6, 10, 12, 13) and a last third Spoken Word (1, 5, 9, 14, 15).

R&B tracks are not that bad in itself, but they clearly don't fit to 2Pac's musical universe. 2Pac was more into a Soul and Blues heritage. Almost none of his songs from his lifetime have that kind of honey singing you can hear in "When Ur Hero Falls". The "Shock G" song is much more relevant (but don't expect to recognize Shock G... it is clearly not him singing). The production more than the singing itself are irrelevant.

low coast designer from low school ?

Low coast production ?

Thanks to Amaru Entertainment / Interscope, this is again a soulless project which uses 2Pac's heritage without any effort.   

Who is Jukebox who produced three tracks ? An almost unknown guy who produced the same year a track for female rapper Ak'Sent in Coach Carter Soundtrack. And he also did the human beat box for a track of Will Smith Lost & Found compilation... Not to say that an unknown couldn't work on such a project, but 3 tracks !! It says something about the poor investment of Amaru Ent. Kush & Kato who produced the Bone Thugs' track seems as well to be totally unknown. The result is quite mediocre. The Yo-Yo track is also hard to digest in terms of production. 

Memphis Bleek is into the classic posthumous abuse of recycling original vocals of the dead rappers (here taken from the well known well released "Smile", what is even worse), typical from the last disappointing Amaru Ent. projects (We speak about Loyal To The Game, of course). Average rap and tasteless. Shameless.

What's to save from the disaster ? 

For the rest, Boot Camp Clik, Talib Kweli, Ludacris, Shock G came with their own producers. And the result is that those are the good things to save from this compilation... Outlawz did a decent thing too but with a poem which was already interpreted in the first compilation in a spoken word performance by Sonia Sanchez...

Dead Prez tried an audacious beat by the Italian jazz guitarist Fabrizio Sotti who produced the whole Soul album of Kyrsten, So In Love in 2004, and will produce most of Dead Prez' M-1 first solo album Confidential in 2006. The result is in something really strange between rap and spoken word, Dead Prez finding back something of the old taste of the Lost Poets. A coherent choice, what is totally missing in this the rest of that compilation... The most successful effort of the compilation with the surprising Ludacris who also dared to try the spoken word act with success. 

Another notable effort is the one of Jamal Joseph, who is a Black Panther activist, part of the Panther 21 trial which took place in 1970-1971. Afeni Shakur was part of the 21 accused Panther members. And that's why she was in prison whilst pregnant of Tupac. And Afeni became a brilliant lawyer for the accused group who finally succeeded to get the acquittal.

Ill Al Skratch -1994- Creep Wit' Me (prod. LG Experience) (Mercury)

• 1994, August 2 : unexpected album by an unknown duet of Brooklyn/Harlem, entirely produced by LoRider & The LG Experience, LG being the producer of "Out On Bail (Original)" and the young brother of Easy Mo Bee.
• "Where My Homiez ?" was a huge hit back in the summer of '94, released in June 7 in a single... But the album version, released two months later, is a remix version with a similar beat to "Runnin' From The Police (Original)", which supposedly produced by Easy Mo Bee in October 1993 for 2Pac, and was then about to be released in Thug Life : Volume 1... 
  

Tracklist - Discogs Page - LISTEN

1. They Got Love For Us (Intro)
2. Where My Homiez ? (Come Around My Way)
3. This Is For My Homiez
4. I'll Take Her feat. Brian McKnight
5. Chill With That
6. Where My Homiez ? (Dub Version)
7. Creep Wit' Me
8. Get Dough
9. The Brooklyn Uptown Connection feat. LRC, Zoundwavez & Mark Sparks
10. Classic Shit (Ill's Solo)
11. Summertime (It's All Good) (Al's Solo)
12. I'll Take Her (Brian's Flow) feat. Brian McKnight 
    
    Bonus Tracks :
    
    
13. Don't Shut Down A Player (Original) - New Jersey Drive Vol. 1 - Listen 
14. Chill With That (Easy Mo Bee Remix) - Chill With That 12'' - Listen 
15. Dr. Feelgood feat. Greg Nice, MOP & Nine - Summertime 12'' - Listen 
16. Don't Shut Down A Player (Remix) - Don't Shut Down A Player 12'' - Listen
17. Chill With That (Minnesota Party Remix) - Chill With That 12''
18. Mic Check 1-2 feat. Shaquille O'Neil - B-Ball Best Secret

Rap - Big Ill (I Lyrical Lord) & Al Skratch
Produced By The LG Experience & LoRider.
Recorded at The Soundtrack Facility. 

cover of the original single (cassette version)

"Where My Homiez ? (Come Around My Way)" Original Version Music Video.

The beginning of this album is kind of strange with "Where My Homiez ? (Come Around My Way)" followed by "This Is For My Homiez" which has different verses but a same "come around my way" hook. And as track 6# "Where My Homiez (Dub Version)"  - last track of Vinyl A-side. "Get Dough" has some reminiscent elements from "Where My Homiez" too... 

Let's say that voices of Big Ill and Al Skratch have also some little reminiscing tones from B Real, Black Moon and MOP... Both give a good classic Boom Bap vibe.

But, the most remarkable thing for us is the track 3# which has an almost similar beat to 2Pac's three original versions of "Runnin' From The Police" (for Out On Bail / for Volume 1, cf. Exodus (Thug Music sessions) / for One Million Strong, cf. Rarities : Radio & Soundtracks). These 3 versions have the same beat produced by Easy Mo Bee (LG's old brother) and feature Biggie, Stretch, Dramacydal and a ragga hook (respectively Lil' Vicious, Brown Man and Radio). 

At the released time of the album (August, the 2nd), 2Pac's song had not been published yet (only in 95 in One Million Strong compilation), but it was included in Thug Life : Volume 1 Promo... Could it decide Interscope to remove the song from the album or was it only linked to the raw lyrics against the police ? 

What happened ? Could LG Experience have asked his brother Easy Mo Bee for the beat in the first half of '94 ? The third single, "Chill With That" was released in 1995, with a remix made by Easy Mo Bee... What confirms that LG very likely didn't steal his brother's beat. Easy Mo Bee presumably gave it to him. Maybe even 2Pac gave his agreement for this gift...

2Pac still thought to have "Out On Bail" and "My Block" in his Lost Tracks album circa September of 1995. So he wasn't that angry against them even if he won't work again with them, Easy Mo Bee being the main sound identity of Biggie's first album. 

The LG Experience is the younger brother of Easy Mo Bee. In 1990, you can hear his voice in "Grand Puba, Positive & L.G." hook for Brand Nubian One For All. But he really starts to produce for in 1992 for Double XX Posse, Positive K and also two tracks for Sister Souljah's album 360 Degrees of Power, the Public Enemy partner 2Pac always wanted to rap with... Same year, he also produces two songs  for Zebrahead Soundtrack : Kool Moe Dee's "Good Time" and MC Serch's "Puff The Head". This compilation saw the first appearance of Nas, Dee Tha Mad Bitch and BOSS, alongside MC Breed, AMG... 

The next year, he will produces an intro and a song ("Pour un nouveau massacre") for the French group Suprême NTM (N.T.M. = Fuck Your Mother) for their second album 1993, J'appuie sur la gachette (In 1993, I pull the trigger). The following year, also for the French female rapper Saliha and "Daddy's Home" for Big Daddy Kane's album of the same name. 

One of his most well-known work will be the remixes of Nas' "One Love" of Big L's "Put It On" in 1995. Same year he will also remix Naughty By Nature's "Holdin' Fort" with his partner LoRider. He also gives "Out On Bail" instrumental to French group Suprême NTM for "Qu'est-ce qu'on attend (pour foutre le feu)" (what are we waiting for switch the fire).

In 1996, he will participate to The New Groove (Blue Note Remix Project Vol. 1) alongside his brother Easy Mo Bee, Guru, The Roots, Large Professor, Diamond D...

In 1998, he will keep on produce for Big Daddy Kane, NTM, and also two tracks for Canibus first album, including the key song "Niggonometry". 

3rd single

Chill With That single features a radio remix version by... Easy Mo Bee ! But a definitive thing to add to their album is the B-side of the 4th single of the album, Summertime, the song "Dr. Feelgood" with Greg Nice, MOP & Nine. They will also be featured in Doo Wop's Live 1995 Live Freestyle alongside Busta Rhymes, Guru, Keith Murray, Q-Tip, DJ U-Neek and Wu-Tang. 

In 1994, the duo will also record "Mic Check 1-2" with Shaquille O'Neil (they quote "Come around my way" in the first verse). The song is also produced by LoRider & LG Experience for B. Ball's Best Kept Secret compilation and for Shaquille's 2nd album Shaq Fu : The Return (November 8) - with Warren G produced songs, Method Man and Rza, Redman, Keith Murray and Erick Sermon featurings and producing. First single of Shaq's album is "Biological Didn't Bother", produced by LoRider & LG Experience and a Warren G G-Funk Remix as a B-side and video ! 

New Jersey Drive Soundtrack single, 1995

Next year, they will give the song "Don't Shut Down A Player" to New Jersey Drive Vol. 1 soundtrack (released in March 28 of 1995). In that same compilation, you can find Total & The Notorious B.I.G., Heavy D & Easy Mo Bee, Keith Murray, Coolio & Wino and the Bay Area team Young Lay, Mac Mall, Ray Luv produced by Khayree (same than in "Amerikkkaz Eatz Itz Youth", cf. Stay True). They will also be featured in J Quest's "Up & Down Remix" for his album The Quest Is On, and in the mega song "The Points" for Panther soundtrack (May), alongside Big Mike of Geto Boyz, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Buckshot, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, Jamal of Illegal, Redman and The Notorious B.I.G. !

Second album in 1997

In 1996, they will be featured in Gina Thomspon's album Nobody Does It Better. That same year, they also record a second album also mainly produced by LG Experience : Keep It Movin' (1997, Mercury), with Kid Capri & Melachi of Group Home at the intro and another featuring of Greg Nice for "Me & My Click" ! probably recorded not far from the One Nation sessions !

Snoop Dogg -1993- Doggystyle, demos & leftovers (Death Row Unreleased)

• 1992-1993 : Doggystyle sessions.
• The Doggystyle album wasn't finished in the way Dr. Dre wanted it. The album was supposed to be ready in 94. Due to mainstream and store demand for a Snoop album, Jimmy Irvine of Interscope was threatening to drop Death Row if they didn't bring the album before the deadline...
• Sources : Death Row Legacy Video
  

 

### - WORK IN PROGRESS. There is no earlier known material sequence for the album. Many things have been said about the Doggystyle sessions, maybe some tracks and alternate versions are still to be leaked... - ###

Tracklist

1. WBLZ 187.4 FM (Original Intro) feat. The D.O.C.
2. Doggystyle feat. George Clinton, Nanci Fletcher & Jewell
   
3. Fallin' Asleep on Death Row
4. Eat A Dick feat. Mr. Malik 
5. Niggas Don't Give A Fuck (Original) feat. Dogg Pound & Dr. Dre
   
6. God Don't Like Ugly (Interlude)
7. O.G. (Original Gangsta) feat. Nate Dogg
8. Big Bitches
9. Smoke On feat. Big Hug 
   
10. Poor Young Dave (Original)
11. Murder Was The Case (Original) feat. Daz
12. Big Pimpin' (Original) feat. Daz, Nate Dogg & Big Pimpin' 
13. Every Single Day (Original) feat. Kurupt & Nate Dogg
14. Tha Next Episode (Original) feat. Dr. Dre
15. Root of All Evil (Outro) feat. Teena Marie
16. Something About The Buddha (Interlude) 
    
    Bonus Songs :
    
    
17. Dogg Pound 4 Life (Original) feat. Dogg Pound
18. 3-2-1 feat. Kriss Kross

Producer - Dr. Dre, except "Every Single Day", "O.G.", "Big Pimpin'", "Niggas Don't Give A Fuck", "Dogg Pound 4 Life" by Dat Nigga Daz

 

Unused Material 

. Doggy Dogg World (Original) feat. Dogg Pound
. Ain't No Fun (Original) feat. Nate Dogg & Warren G
. Lodi Dodi (Original)  

. Gin & Juice (Laid Back Mix) feat. Jewell & Tha Snoopadelics
. What's My Name (Daz Remix) feat. Daz
. Doggy Dogg World (Perfecto Mix) feat. Dogg Pound & The Dramatics

. Untitled Instrumental #1 ("Guitar" vibe, Dr. Dre & Tony Green)
. Untitled Instrumental #2 ("Rock" vibe, prod. Dr. Dre, Daz & Tony Green)
. Untitled Instrumental #3 ("Space" vibe, Dr. Dre & Tony Green)  

A very successful album, but kind of disappointing for some...

It is important to remember that for some reasons (mainstream and store pressure), the release of the album was advanced by Interscope. The result is that Death Row didn't have time to clear some samples on time, so they dropped some songs (like the famous "The Next Episode"), recorded some others in a kind of emergency. That could explain why Snoop re-used some lyrics from songs they couldn't release, they left unrecorded some instrumentals. For instance, the last minute "Serial Killers" was made of lyrics taken here and there. It could be a reason for Dr. Dre to have given Snoop the beat of "Gz And Hustlas" (recorded in the end of the sequence) which was maybe more likely a Warren G beat he had earlier given to 2Pac for "Animosity" / "Lie 2 Kick It"...  Warren G could be angry against Dr. Dre and Death Row, what could have led to his distancing from the label... even if he will still be featured on some songs like like "Dogg's Day Afternoon" recorded for Dogg Pound's album, of which his verse will be removed...

Another people who worked on the album were unhappy to not having any recognition for what they did... 

In a sense it is the beginning of the end for Dr. Dre at Death Row... Because the album was not satisfying for the critics, people around him were disappointed... He will then concentrate on his own projects, Heltah Skeltah with Ice Cube or his Chronic 2 which will never really be on its way... He will finally give very few to Murder Was The Case soundtrack. He gathered a new team around him in 1995 with Sam Sneed, J-Flexx, Buddha...

DETAILED TRACKLIST

• Doggystyle, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). The beat of the song will be re-used for Dogg Pound's Dogg's Day Afternoon.
• Fall Asleep on Death Row, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). Snoop will reuse some lyrics in "One Life To Live" (leftover from Murder Was The Case Soundtrack), in "Hit Rocks" in 1995 and in "Never Leave Me Alone" with Nate Dogg in 1996.
• Eat A Dick, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). Snoop reuses his verse on "Doggy Dogg World". The bassline is also reused in "Serial Killers".
• Tha Next Episode (Original), prod. Dr. Dre. The song appears listed - but not in the material - in the early pressing provided to the retailers, before the release. But but they couldn't clear Les McCann's sample "Go On And Cry". Dr. Dre will release a song with the same title in 2001. Warren G will finally use the beat for "Runnin' Wit No Breaks" and later Crooked I will use the exact same beat for "Real Thugs".
• Niggas Don't Give A Fuck (Original), prod. Dr. Dre. Remixed in Poetic Justice Soundtrack (1993). It was the first song recorded for the album. Snoop reuses his lyrics in "Niggas and Bitches" which replaced the song in the album. There was a remix/new version of the song with a chorus by Big Hug ("step on, step on...") very likely for an unknown Kurupt/Dogg Pound early project in early 1994.
• O.G. (Original Gangsta), prod. Daz. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). Daz remixed the song and added a verse from him for his album Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back (1998, Death Row). Nothing is known about that original...
• Big Bitches, prod. Dr. Dre. DeBarge sample "I Like It". Snoop reuses some of his lyrics in "You Thought" in The Doggfather.
• Smoke On, prod. Dr. Dre. Sample by The Floaters "Float On" (uncleared ?). Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake).
• Poor Young Dave, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in Re-Lit & From The Vault. The song will be re-recorded in 1994 for Murder Was The Case by Lil' Bow Wow ("D.A.V.E."). Snoop will reuse lyrics in "One Life To Live" probably recorded for Murder Was The Case Soundtrack, then for "Midnight Love" for The Doggfather. Lil C-Style uses some of the lyrics for "Gangsta, Gangsta" in 1995 (LBC Crew), and RBX for "Moms Are Cryin'" in his first album RBX Files.
• Murder Was The Case (Original), prod. Dr. Dre.
• Dogg Pound 4 Life (Original), prod. Daz. Snoop reuses his lyrics in "Pump Pump". Remixed with a new Snoop verse in Murder Was The Case Soundtrack.
• Every Single Day (Original), prod. Daz. Snoop will re-use his verse for "G'z & Hustlas" (a late track recorded over the same beat than "Animosity", stolen by Dr. Dre to his cousin Warren G - or less likely the reverse : they worked at it together and Warren G purposed it to 2Pac without asking Dre...). So Daz will remake a version with him instead of Snoop, for Kurupt and Dogg Pound first album or for Murder Was The Case Soundtrack.
• Something About The Buddha (Interlude), prod. Dr. Dre.
  
• Root of All Evil, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake).
• Rock Instrumental, prod. Tony Green & Dr. Dre (?) or Daz (?) or all of them (?).
  
• 3-2-1. Supposed to be released in Kriss Kross album Da Bomb (1993), finally leftover. Snoop lyrics will be reused for "Pump Pump" and "Gz Up and Hoes Down".
• . Instrumental #1. Tony Green & Dr. Dre.
• . Instrumental #2. Tony Green & Dr. Dre or Daz (93/07/01).
• . Instrumental #3. Tony Green & Dr. Dre (93/03/22).
• . Instrumental #4 (God Don't Like Ugly), prod. Dr. Dre.
• . Something About The Buddha (Interlude), prod. Dr. Dre.