Raw Fusion (Money B & DJ Fuze) -1991- Live from the Styleetron (Hollywood BASIC)

• Money B & DJ Fuze's side project
  
• Released the November 12, 1991
  

Review in Allmusic.com

Tracklist :

1. Live from the Styleetron feat. Margie Marie Rubio
2. Hip Hip, Stylee Expression
3. Don't Test feat. Pam Taylor & Daddy Courtney
4. Do My Thang
5. Ah Nah Go Drip feat. Mac Mone, Cooley Ranx & Clee
6. Nappy Headed Ninja
7. Kill Mi Dead feat. Mac Mone
8. Rockin' to the P.M. feat. Roniece Levias & Piano Man
9. Hang Time
10. Traffic Jam feat. Mac Mone & Roniece Levias
11. Funkintoyoear feat. Shock G, Gold Money (Big Money Odis & Pee Wee), Humpty Hump & Schmoovy Schmoov
12. Wild Francis feat. Mac Mone & Roniece Levias
13. Throw Your Hands in the Air feat. Mac Mone & Piano Man
14. #1 With A Bullet feat. 2Pac

 

Raw Fusion is Money-B & DJ Fuze from Digital Underground. The album is well known for his last track featuring 2Pac. But it is also a really good album. 

 

LP version doesn't have ""Traffic Jam" and "Wild Francis"

A strange fact is that this album has been officially released the same exact day than 2Pacalypse Now. : the 12 of November of 1991.

But there are more interesting things to notice here. Probably both albums have been recorded or mixed around the same time. So we have the same guests than in 2Pac's first album :
- of course Shock G appears in three tracks, as himself, Piano Man and Humpty Hump
- Schmoovy Schmoov, Digital Underground's chorist, that sing in 2Pac's unreleased first version of "(What U Won't) Do 4 Love"

- Saafir can be heard in the background of the song n° 4, that sing in "Pass the 40" (collective track probably recorded at the time of this album, even not for this album), will be in Digital Underground's third album with 2Pac in 1993.
- Pee Wee from Gold Money that was featured in "Trapped", "I Don't Give a Fuck" and "Something Wicked", producing the first two.

- Mac Mone who can be heard in the background of "Violent" and is also featured in "Pass the 40".
- Roniece Levias, female singer that sing in "Brenda's got a Baby" and in unreleased song "Don't U Trust Me".

 

 

Song n°5 featured Cooley Ranks (probably Coolie Ranx from the Pilfers) is probably the same reggae voice than in "Static" original song and unreleased "Fade Away". If you listen as well carefully to song n°4, you will notice that some elements sound really close to "Fade Away".

The mixdown of this album is generally close to Tupac's first album.

Tupac with Money B around 1990-1991 (same hair than in the Lost Tapes pictures) - is it DJ Fuze in the left ?