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
2. Hip Hip, Stylee Expression
3. Don't Test feat. Pam Taylor & Daddy Courtney
4. Do My Thang
5. Ah Nah Go Drip feat. Cooley 'Dajah' Ranks
6. Nappy Headed Ninja
7. Kill Mi Dead
8. Rockin' to the P.M. feat. Roniece Levias
9. Hang Time
10. Traffic Jam feat. Roniece Levias
11. Funkintoyoear feat. Shock G & Schmoovy Schmoov
12. Wild Francis feat. Mac Mone & Roniece Levias
13. Throw Your Hands in the Air
14. #1 With A Bullet feat. 2Pac 

• Producer - Raw Fusion (Money B & DJ Fuze), co-producer Shock G (8)
• Scratches by - DJ Fuze  
• Additional - Shock G (piano in 13), Pee Wee (guitar & bass : 7), Sunny-B (guitar : 6), Jessica Jones (sax : 5) 
• Additional vocals - Margie Marie Rubio (1), Shock G (4), Saafir (4), Mac Mone (4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13), Clee (5), Gold Money (11)
• Engineer - Steve Counter, Matt Kelly, Darrin Harris 
• Photography by - Victor Hall

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, who sings in 2Pac's unreleased first version of "(What U Won't) Do 4 Love".

- Saafir who can be heard in the background of the song n° 4, is featured in "Pass the 40" (recorded in late 1990 for that album, finally leftover and given to Hollywood Records Sampler). He will be a Digital Underground member in their third album in 1993 alongside 2Pac.
- Pee Wee from Gold Money who was in "I Don't Give a Fuck" and "Something Wicked", produced the first one as well as the hit single "Trapped".

- Mac Mone who can be heard in the background of "Violent" and is also featured in "Pass the 40".
- Roniece Levias, female singer who sings in "Brenda's got a Baby" with Dave Hollister.

- Cooley Ranks, raggamuffin singer, is featured in "Static (Original Raggamuffin Version), as well as in unreleased "Fade Away". He is also with 2Pac for his concert at African Liberation Day in the 25th of May 1991. 

 

 

Song n°5 featured Cooley Ranks (eventually Coolie Ranx from the Pilfers...) who is the same reggae voice than in "Static" original raggamuffin version and in 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", precisely produced by Raw Fusion....

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

Tupac with Money B in 1990 (same hair than in the Lost Tapes pictures) - DJ Fuze is on the left, Money B in front.