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.
  

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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
  

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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

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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.