- Easy Mo Bee & friends sessions (end of 93)
- post Thug Life / Thug Life 2 : Mr. Middle Finger sessions - new recordings for a new solo album, before the recording of "R U Still Down" (Jan. 94) and before Pac worked with Tony Pizarro (in March)
- rejected by Interscope (for violent content) or simply back in process following the recording of "R U Still Down"
- source : "Cradle 2 The Grave" demo tape
- Nothing To Lose (Rough Mix) *
- Bury Me A G (Rough Mix) feat. Thug Life *
- Str8 Ballin' (Angry Version) *
- Open Fire *
- Temptations (Rough Mix) *
- Lord Knows (Rough Mix) *
- My Only Fear of Death (Rough Mix) *
- Out on Bail (Rough Mix) *
- Wonda Why They Call U Bitch
- Runnin' From The Police (Vicious Version) feat. Dramacydal, Stretch, The Notorious B.I.G. & Lil' Vicious *
- Dear Mama (Rough Mix) *
- Who Do U Luv ? feat. Stretch
- Thugs Get Lonely Too (Rough Mix) *
- Pain (Rough Mix)
- Producer - Stretch (1, 2, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14), Easy Mo Bee (3, 5, 10), LG (8), Akshun (4), Brian G (6), Master Tee (11), Adario Strange (12), Frank Starchak (13)
- Chorus - Natasha Walker & Y?N-Vee (1, 6, 14), AB Money & Rappin' Is Fundamental (5, 8), Macadoshis & Rated R (13)
##### This tracklist couln't follow the track order nor the track selection of the "Cradle 2 The Grave" demo tape. Firstly because the tracks are there in an alphabetical order. Secondly, because tracks like "Cradle To The Grave", "Judgement Day" and "Introduced 2 The Game" have been added here probably just to show the beginnings of the new project 2Pac was working on at the same time : Thug Life Vol. 1. "Who Do U Luv ?" and "Wonda Why They Call U Bitch" included in almost every tracklists have been logically added. "Pain" has been added because it is apparently the evolution of the concept song "B4 U Bust" that appears in last tracklists. #####
Out On Bail Demo is the so-called "Cradle To The Grave" demo tape
It is said that the tape was among 2Pac's personal stuff. This demo tape clearly includes tracks from the solo album 2Pac was working on in late 93, like we can see in his handwritten papers and notebooks.
This tape was commonly named "Cradle 2 The Grave" by the first people who leaked it because of that track being included in the tape. In our opinion, the song "Cradle 2 The Grave" was added to that
"demo" tape full of Pac's solo material just in order to show Interscope the new project 2Pac and his team were working on at the same time : Thug Life Vol. 1. Other group songs like "Judgement Day" or
"Introduced 2 The Game" could be fresh recorded material aimed for that new collective project (cf. Honor Among Thugz).
Out on Bail : "The album in Stores Spring '94"
The 17th of January '94, when 2Pac released Papa'z Song single, it was announced the coming of a new album called Out on Bail, planned to be out in "Spring '94"... Because of the "featuring Mopreme of Thug Life" written just before, many people thought it was an anticipated title for Thug Life vol. 1 group album (and that was the reason for the fake Out on Bail Thug Life Demo, bootleg created by Dante - what intensified the confusion). It is not the first nor the last time there is a misprinted info... Here it is not misprinted, but just confusing.
In fact, when you consider carefully the handwritten documents 2Pac left in his notebooks, it is perfectly clear that "Out On Bail" had always been the planned title for his new solo album before it turned to "R U Still Down" circa January '94. There are no intermediate step within Out On Bail could be the title for the Thug Life project. Especially if we consider that circa Nov. - December of 93, 2Pac had already found a title for his Thug Life project, and it was Thug Life Vol. 1 : Honor Among.
Another point of confusion, the Interscope serial number of the announced album as "Out on Bail" (#92360) became the Thug Life Volume One's serial number... probably because the solo album being constantly delayed and reworked (retitled R U Still Down, then Stay True), Thug Life group project became the first to get published and obtained that product number... Or Interscope maybe really wanted to announce a Thug Life album coming but was just confused with 2Pac working at the same time on two different projects not clealy defined, with this Demo Tape 2Pac gave them which was probably called "Out On Bail" by 2Pac in which were the first recordings for Thug Life project, and with the previous solo sequence being maybe called "Thug Life 2" (but this hypothesis is much less solid if we consider the progress of the Thug Life Vol. 1 project at that time).
When 2Pac has to give up his original concept album called Thug Life
Originally, Thug Life was not the name of the group, but the title of a concept double album : Thug Life / Thug Life 2 : Mr. Middle Finger, mainly a solo project, despise of various guests (West / East). These projects were more or less finished at the end of summer '93. The first one was purposed for publishing in May 93 but delayed by Interscope probably for sample clearance issues or/and already for too violent lyrical content (that's why 2Pac re-recorded "Death Around The Corner" at that time).
Following Natasha Walker's interview, a tape of that album (with "Is It Cool 2 Fuck" in it) was leaked circa October (?). It was probably the Thug Life Demo Tape, what could explain the fact that this tape and its tracks have been more or less always available in usual bootlegs. So she said Tupac decided to scrap the whole project. That's why the first tracklists of that project look like he was trying to combine remaing tracks from both projects.
With the exchange of gunfire with police officers off-duty in Atlanta (last day of October) and then the charges for rape and illegal possession of firearm (in November)... 2Pac and Interscope decided to remake or remove songs with too explicit violent lyrics against police or women. It can sound strange when you think to "Runnin' from the Police" and "Open Fire" but in fact the Soulja voice was often much more violent in the Thug Life original projects...
"Easy Mo Bee" sessions (October-December '93 in New York)
Thug Life West oriented original album was mainly leaked. 2Pac was still touring in New York, playing his songs live, so he concentrated himself to rework his Thug Life 2 East oriented sessions. It was then mainly produced by Stretch of the Live Squad. He firstly tried to incorporate songs from the West oriented scrapped part and to take off the too violent songs (so he firstly gave up the title "Mr. Middle Finger"). The project being more open now, he started to record new material with new producers from New York like Easy Mo Bee (Maybe 2Pac met him consecutively to the Budweiser Superfest the 20th of October where Biggie invited 2Pac to rap with him and Big Daddy Kane).
So the original Thug Life 2 : Mr. Middle Finger project changed a lot to include these new recordings. At the same time, especially after the opening of his two justice cases, 2Pac started to record new
softer versions of his old material ("Death Around The Corner", "Thugs Get Lonely Too", "Nothing To Lose" and maybe "Wonda Wy They Call U B-I-T-C-H" in December). Some East producers could have also contributed at that time to give new mixes for his old tracks (Adario Strange, Akshun, Frank Starchak...).
Circa October - November 93, 2Pac also began a whole new Thug Life West Coast project (which was then looking like a compilation album). So he could drop the West Coast songs from his solo album which was again a pure East Coast oriented album (the Thug Life was a guest in a song to promote that new project).
Step 1 : Thug in Me / Street Fame (pre-Easy Moe Bee)
These tracklists are clearly already post-Thug Life 2 : Mr. Middle Finger sessions, right after Thug Life Original was scrapped for being leaked. It seems that "Thug in Me" was an attempt to combine remainings of both Thug Life original albums ("Who Do U Love ?" was maybe freshly recorded or re-recorded). The beloved and known to be leaked track "Is it Cool 2 Fuck" is not here, but "Death Around The Corner", "Fake Ass Bitches" and "I'm Getting Money" are in. Otherwise, it looks like Mr. Middle Finger... without "Mr. Middle Finger".
One important point is the replacement of the solo version of "Bury Me a G" by a group version with Mopreme (recorded circa late August - early September because Mo speaks about his birthday). Probably the song was initially aimed to be a B-side for the single but 2Pac could have chosen to have this song in his solo album to give something to his new teammates in case the first collective Thug Life project was definitely scrapped.
Then 2Pac added a new concept song "Street Fame" that gave the new title to the project in progress (a song presumably never recorded and simply given to Thug Life group around November).
Step 2 : recording new songs and searching for a title
The first untitled tracklist still could be Street Fame. After that the song disappeared. That could indicate the era of recording of Thug Life's songs without Pac. Considering "Dear Mama" and "Temptations" have been recorded the 26th of October, so we are in the late October or early November. 2Pac still tried to include the old song "I'm Loosin' It" from his West Coast album whereas the other have disappeared. "Nothing Like Niggaz" could be also an unleaked song from the Thug Life 2 sessions (appearing under the title "All I Got Is Niggaz") but it is more likely an unrecorded track, only a concept. "Y'all Don't Know Me" was also just a planned song, "Street Fame featuring B.I.G. & Mac Mall" was also not recorded yet, and it probably will probably turn into "Runnin From The Police" in the next tracklist.
These three tracklists are maybe from later in November. The other Easy Moe Bee songs ("Str8 Ballin'" and "Runnin'") were recorded in November, but "Str8 Ballin'" firstly appeared with strange titles so it was probably not recorded yet.
2Pac tried to re-use his old beloved titles for the album but was not satisfied with them so he tried a fanciful one (maybe not that much fancyful if we think that he recorded "House of Pain" and "Pain" more or less at that period). "Out
on Bail" (feat. Rappin' Is Fundamental, Easy Moe Bee's group) appeared
in that last tracklist, so it means that the rape case was opened... This fantasist title could also reflect that context...
Step 3 : Out on Bail
This first tracklist entitled "Out On Bail" seems to be the most complete we have, so the closest to a definitive sequence. No unrecorded track. The title has been found. And even the fact that 2Pac scratched "Who Do U Love" tend to indicate that he went back over this tracklist and was more or less satisfied with it. When are we ? Probably in the very late November or beginning of December '93, one month before the release of "Papa'z Song" single.
The second tracklist entitled "Out On Bail" presents a similar tracks content with just "Who Do U Luv ?" being replaced by the planned concept song "B4 U Bust" (what probably turned into "Pain").
2Pac wrote at the foot of the page the planned singles : of course "Bury Me A G" and "Runnin" because he has alternative versions of these (Easy Mo Bee says 2Pac recorded both his verses from "Runnin" the same day). In the back page he wrote a dedication to his fallen friends, that makes a link with the Thug Life project. That could be more or less the time he had the idea of Thug Life Vol. 1 : Honor Among Thugz, as a concept movie+soundtrack album dedicated to the fallen friends...
This tracklist sees the come back of the title "Troublesome" and the one of "Nothing To Lose" which has probably received a totally new recording (what is in the Cradle2TheGrave tape). But with his new case open for rape accusation, 2Pac still had to give up his song "Wonda Why They Call U Bitch", a bit too provocative (which is not in the tape) or to re-record it, what it is said he has done in December, over the sample of Led Zeppelin (which was later re-used for "Hard On a Nigga").
The album has now 14 tracks, what will stay in R U Still Down Original Project first tracklists.
Was Out on Bail ready to be released in January of '93 ?
It has been said that Interscope rejected the Out On Bail Demo. 2Pac could have showed them a sequence of his album which is exactly the Cradle2TheGrave tape (and maybe Interscope decided they prefer to publish a Thug Life album). With 2Pac and Interscope officially announcing the album, we could expect that the project was more or less ready...
In fact, like we saw, 2Pac was maybe not totally satisfied with the title "Out On Bail"... Way too contextual, too provocative... Many songs of the Cradle2TheGrave tape had probably not received a final mixdown (the intros of "Str8 Ballin'", "Out On Bail"). Samples were probably not cleared yet (the intro of "Nothing To Lose" with a sample taken from The Chronic was probably a problem).
2Pac had already dropped "Who Do U
Love ?" (sample issue ?) and "Wonda Why They Call U Bitch" was not in the Cradle2TheGrave tape. Probably because of the rape case, 2Pac already knew he had to re-recorded a clean version of the song if he still wanted to have it in the album. What he tried a few days later with "Wonda
Why They Call U B-I-T-C-H" (we have the handwritten new lyrics). But either Interscope refused it even, either 2Pac was not satisfied and recorded "Hard on a Nigga" over the same beat and "Peep Game II" upon the same topic.
2Pac had probably also to drop "Open Fire" (and later "Runnin") because of the other trial coming (the trading shots with the two off-duty police officers). In January, apparently back in California, he recorded "R U Still Down" with Shock G (an old concept he had since Mr. Middle Finger) maybe to replace "Open Fire" (not in the first R U Still Down original project tracklist). It gave his album a new title and a new direction.
We also saw that "Pain" could be the last planned track to replace "Who Do U Love" but 2Pac gave the song to Death Row for Above The Rim
soundtrack. So he has to come back to a 12 tracks album or to include a new song. In
the first R U Still Down Original tracklist, the guest song "Can't Turn Back" with Blackjack and Spice 1 appears. Even if the song was soon dropped, it fits well the new direction of the album.
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During the process, 2Pac had moved from a censored version of the violent Mr. Middle Finger
album (very Live Squad oriented), with less explicit songs, to a full
new thing with a much more intimate and nostalgic content.
Tupac will keep on dropping songs from Thug Life original sessions in his next R U Still Down tracklists ("Open Fire", "Wonda Why They Call"), then in Stay True ("Thugs Get Lonely Too"), until Me Against The World album where only "Lord Knows" remain (supposedly in Mr. Middle Finger as "If I Wasn't High"). Some other will reappear but in totally new versions like "Death Around the Corner" or "It Ain't Easy").
- 1993/11-12 (~). Released in an alternate mix in R U Still Down (1997). Included in Cradle2TheGrave demo tape. This version has different lyrics but the exact same beat than Mr. Middle Finger original version. It has probably been recorded at the time of "Cradle 2 The Grave" in November-December. The song included in early tracklists of Street Fame/Out on Bail
was probably the original Mr. Middle Finger version. It disappeared
circa early November. 2Pac probably loved the song but finally took it
off because of the pressure Duane Nettlesbey probably gave a new mix
with a chorus entry for Original R U Still Down project album, before Tony Pizzaro gave his own
remix for Stay True in summer of '94.
- Samples :
- Mica Paris - "I Wanna Hold on to You" (drumline/melody)
- Ice Cube - "Summer Vacation" (vocals : "my homie got shot he's a goner, black")
- Ice Cube - "Us" (vocals : "That's why I got gang related rhymes")
- The D.O.C. & N.W.A. - "The Grand Finale" (vocals : "I got robbed when I came to Cali)
- Dr. Dre - "Chronic Intro" (sampling Gylan Kain of the (Original) Last Poets - "The Shalimar") (vocals : "like we always do about this time")
-
1993/09 (~). Released in Thug Life : Volume 1 (1994,
Interscope). Almost identic to the released version. Included in Cradle 2 The Grave demo tape. Solo version was intended to be in Mr. Middle Finger (around
Sept. of 93), then listed as a Thug Life featuring song around
oct.-nov. in Street Fame / Out on Bail tracklists, it then re-appeared as a solo track in early tracklists of R U Still Down Original (Jan.-Feb.) and was included in the so-called "Interscope Manu Tape". 2Pac probably remixed the solo version in the early 94 for his solo album but finally decided to include the group version in Thug Life Volume 1 in March-April (it was included in Thug Life Volume One Promo). That would be why the song disappeared from R U Still Down / Stay True tracklists.
- Samples :
- The Isley Brothers - "For The Love of You" (melody)
- The Meters - "Groovy Lady" (drumline)
03. Str8 Ballin' (Angry Version) / Easy Mo Bee
- 1993/11. Different voice take than the released version in Thug Life : Volume 1 (1994), angrier. Included in Cradle 2 The Grave demo tape. It has an alternate introduction with Pac normal voice and a speach announcing "we will definitely do the Thug Life Volume". So this version should have been recorded not long after 2Pac had given up his first Thug Life album projects. This is clearly the first take of the song. 2Pac will re-record the song for his solo R U Still Down Original album (around Jan.-Feb.) before choosing to include it in Thug Life Volume One after June of 94 (included with a soulja voice intro in Thug Life Volume One Promo, cf. Honor Among Thugz).
- Samples :
- Bootsy's Rubber Band - "What's a Phone Bill ?" (melody, vocals)
- 1993/10 - 11 (? new mix). Released in R U Still Down (1997, Amaru) without major changes (laughing outro cut). Included in Cradle 2 The Grave demo tape. Akshun had already produced "Guess Who's Back" for 2Pac in Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. (with his partner Special Ed). There are leaked mixes with or without the laughing outro and an acapella with more adlibs that would have been used for Mr. Middle Finger version.
- Samples :
- Cal Tjader - "You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" (bassline interpolation)
- N.W.A. - "100 Miles and Runnin" (sound effects)
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - "Mickey's Monkey" (vocals)
- the movie New Jack City (1991) (movie sequence)
- 1993/10/26. Mix very close to the released version in Me Against the World. Included in Cradle2TheGrave demo tape. We long time thought it was G-Money (Moe-ZMD's teammate) singing but it is much more logical to have again AB Money from Easy Mo Bee's group giving a chorus here.
- Samples :
- Bootsy's Rubber Band - "What's a Phone Bill ?" (melody troncated)
- Zapp - "Computer Love" (bassline/chorus interpolation)
- Avalanche - "Overnight Session" (drums)
- Sly & The Family Stone "Sing a Simple Song" (drums)
- Detroit Emeralds - "You're Getting A Little Too Smart" (drumline partially)
- Redman & Erick Sermon - "Watch Yo Nuggets" (vocals : "Heyyy")
- 1993/07 - 10 (? new mix ?). First or second mix of the song, included in Cradle2TheGrave demo tape. Will be released with less singing parts but with a close music in Me Against the World (1995, Interscope). Many singing parts and adlibs by Natasha Walker maybe backed by her group Y?N-Vee. The song is said to be mostly identical to Mr Middle Finger version, even if it had the alternate title "If I Wasn't High". It is sometimes said that the very first version was produced by Stretch so it could be another unleaked version... Brian G also produced "Skank Wit' U" for Don Jagwarr & 2Pac, probably around the same period (summer of 93).
- Samples :
- The Blackbyrds - "All I Ask" (melody)
- 1993/10. Released without major changes in R U Still Down (1997, Amaru). Included in Cradle2TheGrave demo tape with damaged intro and in Manu Tape with a cleaned background. Remixed in a shorter version for Stay True, included in Pre-DR Compilation in 1995. The recording of the song probably is consecutive to the death of Mental Illness of Syke's original group Evil Mind Gangsta's.
- Samples :
- Gabor Szabo - "Breezin" (melody)
- Detroit Emeralds - "You're Getting A Little Too Smart" (drums)
- ---not sure---Lafayette Afro Rock Band - "Hihache" (drums ?)
- Mental Illness & Evil Mind Gangstas - "Livin' In The Edge" (vocals : "my only fear of death is coming back, reincarnated")
- Thug Life - "Shit Don't Stop (Rough Mix)" (unleaked) (vocals : "them ghetto niggaz is a full")
- 1993/11. Awfully remixed in Loyal 2 The Game. Included in Cradle2TheGrave demo tape. This version has an intro. Producer for Sister Souljah, Big Daddy Kane, MC Serch... LG is the younger brother of Easy Mo Bee. AB Money and Easy Mo Bee formed the group Rappin' Is Fundamental. They released together the well known album The Doo-Hop Legacy in 1991.
- Samples :
- The Meters – "Oh, Calcutta !" (bassline, melody)
- Freddie Foxxx - "Rev. Glock (D.I.T.C. Version)" (vocals : "got a nice fat glock that he stole from the police")
09. Runnin' From the Police (Vicious Version) feat. Thoro Headz (Dramacydal), Stretch, The Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac & Lil'Vicious / Easy Mo Bee
- 1993/11. Released in One Million Strong (1995, Solar) with a new hook by Radio (Long Beach rapper who can also do ragga, friend of Moe-Z who produced major part of his first album). Included in Cradle2TheGrave demo tape. Lil' Vicious is a young raggae/dancehall singer (then 14 years old) discovered by Doug E Fresh who released his album in November 1994 : Destination Brooklyn.
- Samples :
- Bootsy's Rubber Band - "Munchies for Your Love" (melody)
- 1993/09 - 11 (~) (new mix). Recorded for his solo album Mr Middle Finger, included in Pre-DR compilation in 1995 and then re-recorded for Death Row's All Eyez on Me (1996, Death Row). It is said that the song has an alternate version with a Led Zeppelin sampled instrumental (maybe the same as "Hard on a Nigga") with an alternate chorus saying "Why They Call U B-I-T-C-H" (probably recorded circa December of 93, cf. Honor Among Thugz). Maybe that censored version was intended to be in this album in replacement of the original - problem for his justice case -, or simply for a b-side. But 2Pac also recorded "Peep Game pt. 2" over the same topic and "Hard on a Nigga" over the Led Zeppelin sample (is it the same ?), which finally replaced it in R U Still Down Original.
- Samples :
- Paul Simon - "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" (melody/drums)
- Parliament - "Bop Gun" (vocals)
- 1993/10/26. Included in Cradle2TheGrave demo tape. With "It wouldn't be a damn thing without a woman" and "What did you say about my mother" samples as scratched hook. Firstly Duane Nettlesbey probably made a short mix for Original R U Still Down album, then Tony Pizarro remixed it and recorded a new chorus for Stay True / Me Against the World in July of 94. DJ King Assassin, who could be also the producer of "Real Bad Boys", pretends to have a role in this original version. Maybe he is the DJ who made the scratching chorus.
- Samples :
- Joe Sample - "In All My Wildest Dreams" (melody)
- Ice Cube & Yo-Yo - "It's A Man's World" (vocals : it wouldn't be a damn thing, without a woman")
- Richard Pryor - "Jesse" (taken from Are You Serious ? album) (vocals : "What you say about my mama, hey ?")
- 1993/06 (?) - 11/01 (new mix). The original version intended to be in Mr Middle Finger (maybe even initially for Do U Luv The Thug Life ?) is said produced by Stretch. Maybe there is another unleaked version, maybe a solo version (what could explain the difference of quality we have between 2Pac and Stretch vocals in some leaked versions).
- Samples :
- The Gap Band – "Jam The Motha" (melody)
- 1993/08 - 09-11 (?) (new mix, new take). Awfully remixed in Loyal To The Game (2004, Amaru)
with a Nate Dogg chorus instead of the Prince sampled voice, with a Pac pitched voice and with the alternate vocal take (intro and outro speechs, 2Pac saying
"best friends at your WIFE's house" in his
first verse, instead of "Woman" here). Included in Cradle2TheGrave tape, but partially erased or overwritten. So in comparison of the commonly leaked version, this partially leaked version has a different beat with breaks and a different vocal take. It could have been produced around the time of the opening of the rape case (to cut the original outro) or maybe still in the late times of Mr. Middle Finger, considering that Banned of Bomb1st leaked a snippet of the same version than the Cradle tape one but saying it was from the Mr. Middle Finger sequence he owns (But he could be also confusing between this project and Out on Bail, one progressively turned into the other). This vocal take will be reused in the "Gigolos" remix included in Pre-Death Row Compilation (cf. F.T.W.) that could also be included in the "Manu Tape" erased part (cf. R U Still Down Original Project). Frank Starchak could be the producer of this re-arranged beat (maybe also the "Gigolos" remix if it was initially made for a B-side).
- Samples :
- Prince - "If I Was Your Girlfriend (Sign 'O' The Times Tour, 1987)" (melody, vocals)
- 2Pac - "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z." (vocals interpolation)
- 1993/12 (~). Released in Above the Rim OST (1994, March 22) Cassette version and in Regulate single (1994, April 23), without the scratched Stretch line "Don't Get Too Close Cause You Might Get Shot" at the chorus. It
is said the song was rejected from the soundtrack by Dr. Dre (maybe because he didn't like to hear his girlfriend recording with 2Pac...), but was then
recut by Isaias Gamboa to be included in the movie (the clean version during the intro credits). Sweet Sable who was in Above The Rim soundtrack with her song "Old Times' Sake"
is also credited in the nu-mixx version of the song, so she could do some
backing vocals here on side of Natasha Walker. An interesting thing to notice is that Stretch also
used the beat and background vocals of her song for "Hellrazor" (cf. Mr. Middle Finger or Original R U Still Down). Considering the lyrics, this song could be the planned song "B4 U Bust" that appears in late tracklists circa Nov.-Dec. 93 (probably not recorded), which morphed with Stretch replacing Mac Mall, and the song being given to Above The Rim soundtrack.
- Samples :
- Earl Klugh - "Living inside your Love" (melody)
- Intro from the movie Star Trek V : The Final Frontier (1989) (vocals)
- 1993/10/26. This is a small hook that 2Pac is mumbling which could be heard in the acapella of the song.
- 1993/10/22. Famous live freestyle recorded during the Budweiser Superfest that took place in New York in October. Mister Cee (who released the song restricted to Biggie and 2Pac parts in a Biggie best of mixtape in '95), organized the show with Big Daddy Kane and Scoob Lover. They invited Shyheim who was about to release his first single (November the 30th) and Biggie Smalls who had released a successful single "Party & Bullshit" (the 29 of June). Biggie asked to come with his new homie 2Pac he was touring with in October (cf. Live in Maryland). Mister Cee pretended the movie Poetic Justice was out one week earlier (the 23th of July) but he was probably meaning the hype around the movie was very high at that time. The success around that freestyle probably led 2Pac and Biggie to record three songs together the next months : "House of Pain" for Biggie's album, "Runnin'" for 2Pac's album and "Let's Get it On" for Eddie F's eponymous project.
- Lyrics :
- Big Scoop - "Niggaz Can't Hang"
- B.I.G. "Come On"
- 2Pac - "Nothing To Lose"
- Shyheim "On and On"
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