1996 - Gridlock'd Original Soul Side (with Death Row All Stars)

  • May 1996. Johnny J's left, 2Pac is mainly recording his project with Hurt-M-Badd, Darryl Harper.
  • No specific tracklist.

### This tracklist is made with some songs which appear in handwritten papers and known sequences of the album, and have not been released, with addition of songs which could have been recorded around that project. ###

Tracklist :

1. Darryl Harper - Consider Me
2. Doja - Sexy Thing feat. Kurupt
3. 6 Feet Deep - Too Many Things 
4. Hugg - Miss Well To Do 
5. Eight Mile Road - Ain't No Hiding (Movie Version)
6. Jon B - Are You Still Down feat. 2Pac
7. Nate Dogg - A Lil Something To Fuck To feat. (?)
8. Storm - Wild Child feat. Medusa (?)
9. 6 Feet Deep - Talk To Me
10. Chelle - Borrowed Times feat. 2Pac
 
Bonus Tracks : 

11. Prince Ital Joe - Street Life (reference to Snoop Dogg) feat. Daz
12. Lady of Rage - Rock On (Original Big Bad Lady) feat. 2Pac
13. Danny Boy - A Change Is Gonna Come (Freestyle at Brotherhood Crusade)
14. Nate Dogg - Nobody Does It Better (Freestyle over Breathin')
15. Darryl Harper - Because of You (Shouldn't I)
16. Eight Mile Road - Life Is A Traffic Jam (Movie Version) feat. 2Pac 
17. 2Pac - Dear Mama (Acoustic Version)

DISC 2 : Rock, Folk, Soul & Jazz inspiration - Listen in Youtube

(these tracks appear in Gridlock'd handwritten tracklists but are not Death Row material)
 
1. Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul (Live at USTV, 1996)
2. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know (Live at David Letterman, 1995)
3. Bush - Glycerine (Live at the MTV Spring Break, Panama City, 1996)
4. The Sundays - Wild Horses Here's Where The Story Ends (Live at The Moore Theater, Seattle, 1993) *
5. Everything But The Girl (EBTG) - Get Me (Live at the Lighthouse, 1994) - alt link
6. Joan Osbourne - St Teresa (Live at David Letterman, 1996)
7. Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough (Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1995)
8. Sara McLaughlin - Ice Cream (Live At MTV, 1995)

(following tracks appear in other 2Pac's soundtrack handwritten projects) 
9.
10. Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains (Live at Saturday Night Special, 1996)
 
11. Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon (Live at the Kiel Opera, St Louis, 1965)
12. James Brown - It's A Man Man's World (Live at Olympia, 1966)
13. Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness (Live at Cleveland, 1967)
14. Don McLean - American Pie (Live at BBC, 1971)
15. Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe (Live at the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967)
16. Donny Hathaway - Someday We'll All Be Free (Live, 1972)
17. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Live in Atlanta, 1974)
18. Stevie Wonder - All Is Fair In Love (Live Gala du Midem, 1974)
19. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up (Live at Beat Club, 1972)

 

 





Gridlock'd pre-project

For Gridlock'd soundtrack project, 2Pac at a point (circa mid April / May) thought to release a double compilation soundtrack with one CD with many soul singers and another CD with half solo album and half rap compilation. We can see that the rap part contents 7 tracks taken from his solo album project (cf. 100% Black Gold), but not the Outlawz songs ("Hit Em Up", "Made Niggaz"). So the solo album probably split in two different things : the Outlawz LP project (cf. Troublesome, Tha Secretz of War) and the Gridlock'd Soundtrack project. 

The 2nd of April, he recorded "Borrowed Times" with Chelle over a Johnny J beat for that soundtrack. Maybe "Are You Still Down" (the 15th of April) and "Rock On" the 30th with Lady of Rage could initially be for the project. Nothing says if "Ghetto Star" could also be considered for it.

Gridlock'd 1st list - May 24th, 1996

Soul side :
6 Feet Deep - Consider Me
Chelle - Borrowed Time feat. 2Pac
Nate Dogg - Never Leave Me Alone feat. Snoop Dogg
 
Rap side :
2Pac - Never Had A Friend Like Me - included 
2Pac - Staring At The World Through My Rearview feat. Outlawz
2Pac - They Don't Give A Fuck About Us feat. Outlawz

Probably unlisted : 
Jon B - Are You Still Down pt. 2 feat. 2Pac
2Pac - Wordz 2 My First Born feat. Nutt-So

This list could indicate the time where "Staring At The World" and "They Don't Give A Fuck About Us" left the Outlawz LP tracklist... (cf. Troublesome, Tha Secretz of War).

Gridlock'd - August 19th, 1996

Soul Side :
Danny Boy - I Can't Get Enough - included 
Danny Boy - Change Gone Come - freestyle
Theresa Griffin - Ain't No Way
6 Feet Deep - Consider Me - Darryl Harper version ?
Everybody Needs Love
I Belong To You ??
Hugg - Miss Well To Do - leaked
Doja - Sexy Thing feat. Kurupt - leaked
?? - There'll Never Be
?? - Interlude/This Is Jazzmatix
?? - Ain't Nowaday (TV Mix)
?? - The Message
 
Rap Side : 
J-Flexx & Lady of Rage - Lady Heroine - included
O.F.T.B. - Body & Soul - included
Storm - Wild Child - leaked
Redrum 781 - Pipe Dreams
J-Flexx - Billboard Dreams 

 


Gridlock'd DAT posthumous additions

Soul Side :
Charlie Wilson - Off The Hook feat. Snoop Dogg & Val Young) - included   
Bgoti - Tonight It's On - included 
8 Mile Road - Traffic Jam feat. 2Pac - included 
Anonymous - Deliberation - included  
Nate Dogg - Why  - included
Danny Boy - It's Over Now - included 
 
8 Mile Road - There's No Hiding - leaked
6 Feet Deep - For All Good Things
Bgoti - Mirror, Mirror

Rap Side :
Lady of Rage - Sho Shot - included
Snoop Dogg & 2Pac - Wanted Dead Or Alive (Daz Remix) feat. Charlie Wilson & Val Young - included
Don't Try To Play Me (by Daz) - included
Snoop Dogg - Out The Moon (2Pac Version) feat. LBC & 2Pac - included
Storm - I Will Rize - included 

Outlawz - Novakane
Dogg Pound - Locked Out Hood
Dogg Pound - Initiated feat. 2Pac & Outlawz
Bad Azz - Way Too Major
Tray Deee - I'd Rather Lie 2 You
Kurupt - Drift With Me
 
 
  


GRIDLOCK'D SOUL UNRELEASED

01. Darryl Harper (?) - Consider Me (reference for 6 Feet Deep ?) / Hurt-M-Badd & Darryl Harper

  • 1996/05 (~). Released in The Ultimate Death Row Compilation (WIDEAwake, 2009) but credited as 6 Feet Deep (and with a slowed pitch). 2Pac is also announcing in an interview that 6 Feet Deep recorded the best song... Are they wrong ? It is possible Darryl Harper was recording a reference track for testing the instrumental they made... Maybe after that 6 Feet Deep let him the song (or their version is still unleaked)... Maybe 2Pac first believed it was them and after he learnt it was Darryl he decided to work with him more... Darryl Harper will produce many songs for 2Pac in June for One Nation Part One and Part Two, as well as for Makaveli and Outlawz Ghetto Starz albums. Unfortunately Darryl Harper is just singing on "White Man'z World" and maybe on "Smile (Original)" and Damon Thomas Remix (an unknown 816 is credited but the voice sounds similar and he is the original producer).
 02. Doja - Sexy Thing feat. Kurupt / ?
  • 1996/05 (?). Nothing is known about this female singer.
03. 6 Feet Deep - Too Many Things / ?
  • ?.

04. Hugg - Miss Well To Do / ?  

  • 1996/06-08. Few is known about this male singer. He will also be featured with Danny Boy in "This Chrismas" in Christmas on Death Row (1996), as well as 6 Feet Deep, Bgoti, Nate Dogg and Michel'le.

05. Eight Mile Road - Ain't No Hiding (Movie Version) / Medusa (?)

  • 1996/05. The song is played during a scene of the movie Gridlock'd (1997). Is the singer the main actress of the movie, Thandie Newton, or is she dubbed by Medusa (credited as writer of "Life Is A Traffic Jam") ? Is it also Tim Roth on the keyboards like in the movie ? The song is short and fall down brutally... Why the fu** Tupac wouldn't give a verse at the end !? 

06. Jon B - Are You Still Down pt. 2 (Original) feat. 2Pac / Johnny J

  • 1996/04/15. Released in Jon B's album Cool Relax (1997, Yab Yum). It has been recorded over the same music than "Tongue Kissing", it seems just a few days after. 2Pac dropped his song as a result. But maybe he was already thinking to give up his full solo album project. Some early leaked versions given as "original" in Makaveli bootlegs (1997-2000) were blends made over Luniz' "I Got Five" and Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise". 

07. Nate Dogg - A Lil Something To Fuck feat. ? / ?

  • 1995-1996 (?). It is written somewhere it is a Dr. Dre produced song but it does not sound like that...

08. Storm - Wild Child feat. Val Young (?) & Medusa (?) / Hurt-M-Badd

  • 1996/06-08. Storm hasn't recorded with 2Pac between January and June 96. The kind of instrumentation and the speaking voice could indicate the MC/producer Medusa who is credited as a producer and writer for "Life Is A Traffic Jam" in Gridlock'd soundtrack. 

09. 6 Feet Deep - Talk To Me feat. ? / ?

  • ?.

10. Borrowed Times (by Chelle) feat. 2Pac (speaking) / Johnny J

  • 1996/04/02. 2Pac is only speaking here (or telling a poem). In July it still appears 2Pac thought to produce an album for Chelle but it is the only remaining of it. Did Chelle make anything after that ?
11. Prince Ital Joe - Street Life (Original with reference for Snoop) feat. Daz / Daz
  • 1996/03/21. The song will appear in a Gridlock'd or Gang Related soundtrack sequence, probably after the song was dropped by Snoop Dogg.
12. Lady of Rage - Rock On (Original Big Bad Lady) feat. 2Pac (speaking) / Daz 
  • 1996/04/30. Remixed in Lady of Rage's album Necessary Roughness (1997, Death Row). It has been said that 2Pac and Lady of Rage didn't like each other. Lady of Rage told how they kind of argued from the very first time they were supposed to record together - maybe for "Blunt Tyme", what could explain why the track vanished. But maybe the thing was decreasing a bit at that time, or Suge Knight asked 2Pac to record something with her, either the argument was maybe including Dr. Dre who was already left at that time.
13. Danny Boy - A Change Is Gonna Come (Freestyle at Brotherhood Crusade) / - FREESTYLE
  • 1996/08/15. The song is announced in Gridlock'd early DAT in May, but we only know this freestyle (that Suge asked him that day). 2Pac also planned to have an outro titled "A Change Gonna Come" in one of the Outlawz Troublesome, Tha Secretz of War tracklist. It could be a proof that Danny Boy recorded a version of the famous Sam Cooke's song between May and July.
14. Nate Dogg - Nobody Does It Better (Freestyle) / Johnny J
  • 1996/04 (?). The song "Never Leave Me Alone" appears in an early Gridlock'd handwritten tracklist. Originally recorded during the Doggfather sessions featuring Snoop Dogg, probably in March. Here Nate Dogg just sings a verse over Johnny J "Breathin" instrumental.
15. Darryl Harper - Shouldn't I (Because of You) / Hurt-M-Badd & Darryl Harper
  • 1996/05 (?). There is a video where we can see him and Hurt-M-Badd working in the studios with many people around. Darryl Harper said he had a third song he recorded circa August where he dedicates to 2Pac at the end, just some days before he got shot... 
16. Eight Mile Road - Life Is A Traffic Jam (Movie Version) feat. 2Pac / Medusa
  • 1996/05. The song is played during a scene of fictional live in the movie Gridlock'd (1997). On the screen, the actress Thandie Newton is the singing voice, Tim Roth has the keyboards and Tupac the bass... But do they really do these things ? Medusa credited as a writer could have written the melody and the lyrics - even those of 2Pac - and could even be the singer dubbing Thandie... But nothing for sure.
17. Only God Can Judge Me (Live Saturday Night Special) feat. Ice-T (presenting) / Doug Rasheed
  • 1996/05/04. Saturday Night Special TV Show. Ice-T is presenting 2Pac's new album All Eyez on Me and invites him to perform live. A pity he just claps hands not does backings.

. You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Live Saturday Night Special) feat. Ice-T / -

  • 1996/05/04. Saturday Night Special TV Show. Ice-T and 2Pac are singing live during this famous TV show. 2Pac's bodyguard Frank Alexander says 2Pac was supposed to come with Snoop Dogg and to perform with him "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted", but he stayed at the hostel for an unknown reason so 2Pac was pissed off and that's why he asked Ice-T to sing any song.
  • Samples :

. Interview (Live Saturday Night Special) feat. Ice-T & Jennifer Coolidge / -

1996/05/04. Saturday Night Special TV Show. Ice-T and 2Pac are surprised by the provocative questions from Jennifer Coolidge who will be well-known a few years later for his role as Stifler's mom in American Pie (1999).
. 2Pac - Dear Mama (Acoustic Version) / Master T, Tony Pizarro REMIX ??
 
ROCK, FOLK, SOUL & BLUES INSPIRATION
 
01. Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul (Live at USTV) / -
  • 1996/01. The song appears in the early Gridlock'd Soundtrack handwritten tracklist. Be careful, it is NOT Jewell but Jewel ! The blond white singer grown up in Alaska. This is an obvious proof - if it was necessary - that 2Pac was in no way a "racist" against white people. When he expresses some kind of trash talking like in "Out on Bail (Live at MTV)", it could be maybe clumsiness, but above all anger against white supremacy, not against white skin people. The song itself was a huge hit single in 1995 so Death Row would pay the right to include the song or to make a remix version.
02. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know (Live at David Letterman) / -
 
  • 1995/08/17. Alanis Morissette appears in the Gridlock'd Soundtrack handwritten tracklist. It has been said, 2Pac, Alanis and Suge have had a project of a restaurant... so even if it is just a virtual joke project they made together, probably they could have record a song together in a easier way ! But maybe Death Row would have simply paid the right to include a well known song like that one, like for Jewel. Alanis is a Canadian grunge/rock singer, what is another proof that 2Pac was very interested in foreign cultures, diversity, musical fusion... and not a racist prick against white people. What a huge vocal performance ! when you listen to that song you perfectly understand what 2Pac could love in her. She has the same kind of total energy deliver.
03. The Sundays - Wild Horses (Stones cover) Here's Where The Story Ends (Live at The Moore Theater, Seattle, 1993) / - 
  • 1993/03/16. The song "Wild Horses" covered by The Sundays appears in the Gridlock'd Soundtrack handwritten tracklist. Unfortunately, there is no live from the times (Were there a problem of rights because even the song does not appear in every editions of the 92 album). So we chose to make you listen another huge song from this British Londonian rock band, with lead vocals by... another beautiful young woman named Harriet Wheeler, born in 1963.
04. Bush - Glycerine (Live at the MTV Spring Break, Panama City) / -
  • 1996/03/16. The song appears in the Gridlock'd Soundtrack handwritten tracklist.
05. Everything But The Girl - Get Me (Live at the Lighthouse) / -
  • 1994. The song appears in the Gridlock'd Soundtrack handwritten tracklist. Death Row would have to paid to get the right to include the song. 2Pac keep on traveling the world. Everything But The Girl is from Great Britain : Ben Watt is Scottish, Tracey Thorn is English. This time, it is impossible to accuse Tupac from being interested in beautiful women... He had love for good music. This song is rockish but the group is usually kind of elctronic-jazz fusion oriented. They were also known to have collaborated to the great 1994 Massive Attack Protection album.
06. Joan Osbourne - St Teresa (Live at David Letterman) / -
  • 1996/08/15. The song appears in the Gridlock'd Soundtrack handwritten tracklist. Death Row would have to paid to get the right to include the song. Joan Osbourne is a blond Australian female singer, what again proves that 2Pac was very open minded in foreign musical performances and not only into black rap ghetto music. Okay, Tupac had love for women, but including their songs in his soundtrack means much in terms of respect for what they do. We can think that in this draft of soundtrack, Tupac tried to compare himself to great young interpreters, people who got the same type of incarnation in their songs.
07. Sheryl Crowe - Strong Enough (Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music) / -
  • 1995/02/15. The song appears in the Gridlock'd Soundtrack early handwritten tracklist. Sheryl Crow is a country rock singer from Kennett, Missouri, born in 1962.
08. Sara McLaughlin - Ice Cream (Live At MTV) / -
  • 1995/03/19. The song appears in the Gridlock'd Soundtrack early handwritten tracklist. Sara McLachlan is a Canadian female singer born in 68 who had released 3 albums at that time. "Ice Cream" is from her 93's album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.
10. Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains (Live at Saturday Night Special) / -
  • 1996/04/27.
CLASSIC INSPIRATION
 
11. Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon (Live at the Kiel Opera, St Louis, 1965) / - 
  • 1965/03/19. Another well recommanded version could be the Live at the Hollywood Palace, ABC, 1965, October 16th, with Count Basie under the direction of Quincy Jones ! The father of 2Pac's last girlfriend Kidada Jones.
12. James Brown - It's A Man Man's World (Live at the Olympia, France, 1967) / - 
  • 1966/11/25.
13. Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness (Live at Cleveland, 1967) / -
  • 1967/12/09.
14. Don McLean - American Pie (Live at BBC, 1971) / -
  • 1971/07/29.
15. Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe (Live at the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967) / -
  • 1967/06/18
16. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Live in Atlanta, 1974) / -
  • 1974/.
17. Stevie Wonder - All Is Fair In Love (Live Gala du Midem, 1974) / -
 
 

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