- July 96 : leftover tracks from Makaveli sessions recorded in July of 96, not included in Killuminati : The 7 Day Theory nor in The 3 Day Theory Demo (in that exact state).
- Never Call U Bitch Again (ON Solo Version) feat. Danny Boy & Jewell
- Killuminati (Rough Mix) feat. Outlawz
- Friendz (Rough Mix)
- Lost Souls (Rough Mix) feat. Outlawz
Hail Mary (No Ital Version ?)How Do U Want It (Daz Remix) - snippet, remake- Playa'z Praya (Ain't Nothing Wrong)
- Blasphemy (Rough Mix) feat. Outlawz & Prince Ital Joe *
- Hail Mary (Alt Mix) feat. Outlawz & Prince Ital Joe *
Lost Souls (Alt Mix)* War Gamez feat. OutlawzFriends (Alt Mix)* U Don't Have 2 Worry feat. Storm & Outlawz- Watch Ya Mouth (Rough Mix)
- Let 'em Have It (Rough Mix) feat. Storm & Val Young
tracks added : - Nigga's Nature (Rough Mix) feat. Val Young
To Live & Die in L.A. (Rough Mix) feat. Val Young*- When Thugz Cry (No Sample) feat. Nanci Fletcher
Bomb First (Rough Mix) feat. Outlawz*- To Live & Die in L.A. (Radio Version) feat. Val Young
Against All Oddz (Rough Mix)*Hold Ya Head (Rough Mix)*Krazy (Rough Mix) feat. Bad Azz*White Man'z World (Rough Mix) feat. Darryl Harper*- Toss It Up (Rough Mix) feat. Danny Boy, Aaron Hall, K-Ci & Jojo
- Street Fame (Rough Mix)
- Me & My Girlfriend (Rough Mix) feat. Virginya Slim
- Life Of An Outlaw (Rough Mix) feat. Outlawz
- Catchin' Feelings (Rough Mix)
After the recording of One Nation album with Boot Camp Clik, Greg Nice, etc... in June, which could have been felt as a symbol of peace with the east coast. Something happened when 2Pac came back from his trip to Italy. He listened to the fresh new Nas album (released the 2nd of July), It Was Written. An artist he likes and had already met. After the intro, the first words of the first song "The Message" fell : "Fake thugs, no love"... the rest of the verse sounds to him like a diss, in the second verse he heard Nas talking about someone who got shot and "left the hospital the same night", throwing a final line "contemplating war niggas I was cool with before... but a thug changes and love changes and best friends become strangers" followed by an outro : "Y'all fake niggas tryin to copy". Who could Nas speak about if not him ? Weren't they cool before ? There is also one song produced by Stretch, one by Dr. Dre and two featuring Mobb Deep... No doubt, the cool man he met before, the rapper he used to admire, joined the camp of his enemies... There is a coalition !
So 2Pac started to retaliate with two diss songs mainly towards Nas : "War Gamez" and "U Don't Have 2 Worry". It has been said that 2Pac had the project of a whole diss album... One Nation was at that time subtitled "7 Dayz" like the seven days of recording. 2Pac probably thought to have a bigger performance by doing this new album in 3 days of recordings, what became the anticipated The 3 Day Theory Demo (in fact this "demo" tape corresponds to a DAT sequence of the album from the 28th of July, the album was already not titled "3 Day Theory" - but in comparison of the final retail album, it meant not yet finished). Moreover, the concept of Makaveli was enriched of a Jesus symbolic. Of course, in Italia, he for sure visited the Vatican or other wonderful churches and got probably stoked by the Jesus iconography. With his usual workaholism, he recorded more and more songs. The 3 days turned 7, and then more. And something turned him to realize a much more inspired thing : he dropped off the more dissing songs like "Watch Ya Mouth" and other which didn't fit, and it became the dark and mystic Makaveli, The Don Killuminati, The 7 Day Theory (which still contains however many traces of the original project - a lot of small disses even in the R&B oriented "Toss It Up"). But would he have totally given up the idea of this diss album ? He recorded "Catching Feelins" in early August "part 2 to the war" and "All Out" his last song is also a diss song...
But most of the album is inspired by the Jesus of the Gospels, recurring topic and comparison to himself. He is struggling, he is being judged, he has already been shot so he watched himself being killed during nightmares... If he was likely saying before that "My only Fear of death is reincarnation", maybe right now he is preparing himself to a kind of symbolic resurrection, maybe through the legacy his apostles wear... He couldn't be closer to what happened...DAT PO389563 : "Work Dat 7/6/96 #1".
- Bitch Again
- Kuluminati
- Friends
- Lost Souls
- Hail Mary
- Intro outro
- Blasphemy,
- Hail Mary
- Lost Souls
- Friends
- Watch Your Mouth
- Let Em Have It
UNLEAKED
This DAT was opened the 6th of July, probably in order to copy a final version of "Never Call U Bitch Again", probably the One Nation solo version. I suspect 2Pac only re-recorded the version with Cocoa Brovaz during One Nation sessions, instead of recording a version with the Outlawz planned for their album. Maybe this solo version was mixed/recorded a bit earlier (the date of July 3 is usually given because there is a DAT with "ruff mixes" from that day, but it is the same content than a DAT with the "show mixes" made after the House of Blues concert the next day... so it could be just a compilation of earlier mixes and not the new version...).
This DAT has songs from July 8 to 10 (three days), but not "Live & Die in L.A." and "Niggaz Nature" from the same day.
DETAILED TRACKLIST
02. Killuminati (Rough Mix) feat. Edi & Kadafi / Tony Pizarro
- 1996/07/08.
Remixed in Still I Rise (1999, Interscope). It includes a part of the
first verse of "Untouchable" (also second verse of "War Gamez").
- Samples :
- The Beginning of the End - "In The Deep" (guitar)
- The New Birth - "Keep On Doin' It" (drums)
- 1996/07/08 - 16 (final mix). Remixed in Until The End of Time (2001). Planned to be in an early version of the Makaveli album.
- Samples :
- Whodini - "Friends" (melody interpolation, drums interpolation, bassline interpolation)
- 1996/07/08 - 18 (final mix). Included in The 3 Day Theory demo, which was then released in Gang Related soundtrack (1997, Death Row). The song appears in early Makaveli tracklists and then it is switched to Outlawz Ghetto Starz project. But in handwritten tracklist of it, 2Pac listed Edi, Noble, Kastro, Napoleon, and not himself. The mix with Edi starting and then Noble, known as "Movie Version" appearing during Gang Related movie, could be an edited mix of this Ghetto Starz version. The real unleaked original version of this mix could have Kastro & Napoleon instead of 2Pac, and 2Pac just at the chorus, giving them the song like he did for "U Can Be Touched".
- Samples :
- The System - "Don't Disturb This Groove" (melody)
- Roy Ayers - "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" (vocals interpolation : "just wait until the rain turn to sunshine, cause I hate to spend my life my life my life duckin one time")
- Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick - "La Di Da Di" (vocals interpolation : "for y'all keeping y'all in health just to see you smile and enjoy yourself")
- 1996/07/01. 2Pac was freshly returned from his trip to Italia with Kidada Jones (after maybe also a break to Cleveland to record with Bone Thugz-N-Harmony, cf. One Nation, Part 2). Like Daz produced a new version of Snoop's "What's My Name ?", he might have been asked to make a new version of "How Do U Want It ?", released in single in May (for a Death Row compilation ? a 2Pac old tracks remixed compilation with also "I Get Around" and... "Changes", "Don't Make Enemies" ?). Were there any new vocals recorded by 2Pac ? Outlawz ? Daz ? a different chorus ? Nothing is known except that it shares the same beat than "War Gamez". We don't know if the remix was finished, or if Daz was working alone and 2Pac entered in a fury and decided to use the beat Daz was working on for his diss song after having just heard the Nas album It Was Written (released the 2nd of July), or if they were working together at the remix when somebody informed them the Nas album could contain strange disses against him...
- Samples :
- Shares the beat of "War Gamez" which Daz will re-use for Dogg Pound's "Gitta Strippin'" (for his West Coast Aftershock sessions during summer of 96).
- 1996/08/09 (?) - 12 (final mix). It is said to be the interlude "intro outro" recorded for the Killuminati album. But the topic "Don't Hate Us" was also planned for Outlawz Immortalz album, but was maybe not recorded yet... 2Pac is singing on this track. The interlude is dedicated to Napoleon-Mutah's grand mother. It would be the second track produced by Tony Pizarro after "Killuminati" for the album. Pizarro was an important producer for 2Pac in 94 (cf. Stay True Mixtape) and he is of course the producer of "Dear Mama" (retail mix) and "It Ain't Easy" from Me Against The World.
- 1996/07/03-04 (~). "Capture The Flag" (name of a typical war training game) could be an anticipated title for the song before being recorded, appearing in "Euthanasia" tracklist in late April - early May (cf. Immortalz). This song hardly disses Nas and Dr. Dre. 2Pac clearly just discovered Nas new album It Was Written (released the 2nd of July) with its Dr. Dre produced track (also two from the Live Squad) and above all his opening track "The Message" starting by "fake thugs, no love...", in the second verse the story of a guy being shot and "left the hospital the same night"... ending by "there ain't an army that could strike back"... No doubt, 2Pac took the thing against him : "That nigga rappin' about my motherfuckin' life ! [...] He got shot and left the hospital the same day"... "When you scream "Fake thugs," who the fuck you mean ?". He will more or less say the exact same things in "Against All Odds". The misunderstanding of Nas' lyrics is the only root for the feud between them (there was a fake rumor about stealing samples...). Outlawz were clear : 2Pac and them always had love and respect for Nas before that. In his second verse, 2Pac recycled the first half of his verse "After fire comes the rain..." from "Untouchable", recorded in early June, where he was paying respect to Nas ("no offense to Nas"). A few days later, he will rap again this verse for "Killuminati". We could include the song in the first Outlawz album or in Ghetto Starz album, because a biffed title of it was "The Rulez of the Game"... But it is also the obvious trigger of the Killuminati full diss original concept album.
- Samples :
- It shares the beat of an unleaked "How Do U Want It Remix" Daz was working on this day and that he will re-use for Dogg Pound's "Gitta Strippin'" (for his West Coast Aftershock sessions during summer of 96).
- 1996/07/03-06 (~). Remixed in Until The End of Time (2001). It has been thought for long that the song could have been recorded in March the 7th (wrong reported date, probably a common mistake : the engineer reverses month and day). The song is 100% sure from early July, like other songs produced by QD3 ("Blasphemy", "Friendz", "Lost Souls", "Niggaz Nature") ; 2Pac is rapping over the exact same topics than in "War Gamez" and "Drunken Style". And It could also work as a dissing answer to Nas' "The Message" (who starts his verse by "Fake Thugs, no love...", saying later "there's only one life, one love... one king"... "wet any clique", "thug changes, love changes and best friends become strangers"... finishing by "The Firm clique"), 2Pac claiming there's only one clique, one love one nation" ; answering "no love shown", "why you change ?". The song does not appear in any Killuminati tracklists, maybe because it was aimed for One Nation (because of the chorus) or for Outlawz LP (as a replacement of tracks given to One Nation like "Secretz of War" and "Never Call U Bitch Again"), but it neither appears in tracklists of those... Is it Daz Dillinger in the background (or somebody imitating him) doing his dog scream "Wuh, Wuh Wuh" ? It would reinforce the idea of the song having been recorded in the same session than "War Gamez" and "How Do U Want It Remix".
- Samples :
- The Blackbyrds - "Wilford's Gone" (piano interpolation, strings interpolation)
- 1996/07/10 - 19 (final mix). This track disses Nas & Dre. Included in all early Makaveli tracklists.
- Samples :
- Quincy Jones - "Gula Matari" (melody)
- Busta Rhymes - "Woo Hah ! Got You All In Check" (vocals)
- 1996/07/10. Remixed in Until The End of Time (2001). Planned to be in early Killuminati tracklists. The final mix adds many elements that do not go with the rest of the Makaveli mood.
- Samples :
- The Treacherous Three - "Body Rock" (vocals interpolation)
- 1996/07/10 - 16 (final mix). Remixed in Until The End of Time (2001). Included in all early Makaveli tracklists. There is an alternate version with a "thug nature" chorus probably recorded by Darryl Harper for the radio version of the song.
- Samples :
- Michael Jackson - "Human Nature" (concept, vocals interpolation)
- 1996/02/01 - 07/12 (new vocals, new beat) - 29 (final mixdown). Remixed in Until The End of Time (2001). The original Sting sample is here replayed by Death Row home musicians (maybe the same than for "Toss It Up"), and 2Pac re-records his verses and speaks at the end with some words towards Nas. Included in many Makaveli tracklists close to the latest. Do they finally drop the song because of a beef with Johnny J about royalties ? or because it was not really fitting the mood of the album ?
- Samples :
- Prince - "When Doves Cry" (concept)
- Sting - "Fragile" (melody interpolation)
- 1996/07/10 - 17-18 (Clean Version). 2Pac rewrote some
bars to make the song radio friendly, that same day a video was filmed
in the streets of L.A. to make it the fist single of the Makaveli album,
finally released the 16th of November after "Toss It Up".
- Samples :
- Prince & André Cymone - "Do Me Baby" (melody interpolation)
- Tony ! Toni ! Toné ! - "It Never Rains (In South California)" (vocals interpolation : "it never rains in the sun")
- 1996/07/06 or 25 (? a known Reel date reversed or at the end of Makaveli sessions). This version does not have the final dissing verse. According to some Wikipedia info, it could be originally a beat produced by Dr. Dre before he left Death Row (the 23th of March)... Dre then gave the beat to Teddy Riley and Blackstreet for their hit "No Diggity", published the 29th of July. That forced Death Row ("under a cease and desist order") to re-produce the song. That's why in the beginning of August, Pac added a diss verse towards Dr. Dre at the end of the song... Furthermore, it is said to be initially an Aaron Hall song. In summer, he was in Trinidad to reform Guy with his brother and Teddy Riley. But Aaron refused to record "No Diggity" and instead of a new Guy album, he recorded the video clip for "Toss It Up" in September the 6th...
- Samples :
- Bill Withers - "Grandma's Hand" (melody)
- Blackstreet, Dr. Dre & Queen Pen - "No Diggity" (vocals interpolation)
- 1996/07/29. Remixed in Better Dayz (2002). The advanced mix has a kind of very west coast touch that does not fit very well with Makaveli album.
- 1996/08/02. Remixed in Until The End of Time (2001). The song seems to be uncompleted, awaiting to receive Outlawz verses ?
- Samples :
- Run DMC - "Peter Piper" (vocals interpolation : "the turntable might wobble, but they don't fall down")
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