- "Originally recorded in 1996 and was supposed to drop on Death Row Records" - more exactly recorded in second half of 96 and first half of 97.
- released in 2006 as : DJ Fatal presents... Outlawz - Retribution (The Lost Album, Ten Years Later) (Outlawz Records / One Nation Entertainment)
the cover is a mosaic of pictures from various periods :
new picture for Kastro, Noble and Edi (2006 ?)
Outlawz LP Troublesome picture for Fatal, Napoleon and Kadafi
You have also 2Pac pictured with them in "Hit Em Up" video in the top left,
2Pac with them in his car in summer of 96 (cover of Still I Rise album)
See Discogs page
Listen to it in Deezer, iTunes, myzuka
1. Intro*
2. Komatose with Storm
3. Thug Nation
4. Soulja's Story pt. 2
5. What Goes Around, Comes Around
6. Retribution
1. Intro*
2. Komatose with Storm
3. Thug Nation
4. Soulja's Story pt. 2
5. What Goes Around, Comes Around
6. Retribution
7. Still Mournin' - (aka Life Goes On Stay Strong)
8. Bless My Soul feat. Bad Azz & Prince Ital Joe
9. Novakane
10. Under Pressure pt. 2 feat. Storm
11. Pass The Heat feat. Wack Duece - (aka Money On My Mind)
12. Angel
13. Hold On
8. Bless My Soul feat. Bad Azz & Prince Ital Joe
9. Novakane
10. Under Pressure pt. 2 feat. Storm
11. Pass The Heat feat. Wack Duece - (aka Money On My Mind)
12. Angel
13. Hold On
14. Stay Awake - (aka Did You Pray Today)
15. Family Pictures
16. In God's Eyes
17. The Hunger feat. Wack Duece
18. Mr. Makaveli
19. Outro*
*not in the original recording, long time available as a bootleg (many of the songs were already in Makaveli bootlegs in 1997).
15. Family Pictures
16. In God's Eyes
17. The Hunger feat. Wack Duece
18. Mr. Makaveli
19. Outro*
*not in the original recording, long time available as a bootleg (many of the songs were already in Makaveli bootlegs in 1997).
Rap – Edi, Hussein, Kadafi, Kastro, Napoleon, Young Noble
Producers – Darryl Harper, Daz Dillinger, Hurt-M-Badd, Johnny J, QD3
Chorus – Jewell (8, 12, 13, 17) Val Young (6)
Mixed and presented by – DJ Fatal
Hosted By – Bad
Azz (8), Daz Dillinger (9), E.D.I. (1), 2Pac (1, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17), Method Man (7), Young
Noble (1)
Voice (Intro) – Malcolm X (14, 16) But it
has had a decent and respectful edition as a mixtape in 2006 (DJ Fatal
is discret and just added introduction, conclusion and short hosts
between the tracks). On some tracks, you can really recognize the taste
of the One Nation and Makaveli times. Thanks for the famous same
producers...
Track 3 "Thug Nation" was supposed to be included in the 2Pac/Outlawz album Ghetto Starz (cf. tracklist War Gamez / Ghetto Starz)
DETAILED TRACKLIST
Outlawz at its fullest
All the Outlawz are still here :
K-Dog aka Kastro
Big Malc aka Edi
Mutah aka Napoleon
Young Hollywood aka Kadafi
Fatal Hussein
Young Noble
Storm
Outlawz are NOT Outlaw Immortalz, so there are no Thug Life membars : no Mopreme, no Big Syke (who was preparing his solo album at the same period). Only Nutt-So, Street Thugs leader, announced in Ghetto Starz tracklist as a member of the group, could have been added to the lineup of the group.
K-Dog aka Kastro
Big Malc aka Edi
Mutah aka Napoleon
Young Hollywood aka Kadafi
Fatal Hussein
Young Noble
Storm
Outlawz are NOT Outlaw Immortalz, so there are no Thug Life membars : no Mopreme, no Big Syke (who was preparing his solo album at the same period). Only Nutt-So, Street Thugs leader, announced in Ghetto Starz tracklist as a member of the group, could have been added to the lineup of the group.
They started to record this album just before the death of 2Pac,
during summer 96, when Death Row more or less shelved Johnny J's Outlawz
Troublesome/Secretz of War album (because Johnny J left the
label on a discord with Suge Knight). But after Pac's death, the
project then called "Ghetto Starz" changed a lot and became
"Retribution". But Death Row, like many other projects, never released
it... And it could not be due to a lack of quality and selling
potential.
The
Outlawz here will never be at this level again. Fatal & Kadafi are
still here to give strong Rap delivery. And most of the producing team
is the same than on 2Pac's Makaveli album. At that time, it could
have been easy to make of this album a huge commercial success (with
maybe 2-3 Pac featurings added). That could have changed the destiny of
the group.
10th of November - death of Yafeu Akiyele Fula
This album in its way to be finished, the death of their mentor, the publishing of Makaveli album... May all these events have make the pressure grow up between Outlawz members and their environment ?
So
Yaki has been shot dead. Shot in the hallway of a friend's appartment
building... The killer is Rashad Beale, a cousin of Napoleon... Jealousy
? Money, drug, gang affair ? Was Yaki turning to be a 2Pac-a-like
paranoic ?
Anyway, after that awful event, the group more or less disbanded for a couple of years. And Death Row instead of releasing this album, will capitalize on the death of 2Pac only.
Anyway, after that awful event, the group more or less disbanded for a couple of years. And Death Row instead of releasing this album, will capitalize on the death of 2Pac only.
DETAILED TRACKLIST
(Special thanks to Bomb1st members Filla and Dominator for samples credits)
- 2006.
- 1996/09/26.
- 1996/08. The song was supposed to be included in Ghetto Starz album. We don't know if it is the same exact version than the one recorded for it.
- 1997/05/18. This song pays respect to 2Pac's song from 2Pacalypse Now where he was rapping with his Soulja pitched voice violent avatar.
- 1997/11/01.
- 1997/05/11.
07. Still Mournin' (Life Goes On Stay Strong) / ?
- 1996/09/14.
- 1997/01/20. Guests and topic make a strong link with Makaveli album.
- 1996/09/19 - 12/11.
- 1996/09/19. This song is a follow-up to the Thug Life : Volume One song from the same name.
- 1997/05/18.
- 1997/05/09.
- 1997/05/09.
- 1996/09/16.
- Samples :
- Malcolm X
- 1996/09/28.
- 1996/07/22. Recorded the exact same day than "The Good Die Young", cf. Ghetto Starz. This is the first recorded song of this album.
- Samples :
- Malcolm X
- 1997/05/11.
- 1996/10/01 (?).
- 2006.
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