- 1990-1991 : leftover tracks from 2Pacalypse Now.
- Real project of an E.P. companion to the album, with outtakes and alternate versions, with various titles : EP Extra Cuts, Straight From The Underground, Underground Railroad EP and Tales of a 90's N.I.G.G.A. EP.
- "Tales of a 90's N.I.G.G.A." was also the title of his notebook around the time of 2Pacalypse Now.
- Why not released ? there were too much leftover songs for just an EP, so 2Pac decided to work on a whole sequel album titled 2Pacalypse II.
1. Hymn of the 90's N.I.G.G.A. feat. Mouse Man & Mopreme
4. What You Won't Do For Love
Bonus Tracks :
13. It Ain't Necessarily So feat. Shock G
14. Neva Surrenda (Live)
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From Strictly Dope to the release of 2Pacalypse Now
Among the handwritten papers of 2Pac, we can find many occurencies of the following unreleased tracks :
"Hymn of the 90's Nigga", "Scared Straight", "Do For Love", "Tearz of a Clown", "Funky Freestyles" (also titled "Rap Pack"), "Dopefiend's Diner", "Revenge of a Lunatic", "Resist the Temptation", "Fade Away", "I Thought U Knew".
And also from many unleaked tracks : "Never Surrender", "Backstabbas", "Use Me", "2FLY4ME" (first version of "Don't Call Me Bitch" ?), "Brain on a 40 Once", "Fever in the Funkhouse", "Got a Thing 4 U", "Uplift the Race" (another title for "Panther Power")... Do these tracks exist somewhere ?
We chose to follow for our home compilation the handwritten tracklist which had the Railroad drawing on it.
The Underground Railroad - 2Pac's producing team
If you look at the 2Pacalypse Now's booklet, you'll notice that all songs are produced by the Underground Railroad. The group was including Raw Fusion (Money B, DJ Fuse & Chopmaster J), Live Squad (Stretch & Majesty), Deaon "Big D The Impossible" Evans, Pee Wee of Gold Money, Jeremy "JZ" Jackson, and Shock G. Digital Underground influence is here clearer than in the album. At this time, Randy « Stretch » Walker of the Live Squad was already a friend of 2Pac, but they seem to have started to work together at an advanced process of the album.
This collective received his name after the famous network of clandestine routes and safe houses in the United States to help the slaves to runaway and escape to free states or to Canada.
Victor Hall's photoshoot
Tupac with Queen Latifah from the Flavor Unit
The evolution of 2Pacalypse Now
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1. circa mid '90. Strictly Dope heritage.
This tracklist contains only 2 songs of 2Pacalypse Now, "Words of Wisdom" and "They Claim I'm Violent", probably not recorded yet like almost everything here...
It includes 3 tracks from Strictly Dope sessions : "My Burnin Heart", "Panther Power" and "The Case of the Misplaced Mic". But credits indicate that 2Pac intended to have 3 new mix or re-recorded versions of the songs. "My Burnin Heart" features "Girl" so probably a singing chorus. "Panther Power" is subtitled "Uplift the Race", so maybe 2Pac wanted a new version of the song without Ray Luv's short verse (what could finally had turned into the "female remix" with a slightly alternate mix and an added chorus). At last, "The Case of the Misplaced Mic" does not have a Ray Luv feat. so maybe 2Pac wanted the second version of it (where Ray has only backings) or a whole new version (cf. Lost Tapes).
It also contains "I Thought U Knew" (a One Nation Emcees sessions song) but with no mention of Ryan D. So maybe 2Pac was also hoping for a new version (what maybe became the Klark Gable Remix with a female chorus singing "U don't wanna battle...").
"Neva Surrenda" could have been really recorded and in the early times of the album : 2Pac played a verse of it live at the African Liberation Day in May 1991 (it has the same beginning than "Don't Call Me Bitch" 3rd verse).
Eponymous song "2Pacalypse Now" and "Backstabbas" will appear in many tracklists but both will change their credits of producers and guests (so not recorded at that time for sure). The second one will even reappear in 2Pacalypse II early tracklists and eventually be recorded with Big D or turn into "Don't Call Me Bitch", song which uses an O'Jay's "Back Stabbers" sample.
"Rollin Out To Forsy the Country" (maybe later a Mocedes song), "Phrases of Prophecy", "All That I Live 4", "Ruthless Tongue" (early concept for "Scared Straight"), "Freeflow" are probably short lived concept titles, not recorded.
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2. Oct. 1990, the 1st. October, the 1st Trapped.
2Pac scratched Strictly Dope tracks ("Uplif The Race" is not "Panther Power" anymore). We can see with the ideas of guests for "Violent" that the song is not recorded yet."Straight from the Underground" is an early concept for "Rebel of The Underground" which will appear in the next tracklist.
Maybe "Trapped" is recorded. The writing credit recalls that the song was partially written by Ray Luv (at least one verse), and that it was maybe even his idea of song. The legend says he threw the lyrics into the trash and 2Pac picked them up, tried them (eventually wrote other verses to complete). 2Pac already intended to have the song as first single (what will be), Ramone being the first name of Pee Wee of Digital Underground/Gold Money.
"Tearz of a Clown" is probably yet just a project song (wrong credit says Pee Wee as producer in the next sequence), but 2Pac already thought to have it as his 3rd single so maybe the lyrics of the song were written. Is the early "Funky on a Freestyle" also recorded ? planned to be a B-side of one of the singles ? The name of "Dion" (Deon Evans aka Big D) at the end of the page could mean both songs could be already recorded...
The Mocedes feat to "Rollin Out To Forsy The Country" reminds of the existance of an early solo project by Mopreme (eventually titled I'm Too Big 4 The Small Shit), who made his first disc appearance in May 1990 (earlier than 2Pac's "Same Song") in Tony! Toni! Tone!'s second album The Revival.
Lastly, "I Got A Thing 4 U" is known as an early version/title for "What U Won't Do 4 Love", maybe about to be recorded (still unleaked or is it just an early mix ?). An interesting thing to notice, it says featuring Schmoovy Schmoov of the Digital Underground and Tasha Lambert, a vocalist from Kwamé & A New Beginning who had their first successful album The Boy Genius in 1989 (Kwamé being two years younger than 2Pac and having released his first album 2 years before him !). Tasha is known to be featured in "Panther Power (Force One Remix)"... We can't hear no woman's voice in "What U Won't Do 4 Love" so maybe the planned session with her became the remix of "Panther Power"...
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3. Circa end of 1990 (~). The Updated tracklist.
"Rebel of the Underground" replaced its early concept "Straight From The Underground") has probably been recorded. As well as "Dopefiend's Diner" by same producer Shock G.
The planned X-Clan or Paris producing credits neither indicate "Words of Wisdom" nor "Uplift The Race" are recorded yet. Neither "I Got A Thing 4 U" nor "2Pacalypse Now" : Sir Jinx and Queen Latifah unfortunately never produced anything for 2Pac.
Treach featuring on "Violent" and no Ryan D on "I Thought U Knew" lead to think they are not recorded neither... "Rap Pack" - an existing song - enters the updated tracklist (but without guests names nor producing credits, so probably not recorded yet).
Interesting thing to notice : 4 bonus tracks include "Funky on a Freestyle" (no guests so...), "Backstabbas" with Money B (?) and "Daze of a Criminal" featuring the Jungle Po$$e... The song was supposed to be the main title of a EP project with the Bay Area group (Dank, Playa-Playa, Wiz, with the addition of tracks with Ray Luv and Yonnie aka Mysta, cf. Dayz of a Criminal EP)
4. Early 1991 (~). Scratched tracklist
This time, "Word of Wisdom" (Shock G) and "Violent" (Fuze) are definitely recorded this time.
The titles checked are presumably the recorded tracks. "2Pacalypse Now", which was expected to be recorded with Jinx in the previous state, is given up unrecorded (and unfortunately Jinx confirmed that, even if they were about to do a song together the day the L.A. riots bursted in April of 92, maybe with Kool G Rap who was recording his West album ! Oh what a pity !).
"Revenge of The Lunatic" has already its two versions (Shock G / Big D produced) and 2Pac will always hesitate between the two until... he chose to record "Tha Lunatic". After 2Pacalypse Now being released, looking like a sequel, this "revenge" will reappear in 2Pacalypse II early tracklists. The song re-using a verse of "I Thought U Knew", the track is then dropped.
"What U Won't Do 4 Love" has finally been produced by Shock G. "Funky Freestyles" (Big D), "Resist The Temptation" (Big D), "Scared Straight" (Fuze / Shock G), indicate that main sessions have been made with Big D and Digital Underground, after the Shock G/Pee Wee sessions at the end of 1990.
"This is The Brain of a 40" will soon turn into "Drunken Style" (also with Treach). Nothing says if it has ever been recorded or if it turned into "Pass The 40" with the same concept (but different guests).
This "Straight From The Underground EP" tracklist (copy).
Probably more or less from these times... The title reminds of the early concept of "Rebel of The Underground" (cf. 1st Oct. 90 tracklist) but the three first tracks are the same than those of the 12 inch companion of the scratched tracklist. Could be just before 2Pac changed his mind and biffed "remix" from the 12 inch and added it in the album. The incomplete side two has an early concept for "Crooked Ass Niggas".
5. 1st half of 1990. The Underground Railroad drawing tracklist.
Same songs than previous tracklist except of course "2Pacalypse Now" replaced by "Hymn of the 90's N.I.G.G.A.". The fact the song is between commas tend to say it was just recorded, what led 2Pac to write down the new tracklist... But the fact guest lyricists are not written at the end for that song indicates there could be an unleaked early state of the song without Mocedes and Mouse Man (they announce 92 in the song so it could have been recorded later).
The drawing indicates 2Pac found the name of his producing team. It refers to the historical network who helped black slaves to escaped and to make their way to the Northern states who had abolished the slavery.
6. Early 1991. With EP or Extra cuts.
This tracklist replaced "Funky Freestyles" by the new "7 Mad Mics" what is also titled "Rap Pack" (it has the same 6 guests in a further tracklist), and "Drunken Styles w/Treach" to the previous concept "This is the Brain of a 40".
It also adds "I Shot The Sheriff", referring to the Bob Marley's famous song (2Pac will also give love to the reggae man by using a sample of "No More Trouble" in "When I Get Free I" (cf. 2Pacalypse II).
It is clear again here that 2Pac had the intention to release a companion EP (no title here) with another songs initially recorded for the album.
7. On T.N.T. Records.
Almost same songs than previous state, especially if we add the Underground Railroad EP. Kay Gee is the DJ / producer and a member of Naughty By Nature. Was the track ""20 Drunke Styles" ever recorded ?
The track "2Pacalypse Now" mysteriously re-entered the list, maybe instead of "Rebel of The Underground".
E.P. - The Underground Railroad (?)
That EP tracklist could be from that time with "Revenge of a Lunatic (Remix Clean)" whereas the original is on the album tracklist and both "Use Me" and "Backstabbas" which were just dropped from the album ("Use Me" was still inside the album in the previous sequence).
8. Circa May 1991. 2Pacalypse Now + Tales of a 90's N.I.G.G.A. EP
"20 Drunken Styles", "7 Mad Mics", "I Shot The Sheriff", "2Pacalypse Now" left the tracklist. Only "Brenda's Got A Baby" and the probably unrecorded "Fever In The Funkhouse" entered. It could be an early concept for "Break em Off Something" with same beat than "Funky Freestyles".
Still no mentions of any guests for "Hymn of the 90's N.I.G.G.A."...
"Crooked Ass Niggas" and "Crooked Nigga Too", two Stretch featurings entered the EP tracklist, as well as "2Fly4Me" (which could be an early concept for "Don't Call Me Bitch...).
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9. New Album Idea
"Fade Away" and "Young Black Male" entered the tracklist, and "Rap Pack" returns with exact same guests than "7 Mad Mics" earlier.
10. 10 Tracks Detailed credits.
"Something Wicked" has been recorded with Jeremy JZ Jackson (who will later produce "Troublesome" and many songs for The Kidz... and also for Saafir).
Only 10 tracks ? Is it a page missing ? Maybe not because it ends up with the two versions of "Revenge". What means that many tracks disappear like "Tearz of a Clown", "What U Won't Do 4 Love", "Rap Pack" and "Hymn of a 90's N.I.G.G.A."
11. Circa August 1991 (?). 2 Standby. Final ?
New songs "If My Homie Calls", "I Don't Give A Fuck" entered the tracklist (instead of "Revenge of a Lunatic" and "Dopefiend's Diner").
Two other songs are "in standby" and will soon entered the tracklist to replace "Fade Away" and to achieve the final 2Pacalypse Now tracklist we all know.
01. Hymn of the 90's N.I.G.G.A. feat. Mouse Man & Mocedes (aka Mopreme) / Big D The Impossible
- 1991/08-12 (?). Awfully remixed on Loyal To The Game (2004, Amaru) as "N.I.G.G.A. [Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished] feat. Jadakiss". Mopreme says "92" but as often he could be anticipating the publishing of the album. 2Pac13.com gave the date 1992/08 like other songs of the trio, but it is also written produced by Truman Jefferson like other songs from that time... Maybe there are two versions of the song - but I think this version is clearly from 1991, as announced in the handwritten projects but recorded a bit later because features were not planned in the early tracklists. The main point is that Mopreme Shakur here has his first nickname - used also when he was rapping in two songs of Tony! Toni! Toné! album The Revival (1990, Wing) - not yet The Wycked. It is funny to notice that Mopreme appeared on an official record before Tupac. Mouse Man was Pac's first rap partner with the East Side Crew in 1985-1987 (cf. Straight From The Underground). Unfortunately, he never appeared in any official records. Big D is said the original producer of the song according to the Loyal To The Game booklet. Could it exist another solo version, maybe produced by Pee Wee, like it appears in early tracklist ?
- Sample :
- The Meters - "Dry Spell".
- 1991/03-12 (?). Wicked J is not Mopreme aka The Wycked but Julian Brooks from The Mod Squad (also featured in Funky Aztecs "Don Quixote", cf. Chicano Blues). Cooley Ranks is featured in Raw Fusion's "Ah Nah Go Drip" and could be the same person than Coolie Ranx who sang for the ska groups Toasters and Pilfers, and has the song "New York Hot" in the compilation Modern Girl : Shi is Mine (1988). Both were 2Pac labelmates at T.N.T. recordings. The production of that song is really close to Raw Fusion's "Do My Thing" (cf. Live From The Styleetron). so it could be a reason for the track being taken off from the album. The song also appeared in 2Pacalypse II / Troublesome early tracklists, so it could be more late 91 than early in the year.
- Samples :
- The Bar-Kays - "Holy Ghost" (melody)
- The Brothers Johnson - "Strawberry Letter 23" (chorus melody)
- Junior Byles - "Fade Away" (vocals interpolation)
- 1991/05 (?). Remixed on Pac's Life (2006, Amaru) as a japan bonus track. This track features his old partner from Strictly Dope (cf. The Lost Tapes). This may be a second version or a fresh mix of a 89-90's unleaked original.
- Sample :
- Billy Squier - "The Big Beat" (drumline)
- X Clan - "Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is It ?" (vocals : "fighting wars in the street")
- 1991/01 (~). This song has been re-recorded in 1994 for Me Against The World / F.T.W. album as "Sucka 4 Love", version which has been brightly remixed by Soulshock & Karlin in R U Still Down (1997). Alternate title could be "I Got A Thing 4 U". Another one is "Live in the Lobby" and refers to the freestyle version of the song with just Shock G playing piano behind 2Pac rapping.
- Sample :
- Barry White - "I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More, Baby" (drums, piano interpolation)
- Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr. - "Just The Two of Us" (melody inspired)
- Bobby Caldwell - "What You Won't Do For Love" (vocals interpolation)
- 1990 - 1991/? (new mix). Leaked in the sampler tape with incomplete "That's the Way it Is (Changes)", "No Part of Dis" and "Scared Straight 91". I tend to think that Pac re-recorded over a new Big D production this early song recorded in 90 (maybe with Kendrick Wells, cf. Straight From The Underground). He presumably added a new first verse and took off the third one (like in "R U Still Down (Raise Em Up)", cf. Exodus). This new verse mentions Nelson Mandela's freedom (February of 1990), the old one mentioned the assassination of young Yusef Hawkins (August of 1989). But it is used to find an edited mix combining the four verses (in a very poor quality, with a clear change of sound between the two versions).
- Samples :
- The Isley Brothers - "Coolin' Me Out" (main melody)
- Bill Withers - "Kissing My Love" (drumline)
- Southside Movement - "Save The World" (drumline)
- Grover Washington Jr. - "Black Frost" (melody)
- Kool & The Gang – "Too Hot" (melody)
- Wilson Pickett - "Engine N°9" (vocals : "Owww !")
- Public Enemy – "Shut 'Em Down" (vocals : "Come on !")
- 1991/06 (?). Raw Fusion sesssions (1990). The track was supposed to be included in 2Pacalypse Now but 2Pac re-used some lines of the song for "Tha Lunatic". So the song couldn't be in the album anymore. Maybe that's why he recorded "Break'em off some" over the same music. Debbie D is probably Deborah Hooper from Beat Street OST also appearing as "femme fatale" in "Evolution" by Juice Crew. Banned from Bomb1st owns a Drop The Grease cassette promo single featuring Dave Hollister & Roniece produced by Big D with "Funky Freestyles" as a b-side.
- Samples :
- The Leading Zone - "Can I Dedicate" (piano)
- The Fatback Band - "Love Spell" (bassline interpolation)
- Melvin Bliss - "Synthetic Substitution" (drumline)
- 1991/03 (~). Snippet leaked by Banned from Bomb1st forum.
- Samples :
- WAR - "Where Was You At" (melody)
- Funkadelic - "Good Old Music" (drumline)
- Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs - "I Got To Have It" (vocals : "I stay hard like an errection")
- Ice Cube - "Dead Homiez" (vocals : "ain't shit to fool with")
- Ice Cube - "The Product" (vocals : "young black male")
- 1991/02 (?). Remixed in Best of 2Pac, Part 2:Life (2007, Amaru). Shock G also gave a remix version, probably around 98. Tupac here tells a tragic story and is almost singing. It is said the song was later given to The Kidz for the Ghetto Gospel mini album project.
- Samples :
- Suzanne Vega & DNA - "Tom's Diner" (melody, bassline, drumline)
- Biz Markie - "Pickin Boogers" (drumline)
- Public Enemy - "Night of The Living Baseheads" (vocals : "The fiends are fiending")
- 1991/02 (?). Probably the first version of "Tha Lunatic". It contains a verse of it and a verse taken from "I Thought U Knew", the Ryan D/2Pac freestyle from 1990 (cf. The Early Years). There are two leaked versions : one with only two verses and the second version, 7 min long, with 4 verses. In handwritten papers, 2Pac also speaks about a clean version and a Shock G remix. The song will re-appear in 2Pacalypse II / Troublesome early tracklists but with a DJ Daryl producing credit (probably never made).
- Samples :
- Average White Band - "Work To Do" (melody)
- Rose Royce - "Daddy Rich" (melody)
- Detroit Emeralds - "You're Getting A Little Too Smart" (drumline)
- The D.O.C. & N.W.A. - "The Grand Finale" (vocals : "what's left is a mutherfucker dead in the alley")
- 1991/02 (?). Remixed on Best of 2Pac, Part 1: Thug (2007, Amaru).
- Samples :
- Bill Withers - "Kissing My Love" (melody, drumline interpolation)
- Bloodstone - "Everybody Needs Love" (melody)
- Quicy Jones & Bill Cosby - "Hikky Burr" (bassline)
- 1991 (?). An late 2Pacalypse Now tracklist indicates as featured artists : Money B, Pee Wee, Mocedes, Mac Mone, Del and TMD (also featured in 2Pac/Funky Aztecs' "Salsa con Soulfood").
- Samples :
- The Commodores - "Assembly Line" (drumline)
- 1991/04 (?). We hear the song in a video from Tupac in New-York, probably during the recording of Juice movie in 91. 2Pac is listening to that song in his car, talks and raps over it, so it could be from early/mid 91. It could be a Digital Underground's leftover from their second album Sons of The P, because it doesn't appear nowhere in Pac's handwritten tracklists.
- Sample :
- Jackie Robinson - "Pussyfooter" (drums, melody)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra - Porgy And Bess (1989) (vocals interpolation)
- 1991 (?). Unknown source. 2Pac is spitting some lines of "It Ain't Necessarily So". Maybe it comes from the same source.
- 1991/05/25 (live).
Recorded at the African Liberation Day in Sacramento. The original song
has probably been recorded earlier in late 90 and doesn't originally feature
Cooley Ranks & Wicked J. It appears in
2Pacalypse Now early tracklists. The lyrics will partially be re-used in "Don't Call Me Bitch" third verse.
- 1991/01 (?). Snippet leaked by Banned from Bomb1st forum.
- Samples :
- Bootsy Collins - "The Pinocchio Theory" (melody)
- Parliament - "Theme From The Black Hole" (kick, snare)
- Honey Drippers - "Impeach The President" (drumline)
- 1991/07 / 1992/01/24 (?). Released in the Promo compilation Hollywood Records Sampler (1992, Hollywood Basic). This has probably been recorded during the Raw Fusion's album sessions but a later date has advanced (don't know the source). Pee Wee of Gold Money and 2Pac have only small parts in this. Saafir also appears in Force One Network album The MME Program 1 (1992, Qwest) and will be a Digital Underground member in their 93 album The Body-Hat Syndrome.
- Samples :
- Sly & the Family Stone - "Sing A Simple Song" (vocals interpolation : "Ya ya yaaa", "heeyy everybody")
- 1991/03 (?). I long time thought - like many people - that this was only a remix until "Fade Away" was leaked with the same lyricists... Julian Brooks from The Mod Squad (who had the album People's Park published in 1992 also with TNT records) confirmed to me that he recorded this song and "Fade Away" with 2Pac and Cooley Ranks. The three of them also sang together for the African Liberation Day the 25th of May, 1991, notably singing unleaked "Neva Surrenda". Maybe they were the first incarnation of the group Force One Network before each one goes his own way (and Chopmaster J formed a new lineup with Dave Hollister).
- Samples :
- Digital Underground - "Same Song" (vocals : "2Pac go ahead and rock this")
- 1990 - 1991-1992 (?) (remix). Unofficially published in The Here After (1999,
ZYX). Is it a
real remix from the old times by Klark Gable from One Nation Emcees
& 51.50 Illegally Insane (like he seems to have also remixed "U Don't
Wanna Battle"), or a later remix by Hitworks (but there is another
version that sounds more modern) ? The song appears once in a 2Pacalypse Now early tracklist "Updated : subtitled Tha Rebel of The Underground") as a bonus track. It was initially supposed to feature the Jungle Po$$e : D$ aka Dank, Wiz & Playa-Playa (that we can hear in 2Pacalypse Now background vocals), but they never came to record their verses the day the studio was booked. Maybe at a time, 2Pac thought about inviting them again to record the song.
- Samples :
- Ice-T - "Colors" (bassline, melody interpolation)
- 1990 - 1991-1992 (?)
(remix). Released in the Ryan
D/51.50 Illegally Insane's album of 1992 Game People Play (but only in the 1999 re-edition
as a hidden bonus track). This is a remixed version of the battle song "I Thought U Knew" 2Pac recorded with his old partner Ryan D of One Nation Emcees (cf. The Early Years). The title "I Thought U Knew" appears a few times in early 2Pacalypse Now tracklists but it is difficult to know if it was already this remix 2Pac planned to include in his album.
- Samples :
- S.O.S. Band - "No One's Gonna Love You" (melody, chorus interpolation)
- 1991 (?). Remix probably made for Force One Network's first album project.
- 1991-1992 (?). Is it a real remix from that time ? made by Shock G himself around the time of 2Pacalypse Now or 2Pacalypse II ? Was it also a part of the Force One Network remix project ?
- 1989 - 1991 (remix). Original Strictly Dope version released unofficially in 1 in 21 and then in The Lost Tapes (2000). In comparison, this version adds some elements and a singing chorus that make the song sounding like Force One Network's first album. Tasha Lambert was a member of A New Beginning, the backing band of Kwamé. They released the successful album The Boy Genius in 1989. In an early 2Pacalypse Now tracklist, she was supposed to be featured in "I Got A Thing 4 U" alongside Schmoovy Schmoov, probably the early concept for "Wha U Won't Do 4 Love". We can think that instead of this song, she finally recorded vocals for the remix of "Panther Power". 2Pac really appreciated the song he initially rapped with Ryan D & One Nation Emcees (cf. The Early Years), the song was included in early 2Pacalypse Now tracklists with the subtitle or under the title of "Uplift The Race" and even later in an early tracklist of 2Pacalypse II.
- Samples :
- Kool & The Gang - "Jungle Jazz" (drumline)
- Public Enemy - "Rebel Without A Pause" (vocals : "panther power")
- 1990 - 1991 (?) (remix). Released in Hardcore Uproar compilation (1991) in a shorter edit and in some European versions of Digital Underground's This Is An E.P. Release (1991, Tommy Boy) or in "Same Song" or "Nuttin Nis Funky" promo singles.
- Samples :
- Aerosmith - "Walk This Way" (drumline)
- Rick James - "Mary Jane" (melody)
- Parliament - "Theme From The Black Hole" (vocals interpolation)
. If My Homie Calls (Turbo Street Version) / Big D The Impossible REMIXED by Greg Beasley
- 1991 - 1992 (~ ) (new beat). Possibly intended for the single If My Homie Calls released in February of 92 (but finally including "Brenda's Got A Baby", instrumentals or radio versions). This version is slightly different than the "Turbo R&B Mix" with 2Pac still saying "well it's 91" in the beginning of his third verse. So it could be the rough mix of it... If the song didn't appear in the 2Pacalypse II tracklists, it fits the project well... Greg Beasley is known for his remix work as "Metro Mix" on many mixtapes and especially for MC Hammer, Ziggy Marley, Public Enemy ("Party For Your Right to Fight" Metromixx) and Domino ("Ghetto Jam").
- 1991 - 1992 (remix).
Released in 1997 in Force One Network second album compilation Soul Force Network II (Blue Dolphin) and in 1 in 21 - A Tupac Shakur Story (Blue Dolphin, unauthorized). Remix initially supposed to be included in Force One Network album The MME Program 1 (1992), finally leftover maybe in reason of Chopmaster J's house firestorm (also the studio where Strictly Dope recorded their songs). Chopmaster J said in the back cover of The Lost Tapes that he long time believed he had lost 2Pac old material in the fire before finding the recordings elsewhere. This "extended mix" was aimed for the clubs and for a single version.
- Samples :
- Digital Underground - "Same Song" (vocals : "2Pac go ahead and rock this")
- 1992 (remix). Released in 1997 in 1 in 21 - A Tupac Shakur Story. Instrumental, probably aimed to be a B-side of a Force One Network first album.
- Samples :
- Digital Underground - "Same Song" (vocals : "2Pac go ahead and rock this")
- 2Pac is featured in this live version. His verse is from "Young Black Male", replacing here a featuring by Bigg Money Odis from Gold Money (Pee Wee's group, also signed in TNT Recordings).
Confirmed
- "Never Surrenda" (prod. Pee Wee ?) (3x) ==> Early tracklists. Maybe one of his early recorded song. CONFIRMED : played live in late April with Julian Brooks & Cooley Ranks (at the Liberation Day, late April 1991)
- ==> Probably just a concept title.
- "Revenge of Tha Lunatic Remix" (prod. Shock G) (5x) ==> Very probably recorded. Could be a clean version of the leaked Big D version, supposed to be the B-side ? The song also appears once in 2Pacalypse II / Troublesome early tracklists, with a DJ Daryl prod.
- "Trapped Remix" (1x) ==> appears scratched, only once in "Tales of A 90's N.I.G.G.A. EP" tracklist (c. April 1991). Is it the same version than the Shock G '92 version included in some Troublesome 21 tracklists ? CONFIRMED - Snippet available
May exist
- "20 Drunken Styles" (2x) feat. Treach (prod. Kay Gee) & Treach (2x) ==> Nothing sure. The concept has been re-used for "Pass The 40" but without Treach.
- "2Pacalypse Now" (5x) ==> Maybe a lost version, even if we hear a story about the song being stolen during a studio break-in (according to Banned from Bomb1st) / Sir Jinx says to never have recorded it, but it could be someone else's work. The last occurrence in handwritten papers does not have producing credit "produced by..." or it is also Big D ("On T.N.T. Records" tracklist, c. March 1991).
- "Backstabbaz" (4x) ==> May exist in two versions. Could be an early version of "Don't Call Me Bitch". May feature Money B (prod. Big D). The song also appears 3 times in 2Pacalypse II / Troublesome early tracklists, with a DJ Daryl prod.
- "Crooked Cop Killer"
(0x) feat. Ice-T ==> It is a legendary title. Some people say it
exists but it could be an alternate title of "Crooked Nigga Too" which
has been rejected with Troublesome 21 album because its violent lyrics.
- "Rollin Out 2 Forsy the Country" (2x) feat. Mocedes (?) ==> Nothing is sure. It may become a Mocedes song for his album...
- "Uplift The Race" (3x) ==> Concept of a new version of "Panther Power". It probably turned into the Force One Remix with Tasha Lambert. But another version could also exist.
- "Use Me" (3x) ==> Nothing is known about it.
Very probably just concept titles
- "2Fly4Me" (1x) ==> Probably unrecorded. Appears only
once in "Tales of A 90's N.I.G.G.A. EP" tracklist (c. April 1991). Could
be an early concept for "Don't Call Me Bitch"...
- "7 Mad Mics" (2x) ==> Early concept turned into "Rap Pack" (same 6 guests).
- "All That I Live 4" (1x) ==> appears only in the earliest tracklist, when no songs were recording yet.
- "Brothers N Arms" (1x) feat. Stretch ==> Early concept turned into "Crooked Ass Nigga".
- "Fever
in The Funkhouse" (1x) ==> Probably unrecorded. Appears only once in
"Tales of A 90's N.I.G.G.A. EP" tracklist (c. April 1991). Maybe it
turned into "Break em off Something" (it comes after "Funky Freestyles"
and "Rap Pack" had been dropped, it has common guests, it talks about
funk and Money B's last word is house...).
- "Freeflow" (1x) ==> appears only in the earliest tracklist, when no songs were recording yet.
- "I Got A Thing 4 U" (2x) ==> "Supposedly an unheard, an early version of "What U Won't Do 4 Love"/"Live in the Lobby" (Filla, Bomb1st) Probably unrecorded.
- "I Shot The Sheriff" (2x) ==> Only a concept title (according to Banned of Bomb1st who owns many early material). Maybe 2Pac reused the idea of working with a Bob Marley's concept in "When I Get Free I" (cf. 2Pacalypse II)
- "Ready 2 Rip" (1x) ==> appears only in the earliest tracklist, when no songs were recording yet.
- "Ruthless Tongue" (1x) ==> appears only in the earliest tracklist, when no songs were recording yet.
- "This is the brain on a 40 once" feat. Treach (2x) ==> Early concept turned into "20 Drunke Styles" (may exist) and maybe into the released "Pass The 40" song without Treach.
This album is perfect
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