Snoop Dogg -1996- Tha Doggfather Original / Snoop & Friends (Death Row Unreleased)

• Mid 1995 - Nov. 1996 : Snoop Dogg's second album recording sessions.
  
• Material for a triple album ? probably mixed with a new LBC/Pre-Eastsiders project (after original album being shelved because of Snoop/Lil C-Style dispute)
• The album was ready to be released in September but the death of 2Pac seems to have deeply modify the project.
1. Tha Doggfather Original Demo LP (pre-Vegas "rebuild" sequence)
   
2. Corleone's Revenge : The OG Mafioso album (leftover tracks)
3. The Eastside Party (various released tracks outside Snoop's album)
   
4. Unused Instrumentals 
• Sources : Death Row DAT Inventory ; DAT Tape in auction  
• SPECIAL THANKS to Bomb1st Forum & Jay2Chill   
  

 

back cover of Tha Doggfather

said to be the original cover planned for the album

### - We chose to not follow the "Demo LP" leaked by Bomb1st Forum in 2016, what is a random compilation of demo versions of the retail songs. We thought it is much more interesting to use the tracklist purposed by Jay2Chill of Bomb1st Forum (in a thread of June 2023), trying to rebuild the album sequence of September '96, right before 2Pac's death, following newspapers, interviews and other collected info. Except that we included demo versions instead of any retail songs. - ###

Part 1 : The Original Demo LP (Pre-Vegas REBUILD Sequence) - LISTEN 

1. Freestyle Conversation (Rough Mix) (4:26)

2. Downtown Assassins (Rough Mix) * 2001 (Original Mix) feat. Nate Dogg (backing vocals) (4:24)

3. Gold Rush (Original Mix) feat. Kurupt, Techniec & Bad Azz (4:39)

4. Head Doctor (Original Mix) (5:32)

5. Sixx Minutes (Rough Mix) (4:36)

6. You Thought (Rough Mix) * Word On The Street (Rough Mix) feat. Bad Azz & Techniec (5:26)

7. C-Walkin' (Original) (4:40)

8. Snoop's Upside Ya Head (Rough Mix) * Off The Hook (Rough Mix) feat. Charlie Wilson, Val Young & James DeBarge (5:42)

9. Out The Moon (2Pac Version Rough Mix) feat. Bad Azz, Soopafly, Techniec, Tray Deee & 2Pac (5:13)

10. Change Is Gonna Come (Rough Mix) feat. Val Young (5:33)

11. Up Jump Tha Boogie (Rough Mix) feat. Kurupt & Charlie Wilson (4:31)

12. Midnite Love (Rough Mix) * Eastside Party (Original Mix) feat. Nate Dogg (5:21)

13. Too Black (Rough Mix) (5:29)

14. Doggfather (Daz Original Mix) (4:28)

15. Doin' Too Much (Soopafly Original) (6'02) **

16. Street Life (2Pac Version) feat. Prince Ital Joe, 2Pac & Val Young (5:33)

17. Vapors (Rough Mix) (5:35)

 

Leftover demo :

. Me & My Doggs (Rough Mix) (4:39) - identical, no intro

. Wake Up (Ruff Mix) feat. Tray Deee (5'14) - similar, longer mix, no intro

. Doggyland (Ruff Mix) (4'42) - similar

• Producer -  Daz (2,7,8,12,14,16), DJ Pooh (7, 8, 11, 17), Soopafly (1, 2, 6, 10, 12, 15), LT Hutton (6,10,13) Arkim & Reg Flair (3,14), Kurt Kobane (4)
• This unreleased demo material is taken from leaked DATs (raw studio material) from 11/06/96 (PO781966 : tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15), 10/07/96 DAT (PO781867 : track 16) and from Bomb1st's bootleg album (1, 16).

• * Tracks 2,6,8,12 haven't been leaked yet in an alternate form so we chose to not include them in this bootleg (because available in the official released album or in Doggumentary EP).
• ** Recently leaked. We can hear a snippet of it in Smokefest Video, at 5:28. A re-recorded version of the song has been released in No Limit, Top Dogg.
• Tracks 1,3,5,11,14,17 are close to the released version but with many different elements.
• Tracks 4,7,9,10,12,13,15,16 were not included in Tha Doggfather LP (Death Row, 1996).
  
• Tracks 3,7,10,13 have been released in a close form in SmokeFest World Tour (1998, Dogghouse) / Fuck Death Row (1999, No Limit).
  
• Tracks 8 and 9 have been released in Gridlock'd Soundtrack (1997, Death Row)
• Track 8 was included in a previous sequence of the album and would have been replaced by "Snoop's Upside Ya Head".
  

 

 

Doggfather single

The original Doggfather LP : if 2Pac wouldn't have been killed in Vegas...

In 2016, Bomb1st Forum leaked a Bootleg with a compilation of alternate mixes and unmixed songs from Tha Doggfather, and a compilation of leftover tracks. All these unreleased materials are taken from early sequences of recording of the album, mainly from circa summer of 96.

Jay2Chill, in a Bomb1st forum's thread of June 2023, shared his work of reconstruction of what could be the state of the Doggfather album, right before 2Pac's death in early September. This has been deduced from the known tracklists of the DATs and the various info collected here and there in interviews, articles... After Pac's death, Snoop notably took off songs with 2Pac, remixed some other and shelved some which will end up in the SmokeFest World Tour album. More than half of the album was totally changed. We miss only four demo songs (if there are any existing alternate mixes) and a totally unleaked one (we can only hear a bit of it in Smokefest Video - maybe somebody could put the retail vocals of the song over the original beat remade) to get that sequence. It has no interludes, what is often said as a weakest point in the released album.

With this rebuild tracklist, we can listen to a different Doggfather album. Would it have changed the destiny of Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records ?

dates and tracklists of existing sequences of the album

First steps of the album : Don Corleone & Don Makaveli

When 2Pac joined Death Row label in the fall of '95, Snoop Dogg was still struggling with his justice case (what ended in February of 96). It is said that at that time he had troubles to write new lyrics... 2Pac would even have told him that his original verses in "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" were weak, what led him to re-write and re-record his parts (some people even said that this lost original could have become "Wanted Dead or Alive"...). That could explain why 2Pac and Daz wrote reference songs like "This Ain't Livin" and "Street Life" in February-March of 96 when he started recording sessions for Doggfather.

So the Doggfather sessions really started in the end of February of '96, right after the end of the case, in the night of the 20th to the 21st. 2Pac was then recording his second solo album for Death Row (cf. Me Against The World pt. 2). After or before Pac recorded "Changed Man" with Nate Dogg (lyrics that refer to Carlito's Way could be also applied by Snoop's situation), Snoop recorded with 2Pac the freestyle song "If There Was A Cure", and maybe also the first version of "Eastside Party" with Nate Dogg, Daz & Tray Deee. Five days later, he recorded "Just Watching" with 2Pac, the Dogg Pound and Hurt-M-Badd, and 2Pac recorded the reference song "This Ain't Livin'" for him...

But this is mostly the following month (March of '96) that he recorded a first amount of songs for his album : "Gangsta Walk", "May I", "Doggfather", "I Will Survive", "Change Is Gonna Come", "Wake Up", "Come On Home", "Tommy Boy", "Never Leave Me Alone", "2001"... And Daz recorded the reference song "Street Life" for him. In April '96, Snoop recorded new songs : "Gangsta Life", "Smoke Enough Bud", "Dogg Collar", "Doggyland", "Too Black", "Poly High"... what leads him to reconsider the direction of the album. 

 

 

 

Front cover of the Bomb1stForum's Doggfather bootleg presented as :

"20th Anniversary Sessions Edition"

 

## Tracklist by Bomb1st Forum. For this second part, we give the tracklist of the Bomb1st Anniversary unofficial bootleg and not the rebuild tracklist of a known sequence of the album because it would have had a lot of tracks in common with the Original Demo LP. This gathers most of the other leftover tracks still unreleased (in their original form) that were recorded during Doggfather sessions. ###

The Sessions Part 2 : The OG Mafioso Album (Corleone's Revenge) - LISTEN

1. Gangstaz Life

2. Definition Of A Homeboy

3. 21st Street (Shhh For This Original) feat. Tray Deee & Bad Azz

4. May I Funk With You (Rough Mix)

5. Tell Her What She Wants (Interlude)

6. Pop Bloccin' (Original Quite Obvious) feat. Techniec, Kurupt & Big Pimpin'

7. County Blues (Rough Mix) feat. Unknown & Kevin Vernado

8. Dat Bumpin' feat. Daz

9. Usual Suspects (Original) feat. Deadly Threat

10. Some Other Shit

11. Eastsiderz (Soopafly Original) feat. Tray Deee & Daz

12. Get In 2 Dis feat. Charlie Wilson

13. Street Life (Original) feat. Prince Ital Joe

 

Bonus Tracks :

14. C-Walkin' (Rough Mix) (4:40) Get Up 2 Get Down (Interlude) feat. Smitty & James DeBarge

15. Vapors (Battlecat Remix) Just Watchin' (Rough Mix) feat. 2Pac, Dogg Pound & Hurt-M-Badd

16. Head Doctor (Rough Mix) (5:32) Eastside Party (Rough Mix & Alternate) feat. Daz, Tray Deee & Nate Dogg (5:05)
17. Change Is Gonna Come (Rough Mix) What's My Name (Daz Remix) feat. Daz

• Producer - Daz (3,8,13,15,16, 17), LT Hutton (10), Soopafly (4,11), Sean Barney Rubble (14), DJ Battlecat (1, 15)
  
• Tracks 1,7,9,13,15 are taken from 7/10/96 DAT
• Tracks 14,16,17 are taken from 6/11/96 DAT and were planned to be in Doggfather OG (Pre-Vegas Version)
  
• Track 15 was planned to be released in Doggumentary EP

back cover of the 20th Anniversary Bomb1st's bootleg album

Corleone's Revenge ? 

This collection of songs was gathered by Bomb1st forum for the 20th Anniversary of the release of Doggfather album. All the tracks included are leftover songs from Doggfather sessions and were then unreleased in their original forms ("Vapors Battlecat Remix" has been released one year later in Neva Left, and was initially planned to be included in Doggumentary EP).

If we put apart the four last songs (used in the Original LP), the album so organized starts by the whole story of the birth of a mafioso, and it ended in "Street Life" by these words : "Corleone, rest in peace". So the subtitle of the known bootleg of Doggfather II, "Corleone's Revenge" could be more than a random title. The Doggfather sessions has enough material to constitute that legendary Doggfather II. 

 cover of a bootleg (picture taken from the booklet of the album) 

with a selection of featurings, soundtracks...

Was the "real" Doggfather 2 a Pre-Doggfather ?

The commonly known Doggfather II bootlegs, single disc (here) or double disc (available here and there), were constituted of songs taken from SmokeFest album and from various featurings (2Pac, Nate Dogg...), compilations and soundtracks (like "Freaky Tales", "Let Me Hit Something") and some well known unreleased leaked songs (like "Lil Crip A Lot", "Last Man Standing") which are not from Doggfather sessions, but more from Snoop's late times at Death Row or just after he left...

On the contrary, the songs here have been all recorded during the Doggfather recordings (1996), before the final mix which took place after Tupac's death in September '96. They can constitute a full forgotten album, a Doggfather pt. 2 or more exactly a pre-Doggfather. But nothing indicates that Snoop once thought to release a double album or a follow-up to Doggfather album, especially because these leftover songs were about mafioso subjects, that he seems to want to give up... These songs were put aside with the progressive constitution of the album we know and would probably have been given or re-used for various projects even if Snoop would not have left Death Row. 

  

 

Promo picture

 

### This tracklist is based on Lost Sessions Vol. 1 tracklist and completed with all non-album released tracks recorded during the Doggfather sessions. ###

Part 3 : Tha Eastside Party (Snoop & Friends)

Disc One : with LBC Crew 

1. Got To Do Wrong (Too Black Remix)
2. Quite Obvious (Pop Bloccin' Remix) feat. Rappin' 4 Tay
3. Word On The Street (Heard It Through The Eastside) feat. Bad Azz & Techniec
4. The Shhh For This feat. Tray Deee
5. Hoez feat. Dogg Pound
6. Keep It Real Dogg 
7. Dogg Collar feat. Bad Azz, Lady V, Kevin Vernado, 6'9, Twin & Big Pimpin'
   
8. One Life To Live feat. Lady of Rage & Techniec
9. The Genie feat. Bad Azz & Bo-Rock
10. Funk With Your Brain (Interlude) feat. Mahallia Franklin & Kevin Vernado
11. Caught Up feat. Charlie Wilson & Val Young
12. Put It In Your Mouth (Head Doctor Remix)
13. Gravy Train feat. Bad Azz & Tray Deee
14. Life's Hard (dedicated to 2Pac) feat. Big Pimpin', K-Ci & JoJo 
15. Smoke Enough Bud feat. Jewell

Disc Two : with Various Artists

1. May I (Remix) feat. Mr. Malik
2. C-Walkin' (Remix)
3. Head Doctor (Remix) feat. Swoop G & Raphael Saadiq
4. Eastside Party feat. Nate Dogg
5. Nothin' But A G Thang (Tommi D & DJ Jam Remix) feat. Dr. Dre
6. Lil' Ghetto Boy (Julio G & Tony G Remix) feat. Dr. Dre
7. Let Me Ride (Daz Remix) feat. Dr. Dre, Daz & Jewell
8. Gangsta Walk feat. Dogg Pound
9. Eastside feat. Tray Deee & Daz
10. What's My Name (Daz Remix) feat. Daz
11. My Favorite Color feat. Big Hutch
12. Too High (Poly High) feat. Twinz, Daz & Big Pimpin'
13. Gin & Juice (Daz Remix) feat. Daz
14. Usual Suspects feat. Deadly Threat 
15. Keep It Real (Party People) feat. Mack 10, Bad Azz, Techniec, Deadly Threat & Kurupt
16. Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto feat. Daz, Bad Azz, Tray Deee & Nate Dogg

• Producer - LT Hutton, Soopafly, Daz, DJ Pooh
• Disc One 
• Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 have been released in Lost Sessions, vol. 1 (2009, WIDEawake)
• Track 7, 15 have been released in Chronic Re-Lit : From The Vault (2009, WIDEawake)
• Track 4 has been released in Gangsta Shhh 12'' (2009, DPG recordz) 
• Disc Two :
• Tracks 1, 2, 3, 8, 11 have been released in Dead Man Walkin' (2000, Death Row) 
• Tracks 4, 9, 12, 14, 15 have been released in Death Row's Snoop Doggy Dogg Greatest Hits (2001, Death Row)
• Tracks 5, 6, 7, 13 have been released in Death Row's Greatest Hits (1996, Death Row)
• Track 16 has been released in Christmas on Death Row (1996, Death Row). 

L.B.C. Crew about to become the Eastsiders ?

In the beginning of '96, Snoop & Doggystyle's project L.B.C. Crew went shelved because of Lil' C-Style and Snoop arguing about royalties. So in parallel of his album, it seems Snoop was probably thinking to record a new LBC Crew project without Lil' C-Style who does not appear in any Doggfather sessions (except if we consider that "Doggystyle 96" and "Out The Moon OG" that appear in a July DAT could have been recorded later than 95 - what is not believable). 

The group name "LBC Crew" itself was not used anymore (except by 2Pac in "Untouchablez". In late Feb. - March of 96, Snoop recorded "Eastside Party Original" with Daz, Tray Deee and Nate Dogg, "Eastsiders Original" with Daz & Tray Deee (produced by Soopafly), maybe a new version of "21 Jumpstreet" called "21st Street" with Tray Deee & Daz, "Gangsta Walk" with Dogg Pound, "I Will Survive" with Techniec & Kurupt, "Tommy Boy" with Daz, "Smoke Enough Bud" with Jewell, "Dogg Collar" with Bad Azz & Big Pimpin, and very probably "Word On The Street" with Bad Azz & Techniec...

The group name eventually changed to "Eastsiders", a first version of the group that Snoop will later form with Tray Deee and Goldie Loc. Was that name restricted to Snoop, Daz and Tray Deee or was it supposed to include other close partners for a party album like we chose to consider it. Some songs from one project moved to Doggfather and other came in.

It is funny to notice that "Eastside Party", probably recorded circa end of February of 96, starts in its final mix version (probably mid of 96) by 2Pac's voice (something like "nigga ya yop..."), the exact same mix than in the end of "Initiated Remix" (with the blow sound during the whole song) that has also been produced by Daz.

The Sessions, pt. 4 : Unused Instrumentals -

1. Bugsy (LT Instrumental #1) (5:20)
2. Been So Long feat. Jewell (5:20) - unreleased
3. LT Instrumental #2 (1:00)
4. Priest Instrumental (4:53)
5. Hot Line (Sean Barney Instrumental) (6:03) 
6. LT Untitled Instumental #1 (0:56)
7. LT Untitled Instumental #2 (0:52)
8. LT Untitled Instumental #3 (5:45)
9. Doggfather Instrumental #1 (5:48)
10. Doggfather Instrumental #2 (5:06)
11. Doggfather Instrumental #3 (1:03)
12. Doggfather Instrumental #4 (5:31)
13. Keep It (Interlude) (1:24)
14. Dat's The Way (Interlude) (3:22)

 

 

Dogg Pound -1996- West Coast Aftershock (Death Row Unreleased)

• August - December 1996 : sessions for a Dogg Pound second album.
• A second project of Dogg Pound evolved from Dogg Shit compilation (Dogg Food leftovers/B-Sides companion) in late 1995 to a solo effort by Kurupt in Feb.-May 1996 to a real project of a second album in the end of 1996.
• What happened ? Following 2Pac's death, Death Row's team was very affected, Suge was sentenced to prison in Feb. 1997, MC Hammer, Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg and finally Kurupt in January of 1998 decided to leave the label. Recordings were given to various projects : soundtracks, Death Row compilations, Daz' Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back (1998), Daz' R.A.W. (2000), Don't Go 2 Sleep EP (2001), Dillinger & Young Gotti (2001), Tha Dogg Pound's 2002 (2001), Tha Last of Tha Pound (2004), Doggy Bag (2012)...
• Sources : DAT inventory

Cover of an unofficial compilation in 2008

### - We chose to follow the tracklist of the Death Row DAT PO778935 entitled "Tha Dogg Pound 12/15/95" more likely from the very end of 1996. We only removed songs already released on other official projects like "Gangsta Walk" and "My System".  ### 

West Coast Aftershock (second half of '96 : DAT PO778935)

1. Every Single Day ('96 Version) (by Kurupt) feat. Snoop Dogg & Jewell * / **
2. (I Don't Care) What The People Say ***
3. I Roc Mics (Original)
4. Don't Stop ('96 Version) feat. 2Pac *
5. Me In Your World ('96 Version) - Death Row Greatest Hits
6. Because of You Girl (by Daz) feat. Storm, Edi & Kevin Vernado
7. Gangsta Walk feat. Snoop Dogg - Dead Man Walking, Doggumentary EP
   Gangsta Rap (Original) (by Kurupt)
8. Crip Wit' Me *
9. U Ain't Tha Homie (Original) feat. Crooked I & Jewell **
10. Roll Wit' Us (Original) (by Daz) - Chronic 2000
11. My System feat. Tha Mactress - R.A.W.
    Gigolo **
12. Living Tha Gangsta Life feat. Xzibit *
    
    Bonus Tracks :
    
    
13. My Buddy (Original) feat. Luniz 
14. Gitta Strippin' (Original)
15. Monique (by Daz) feat. Soopafly

Producer - Daz, Kurupt, Soopafly.

 

* taken from 2002 (Death Row, 2001)

** taken from Doggy Bag (WIDEawake, 2012)

*** taken from Tha Last of Tha Pound (Gangsta Advisory, 2004)

 

Not included tracks :

 

. It's Going ('96 Version) feat. Prince Ital Joe ==> Retaliation

. Our Daily Bread ('96 Version) feat. Prince Ital Joe ==> Retaliation

. Initiated (No Wind Mix) feat. 2Pac & Outlawz ==> Retaliation

. On Tha Grind ==> R.A.W.  

. If You Want This Pussy (Interlude) ==> R.A.W.

. Beverly Blvd 7pm (live street sounds) ?? - unleaked/other title?? 

. Daz - Don't Try To Play Me Homie ==> Gridlock'd OST

 

The closest thing that could approach the original Dogg Shit / West Coast Aftershock project is the WIDEawake compilation Doggy Bag. But like all releases from that label, the result is... far from satisfying. Songs were taken from various projects from 93 to 98... Finally, the underestimated Tha Last of Tha Pound presents a set of songs taken more or less from that era of recordings - 95 -, at a time the second Pound album was logically titled "Dogg Shit" (after the food they ate in first album...). Without the arrival of 2Pac at Death Row, we could imagine that Daz and Kurupt would have had a project ready to drop in mid '96.

DETAILED INFORMATION

• "Every Single Day" was originally recorded in 1993 for Doggystyle (cf. Doggystyle pt. 2), then renewed in 94 with Daz instead of Snoop for a Kurupt/Dogg Pound early project (cf. DPG 4 Life). The version released on 2002 and in Doggy Bag with Jewell instead of Nate Dogg, a new Kurupt second verse and Snoop original verses was very likely made in 1995-1996. Being the first track of the "12/15/95" DAT, either the the song was freshly recorded and the DAT was filled up with new tracks only after August of 96, or that date is wrong and Kurupt recorded his verse in the second half of 1996 (Aug. 15 or Dec. 15 ?), specially for that second album project (the fact the track is also the first of a 9 tracks DAT, copied right after the July Philly sessions tracks followed by the same songs, tend to confirm it could be an August 96 track.
• "(I Don't Care) What The People Say" was released in Tha Last of Tha Pound in 2004. Recorded in 08/23/96.
• "I Roc Mics" was remixed as the intro of Dogg Pound's 2002 compilation.
• "Don't Stop" was initially recorded in summer of 95 with Nas. They re-recorded their vocals and replaced 2Pac instead of Nas, and Kurupt added a second verse for Thug Pound. Daz edited out that second verse in August of 96.
• "Me In Your World" was initially recorded in 1995 with a verse by Lady of Rage... Why was she edited out of all tracks in the summer of 96 ?
• "Because of You Girl" was awfully remixed in Death Row's Chronic 2000 in 1999. Recorded in late 1996 after Pac's death. 
• "Gangsta Walk" was later given to Snoop Dogg's Doggumentary EP in 1997 (shelved when Snoop left the label) and was finally released in Dead Man Walking in 2000.
• "Crip Wit' Us" was released in 2002 compilation. Is the real original exactly like that ? Dogg Pound reused their verses for "Dip Wit Me" in Dillinger & Young Gotti, probably in answer to the unauthorized compilation.
• "U Ain't Tha Homie (Original)" has certainely Crooked I who was preparing his first solo with Daz around that time. His verse was edited out for Kurupt's unofficial Against The Grain in 2003, being a signed Death Row artist.
• "Roll Wit' Us" was released on Death Row's Chronic 2000 in 1999, but without any Kurupt verses, and two years later in 2002 with Daz & Kurupt verses... What's the original ? Maybe Chronic 2000 beat with 2002 verses ?
• "My System" was released in Daz's R.A.W. in 2000 with Kurupt verses and a Mactress verse, we don't know if she was in the original and if the beat was similar.
• "Livin' Tha Gangsta Life". Released in 2002 compilation. Nothing is known about the difference with the original. Considering the fact it is a Daz beat, the original is possibly identical to the retail. The introduction is a direct diss to Snoop who accused Suge to be respinsible for Pac's death. Was it added in a second time to the song ? Kurupt's verse seems to be against somebody too... But Snoop didn't leave Death Row before mid 97...
• "My Buddy (Original)" (prod. Soopafly) was slightly remixed for Caught Up Soundtrack, and remixed for Yukmouth first solo album Thugged Out. Very likely recorded in late 1996 - early 1997.
• "Gigolo" was recorded in August of 1996 but was not included in the DAT of the album. The beat will be then given (circa late September 96) to Snoop for "Groupie" released in Doggfather, maybe to replace some unwanted 2Pac songs.
• "Gitta Strippin'" reuses the beat Daz made for "How Do U Want It (Remix)", finally used by 2Pac for "War Gamez". Probably recorded in late 1996 - early 1997.
• "Gangsta Rap (Original)" is a Kurupt solo track remixed with a Daz verse in 2002 compilation.
• "OG 2 BG (DPG Version)" was released in Death Row's Chronic 2000 in 1999, very likely recorded in 1997 before Kurupt left the label.

 

Original photography that was used to make the cover of Tha Last of Tha Pound

A break between two recording sessions

After the releases of All Eyez on Me, the abort of the first Thug Pound project (2Pac seemed to pass from one idea to another very quickly), and with the beginning of an intense work for Doggfather, after the exile of Kurupt in Philadelphia in July, Dogg Pound started a whole new session in summer of '96, after the release of "I'll Do" in June that could work as a first promo for the album (as well as the burial of the old project). At the same time, Daz and Kurupt keep on reworking old tracks in order to release them like "NY 87", "Me In Your World", "Our Daily Bread", "It's Going", "Don't Stop"...

 

But like Kurupt said in an interview, Death Row was a question of timeline. When it was the time of Snoop, every produced songs, lyrics, efforts, were for him. Then, it was the Pound. Then 2Pac, then Snoop again... And so many Dogg Pound's efforts from that time were given apart, like for instance "Gigolo" beat was given to Snoop for "Groupie", one of the last tracks added to Doggfather, notably as a replacement for the 2Pac featured tracks (cf. Doggfather Original Sessions).

Tha Pound & Tha Thug Life

2Pac and Tha Dogg Pound is not a 1995-1996 story. In early 1993, 2Pac collaborated with Prince Ital Joe ("Thug Life"), Warren G ("My Definition of a Thug", "Lie 2 Kick It") and Nate Dogg ("How Long Will They Mourn Me") for the Original Thug Life project, delayed for sample issues, modified for having been leaked (Natasha Walker heard the Dogg Pound in studio while recording Doggystyle album listening to her song "Is It Cool 2 Fuck" with 2Pac and Thug Life).

In late 93 - early 94, 2Pac gave three songs for Above The Rim soundtrack ("Pain", "Loyal 2 Tha Game" and "Pour Out A Little Liquor") where Dogg Pound also contributed with two of their most famous songs : "Big Pimpin" and "Dogg Pound 4 Life". In the middle of 94, Daz remixed the 2Pac song "Hard on a Nigga" for Murder Was The Case Soundtrack with Snoop giving backing vocals and 2Pac giving a new verse (cf. Murder Was The Case leftovers, song finally leftover and released only in 1997 in Gang Related OST). So 2Pac probably recorded directly with Daz and Snoop at that time.

Furthermore, 2Pac and Kurupt (one year younger) have in common to be originated from the East Coast and to have arrived in West Coast around 16, circa 1988. Before Dogg Shit and his East/West collabs, 2Pac tried to combine East and West in his projects like in his first Thug Life Original  double album concept (West / East) and then in Thug Life Volume One (cf. Volume One sessions) which kept a trace of it. Then like everybody knows, even a few days after the peak of the East-West war reached with the release of the B-Side "Hit 'Em Up", 2Pac started the project One Nation. One month later, Kurupt recorded his Philly sessions in Philadelphia and two years later he will drop a double album Kuruption ! with one disc subtitled "West Coast" and the other one "East Coast", notably with a featuring by Buckshot of Boot Camp Clik over a beat by Easy Mo Bee...

In addition to that, we can also notice the influence of 2Pac's style over Daz who progressively took that kind of energetic delivery with one word giving the impression to want to catch and crush the previous one.

 

• Aug. 10 of 1996. DAT : "Work DAT West Coast Aftershock 8/10/96". PO778864.

1. Don't Stop Keep Goin' - (edit Kurupt one verse ?)
2. Dogg Pound Criminals
3. Me & My World - (edit w/o Rage)
4. Beverly Blvd 7pm (live street sounds) - ???

• Oct. 96 (~). DAT "Daz Untitled 9/13/96 session tape". PO314289.

UNKNOWN CONTENT.

• Aug. - Dec. 96 DAT : "Tha Dogg Pound Disc 1" & "Kurupt & Daz". PO778936 & PO778974

1. Here Hit This
2. Life I Lead
3. Mental
4. 10 Ta Midnight
5. Like That Y'all
6. What Cha About
7. That’s My N
   
   
8. Every Single Day
9. Don’t Care What People Say
10. I Roc Mics
11. Don’t Stop
12. Me And Your Word
13. Crip Wit Me
14. U Aint The Homie
15. Living The Gangsta Life
16. My System

The first part is taken from Aftershock sessions (Kurupt & Philly Mobb). The second part is clearly a tracklist for Dogg Pound LP.

• Dec. 96 (?). DAT : "Tha Dogg Pound 12/15/95". PO778935

1. Every Single Day - ft Snoop & Jewell
2. Don’t Care What The People Say
3. I Roc Mics
4. Don’t Stop - ft 2Pac
5. Me and Your Word - w/o Rage
6. Just Because Of you - ft Storm & Edi
7. Gangsta Walk
8. Crip Wit Me
9. U Aint This Homie - ft Crooked I ?
10. Roll Wit Us
11. My System --- R.A.W. version ?
12. Livin Tha Gangsta Life

These tracks haven't been recorded before Dec. 95 (even the new 2nd verse by Kurupt on "Every Single Day" is probably from Aug. of 96...). We think there should be a mistake between 95 and 96.

This gives a good pre-feeling of the West Coast Aftershock album.

RECORDINGS TIMELINE :

 

Kurupt - I Don't Bang No More ft Jewell (prod. Overdose) - 93/??/??

Kurupt - Flatline (Original) - 94/05/27

Kurupt - 40's and Bud - 94/05/27

Every Single Day - 94/06/30

DPG/Kurupt : Work DAT - 94/07/16

**Kurupt - Sinays Song / Wildest Dreams ?? - 94/08/22

Kurupt - Flatline (Final) - 94/11/08

Kurupt - Ballad ft Stew - 94/11/14 

Kurupt - Theory of a Bitch - 94/01/17

Kurupt - Where U From (Big Dics Seen In Ya M) - 94/??/??

---------> VIDEO What Would U Do (Clean Version) - 95/02/16

 

**Problem - 95/07/18

Don't Stop (Original) ft Nas - 95/08-10 - 2002

Got My Mind Made Up ft Rage & Deck - 95/08-10

It's Going Down ft Ital Joe - 95/08-10 - Retaliation, Revenge

Started - 95/08-10 - Doggy Bag

Can't See Us (DPG Version) - 95/10/07

2Pac - Secretz of War ft FNF & Kurupt - 95/10/19 - All Eyez on Me

2Pac - Check Out Time ft Kurupt - 95/11/06 - All Eyez on Me

2Pac - Got My Mind Made Up (Edit) - 95/11/06-16 - All Eyez on Me 

N.Y. '87 ft Threat - 95/12/14 - Doggy Bag
Snoop Dogg - Keep It Real (Party) ft Kurupt & LBC - 95/12 

Kurupt - Trump Tight ft Syke & Yak - 95/12/14-21 (?) - Thug Pound

2Pac - Still Ballin' II ft Kurupt - 95/12/18 - Thug Life Volume 2

N.Y. '87 (Quik & Pac added) - 95/12/18-27 - Thug Pound

Initiated (Original) ft 2Pac - 95/12/22 - Thug Pound

Daz - Jack Move (Original) ft Outlawz - 95/12/22 - Thug Life Volume 2

Me In Your World (Original) ft Rage - 95/12/27 - Doggy Bag

Dogg Pound Criminals ft LBC 95/12 - 96/01 (?)
Would You Die 4 Me (I'll Do) (Original) ft Kausion - 95/12 - 96/01 (?) 

Our Daily Bread (Do What I Feel Remix ?) ft Ital Joe & Rage - 96/01  (~)

Don't Stop (Long Remix) ft 2Pac - 96/01/13 - Thug Pound

Dumpin' ft 2Pac, Gonzoe & Nutt-So - 96/01/18 - Thug Pound

This Life I Lead ft 2Pac & Gonzoe - 96/01/18 - Thug Pound

New York, New York (Clean) ft Snoop - 96/01/22 - 12''

**New York (Remix) - 96/02/05

Daz - Telephone Conversation - 96/02/09 

Daz - The Name & The Rep - 96/02/05 ???

**Daz - Untitled (The Name & The Rep ??) - 96/02/15

Daz - Don't Try To Play Me (Original) - 96/02/15 

Nate Dogg - Puppy Love ft DPG & Snoop - 96/02/15 - G-Funk Classics

**Kurupt - Untitled - 96/02/14 

2Pac - Just Watching ft Snoop & Dogg Pound - 96/02/21

Kurupt - DPG 4 Life (These Reasons Remix) - 96/02/21

 

**Kurupt - Too Much Negative - 96/03/17

**Kurupt - What You Hide From (Original) - 96/03/17 

**Kurupt - Untitled - 96/03/17 

**Daz - Track for Daz (prod. Hurt M Badd) - 96/03/20

**Paper Chase (Underground) - 96/03/22  

Kurupt - Ride 4 Me ft 2Pac, Hussein & JV - 96/03/23

OFTB - Time after Time ft Kurupt - 96/03/31 

 

Kurupt - Would You Ride ft Snoop - 96/04/06 - From The Vault

Kurupt - Everybody Needs To Slow Down - 96/04/06

**Kurupt - Untitled (Overdose Work DAT) - 96/04/06 

Get On Up (Gangsta Remix) ft Jodeci - 96/04/17

Daz - Me & My Homeboys ft Techniec & Trip Loc - 96/05/19

Kurupt - Locc'd Out Hood - 96/06/06 (?) OR 96/02 (?) - Gang Related

**Daz - Time - 96/06/19

Jewell - I Came When You Were Alone (/Kurupt) - 96/06/25 - Gang Related

 

2Pac - How Do U Want It (Daz Remix) - 96/07/01

I'll Do ft. Kausion (Retail) - 96/07/18 - Supercop OST

------------------ Kurupt - Aftershock sessions in Philly - 96/07-08 -----------------------

Don't Stop (final) ft 2Pac - 96/08/12 (or 19-23) - 2002

Me In Your World (Final w/o Rage) - 96/08/12 - Death Row Greatest

**Beverly Blvd 7pm (live street sounds) - 96/08/12

Criminals (Final) ft LBC - 96/08/13-14 - Retaliation, Revenge

Initiated (Final) ft 2Pac & Outlawz - 96/08/13 - Retaliation, Revenge

Daz - Don't Try To Play Me (Final) - 96/08/14 - Gridlock'd

Every Single Day (Final) ft Snoop - 96/08/15 (?) OR 96/12/15 (?)

Gigolo (Final Mix) - 96/08/16 - Doggy Bag

If You Want This Pussy (Interlude) - 96/08/16 - R.A.W.

It's Going Down (Final) ft Ital - 96/08/16-19 - Retaliation, Revenge

Daz - Monique ft Soopafly - 96/08/18 

Nothing But The Cavi Hit - 96/08/21 - Rhyme & Reason OST

Loc'd Out Hood (Final) - 96/08/22 - Gang Related

I Don't Care What The People Say - 96/08/23 - Doggy Bag

Our Daily Bread (Final - no Rage) - 96/08/23 - Retaliation, Revenge

 

Oct. - Dec. 96 - first half of 97

 

Gangsta Walk ft Snoop

I Roc Mics
Daz - Because of You Girl ft Outlawz
Crip Wit Me
U Aint This Homie
Roll Wit Us - Chronic 2000
My System ft Mactress - R.A.W.
Livin Tha Gangsta Life

Daz - Way Too Major ft Tray Deee - 97/04/07-08 - Gang Related

Kurupt - Hollywood Robbery ft Snoop & The Gang - 97/04/07-08 - Gang Related

Daz - Save A Life ft Ital Joe - 97/07/07 - Doggy Bag

Daz - Daz & Kurupt (Cut) - 97/07/27 

Kevin Vernado - Ain't No Sunshine (We R Covered) (prod. Daz) - 97/07/27

Daz - Retaliation, Revenge (Final) - 97/12/11 - Retaliation, Revenge

Daz - In California - 97/12/16 - Retaliation, Revenge

Daz - It Might Sound Crazy - 98/03/27 - Retaliation, Revenge

Daz - I Might Sound Crazy (Remix) - 98/06/09

Daz - Because of U Girl (Remix) - 98/08/17 - Chronic 2000

Daz - Roll Wit Us (w Kurupt) - 99/03/03 - 2002

Daz - Gangsta Rap (Final) ft Crooked I - 00/02/14 - 2002

51.50 Illegally Insane (Ryan D & Klark Gable) -1992- Games People Play (ARRogant)

• Ryan D was Tupac partner's in the group One Nation Emcees (1988-1990)
• Klark Gable presumably produced 2Pac's "I Thought U Knew" and "Daze of a Criminal"
• Article about the group : article 

See Discogs page, new edition

Listen it in YouTube or there

Tracklist :

1. 51.50 Intro
2. Jealous MF's
3. They Made Me
4. Games People Play
5. Back on tha Track
6. Steady Stayin' Paid
7. Dorothy
8. Illegally Insane
9. Green & White (Jailstrumental)

Bonus tracks 1999 edition :

10. Do it Right (Remix)

11. We Be Dumpin'

12. You Don't Wanna Battle feat. 2Pac

 
Producer - DJ Klark Gable
Rap - Ryan D, Levy Love, TAC

ARRogant Records led by Kendrick Wells. 

When Tupac alias MC New York moved from New Jersey to Marin City and was been kicked off from home by his mother, he's been hanging out in the Jungle. There he met Ryan D and his friends. They were eventually forming a group called One Nation Emcees (cf. Straight From The Underground/Benefits of Poverty). In 1990, he was still recording with Ryan D and DJ Klark Gable for "I Thought U Knew" and "All In The Dayz of a Criminal". While 2-Pac left for touring with his new group Strictly Dope and the Digital Underground, then for recording solo, Ryan D and Klark Gable recorded their album.

Ryan D and the group released another albums in 1995, 2000 and 2002. He is highly featured in Assassin's album Hitworks, volume 1 (1996, Liferdef Records), with partner TAC, Ant Dog, Digital Underground, Rated R... and Pac/Dee tha Mad Bitch's song "Real Bad Boyz".

DJ Klark Gable has also produced "Tempo of Boom" in 89 and "Overnight Succe$$" in 90 for Ant Dog. It is said that 2Pac was a huge fan of the first one and promoted the tape to everybody while touring with Digital Underground. Ant Dog was also featured in live version of Pac's "Panther Power" (over Self Destruction beat) the same year.

TAC will released a solo album in 1999, Servin Knock'z (Ping Records) with Yukmouth of Luniz, Marvaless !! and of course Ryan D. Levy Love is not known anywhere else.

In 1990, just before the recording of 2Pacalypse Now, 2Pac was planning to publish a mini album produced by him and Klark Gable titled All In The Dayz of a Criminal, featuring the Jungle Posse ("All In The Dayz of a Criminal", "Young Godfather"), Ray Luv of Strictly Dope (original unleaked "Scared Straight") and Yonnie ("Rushin' 'Em From Richtown"). Unfortunately, the Jungle Posse (Wiz, Playa Playa and Dank, backing voices in the outro of "Trapped") never recorded their part of "All In The Dayz of a Criminal" and the project was given up (cf. Dayz of a Criminal EP)

"You Don't Wanna Battle" is a remix of "I Thought U Knew" recorded in 1990.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funky Aztecs -1992- Chicano Blues (Par / TNT)

• 2Pac & Digital Underground's TNT Records labelmates ; 
• Partially produced by Pee Wee of the Underground Railroad...
• 2Pac's latin friends from Bay Area !!
  
• with 2Pac, Money B, Pee Wee, Wicked Julian Brooks of Mod Squad, Jeremy Jackson 
  

Discogs page 

Listen to the album in YT or grab it there

 

Tracklist 

 

1. Straight Up Loco feat. DJ Q-Bert (scratches)

2. Chicano Blues

3. Barrioism

4. Much Love feat. ALT

5. Ribbitt

6. Amerikkkan (interlude)

7. Shoot The Mutha Fuka !! feat. Pee Wee & Jeremy "JZ" Jackson (scratches)

8. New Blues (interlude)

9. Mi Burro

10. Salsa Con Soulfood feat. 2Pac, Money B & TMD

11. Nothing Else Matters
12. XIV, XIII, K.J. feat. Jeremy "JZ" Jackson (scratches)

13. Organize

14. Brown Sugar feat. Sean Rodgers (chorus) & Jeremy "JZ" Jackson (scratches)

15. Don Quixote feat. Julian Brooks of Mod Squad

16. Lloyd Did It

17. Smokin K.J. feat. J-Loc

Produced by Accrraaa J. Pavel,  Kirk Cumpler & Lloyd Gregory (2,8,10,11,16), Merciless of Funky Aztecs (14), (2,8,11,16), Pee Wee (5,7,9,12,13,14,17), Sam Burton of Mod Squad (1,3,5,4,13,15)

Co-produced by Funky Aztecs

Executive producer - Atron Gregory

Engineer - Darrin Harris, Marc Senasac, Steve Counter

 

 

Funky Aztecs & T.N.T Records

Tupac and Digital Underground's manager Atron Gregory also helped this latin group from Bay Area to record their first album. Logically, there are the same sound engineers than in Pac's album, with notably Darrin Harris. same team also worked in all TNT records and in 451 and Richie Rich albums. 

 

Pee Wee of Gold Money, who was one of the 2Pacalypse main musical architect as Underground Railroad, produced a big part of that album and is sometimes considered as a member of the group. So everything will easily remind of Pac's first album. 

 

In three tracks, we even have Jeremy "JZ" Jackson (also member of the Underground Railroad) at the turntables, the one responsible for producing "Troublesome", eponymous song of his album of that time. the album being shelved, it will finally be released only in Def Jam's How To Be A Player OST in 1997... It could have helped Jeremy to a greater career. then he will produce for Saafir and Hobo Junction.

 

Sam Burton of the Mod Squad also gave some of the strange sound he will give for Mod Squad. With the latin good vibes of the group, that will result in a kind of Digital Underground sound a like.

 

 

"Salsa Con Soulfood" == > "Slippin' Into Darkness"

 

2Pac is featured in "Salsa con Soulfood" with Money B of the Digital Underground, and with TMD, Oakland rapper from Capital Tax, who released a EP album in 1986 with Mr Magic with a first successful single "Backstabbers" (same title than a 2Pac's unleaked song, maybe not recorded or with an alternate title).

The song contains a sample of Weak at the Knees" from Steve Arrington. Pac's verse is the same as for "Slippin' into Darkness" (over the famous W.A.R. song) in Funky Aztecs' second album in 1995. Tupac was probably in jail when Funky Aztecs wanted him to record again with them. And it ends up to be the first patched Pac's verse before the Amaru posthumous recordings.

So in 1995, they will release their second album, Day of the Dead, also heavily produced by Pee Wee, with a sticker announcing a 2Pac feature, but the album was more confidential.

Live Squad -1993- A Game Of Survival (Promo Full Version) (Tommy Boy)

•  Stretch's Live Squad original first album (recorded in 91-92)
  

Discogs pages of the Promo, of the CD/DVD 2001 edition

(LISTEN in Youtube or grab the 2001 edition here)

Original Promo Cassette (recently leaked)

1. -- Hit Skit Intro --

2. Shit List

3. -- Block Hot Skit --

4. Heartless (Original Mix) ** ***

5. -- Pop Da Wino Skit #1 --

6. Fake Gangster (Origina Mix) ** ***

7. -- Diss Skit --

8. Pump For A Livin **

9. -- Job Skit --

10. Game of Survival

11. -- Money Skit --

12. Movin' Keez Wit Ease

13. -- Snitches Skit -- *

14. Snitches Lay In Ditches (Bitch Ass Niggas) *
15. -- Funeral Skit --
16. Murderah

17. -- Pop Da Wino Skit #2 --
18. Big Time feat. 2Pac ****
19. -- Can't Take It Skit --

20. Trouble On My Mind

21. -- Stressed Out Skit --

22. Fuck It

23. -- Blowin' Skit --

24. Blow 'Em Out Da Frame **

21. -- Robbery Plot Skit --

22. Da Gatta Way 

 

* not released in 2001 edition. 

** uncomplete versions (~1'30) in 2001 Grand Imperial edition.  

*** alternate mixes in 2001 Grand Imperial edition.

**** "Big Time" is replaced in the 2001 edition by the later track "Daddy Big Timerz" that is like a follow up and was probably a song from their unreleased second album (cf. Diary of a Poor Man). We can hear the beginning of the next skit in some leaked versions of "Big Time". 

There could be also an earlier version of the tape (according to a tracklist given by Banned of Bomb1st forum), that could have an unkown track "Nod Ya Head" instead of "Heartless", and slightly alternate versions of "Big Time" and "Fuck It". Banned also affirms that A-side is made of 1991 material and B-side of 1992 material. 

Beginnings

Live Squad is the brothers Stretch & Majesty, and DJ K-Low. They are from the Queens.

They released their first two songs in a 1988 EP rare compilation BQ in Full Effect with Aaron Dee, C-Nice and a then unknown Percee P with his group Top Priority. In 1989, less known, it seems that Stretch produced the whole album of the conscious group The W.I.S.E. Guyz, eF uoU eN Kay E. 

Listen to 1988 Troopin' it / We Ain't Having It

They met Shock G in 1990, what leads Stretch to be featured in Digital Underground's 2nd album Sound of the P and in 2Pac's 2Pacalypse Now in 1991. At that time, Live Squad started to record their first album signed with Tommy Boy, with the help of their friend Ed Lover. In 92, they released their first single Heartless/Murderah and they shot a short hardcore movie to promote the album.

cover of the single 

Heartless video

Stretch also heavily participated to the recording of 2Pac's second album (then called Troublesome 21). But with Ice T's "Cop Killer" controversy and also after the L.A. riots, music labels were afraid of releasing hardcore albums. Interscope asked 2Pac to remake his album to be less violent (that became Strictly 4 My Niggaz). Live Squad released the second single for the album "Pump For A Livin/Game of Survival" in 1993, but Tommy Boy simply cancealed the album... (so hard to imagine a clean version of the album...)

GAME OF SURVIVAL - The short movie, part 1 / part 2

The idea of making a combo movie + soundtrack will be re-used by another artists, starting by 2Pac himself. Like if Stretch had given him the idea for his Thug Life project (cf. Honor Among Thugz). But 2Pac was also struggling to release his album with his justice troubles. Finally, it is Snoop Doggy Dogg and Death Row who first released this type of project in 1994 : Murder Was The Case.

Grand Imperial 2001 edition

In 2001, Majesty with his independant label Grand Imperial decided to realease most part of the album. But, probably still angry against 2Pac/Stretch diss, he didn't include "Big Time" feat. 2Pac. He includes "Movie Commercial" (a promo freestyle from that time) and "How We Roll" as bonus tracks.

Live Squad -1994-1995- Diary of a Poor Man / Ghetto Blues (2nd album project)

• Live Squad's second album project
• recorded at same period than Thug Life Volume 1
• delayed, remade and finally shelved because of Thug Life, Qad studios shooting and finally Stretch's death in '95
  

LISTEN

Tracklist :

1. Daddy Big Timers (Back Again)
2. Nobody Move
3. No Pause
4. Wrong Nigga
5. Whirlwind
6. It Hurts The Most feat. 2Pac & Mopreme
7. Cheese 
8. Moving Up In The World
9. Cashflow (Understand Me)
10. The Edge
11. Danger Times feat. 2Pac
12. Heat In My Hand
13. Shit List pt. 2
14. No More (Another Memory)
15. Pay Me - snippet
    
16. Life of a Hustler - snippet
17. Hectic - snippet
18. Diary of a Poor Man - snippet

Most of the tracks here are taken from Live Squad's The Tribute, The Forgotten Chapter (2010, Grand Imperial), except for #1 from Game of Survival (2001, Grand Imperial) which was a replacement for "Big Time feat. 2Pac" (was there a rest of eagerness ? a right problem ?). "Danger Times" and "It Hurts The Most" are from 2Pac's leaked originals. "Heat In My Hand" has recently been released in The Recruiters (2023, Grand Imperial).

A forgotten chapter fairly well released to the public

It could appear that Majesty released most of Live Squad 2nd album project in The Tribute - Forgotten Chapter (2010, Grand Imperial). But it is also clear that it is not like it was recorded with some new elements, notably new Majesty solo songs ("Forever", "Seems Like Yesterday", "Pain Tribute", "Rapumentary") and new verses by Majesty and E-Money Bags ("It Hurts The Most", "Wrong Nigga"). And probably Majesty kept some tracks for a new project...

Banned of Bomb1st forum confirmed that a sequence of the album called Diary of a Poor Man contains "Danger Times", "It Hurts The Most", "God Bless The Dead". Leaked version of "It Hurts The Most" has only Pac, Mopreme & Stretch. Forgotten Chapter's version adds Majesty & E-Money modern verses. Is there any other version with Majesty ? Original "God Bless The Dead" has only Stretch verse and two Pac verses... It would be strange in a Live Squad album. Maybe there is another version with Majesty and not with two Pac verses...

In the known handwritten tracklists, the album then called Ghetto Blues includes "Daddy Big Timers". It is clearly a sequel to "Big Time" featuring 2Pac that was supposed to be included in original Game of Survival (replaced by that one in Grand Imperial's 2001 release - probably it was still unbelievable for Majesty to release a Tupac song at that time). The song couldn't be included in this new release.

"Wrong Nigga" re-uses the music of "Judgement Day". Stretch probably decided to record his own song for his album because the song was a leftover track from Thug Life vol. 1 (maybe because Dee wasn't part of the group anymore and 2Pac didn't want the song). Majesty added or re-recorded a verse (at the end he says rest in peace Stretch & E-Money Bag).

Intro
1 Back Again
2 Daddy Big Timers
3
4
5
..10 [Incomplete]

Another on the bottom left:
1 Back Again
2 Wrong Nigga
3 Pay Me Feat Mopreme of Thug Life
4 Hurts Da Most Feat Tupac and Mopreme of Thug Life
5 Danger Times Feat Tupac
6 Heat
7 MNM ?
8 [Y'all?] all Fucked Up
9 [unsure] / Gotta Get It

And a third on the bottom right :
1 Back Again
2 Wrong Nigga
3 No Pause

 

Ghetto Blues handwritten tracklists (summer of 94) 

Two successive projects ?

According to Banned from Bomb1st forum, Diary of a Poor Man and Ghetto Blues are two different projects. Diary is said to have a complete sequence ready to be released with songs like "Under Pressure" and maybe "God Bless The Dead" (maybe more likely a Stretch kind of solo album). So this sequence was probably pre-Thug Life Volume 1. The song is not in Ghetto Blues tracklists, so it could mean that Ghetto Blues was a later project, post-Thug Life with also "Wrong Nigga" re-using the Thug Life unreleased "Judgement Day" Stretch music.

Both projects include songs with 2Pac and Mopreme : "Danger Times", "It Hurts the Most", "God Bless The Dead", "Under Pressure", unleaked "Pay Me" with Mopreme... First two were in both album projects so it is clear that Diary of a Poor Man turned into Ghetto Blues.