Saafir -1992-1993- Boxcar sessions Demo (prod. Jeremy JZ Jackson) (2020, Hip-Hop Enterprise)

• Pre-first album sessions
• Saafir started exactly like 2Pac as a featured artist for Chopmaster J's Force One Network, Money B's Raw Fusion and as a Shock G's Digital Underground official member.
  
• Mainly produced by Jeremy JZ Jackson, the one who produced "Something Wicked" and "Troublesome" for 2Pac.
  

Discogs page

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1. Light Sleeper (Original Version)

2. Joint Custody (J Groove's Spliff Mix)
3. In The Future

4. The Heavyweight
5. Prime Time After Seven
6. Running From 5.0

7. Bones

8. Killen Kydz
9. No Return - The Set Up

10. No Return (Original Version)

11. Ball Point

12. Whomp 2000

  

Bonus Tracks : 

. Quest For Survival feat. Plan Bee & Pooh-Man

. Rock The Show (I Wanna Know) - "Battle Drill" B-Side

. Pull Ya Card - "Just Riden" B-Side

 

Producer – Jeremy JZ Jackson (tracks: A1, A4, B3, B4), Big Nous (tracks: A3), J Groove (tracks: A2, B1, B2, B6)

Remastered By – Justin Perkins

 

These tracks were recorded before Saafir's first album Boxcar Sessions. Some of them had been released earlier in the Promo CD Unreleased Boxcar Sessions in 2002.

Track 6 was released in Hobo Juction's member Plan Bee's Quest For Survival in 1994.

  

 

 

Saafir started like 2Pac, as a member of Digital Underground

Saafir doesn't have had the occasion to record many songs with 2Pac. They are just featured together in Raw Fusion's "Pass The 40" (cf. Tales of a 90's N.I.G.G.A.), a posse song only released in 92 in Hollywood Records Sampler promo. From West Oakland, Saafir appeared in 1991 in the background vocals in Money B & DJ Fuze Raw Fusion's "Do My thang" (cf. Live in Styleetron), probably recorded at the same time than "Pass The 40". The same year, he is featured in two tracks of Chopmaster J & Dave Hollister Force One Network first album The MME Program 1. The next year, he is an official member of Digital Underground for their third album, The Body-Hat Syndrom (credited for 9 tracks). He will also be featured in their 96's Future Rhythm album.

In 1994, Saafir appears in the very famous "Wake Up Show Anthem '94" with Nas, Pharoahe Monche, Ras Kass, Lauryn Hill... in Street Fighter OST with Ras Kass and Ahmad. The same year, his collective the Hobo Junction (with notably Big Nous and Jeremy JZ Jackson from The Underground Railroad) recorded one of the most the most infamous clash versus Del's Hieroglyphics group (cf. Battle), prolonged with his clash with Hiero's main member Casual (cf. unofficial Saafir tape). He is even featured in Casual's first album Fear Itself in 1994.

The same year, he published some 12'' : "Battle Drill" prod. by J Groove, "Light Sleeper" prod. by JZ, "Just Riden" prod. JZ. His first solo album Boxcar Sessions got released the same year with notably a speaking interlude by Pee Wee of Underground Railroad. In 1995, he released the EP Limited Edition with the Hobo Junction. 

In 1997, he released the album Trigonometry under the alias of Mr No No, with 6 songs produced by JZ and two featuring with and produced by Shock G. In 1999, in his album Hit List, 3 tracks were produced by Shock G, one by Tony Pizarro and it features Kam, Jayo Felony and Chino XL.

 

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 

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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.

Gold Money (Pee Wee & Bigg Money Odis) -1992- A Day in the Life of a Player (TNT/Tommy Boy)

•  Pee Wee from The Underground Railroad
  

Discogs page

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Tracklist :

 

1. Youngblood

2. Cop N Blow feat. Foe Doe Caddy

3. Money feat. Shock G

4. Momma Mia

5. Mnniggaahh

6. W-E-E-D

7. Daddy Never Left Ya

8. Nothin'

9. The Hoooof

10.Standin' Ovation

11. Young Black Teenagers

Producer - Pee Wee

Rap - Bigg Money Odis & Pee Wee

Executive Producer - Atron Gregory 

Backing Vocals by Foe Doe Daddy, Jeremy "JZ" Jackson, Money B, Atron Gregory and many others...  

 

TNT Recordings with Digital Underground

Atron Gregory's TNT Recordings 

Let's notice that the album is released in the label TNT Recordings like Digital Underground's first four albums, 2Pac's first two albums, Funky Aztecs first album, Syke & Johnny's Evil Mind Gangsta's album, Smooth's two second albums and Big Syke's first solo album when he left Death Row !!

 

Bigg Money Odis 

Like 2Pac, Bigg Money Odis appeared for the first time in Digital Underground's This is an E.P. release (1991, TNT/Tommy Boy), but in "Nuttin' Nis Funky". They are together on stage in "Nuttin' Nis Freestyle" with Digital Underground, Pee Wee and Treach of Naughty By Nature at the Apollo Theater in July of 1991 (cf. Tales of a 90's N.I.G.G.A. EP).

As a mentor, like for 2Pac's first album, Shock G appears in the second track of the album... and like for "Trapped" also with Shock G, they released a video.

See the video of the single "Money" feat. Shock G

Pee Wee, member of the Underground Railroad 

The Underground Railroad was a network of safe places in South of United States in the 19th century for runaway slaves. 

2Pac gave that name to the producing team who worked on his first album 2Pacalypse Now. Most of them were members of the Digital Underground : Shock G, DJ Fuze, Jeremy JZ Jackson. Pee Wee, Stretch and Big D also worked on Digital Underground's second album Sons of P (1991, TNT/Tommy Boy).  And Pee Wee produced "Trapped" and "I Don't Give a Fuck" for 2Pac, among many unreleased and even unleaked "Rap Pack", "Trapped Original", and unconfirmed "Words of Wisdom First Version", "Neva Surrenda", "Backstabbas" and "Hymn of the 90's N.I.G.G.A.".

Pee Wee is also featured as a rapper in "I Don't Give a Fuck" !! But it is little known because he is credited by his pseudonym of "Pogo" ; like you can hear in that album, it is well Pee Wee's voice and style... He explained that the song is based on a true evening they had in town with also Schmmovy and Shock... HERE

Pee Wee also gives backing vocals in "Something Wicked", giving so the identity of three songs. 2Pac having really started to record new material for his album with Pee Wee at his house, right after the huge Digital Underground tour they made in first half of 1990 with Public Enemy, Latifah, Naughty By Nature, Heavy D (cf. The Early Years). Pee Wee is an important part of 2Pac's first album. 

He will be featured alongside 2Pac in "DFLO Shuttle", in Digital Underground's second album Sons of P, recorded the same year than 2Pacalyspse Now and released one month earlier.

Pee Wee and Bigg Money Odis will be featured also with Tupac, Money B in Funky Aztecs first album Chicano Blues (1992, TNT), in which Pee Wee also produced 6 tracks (with two other by Jeremy Jackson)...

After that, Pee Wee will be featured with Too Short, Ant Banks, Juvenile Committee, Too Short's Dangerous Crew and will produce tracks for Too Short, MC Breed, Juvenile Committee, Goldy, Dangerous Crew. Too Short's friends.

back : Pee Wee, Fuze, Bigg Money Odis, ??
front : Schmoovy??, Shock G, Money B & 2Pac

 

 

2Pac -1991- 2Pacalypse Now (T.N.T. / Interscope)

• 1991, November the 12th.
  
• Recorded between November of 1990 and August of 1991 with T.N.T. Recordings.

 

Discogs page 

wikipedia page

Tracklist :

1. Young Black Male

2. Trapped feat. Shock G (chorus)

3. Soulja's Story

4. I Don't Give A Fuck feat. Pee-Wee (Gold Money)

5. Violent

6. Words of Wisdom

7. Something Wicked

8. Crooked Ass Nigga feat. Stretch

9. If My Homie Calls

10. Brenda's Got A Baby feat. Roniece & Dave Hollister (chorus)

11. Tha' Lunatic feat. Stretch

12. Rebel of the Underground

13. Part Time Mutha feat. Angelique Yonnie Stokes & Poppi (chorus)

Produced by The Underground Railroad :

• Big D The Impossible (1, 3, 9, 10, 13)
• Shock G (6, 11, 12)
• Pee-Wee (2, 4)
• Jeremy JZ Poppi (7)
  
• Raw Fusion (5)
• Live Squad (8) 

 

Backing Vocals : Shock G, Money B, DJ Fuze, Mac Mone, Pee-Wee, Ray Luv, Yonni, Playa-Playa...

Vinyl LP back cover

An explosive title

The title of the album is of course inspired by the title of the famous movie Apocalypse Now from 1979, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie itself was inspired by the novella Heart of Darkness, published by Joseph Conrad in 1899. Both tell a progressive entry in a world of darkness. So the title could be interpretated as if 2Pac was kind of guide to lead listeners into the heart of the american ghetto, into the darkness or the blackness of that ghetto.

 

That title was also an alias of 2Pac at that time but also a remain of an unreleased and unleaked (maybe even unrecorded) song of the same name supposed to begin the album in some early tracklists, eventually produced by Sir Jinx (Dr. Dre's cousin, rapper and well known producer for Ice Cube, Kool G Rap, WC & The Maad Circle, Yo-Yo...). But Sir Jinx denied to have ever produced for 2Pac. Another handwritten paper mentions Big D as a possible producer but it is not confirmed yet by anybody. 

Early works to a whole new thing : The Undergroud Railroad

"underground railroad" is a reference to the famous network of clandestine routes and safe houses for runaway slaves to escape towards free states or Canada.

 

You can see in the early tracklists (cf. Tales of The 90's N.I.G.G.A.) how the album turned from a collection of early years songs (especially from Jungle Posse and Strictly Dope sessions) to a whole new album. The Underground Railroad is credited as the people who produced the album. It is a kind of collective mainly formed around Shock G and Digital Underground. Raw Fusion is the side group by Money B & DJ Fuze. Pee-Wee of Gold Money and Stretch of Live Squad also appear in Digital Underground second album. Jeremy JZ and Big D will also produce for Pac's second album. Big D remains as the main sound identity for 2Pac in 1991-1992. 

We could also consider the Underground Railroad as the Atron Gregory's TNT Recording team. Because the label released the albums of Digital Underground, Pee-Wee's Gold Money and Funky Aztecs, and Julian Brook's The Mod Squad (reggae voice as Wicked J giving a verse in original "Static", backing in unreleased "Fade Away" and "Neva Surrender"). TNT will be the label for 2Pac's second album, MC Smooth in 94 or Big Syke when he left Death Row in 96.

DETAILED TRACKLIST

(Special thanks to Bomb1st members Filla and Dominator for samples credits)

01. Young Black Male / Big D The Impossible

• 1991/05-06 (~). A snippet of an early version of the song has been leaked by Banned of Bomb1st forum (cf. Tales of a 90's N.I.G.G.A.).
  
• 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")

02. Trapped feat. Shock G (chorus) / Pee-Wee

• 1990/10 (~) - 1991/04-05 (~) (new mix). Appears in early tracklist for the album in Oct. 90 (cf. Tales of a 90's N.I.G.G.A.). Partially written by Ray "Luv" Tyson, Tupac's partner in Stricty Dope group (cf. The Lost Tapes) and at the backing vocals of "Rebel of the Underground". Banned of Bomb1st forum says there are various alternate mixes - not very different - and a very first take maybe with a Ray Luv's verse. As the first single taken from the album, it was supposed to have a remix version (by Shock G), maybe the same song than "Trapped '92" that was supposed to be included in Troublesome 21 (cf. Ghetto Gospel).
  
• Samples : 
• Southside Movement - "Save The World" (drumline)
  
• James Brown - "The Spank" (melody interpolation)
  
• James Brown - "Funky President" (drumroll)
  
• Tom Browne - "Her Silent Smile" (melody, bassline interpolation)
  

03. Soulja's Story / Big D The Impossible

• 1991/06-08 (~). One of the last songs added to the album with "Part Time Mutha". First chapter of Pac's alter ego named "Soulja", a dark-criminal-minded young black male. Tupac recorded many follow-up for this song : "When I Get Free", "Revenge of a Souljah" and "Souljah's Revenge" in Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. This altered voice appeared again in many other songs recorded in 93 for Thug Life projects like in "Death Around Each Corner (TL Original)" (cf. Thug Life Original) or in "Where Do We Go From Here" (cf. Honor Among Thugz + Exodus). Tupac will lastly refer to his dark minded avatar in "Ballad of a Dead Soulja" (cf. All New Heat / 100% Black Gold).
  
• Samples : 
• Bill Withers - "Ain't No Sunshine" (intro bassline interpolation)
  
• Isaac Hayes - "No Name Bar" (bassline interpolation)
  
• Tom Scott & The L.A. Express - "Sneakin' In The Back" (drumline)
  
• The D.O.C. - "Mind Blowin'" (vocals : "yellin it, cause noboy is tellin it")
  

04. I Don't Give A Fuck feat. Pee-Wee / Pee-Wee

• 1991/06-08 (~). Pee-Wee is credited as "Pogo" but it is clearly his voice (can be compared to his album with Gold Money, A Day in The Life of a Player).

05. Violent / Raw Fusion

• 1991/01-02 (~). The concept of the song appears early in the 2Pacalypse Now album timeline. 
• Samples : 
• Pink Floyd - "Any Color You Like" (melody)
  
• Home T, Cocoa Tea & Shabba Ranks - "Pirates Anthem" (guitar, bassline interpolation)
  
• Funkadelic - "Knee Deep" (snare)
• Public Enemy - "Caught, Can I Get A Witness ?" (vocals interpolation : "They claim that I'm violent, now I choose to be silent")
  
• Geto Boys - "City Under Siege" (vocals : "fuck a damn cop")
  

06. Words of Wisdom / Shock G

• 1991/01-02 (~). Appears in early tracklists of the album in late 90, early 91.
  
• Samples : 
• Curtis Mayfield - "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going To Go" (vocals interpolation : "brotheres, sisters, niggers")
  
• Herbie Hancock - "Chameleon" (rhodes piano)
  

07. Something Wicked feat. Pee Wee (backing) / Jeremy "JZ" Jackson

• 1991/06 (~). Jeremy JZ Jackson appeared as an engineer in Digital Underground's second album Son of a the P. He will also produce the famous "Troublesome" for Pac's shelved second album (cf. Troublesome 21) in late 1991 and could have produced songs for 2Pac/The Kidz early project (cf. 2Pacalypse II). Then he will mainly produce Boxcar Sessions, the first album of Saafir (who was like 2Pac a side member of Digital Underground in 1991-1993).
• Samples :
• The D.O.C. - "It's Funky Enough" (vocals : "Ruthless")
  
• Public Enemy - "Welcome To The Terrordome" (vocals : "wicked")
  

08. Crooked Ass Nigga feat. Stretch / Stretch

• 1991/05-06 (~). The song will have a part 2 as "Crooked Nigga Too" recorded after Tupac was beaten by the Oakland police the 17th of Oct. 91 which was supposed to be included in all tracklists from is second album (cf. 2Pacalypse II / Troublesome 21). It is rumoured there could also be an alternate song from the serie titled "Crooked Cop Killer"... (but it could be the same "Crooked Nigga Too" which has )
  
• Samples : 
• Idriss Muhammad - "Crab Apple" (melody, bassline, drumline)
• N.W.A. - "Gangsta Gangsta" (gunshots, vocals : "I got em", "suddenly i see some niggas i don't like")
• N.W.A. - "Fuck Tha Police" (vocals : "criminal behavior")
  

09. If My Homie Calls / Big D The Impossible

• 1991/06/10 - 27 (?). As the second single (b-side of "Brenda's Got A Baby") taken from the album, the song received a radio version (with alternate vocals and mix, cf. Singles & Soundtracks) and two remixes (Turbo Street mix & Turbo R&B mix) produced in 1992 but never been officially released (cf. 2Pacalypse II / Ghetto Gospel).
• Samples : 
• Dyke & The Blazers - "Let A Woman Be A Woman" (drumline)
  
• Herbie Hancock - "Chameleon" (bassline interpolation) 
• Herbie Hancock - "Fat Mama" (melody, drums)
  
• The Soul Children & Jesse Jackson - "I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To (Wattstax)" (vocals)
• N.W.A. - "Prelude" (vocals : "We'll alright y'all")
• LL Cool J - "Around The Way Girl" (vocals : "If you ever need a place to stay")

10. Brenda's Got A Baby feat. Roniece & Dave Hollister (chorus) / Big D The Impossible

• 1991/04-05 (~). The song is said to re-use the concept of one of his first song called "Babies Having Babies" with Mouse Man (cf. The Early Years). As second single from the album, the song has a Radio version with alternate vocals and mixdown (cf. Singles & Soundtracks).

11. Tha' Lunatic feat. Stretch / Shock G

• 1991/06-08 (~). This song replaced an early "Revenge of the Lunatic" 7' song and re-used some lyrics of it (cf. Tales of a 90's N.I.G.G.A.), a song which was supposed to be a single with a still unleaked Shock G remixed version. After the release of the album, 2Pac thought to make from this early version a follow up for his next album (cf. 2Pacalypse II)
• Samples : 
• Charles Wright - "Giggin Down 103rd" (bassline interpolation)
• Parliament - "One Of Those Funky Things" (horns, whistle modified)
  
• N.W.A. - "Gangsta Gangsta" (vocals interpolation : "oh no, not another new jack swearing he's ruthless ducked and now he's fucked and left toothless")
  

12. Rebel of the Underground feat. Ray Luv (speaking), Shock G (chorus) & Yonni Angelique (?) (chorus) / Shock G

• 1990/12 - 08 (new mix ?). One of the earliest recorded track from the album with "Trapped", the song was as early scrapped from the album and was picked up again at the last minute. Credits of the album indicate "backing vocals" by Ray Luv (Pac's partner in Strictly Dope), Shock G and Yonni. Yonnie Stokes is a girl 2Pac already wanted to promote by giving her a song for his early project Dayz of a Criminal EP in mid 90 (probably shelved because 2Pac signing to Interscope - cf. Early Years, in one tracklist it is "Yonnie", in another it's "Sista"). She will also be half of the unfinished project Ghetto Gospel / 4 Colored Girlz Only, with The Kidz, under the nickname of Mysta maybe with a group called "The G'z / The Bitch'z" (cf. 2Pacalypse II / Ghetto Gospel). She will be even recalled by 2Pac during the Thug Life recording times in late 93 - early 94 ; she will be with the group for the official Mike Miller photoset (used for the Volume 1 artwork but it seems she only recorded one song for it (cf. Honor Among Thugz). But there's a problem... there is only a woman's voice  light singing here... Very strange for a girl who defined herself as "a sista named mister" and was more likely a rapper... Is it another mistake (with Pee Wee rap vocals credits forgotten in "I Don't Give A Fuck") ?
  
• Samples : 
• Bootsy Collins - "The Pinocchio Theory" (melody)
• Parliament - "Theme From The Black Hole" (kick, snare)
• Honey Drippers - "Impeach The President" (drumline)

13. Part Time Mutha feat. Angelique Yonnie Stokes (?) & Poppi (chorus) / Big D The Impossible

• 1991/06-08 (~). Poppi will also be the singer of "Pappa'z Song" and of the original version of "Changes" (cf. 2Pacalypse II). I read somewhere that it could be a pseudonym for the producer Jeremy JZ Jackson... Who knows ? A girl named Angelique is here credited for "background vocals" but there are none ! only rap vocals... Banned from Bomb1st said Angelique is also having the singing parts in "It Ain't Necessarily So"... So she could be more likely the background voice of "Rebel of the Underground", and the female rapping here could be Yonnie. Except if Angelique is really Angie like said in Discogs, a woman rapper from Richmond/Oakland (like Yonnie), who give verses for Bay Area rappers Seagram, Psycho Gangsta, Pizzo, Y-D in 95-96 and had the group Badd Grlzs with another girl named Nika who she released the EP Deadly Ground with in 1994 (a group name that sounds like "Tha G'z", the Yonnie's group in early Ghetto Gospel / 4 Colored Girlz Only, cf. 2Pacalypse II).
  
• Sample : 
• Stevie Wonder - "Part-Time Lover" (melody, vocals interpolation)
  
• Melvin Bliss - "Synthetic Substitution" (drumline interpolation, snare)
  
• Boogie Down Productions - "Part Time Suckers" (vocals : "paaart tiiime")