Tuesday 5 July 2016

R U Still Damned?

2Pac - Fuck All Y'All (O.G version)
(From Thug Life sessions; 1994)


Personal favourite unreleased O.G version 2Pac song right here. Apparently intended for the Thug Life album and presumably mothballed because of the George Benson sample. Quite fancy the notion of it being an exclusive on the Above The Rim OST, meself - Lord knows that compilation could have done with a few more rap songs in among all those lukewarm R&B jams.

Remember when Suge Knight & Dr. Dre shelved the exclusive 1994 Dogg Pound & Nate Dogg bangeur featured in Above The Rim's obligatory club scene, probably so they could include one of those two shitty Jewell songs on the movie's OST instead? Thankfully, it turned up on the Sunset Park soundtrack 2 years later in 1996, albeit with its title switched from Mobbin' With Tha Dogg Pound to Just Doggin'.
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19 comments:

  1. Bumpy Boris Johnson5 July 2016 at 13:37

    Completely forgot Avon Barksdale and Jackie Aprile Sr. were even in Above the Rim.

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  2. Kelvin Mack10zie5 July 2016 at 13:52

    Big fan of yung(ish) Paulie Walnuts and Uncle Junior both having bit-part roles in James Toback's Fingers personally.

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  3. d5 July 2016 at 16:05

    a v balm & bollected Jackie Aprile sr was in Blood In Blood Out too iirc

    My fav unreleased 2pac is this one where him and snoop presumabley freestyled(def Snoop anyways) for hours and they just cut out the highlights ala The Shiznit

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh0K_Nd1NFA

    is shit geting shelved for sample clearance is so rare now and the legality of free internet releases so murky that they just try and delete it from history like w the og My Cabana? tragic if so

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  4. Anonymous5 July 2016 at 16:06

    Also Michael V Gazzo stole the show in Fingers. was he big in anything else bar The Godfather? that dudes a one off

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  5. Kelvin Mack10zie5 July 2016 at 16:33

    Never seen him in owt else.

    Never heard that tune before. Snoop & 2Pac shootin' the shit back and forth like EPMD on a rap remake of Love Hangover is something which could have only ever existed in my head. Damn.

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  6. hotbox5 July 2016 at 19:13

    1st time hearing this. he's bumpin' some laura branigan though?

    sounds very thug life-ish where 1/2 the songs were solo pac jonts with obvious loops. thug life album overlooked in the pac canon imo

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  7. d5 July 2016 at 19:30

    its kinda another 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted too but with P Is Free instead of The Message & Radio Activity. Snoop rly likes remaking rap songs.

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  8. step one5 July 2016 at 19:51

    always thought the ATR soundtrack was overrated. Granted the highs are high but there is definitely way too much sub par material and generic R&B. A comp of ATR and Murder Was The Case would be the one though.

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  9. Andrew Barber5 July 2016 at 22:04

    I still think the Above The Rim soundtrack is the best soundtrack despite a couple of R&B clunkers. For the record, "Doggie Style" is not one of those clunkers.

    I'm guessing "Just Doggin" was cut in lieu of the superior "Big Pimpin" and the inferior "Dogg Pound 4 Life."

    The real crime was only including 2Pac's "Pain" and "Loyal 2 The Game" on the cassette only version / CD Maxi single. The latter I had to purchase in order to actually own said Pac songs in a pre Napster world.

    Also, the sleeper rap song on Above The Rim Sndtrak is "Crack Em" by OFTB produced by DJ Quik

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  10. Kelvin Mack10zie5 July 2016 at 23:19

    Agreed on Crack Em.

    Opening 4 songs on the Murder Was The Case OST is unfuckwithable, especially because they were/are all exclusives.

    It's fucked up how Dogg Pound's best songs ended up scattered across various soundtracks rather than on Dogg Food.

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  11. Unknown6 July 2016 at 01:46

    The RnB stuff on the Death Row soundtracks was a mixed bag but the ones that were good are excellent songs. I love Dogg Food but I can't deny there's nothing on that album besides NY NY that's as good as Big Pimpin or What Would You Do?

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  12. Andrew Barber6 July 2016 at 02:25

    Dogg Food is my favorite Death Row album behind All Eyez On Me!

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  13. Kelvin Mack10zie6 July 2016 at 09:57

    I'm a Doggy Style man.


    In case people missed it, Tha Barber's Final Days of Death Row article is by far the best piece to ever appear on that site.

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  14. Andrew Barber6 July 2016 at 15:32

    Thank you Lord Marty

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  15. GGGGG6 July 2016 at 16:06

    Good read

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  16. turd butt7 July 2016 at 22:24

    Gang Related OST was the best, I got caught shoplifting that shit twice before I finally made it out with a copy

    also still got this in the car right now, never even checked it out past track 1 though

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEzgC4AsCKU

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  17. Kelvin Mack10zie8 July 2016 at 12:08

    Third time lucky.

    Prefer the posthumous High 'Til I Die to the O.G Thug Life version.

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  18. Anonymous27 February 2018 at 06:28

    can you re up this song?

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  19. Kelvin Mack10zie27 February 2018 at 09:42

    Doesn't need re-upping because it's still at the top of the page.

    Just click on the title and it'll take you to the Audiomack page where you can download it.

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