I've exposed where its located, you could round up some crackheads and send them on a mission
I can put that together, I have a majority of the sessions
Sadly it never came to fruition, that and the 3 The Hardway album not happening has to be 2 of the biggest let downs in hip hop history.
And while were at it the Bonnie & Clyde style movie starring Kurupt and Left Eye (which partial filming was done)
Fatal.& Felony album
DPG/Liks album
Mr. Malik 95 Rowdy Records album which at least does exist but doubt we'll ever hear it.
Twinz Def Jam sophomore album
Crooked I untouchable Daz/19th street era I still have some hope for one day
Pac is my GOAT, like in real time he became my favorite rapper, I was a huge Digital Undsrground fan as a kid, so I became aware of him through that so I copped 2Pacalypse off the strength of D.U. and honestly I was kinda ehh about it.
I saw Juice on VHS probably in like late 93 and then by this time he was starting to really be seen more Poetic Justice I was seeing mad commercials for it and my young eyes were very intrigued by Janet with the braids.
And seeing the video for Holla If Ya Hear me i thought that shyt visually and the song was so raw, then with Keep Ya Head Up "Ooh Child" is one of 3 songs that my mom played and sang while I was in the womb, when I was a baby and when I was a toddler til probably like 5 years old she would play these songs a lot and sing them to me, they were essentially my lullabys as a small child so the hook immediately connected with me on a subconscious level and became one of my favorite tracks of that era and a go to for putting on mixtapes I'd give to girls I liked in my school or the neighborhood, so as a 10ish maybe 11 year old a year and a half or so before I really jumped off the porch i was getting hand holding on walks home from school and some pg kisses off the strength of talking up this Pac track and emulating the sentiment to girls, with an absentee pops Pac music started guiding me into manhood.
So early 94 I bought Strictly and was bumping it a lot and then Pac was having features on other artists i was into, SCC, Too Short, ATL and then Spice 1 who at this time was my favorite rapper and had been for a few years, then with all the controversy and news coverage, The Source articles and Thug Life was happening, Above The Rim and all the other whirlwind of pub he was getting by the time MATW was being advertised it was my most anticioated album since Doggystyle and G-Funk era, when i got my hands on it at my favorite (now closed RIP) in the cut side street mom n pop record shop Dr. Disc on the Saturday before it was to be released on the coming Tuesday I must have listened to it 10 times before school on Monday and came in saying "wait til you hear Heavy In The Game, fukk The World, Lord Knows" I was reciting the paper is poetry power and pistols segment over and over again in the lunch room hyping the fukk out that album, a month with that album and then replaying thug life and making cassette mixtapes of his features it was over, Pac officially edged Spice out the throne and the AEOM put that shyt into overdrive for me and Pac has remained my #1 since then, so literally this is 30 years of him as my favorite rapper.
So i say all that to say this, not too many ppl are bigger Pac fans than me but the Pac Stans in the buying group and a couple specific project presenters really fukked us on the Death Row/DPG front, we ended sacrificing full sequenced so. Sentrelle album, various DPG Records dats, J-Flexx aftermath songs and Dre references and a bunch of Quik unheard songs, og's and unused instrumentals for the fukking Pac Madonna collab and a supposed better rip of one of the early Thug Life demos which that particular group buy cost over $10K, iirc it was $1000 a song and thats how it ran we had to fund one song at a time and the shyt took like 4 months and then i think it leaked a few days later. fukking madness. I tried so many times to get the higher ups to heed my suggestions to run VIP better, we would have acquired so much more material if we ran multiple projects simultaneously, ppl will throw money down on something new evry 2 or 3 weeks but they're not as likely to keep paying a fee multiple times for 4 months and not even get music in that time.
The changing of the guard fukked us, in our prime we were getting "levels" (which is how the group was structured) finished in like a month or less, we would get like 10-15 projects are year and then when it became primarily Pac related I think one year we did 2 and the 3rd didn't finish until like a couple months into the next year. Its a shame cause we coulda had a landslide of piff.
