new MAKAVELI album coming...
12-11-02, 02:40 AM
#1
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Thread Starter
new MAKAVELI album coming...
Suge Confirms Makaveli Album
Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 by Jemenis
Interview done over the weekend for the BBC Worldwide network for the westwood rap show. Read out on Radio 1 over the weekend on Westwood & Trevor "MTV THE LICK" Nelson RnB show.
Rapper Tupac Shakur may have been dead for over six years but that still hasn't stopped the man from flying high on America's Billboard Albums Chart. Shakur shifted over 300,000 copies of his latest posthumous release Better Dayz during it's first seven days to debut at number 5 and number 1 on the R&B Chart. Better Dayz is the fifth album released since the rapper's murder in Las Vegas in 1996, but the well is far from dry even yet it would seem. In fact Suge Knight, the boss of Shakur's label Tha Row Records, says some of the artists best material is still to come.
"We're putting together another album that will really represent the best of Pac. All the other stuff that has come before, even on the new record...it's good, but Pac didn't make alot of it with the intention of it being released. Pac was that good that we can put these songs out, but few of them were made for the public to hear. The tracks we're working with now though, they are what you could call real songs. They were made for the album that was to come out after Makaveli. Pac had finished Makaveli when he died and was already 15 or so songs into his next album. It was untitled but Pac wanted to put it out on Christmas day. He wanted to set a record for having three albums in a year. He was so driven, and these songs are amazing, they are the best Pac you will ever hear. There's this one song "Vaults Of The Dead", that will shock alot of people even now. There's another one called "America Eats Its Own", and then there's "Please Do". That is the angriest Pac you will ever hear, it's like Hit Em Up x 100 in terms of how mad he is. Pac recorded another track called "Guns To Ground" that opposed the violence that filled alot of his music but not in a hypocritical way. And then we've got "Tales From The Crib". That is the real song he did with Madonna, but I don't know whether we are going to put that one out or not. It's like the J.Lo thing. Madonna's married with kids now. Back then she was still real wild. They even talked about doing a video for that song, but yeah. We'll have to see about that one."
Knight, who was released from prison last August after four and a half years for parole violation also said Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur is trying to paint a different picture of the rapper by watering down some of the slain emcees lyrics.
"We coming from different places. I want people to have the real Pac, the good the bad...everything. And to do that I think we have to represent his work in the correct manner. This new album we're going to put out. Like I say, it's all real. The beats, the songs are complete. It's Pac at his very best, Pac during his last days. After we put this album out though then that's it, Tupac can fly free of Death Row. That will be it as far as we are concerned. I've got new artists with me now, people who need me to direct and guide their career's like I did for Pac."
Source: Tupac-online.com
Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 by Jemenis
Interview done over the weekend for the BBC Worldwide network for the westwood rap show. Read out on Radio 1 over the weekend on Westwood & Trevor "MTV THE LICK" Nelson RnB show.
Rapper Tupac Shakur may have been dead for over six years but that still hasn't stopped the man from flying high on America's Billboard Albums Chart. Shakur shifted over 300,000 copies of his latest posthumous release Better Dayz during it's first seven days to debut at number 5 and number 1 on the R&B Chart. Better Dayz is the fifth album released since the rapper's murder in Las Vegas in 1996, but the well is far from dry even yet it would seem. In fact Suge Knight, the boss of Shakur's label Tha Row Records, says some of the artists best material is still to come.
"We're putting together another album that will really represent the best of Pac. All the other stuff that has come before, even on the new record...it's good, but Pac didn't make alot of it with the intention of it being released. Pac was that good that we can put these songs out, but few of them were made for the public to hear. The tracks we're working with now though, they are what you could call real songs. They were made for the album that was to come out after Makaveli. Pac had finished Makaveli when he died and was already 15 or so songs into his next album. It was untitled but Pac wanted to put it out on Christmas day. He wanted to set a record for having three albums in a year. He was so driven, and these songs are amazing, they are the best Pac you will ever hear. There's this one song "Vaults Of The Dead", that will shock alot of people even now. There's another one called "America Eats Its Own", and then there's "Please Do". That is the angriest Pac you will ever hear, it's like Hit Em Up x 100 in terms of how mad he is. Pac recorded another track called "Guns To Ground" that opposed the violence that filled alot of his music but not in a hypocritical way. And then we've got "Tales From The Crib". That is the real song he did with Madonna, but I don't know whether we are going to put that one out or not. It's like the J.Lo thing. Madonna's married with kids now. Back then she was still real wild. They even talked about doing a video for that song, but yeah. We'll have to see about that one."
Knight, who was released from prison last August after four and a half years for parole violation also said Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur is trying to paint a different picture of the rapper by watering down some of the slain emcees lyrics.
"We coming from different places. I want people to have the real Pac, the good the bad...everything. And to do that I think we have to represent his work in the correct manner. This new album we're going to put out. Like I say, it's all real. The beats, the songs are complete. It's Pac at his very best, Pac during his last days. After we put this album out though then that's it, Tupac can fly free of Death Row. That will be it as far as we are concerned. I've got new artists with me now, people who need me to direct and guide their career's like I did for Pac."
Source: Tupac-online.com
great.
12-11-02, 11:18 AM
#3
Banned
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 437
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Its hard to believe that he has even better stuff coming out. Tupac had some classic songs on his latest release, Better Dayz. Mama is just a little girl, Thugz Mansion (acoustic) , and My Block are phenomenol. Tupac is putting crap commercial rappers like Puffy and Jay Z to shame 7 years after he died.
12-11-02, 02:53 PM
#5
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Thread Starter
Next year is gonna be a big one:
2pac movie documentary
soundtrack to documentery
new double album
+ more stuff from AMARU
...now a MAKAVELI album (his BEST SH_T)... hopefully the MADONNA track makes it... I knew about that for years now... it was even in a MAGAZINE I saw a couple years back...can't remember the MAG but it had that DAMN B.S. on the cover... and "Please Do" might be the DISS on SNOOP DOGG...
2pac movie documentary
soundtrack to documentery
new double album
+ more stuff from AMARU
...now a MAKAVELI album (his BEST SH_T)... hopefully the MADONNA track makes it... I knew about that for years now... it was even in a MAGAZINE I saw a couple years back...can't remember the MAG but it had that DAMN B.S. on the cover... and "Please Do" might be the DISS on SNOOP DOGG...
Last edited by gerrythedon; 12-12-02 at 01:30 AM.
12-11-02, 03:16 PM
#6
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 1999
Posts: 15,108
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
The only thing about Amaru that bugs me is the way they are changing the original music on these unreleased tracks. For example "Still I Rise". I was real excited when I learned the 2Pac/Outlawz tracks would be released. Still I Rise is still a good album, but I prefered the original beats MUCH better than the ones they ultimately released.
12-11-02, 03:42 PM
#7
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Thread Starter
Originally posted by MJKTool
The only thing about Amaru that bugs me is the way they are changing the original music on these unreleased tracks. For example "Still I Rise". I was real excited when I learned the 2Pac/Outlawz tracks would be released. Still I Rise is still a good album, but I prefered the original beats MUCH better than the ones they ultimately released.
The only thing about Amaru that bugs me is the way they are changing the original music on these unreleased tracks. For example "Still I Rise". I was real excited when I learned the 2Pac/Outlawz tracks would be released. Still I Rise is still a good album, but I prefered the original beats MUCH better than the ones they ultimately released.
what did the O.G ones sound like...I've only heard the OG "LETTER 2 THE PREZ" and "TEAR DROPS and CLOSED CASKETS"...they sound almost identical to the album...and I know that in "SECRETZ of WAR" [from STILL I RISE] had KURUPT but MOM's took him off...damn I want that version...I understand what u are saying...I neva really hear all of the OG ones...see I never went that way (u know downloading PAC BOOTLEGGED songs], i refused to do that, but it's hard when MY CUZZIN comes over w/ a CD containing PAC... but only around two cd's compared to the 10+ that are available... but now i'm interested in getting the other ones... I bought ALL the LEGIT released ones... and more PAC is BETTER...
12-11-02, 03:49 PM
#8
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 1999
Posts: 15,108
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I used to be a Pac fiend. I would try and find anything by the man before he was murdered. I of course always bought his CD's. Back in 1996 i believe I had well over 100 of the original unreleased boots available from downloading. They are all since gone, due to different computers, hard drive failures etc, but I remember those boots having a much darker, harder sound to them if that makes sense. The new "official" releases sound, I would say, kind of "popish or too polished" compared to their originals. Dont get me wrong they are still good, but imho dont sound as good as unreleased boots.
12-11-02, 05:52 PM
#9
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Thread Starter
Originally posted by MJKTool
I used to be a Pac fiend. I would try and find anything by the man before he was murdered. I of course always bought his CD's. Back in 1996 i believe I had well over 100 of the original unreleased boots available from downloading. They are all since gone, due to different computers, hard drive failures etc, but I remember those boots having a much darker, harder sound to them if that makes sense. The new "official" releases sound, I would say, kind of "popish or too polished" compared to their originals. Dont get me wrong they are still good, but imho dont sound as good as unreleased boots.
I used to be a Pac fiend. I would try and find anything by the man before he was murdered. I of course always bought his CD's. Back in 1996 i believe I had well over 100 of the original unreleased boots available from downloading. They are all since gone, due to different computers, hard drive failures etc, but I remember those boots having a much darker, harder sound to them if that makes sense. The new "official" releases sound, I would say, kind of "popish or too polished" compared to their originals. Dont get me wrong they are still good, but imho dont sound as good as unreleased boots.
ok a ? for u or anybody that has "BETTER DAYZ"...on "THIS LIFE I LEAD" (cd#2 track #11, around 2 minutes into), on NAPOLEONS verse(OUTLAWZ) is it edited, mine is... its says something like "[edited] is on the phone... and i can't figire to blame [edited] for killin' babbies"...its something like that, the names are scratched off...i guess more censoring PAC lyrics from MOM... anyone LET ME KNOW...
Last edited by gerrythedon; 12-12-02 at 01:32 AM.
