JumpinJack AJ Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 New Tupac Music From the Vaults Headed for ReleaseCompany behind posthumous Doors, Otis Redding projects now working with Shakur estate By Kory Grow March 27, 2015Previously unreleased recordings by Tupac Shakur will come out as new releases now that a new company has begun handling the late rapper's estate.Shakur's mother, Afeni, has been working with JAM, Inc. since 2013, according to Billboard, and has given the company access to everything in her collection. The company has consulted with the Michael Jackson estate and has worked with the Doors, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding, among others, on enriching their legacies.Jeff Jampol, who owns JAM Inc., said he's dug through "unreleased music, released music, remixes, original demos, writings, scripts, plans, video treatments [and] poems." Despite the fact that several posthumous Tupac albums have come out since the rapper's death in 1996, there is apparently still plenty of unreleased material. Jampol described his company's intention as giving the Shakur estate a "total reset.""Some of [the material] is in bits and pieces, some of it is complete; some of it is good, some of it needs work," said Tom Whalley, who signed Shakur to Interscope and is working with Jampol on the project. "But I think the work that is left can be completed, and is worth his fans hearing."One of the first steps was a recent Powerade commercial, which featured Shakur reciting the "rose that grew from concrete" line from "Mama's Just A Little Girl." Another was the conversation between Shakur and Kendrick Lamar on the latter rapper's recent "Mortal Man," a track on To Pimp a Butterfly, which was culled from a 1994 interview with Shakur.Whalley said he'd considered doing a project similar to the Bob Dylan project Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, in which other musicians sang "lost" Dylan lyrics in songs they wrote. The Lamar interpolation came around the time he was considering that.Other components in the project include the rapper's recent Grammy Museum exhibition and a biography. Jampol is currently negotiating with an author for that, whom he describes as a "very serious writer."Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/new-tupac-music-from-the-vaults-headed-for-release-20150327#ixzz3Vdq0xGRv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilsJim89 Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Looking forward to this. As long as they keep everything as original as possible, I'm on board. Maybe we can finally hear some of the material he did with MC Hammer such as that song 'Too Late Playa'. I just don't want another 2004 Loyal to the Game compilation. That was really, really bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigted Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Yeah this is something to look forward to, I wonder if Will ever did a song with Pac that we don't know about?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Brakes Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 If they can do something similar to what LA Reid and Timbaland did with Michael Jacksons Xscape, I'd be happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpinJack AJ Posted March 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It contained the originals and the remixed version. The remixed versions were good, or at least tolerable. The doctored 2Pac albums got increasingly weak starting with Until The End of Time and Better Dayz. Loyal To The Game and Pac's Life are extremely difficult to sit through. There's no excuse for what they did with those last two albums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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