Tupac's Final Album to be East/West Collaboration
04.25.2005 3:33 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — Last week Afeni Shakur, mother of the late Tupac Shakur, revealed that next year would see the final posthumous release from the slain rapper. It is now known that the planed 2006 lp will be the rumored "One Nation" album that Shakur was working on in various sessions in the summer of 1996. "One Nation" was to be the album that put to rest the much publicized 'East/West' beef, as Shakur had recorded songs with East Coast artists such as Big Daddy Kane, Greg Nice, and The Boot Camp Click. But since Shakur's murder in 1996, these songs have remained unreleased officially.
The project will be executive produced by both DJ Quik and Daz Dillenger, both of whom worked with Shakur during his career."I been wanting to handle a 'Pac album for the longest, ya know?" Dillenger told MTV News. "Being a person who actually worked with him extensively, I know how a 2Pac album should be done. And we'll make sure this is an album that does my man justice as the legend is"
When asked about possible collaborations for "One Nation", Dillenger said that he wanted to keep the artists Shakur originally recorded with, in addition to putting on artists he felt Tupac would really have wanted to work with if alive today. "I know Pac wanted to get Wu-tang on the album, Rakim, Slick Rick. He had Snoop, the Outlawz... We gonna try to make it happen. Make history with this sh-t right here, you know? And it's gonna be monumental"
-MTV News staff
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04.25.2005 3:33 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — Last week Afeni Shakur, mother of the late Tupac Shakur, revealed that next year would see the final posthumous release from the slain rapper. It is now known that the planed 2006 lp will be the rumored "One Nation" album that Shakur was working on in various sessions in the summer of 1996. "One Nation" was to be the album that put to rest the much publicized 'East/West' beef, as Shakur had recorded songs with East Coast artists such as Big Daddy Kane, Greg Nice, and The Boot Camp Click. But since Shakur's murder in 1996, these songs have remained unreleased officially.
The project will be executive produced by both DJ Quik and Daz Dillenger, both of whom worked with Shakur during his career."I been wanting to handle a 'Pac album for the longest, ya know?" Dillenger told MTV News. "Being a person who actually worked with him extensively, I know how a 2Pac album should be done. And we'll make sure this is an album that does my man justice as the legend is"
When asked about possible collaborations for "One Nation", Dillenger said that he wanted to keep the artists Shakur originally recorded with, in addition to putting on artists he felt Tupac would really have wanted to work with if alive today. "I know Pac wanted to get Wu-tang on the album, Rakim, Slick Rick. He had Snoop, the Outlawz... We gonna try to make it happen. Make history with this sh-t right here, you know? And it's gonna be monumental"
-MTV News staff
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