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I agree with pretty much everything.Late Night and Who Do U Believe In were easy to release in OG form, since they had already appeared on Chronic 2000.I think it was the booklet for UTEOT where Afeni's "note" said it was the first of two albums from Pac's Makaveli era (with BD obviously being the second) that they were putting out.BD could've been big, but at that point, Amaru wasn't really trying very hard with marketing, and they pretty much only put out one single, and it was a poor choice at that. There were plenty of songs that could've been street singles.
1) It has four tracks released in what's essentially their OG form: Ghetto Star,
WE ALL THOUGHT BETTER DAYZ AND UTEOT WERE LETDOWNS WHEN THEY WERE ORIGINALLY RELEASED....THAT WAS UNTIL LOYAL TO THE GAME AND PAC'S LIFE CAME OUT. IN RETROSPECT, WE CAN APPRECIATE BETTER DAYZ AND UTEOT AS SOLID PAC ALBUMS. R U STILL DOWN IS STILL THE BEST POSTHUMOUS RELEASE FROM PAC THO (I DONT REALLY CONSIDER MAKAVELI POSTHUMOUS, SINCE IT WAS READY FOR RELEASE BEFORE HIS DEATH).
Quote from: MOBNigga06 on October 30, 2015, 11:45:46 AM1) It has four tracks released in what's essentially their OG form: Ghetto Star, wrong
Better Dayz is an underrated posthumous release. It has several virtues that don't typically get recognized:1) It has four tracks released in what's essentially their OG form: Late Night, Who Do U Believe In, Ghetto Star, They Don't Give a Fuck. 2) It has several tracks released with beats that closely resemble the original: Better Dayz, Military Mindz, and Fame (and one might add Never Call U Bitch Again)3) It has a few songs where the production is much superior to the original: Street Fame, Still Ballin, and Mamaz Just a Little Girl.4) Jazze Pha is a pretty decent producer to pair with Pac, since his production seems to have been heavily influenced by Johnny J: Changed Man, Fair XChange, U Can Call, and There U Go sound like the kind of radio-friendly beats that Johnny J made for Pac during the AEOM era.As for the song selection, another virtue of this album was that it seems to have stuck predominantly to songs from the Makaveli (and One Nation) era. But that's just my impression, since I can't tell for all of the songs. My impression is that Street Fame, Still Ballin, When We Ride on Our Enemies, Fuck Em All, Never B Peace, Whatcha Gonna Do, Catchin Feelings, Military Mindz, Never Call U Bitch Again, Fame, TDGAFAU, Who Do U Believe In, Ghetto Star, etc., were all recorded during the sessions for Makavali and One Nation. Late Night is an exception, since that song is known to have been intended for AEOM. I also suspect that U Can Call is an AEOM leftover. Anybody have an idea when Thugz Mansion was recorded? The chronology of Mamaz Just a Little Girl is also unknown to me. Anyway, if my impression is correct, then Better Dayz is dope for being something like the "second" Makaveli album. Sure, it has some terrible sins on its head: whoever decided to replace Kurupt's dope verses from Still Ballin with Trick Daddy should be shot. But on the whole, the album is a much better posthumous release than most of the others, and it did justice to a lot of Pac's best music.
Quote from: Sccit on November 02, 2015, 03:22:06 PMWE ALL THOUGHT BETTER DAYZ AND UTEOT WERE LETDOWNS WHEN THEY WERE ORIGINALLY RELEASED....THAT WAS UNTIL LOYAL TO THE GAME AND PAC'S LIFE CAME OUT. IN RETROSPECT, WE CAN APPRECIATE BETTER DAYZ AND UTEOT AS SOLID PAC ALBUMS. R U STILL DOWN IS STILL THE BEST POSTHUMOUS RELEASE FROM PAC THO (I DONT REALLY CONSIDER MAKAVELI POSTHUMOUS, SINCE IT WAS READY FOR RELEASE BEFORE HIS DEATH).I don't think so cuzz.. besides the usual complaints about the tracks not being o.g... I think most people felt UTEOT was the bomb shit when it came out. That album really satisfied hard core Pac fans and had mainstream success. They were able to keep most of the same cast of characters that was around Pac when he died, and there were so many great songs on there that have stood the test of time. Your right about Better Dayz though
Yeah the marketing of Amaru has been really stupid. When you have the biggest artist in the history of rap, it's not difficult to make a commercially successful single out of his work. Take Happy Home for example: you could turn this song into a major hit. Put Jon B or some major (at the time) RnB singer on the chorus. Make a video with actors, splice in footage from Tupac's movies (like Poetic Justice), and it would have been impossible to for it to fail. Still Ballin and Late Night could also have been major singles.Doing a video for the shitty version of Thugz Mansion was a terrible move and a perfect reflection of the priorities of Amaru. Pick the most angelic song as the single for an album full of songs about riding on your enemies and fucking bitches.