West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: fabtoxicp on January 03, 2010, 12:15:38 AM
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i know i've been sleepin for many many years, but im really really curious about this "history" about this 2pac-leaking madness.
are there any threads about who leaked what, n how he got dat, how much me he payed for dat etc etc etc
or r there some active persons/"2pac-historians" (lol) u could get in touch with, who could be kind enuff to speak on this topics a bit?
"dante" was the entrepreneur of this 2pac-leaking-hype right? what started wit what, what was the first song who "slipped" out etc
i noticed, dat every leaked 2pac-song usually exists in various versions? how many versions exists for a 2pac-song at the most?
also, did some1 actually ever got paid for anything, or was ppl only collectin this songs for personal reasons?
is there a list for officialy existin 2pac-material dat we know collectors r secretly sittin on, dat they wont "give up"?
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dante unwillingly leaked a bunch by selling them and ppl leaking them
some have 1 version some have a few just depends
some producers other artists etc got paid from 2pac groupies buying songs off them to try n resale
there are a few confiremed unleaked list just google them..none are 100%
by the way add michael ray mccoy to myspace/watch his youtube videos/tell the world how great he is..thank u!!!
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A long complex report is what you'd need to read through lol. The DJ Express tapes is a somewhat decent place to start
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from what i understand
g litt was responsible for the Makaveli 1-17 discs that hit the streets in early 1997, especially in Detroit and NYC
and chocolate bandit was the one who leaked everything from the studios....along with the realest and kurt kobane
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A long complex report is what you'd need to read through lol. The DJ Express tapes is a somewhat decent place to start
Where can we find this DJ Express thing?
Also yea that was one thing that always got me. How did Dante and co. GET all of these originals in the first place? Did they have a connection to chocolate bandit or something?
This is such a shame though. I was under the impression that pac recorded this flury of material in 96 cuz he knew there was a chance he could go... so he wanted to record a lot so that his voice could be heard for years. And now people are sitting on it over God knows what. And from what I understand Amaru has nearly everything but they are basically done releasing it... maybe they think it won't make money, but this really shouldn't be about the money. they could just set up an online store or whatnot.
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Yeah 2Pac did record alot back in 1996 but, he also did back in 1994 as well. The start of those unreleased recordings being leaked and circulating on bootlegs may go back as far as 1997. It's been rumored that back in 1997 some people that worked for Death Row Records began leaking 2Pac material on purpose because Death Row lost the rights 2 his recordings and they had 2 turn over those master recordings. For me personally, it started back in 1997.
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Yeah 2Pac did record alot back in 1996 but, he also did back in 1994 as well. The start of those unreleased recordings being leaked and circulating on bootlegs may go back as far as 1997. It's been rumored that back in 1997 some people that worked for Death Row Records began leaking 2Pac material on purpose because Death Row lost the rights 2 his recordings and they had 2 turn over those master recordings. For me personally, it started back in 1997.
chocolate bandit was 1
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Yeah 2Pac did record alot back in 1996 but, he also did back in 1994 as well. The start of those unreleased recordings being leaked and circulating on bootlegs may go back as far as 1997. It's been rumored that back in 1997 some people that worked for Death Row Records began leaking 2Pac material on purpose because Death Row lost the rights 2 his recordings and they had 2 turn over those master recordings. For me personally, it started back in 1997.
chocolate bandit was 1
That was a rumor. I would say more so along the lines of Realest doing it.
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Yeah 2Pac did record alot back in 1996 but, he also did back in 1994 as well. The start of those unreleased recordings being leaked and circulating on bootlegs may go back as far as 1997. It's been rumored that back in 1997 some people that worked for Death Row Records began leaking 2Pac material on purpose because Death Row lost the rights 2 his recordings and they had 2 turn over those master recordings. For me personally, it started back in 1997.
chocolate bandit was 1
That was a rumor. I would say more so along the lines of Realest doing it.
why else was chocolate kicked off the row?
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OK, there goes that rumor. I'm from Detroit, so I got my hands on that stuff quick. I had tha Makaveli 3 bootleg before it got 2 Detroit. That was a crazy story there.
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Yeah 2Pac did record alot back in 1996 but, he also did back in 1994 as well. The start of those unreleased recordings being leaked and circulating on bootlegs may go back as far as 1997. It's been rumored that back in 1997 some people that worked for Death Row Records began leaking 2Pac material on purpose because Death Row lost the rights 2 his recordings and they had 2 turn over those master recordings. For me personally, it started back in 1997.
chocolate bandit was 1
That was a rumor. I would say more so along the lines of Realest doing it.
why else was chocolate kicked off the row?
Because of Tha Realest, not because of stupid 2Pac bullshit.
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Bootlegs circulated before Chocolate Bandit was on Tha Row
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whats the deal with the free 2pac release?
I heard hyland and glitt teamed up to buy those tracks from releast?
Anyone no that story?
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Who can say for sure? In the days when CD sales were lucrative, bootlegging was big business. It's crazy to think about now with how far downloading has come but this thread has me feeling nostalgic for those days when the music industry's big complaint was people seeling cheaper homemade copies of their shit at swap meats and street corners for $8.
I'm sure with the Pac thing, there were plenty of people in the underground who knew people that had Pac recordings to sell. All I remember was the old school tags they had on those Makaveli bootlegs. Had Big coughing and Dre saying "World's most dangerous group" and all sorts of shit.
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Those were DJ Express tags.
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A year or two listening to the Express "Muthafukin Express" tags, then untagged versions later used to make the songs sound weird for a good while after
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Yeah 2Pac did record alot back in 1996 but, he also did back in 1994 as well. The start of those unreleased recordings being leaked and circulating on bootlegs may go back as far as 1997. It's been rumored that back in 1997 some people that worked for Death Row Records began leaking 2Pac material on purpose because Death Row lost the rights 2 his recordings and they had 2 turn over those master recordings. For me personally, it started back in 1997.
chocolate bandit was 1
i bet u feel stupid now dont you ;D
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A year or two listening to the Express "Muthafukin Express" tags, then untagged versions later used to make the songs sound weird for a good while after
man, taking me back memory lane! i was a freshman at LACC in '99 and the Nigerian bootlegger had Makaveli's 2-6. I had my 1st burner back then too, so I
cut a deal where I would burn him shit I'd find off the net, for a copy of MAk 2-6... Whenever I hear the OG Still I rise, Fade Me, or Never B Pece, I'm always used to those tags being there... great memories....
and great thread too, great info
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A year or two listening to the Express "Muthafukin Express" tags, then untagged versions later used to make the songs sound weird for a good while after
The interesting thing is that for a long while, the DJ Express bootlegs had the best quality versions of A LOT of songs for a while.
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A year or two listening to the Express "Muthafukin Express" tags, then untagged versions later used to make the songs sound weird for a good while after
The interesting thing is that for a long while, the DJ Express bootlegs had the best quality versions of A LOT of songs for a while.
Very true, I remember in like '97 or '98 my aunt (who can't stand hip hop) had a Makaveli 2 boot at her place. I snatched that shit up quick, asked her where she acquired it from, and she said one of the kids at the group home she used to work for, sold it to her for $5.
Got home, popped it in, and for the time, the Q wasn't bad: an obvious tape rip, with what seemed to be a Dolby-B/ Dolby-C effect on the tape, or someone turned the treble way down on the cassette player. i specifically remember that CD had Hit Em Up 2 on it, which I heard for the 1st time and said to myself "OK the rumors are true." Everybody at my school was talking about Hit Em Up 2 but no one had it on CD or tape lol... those were the days. Anyways the CD fade Me, Play Your Cards Right, Soon As I Get Home, and some other ones I forget, it wasso long ago... But i remember they wereb't tagged. fast forward to '99, where I got those DJ Express boots @ school, The quality was absolute night and day.
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interesting thread.
Anyway, its like trying to know who killed Tupac, lol
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Yeah, those DJ Express bootlegs was killin it, just like tha DJ Motion bootlegs also.
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Bootlegs circulated before Chocolate Bandit was on Tha Row
before 1992 eh?
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Bootlegs circulated before Chocolate Bandit was on Tha Row
before 1992 eh?
Chocolate Bandit was on Death Row in 1997. Chocolate is a completely different rapper. Some of you forum posters need to step up your knowledge.
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Bootlegs circulated before Chocolate Bandit was on Tha Row
before 1992 eh?
Chocolate Bandit was on Death Row in 1997. Chocolate is a completely different rapper. Some of you forum posters need to step up your knowledge.
so hes not the guy from "niggaz is lyke dat"?
sorry for not knowing much about death row's greatest artist named after a candy flavor.........:D
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Bootlegs circulated before Chocolate Bandit was on Tha Row
before 1992 eh?
Chocolate Bandit was on Death Row in 1997. Chocolate is a completely different rapper. Some of you forum posters need to step up your knowledge.
so hes not the guy from "niggaz is lyke dat"?
sorry for not knowing much about death row's greatest artist named after a candy flavor.........:D
No, he isn't. You can't tell the obvious difference in voices and styles?
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Bootlegs circulated before Chocolate Bandit was on Tha Row
before 1992 eh?
Chocolate Bandit was on Death Row in 1997. Chocolate is a completely different rapper. Some of you forum posters need to step up your knowledge.
sorry for not knowing much about death row's greatest artist named after a candy flavor.........:D
No, he isn't. You can't tell the obvious difference in voices and styles?
my life has never sunk to the point of depression that i actually would choose to listen to a rapper called "the chocolate bandit"
only song by Chocolate i've heard is Niggaz is lyke dat and i dont even know which verse he is - besides not snoops
so hes not the guy from "niggaz is lyke dat"?
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Sorry to be off topic but does anyone have those dj motion bootlegs?
had them back in the geocities days but they are long since lost :(