Product details
Title: Loyal To The Game [PA]
Performer: 2Pac
Genre: R&B
Sub Genre: Gangsta / Hardcore
Release Date: 13/12/2004
Recomended Retail Price: 14.99 GBP
Original Release Year: 2004
Label / Distributor: Interscope / Universal Music
Producer: Eminem; Scott Storch; Red Spyda; Ra
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 75021032910
Catalogue Number: 2103291
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Additional notes
Album Notes: Personnel: 2Pac (rap vocals); Ron Isley, Sleepy Brown (vocals); EDI, Eminem, G-Unit, Jadakiss, Nate Dogg, Noble, Obie Trice, Big Syke (rap vocals). Producers: Eminem; Scott Storch; Red Spyda; Raphael Saadiq; DJ Quick. Dozens of posthumous releases have been culled from 2Pac's archives, both by his mother, Afeni Shakur, and by more dubious sources. Eight years after the conflicted poet/thug's death comes LOYAL TO THE GAME, featuring more untapped rhymes. These recordings are the latest unearthed by Ms. Shakur, and while it might be easy to dismiss yet another new collection, two things work in the album's favor. The tapes were handed over to hip-hop icon Eminem, providing a completely unique angle on 2Pac's rhymes. More importantly, while these offerings are late in coming, that is not to say 2Pac's mother is desperately peddling the dregs of his output; the lyrics on LOYAL TO THE GAME are razor-sharp. Eminem's trademarked heavily syncopated sound provides an almost surreal sheen to the proceedings, and Em's voice graces the strong opening track, "Soldier Like Me (AKA The Return of the Soulja)." The guests run the gamut from 2Pac contemporaries Nate Dogg and members of the fallen rapper's crew, the Outlawz, to relative newcomers Jadakiss and G-Unit, but all performances are solid and requisitely reverent to the memory of Tupac Shakur. LOYAL TO THE GAME simply combines strong remaining lyrics of a late master with newer ones, and stands as one of the best posthumous 2Pac releases.
Album Reviews: Vibe (pp.137-138) - 3 1/2 discs out of 5 - "Arguably the strongest of 2Pac's posthumous LPs..."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Soldier Like Me - 2Pac & Eminem
2.: Uppercut - 2Pac & Edi/Noble
3.: Out On Bail
4.: Ghetto Gospel
5.: Black Cotton - 2Pac & Eminem/Kastro/Noble
6.: Loyal To The Game - 2Pac & G-Unit
7.: Thugs Get Ready - 2Pac & Nate Dogg
8.: NIGGA (Never Ignorant About Getting Goals Accomplished) - 2Pac & Jadakiss
9.: Who Do You Love
10.: Crooked Nigga Too
11.: Don't You Trust Me
12.: Hennessey - 2Pac & Obie Trice
13.: Thug 4 Life
14.: Po Nigga Blues (Scott Starch remix) - 2Pac & Ron Isley
15.: Hennessey (Red Spyda remix) - 2Pac & EDI/Sleepy Brown
16.: Crooked Nigga Too (Raphael Saadiq remix)
17.: Loyal To The Game (DJ Quik remix) - 2Pac & Big Syke
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