A new deal between 2Pac’s estate and other labels will see apparel, exhibits and a biography on the rapper emerge – but also material from the man himself. According to Jeff Jampol – head of JAM Inc, which has access to 2Pac’s collection – there is a “almost an embarrassment of riches” including “unreleased music, released music, remixes, original demos, writings, scripts, plans, video treatments, poems.”
Tom Whalley, who signed 2Pac to Interscope in 1991, says that “some of [the material] is in bits and pieces, some of it is complete; some of it is good, some of it needs work. But I think the work that is left can be completed, and is worth his fans hearing.”
As Billboard also note, the influence of 2Pac is still being felt today in the West Coast resurgence – most evidently with Kendrick Lamar, who recently included a 2Pac interview on ‘Mortal Man’, and also dedicated the release date of To Pimp A Butterfly to coincide with the anniversary of the late legend’s album Me Against The World.
This should be great. But meanwhile, this song will never, ever get old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyypOJofZmI