Tupac Shakur discusses plans for One Nation collaborative album that would have featured OutKast in recently unearthed handwritten letter dating back to 1996, according to OkayPlayer.
“I’m doing a record now called ONE NATION it’s a group album with me, Greg Nice, Buckshot, Smiff & Wesson, OutKast, The Outlawz, Scarface &E40,” Tupac Shakur writes in the letter. “It’ll be out in the late summer.”
The album never surfaced and Tupac Shakur was shot in September 1996. The writing, whose authenticity was spoken to by Roots member QuestLove, is addressed to Big Lock.
“Big Lock!” Tupac writes to head the letter. “What the fuck iz up wit ya my Homie! I know it took me a while 2 reach back 2 u but I’m sure u know how hectic timez have become lately, but just recognize the fact that not a day passes that I don’t reminisse about that spot & the true & fakez I came across. Az 4 me my record sold 5 million do I love it like that. I’m tearin B.I.G. a new ass! J”
The reference to Tupac’s first 1996 album, All Eyez On Me, serves as a bit of one-upmanship towards New York rival The Notorious B.I.G.
Brooklyn, New York rapper Buckshot, recalled Tupac coming to his defense against Suge Knight.
“Suge has something going on in Vegas and everybody from Death Row had to be there,” Buckshot says in an interview published last month. “Snoop and everybody had already loaded the plane but Tupac hadn’t loaded the plane yet and Tupac had all of us with him so Suge told Tupac he has to board the plane, we have to go… And Tupac said, ‘I’m not boarding the plane unless all my peoples board with me, ‘which was us. And Suge was like, ‘You’re kidding me. You’ve got to board this plane and have them dudes get on another flight and get down there however they going to get down there’… And Pac was like, ‘If I don’t go, none of us go.’ I’m hearing this and I’m like, ‘No Pac just go!'”
Shakur ends the letter with words of inspiration and a job offer.
“What tapez u need? Tupac writes. “I’ll try 2 get some new material 2 u when I can stay on point, playa. Keep the faith, sht getz better, Don’t even sweat the bitch made niggaz that try 2 playa hate me becuz that can’t c me. Tell my real doggz my real true niggaz ‘one love’ stay alive! I got that gardener job waiting 4 u and the benefitz r perfect. So when u get here I’m witcha! Let a nigga know what u need! The World Iz Ourz, WestSide Life.”
Tupac’s letters are as follows:
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^ Same person
I am not BksFinest and I am not affiliated with him or her in any way you paranoid geeky cyber detective
No your just an old white dude from the burbs 🙂
if 25 is old….
Incredible
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MITCHELL DUMBFELD PLEASE GO KILL YOURSELF ASAP. THANKS
Please go and play the traffic dumb bastard
WOW. Letters from the grave.
This is cool, I remember when we used to write letters. The 90’s.
am I the only one who thinks Rick Ross should play the voice of Chef on south park in future episodes? I mean if they bring him back to life
don’t get too hyped up, that pac letter is good history, but it’s over and old….rip to them both.
Wish these little homos would stfu about sayin pac is finished. The nigga is a legend, it will never be over. Is it over for martin lurther king or malcom x or nelson mandela?? Dumb ass niggas
Respect to makaveli the don
big gucci is way realer than tupac and thats an undeniable fact
True! Although 2Pac was one of the first mainstream rappers to get tatted up, he didn’t get his face tatted up. Free Gucci!
lol this guy was a super hater jeez!!
No, he was super real unlike that fake wanna king of new york piggie smalls!
biggie fake? nah man u got it all twisted pac the one photoed in a ballerina dress and he had that madd questionable nose piercing but still talkn bout that thug life all the time like ppl would forget or something? they both was pretty good at rapping but biggie the tru OG always kept it gangsta
Sorry Dan, Biggie wasn’t a true OG, he was nickel and dime bag dealer who rapped about running the drug game up an down the east coast. Fact of the matter is Tupac taught Biggie how to rap better. Just listen to his music before he hooked up with Pac and it was terrible. Go listen to Party N Bullshit, that’s a perfect example of the wack east coast music that was coming out in the early 90’s. Both Pac and Big were great rappers. But Biggie wasn’t some big time gangster the way he portrayed himself in his music, and Tupac’s mentoring of Biggie elevated Biggie’s lyrics and helped Biggie shoot to stardom. There is no denying that. It’s documented.
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dumbass Pac loved Biggie’s party and bullshit. Its a classic song. Pac didnt taught Biggie how to rap, Biggie has more rapskillz then Pac. Pac isnt known for dope wordplay and rhymes. Pacs stronges point is his emotions. Besides that Biggie did really hustle. Go kill yourself dumbass
@tigerking79 your opinion was invalid as soon as u said party BS is a wack track and foh sayn tupac tought biggie how to rap . Big had WAY better flow and rhyme delivery than tupac, pacs shit sounds all the same imo, death row beats were aight back in the day tho but BIG would body every track even wit out a beat
Biggie was a lil rich boy, that’s why he was all fat his mom spoiled him rotten with hugs and twinkies
garbage
That is awesome. Can’t believe these letters just now surfaces. That would’ve been a dope album. PAC definitely had it coming with the life he lived, but at least his death made his music infinitely more popular than it would’ve been if he’d continued recording to this day. I think when it’s all said and done he’s made the world a better place, and his impact was magnified by this death.
Surfacing*
Pac most overrated rapper and repetitive rapper ever. He made 10.000 songs about fuck biggie, smoking weed and drinking henessey. And still fuckboys sucking his dick.
You clearly havent heard Pac, you are a true hater. Listen to Me Against the World. You dont understand true hiphop music, you must be a future chief kief listener
Reading these letters makes you realize just how young Pac was during the peak of his career. In those days, I remember looking at these guys as if they were grown ass men when in reality they were just kids too. It’s sad really, the industry chewed them (Pac and Big) up and spit them right out.
2nd that. All that money, power, fame, pressure that they both had going on at that age, man. You see athletes with financial advisers, because they can’t manage that kind of shit. The industry is brutal. These letters were interesting to see surfaced, RIP to both! West Side!
Umm stop the confusion Pac outsold biggie stop with I know everything and research that’s what’s wrong with the world Pac made way more songs den big sheesh everybody practically got there game from Pac………Pac is fucking global…biggie probably global cuz of pac that’s like comparing Jerry rice to Tim brown and you know who’s the winner# get it together
The fuck you just say about Tim Brown? Sideline ass speculator.
This is something else they took Tupac kindness for weakness and used him because they knew he had so much potential and Tupac was in a rotten situation and they took him for granted,TUPAC was so good at rhyming he once said they all wanna use him and he didn’t lie..FUCKEM THEM ALL…R.I.P TO BIGGIE AND TUPAC…I WISH THIS ALL COULD OF BEEN AVOIDED..STOP THE HATE PEOPLE WE NEED RAPPERS LIKE TUPAC AND BIGGIE MINUS THE DISSES THEY HAD FOR EACH OTHER
this fool had some sloppy-azz handwriting.
I thought u are dead#2pac