July
24
No More 2Pac Albums?
While we're not quite sure what remains unreleased, Amaru Entertainment and Afeni Shakur, co-administrator of the Tupac Shakur Estate, have asked the court to block Death Row Records and R. Todd Neilson from including Tupac Shakur's unreleased tracks, compositions or sound recordings in the auction of Death Row Records.
The complaint was filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles on July 20.
The injunction sought to restrain the sale of certain assets belonging to the Tupac Estate which are being touted as part of the Death Row Records bankruptcy assets. With closed bidding ending July 24, lawyers for the Tupac Estate sought full disclosure by the Bankruptcy Trustee's counsel that the unreleased master recordings in question were not part of the sale. Lawyers for the estate say recordings should have been turned over to the Tupac Shakur Estate in 1997, pursuant to a settlement agreement reached with Death Row Records.
At the time of his death, Tupac had recorded approximately 152 unreleased songs. Since his death in September 1996, Death Row has created nine albums, including "The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory," from the vaults. By our calculations that's about 125 songs, which means the last 30 or so must be true bottom of the barrel.
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