A matter of marketing, advertising and direction.

#1
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Ok, so I have also listened to the album. Now, I don't want to create yet another thread about the album, however I have been thinking and would like to write down a few thoughts.

You see, it is easy for us fans to say 'Why did they do this, they should have never...why didn't they do this..." and so on.

The problem it seems is a lack of information, communication and direction from the people at Amaru.

You see, I believe the reason we have disliked the two previous albums in-particular, is not becasue of the content, but because they have tried to pass them off as Tupac Shakur / 2Pac albums. They have been advertised as new official albums.

But, prior to the release of LTTG, if Amaru said that they were working on a tribute type project where todays artists (producers and rappers) would have the oppurtunity to contribute to 2Pac tracks, I believe that many people would respect them telling the truth, and also respect them for attempting and advertising the fact that they were trying something different.

Furthermore, if they were just straight-forward and admitted that many of the tracks which would be featured on these albums would be previusly used, duplicated, incomplete or sub-par 2Pac vocals, they would gain alot more respect. Because, people would suggest they are at least attempting to make the most out of vocals which would otherwise (for the average listener) have remained unheard, or would have been unused.

However, instead they underestimated the knowledge of the fans and marketed the albums as official 2pac releases. Which made people ask questions about the artists featured and the production used.

If Amaru marketed and released the last two albums as a volume one and two of a tribute or official mixtape project type set, they would have made it alot easier for themselves. Not only that, peopel in the industry would most likely start approaching them as opposed to the other way round.

Lets face it, there are a bunch of respected radio DJ's and Producers who would have helped to promote and work on a 2Pac project, if it was openly regarded as a 'collabertive project.' Instead many steer clear because it comes across as abit 'taboo.'

Now of course, they would have gained even more respect if they also mentioned that they were (seperately to a project album)working on an official 2Pac album, in the same vein as RUSD, UTEOT and BD. And admitted that this album would feaure less guest appearences (and only relevenat appearences, ie. Outlawz, Syke, Mopreme), and have higher production values which are not targeted at todays charts and average hip-hop listener.

I hope that makes some sense. It's jsut my thoughts on how they could have made the situations surrounding the last two albums more positive for the fans, the industry and more importantly 2Pac.

Peace.
 
#3
"My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down." - 2pac

LTTG and Pacs Life went against that
 
#4
ManiacDego said:
"My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down." - 2pac

LTTG and Pacs Life went against that
Raised a very good point there. Amaru dont wanna fuck with that tho.
 
#5
actually i agree with this thread completely. most of the people were disappointed because we were promised unreleased 2pac material and expected a real album, but if we knew ahead of time what was going on then we would have already accepted it before we heard the album and then been okay with it.
 
#6
ummm, no........even if they said that, u can't change the fact that the albums were garbage.......trash mc's + shitty beats = a horrible cd no matter how u promote it
 
#7
think about it man, did people hate on The Rose that Grew from Concrete?? No, because we all knew what it was and accepted it for that.
 
#8
there's a difference wit that...it's written poetry being read by ppl......not music.......no matter how hard u want it to be, u won't persuade most ppl who like his original music....aight, it's like this...it'd be like if they was reading some of his poetry n' changed some of his words so that it would be more mainstream or so it didn't offend some ppl or say if they had some bubblegum rnb or pop artists reading some of his poems, it wouldn't be something pac would be apart of.....it's the same thing wit his music, it doesn't matter if they tell me, "we gonna fucc up this next album, uh, we gonna put the closest a white boy will be to gangsta as executive producer, uh, and i know the average kid will go out n' buy it n' ain't nobody gonna complain about it."

well fucc that, garbage music is garbage music...no matter how u try to tell um' how shitty it's gonna be, it still gonna be shitty
 

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