In mid-June 2007, Koch Records re-released a compilation album of 2Pac's previously unreleased recordings. The album was released as a bootleg in April 2000 under the title "The Lost Tapes: Circa 1989", however, being unofficial, its sale was stopped by the artist's mother, Afeni Shakur, who at the time held his unreleased material.
The tracks included in the compilation were created by Shakur and Strictly Dope, his first crew, between 1988 and 1991. The tracks led the young emcee to join Digital Underground on tour as a roadie and dancer. In 2000, Chopmaster J of Digital Underground rediscovered the recordings of these tracks in his mother's basement, after having thought them destroyed back in 1991, and you have to imagine how his eyes lit up with the dollar sign like in cartoons.
The young man pours out socio-political, socio-conscious verses and some thug tracks running with a rapping style evidently inspired by that of the best rappers of the period on a series of minimal rhythms typical of the late eighties, built by Chopmaster J together with Strictly Dope and Willi Mac. Made up of just under three quarters of an hour of material, it's a quite interesting tape that shows you the hunger of 2Pac at the beginning.
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