One of the most talked-about tracks leading up to the release of Tyga’s Hotel California was the cut “Hit Em Up,” featuring vocals from Pac.
The final version of the cut, which shares the name of Tupac’s infamous 1996 diss record towards The Notorious B.I.G. and other East Coast rappers, ended up not having the late emcee’s vocals on it.
In an interview with Skee TV, the Young Money emcee explained why Pac didn’t make the final cut. “I put it out before, but when it comes to clearing stuff, it takes time. It’s not like you can just call somebody and just like, bam! They gon’ hit you right back. It might take two, three weeks, it might take a month for his foundation to get back. At that time, we didn’t have enough time to wait.”
Tyga did entertain the idea of the cut in its original form ending up on a bonus version of the album.
Hotel California is expected to move 45,000 to 50,000 copies in its first week.
Watch the interview below:
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haha, that’s a fail if I ever seen one. it was the only track that got people talkin
try not to reach where you can’t grab next time
well it actually happens a lot. He couldve easily just pushed his album back but then people wouldve said he was afraid to flop. so he just went ahead without it
yeah it happens alot, and hence these emcees gotta learn… don’t reach where you can’t grab. just a matter of precaution
Thank GOD He did not deserve to have tupac on that track! there is a GOD!!!!!!!
You welcome!
Damn… My plan nearly worked to ruin that man’s credibility. I’ll get you next time, Yahweh!
yahweh, gtfo you jew
That’s right this fool ain’t worth it. Oh and I just signed to Murda Inc!
My dude..INC Holla!
SMURDA
🙂 we the strongest force in hip hop
no one can really know if pac would have approved of the verse 50 got
I approved it fool
yah blame it on not being able to wait instead of his people not wanting your fake ass to use it
Yea that’s the thing that strikes odd to me. Its not like this is any ole cat. It’s fucking Tupac! And you can’t wait to have him on your album? This is straight bs.
This kid stays taking Ls.
GOOD DONT WANNA HEAR PAC WITH THIS FOOLS WACK ASS RHYMES ABOUT PUSSY AND CUMMIN’ WHICH IS ALL HE FUCKIN TALKS ABOUT. WHO THE FUCK STILL BUYS CD’S???? DOWNLOAD BITCH!!!!! THEN IMMA GO THROUGH AND KEEP ONLY ONE OR TWO SONGS CUS THATS ALL THAT ENDS UP GOOD OUTTA A HOLE CD…..NEXT!
He’s a fucking trash rapper.
The only people who should be privileged enough to use Tupac’s lyrics should be well-reformed artists.
Not fucking Gold-Album pushers, which will take them 3+ years to achieve.
I mean honestly – Unless you’re someone who has worked with Tupac – Don’t use him in your fucking songs. There’s a hand full of people who can get away with that. I could see a Kendrick Lamar doing a song with his vocals if Dre produces it.
Cause he worked with him and he knows how his lyrics would be used.
How the fuck Young Money/Cash Money had the rights to even touch that shit is beyond me. Most of the artists out of that label are fucking trash.
thats the thing, they never had the rights
Is this dude serious? Noone in hip hop or the people that personally knew Pac would allow his vocals to be on such a wack rapper’s album. It just wouldnt happen, that’s like Soulja Boy asking for clearance to have Pimp C vocals, it’s just not gonna happen. Legendary artists work with legendary artists. Bottom line.
damn where is the integrity left in hip hop? for a clown like Tyga to expect 2Pac on his album, there should be hip hop law enforcement for shit like this
That shows how gay, n crappy tygas lyrics are he didnt evem hav time to wait a couple of weeks to get 2pac approve(not that I wanted his on tygas gay shit) but still u can see how dedicated his lyrics are he probably wrote the album in a week
we knew this days ago. Very late DX. And I don’t know if Hit em up would be infamous…
“we” knew this? who the fuck is “we”? i didn’t know this
the album leaked about a week ago with no pac on it. We knew this.
Lol, my leaked copy had 2pac on it. Now stop talking.
well your copy must have been one put together with random songs, because he isn’t on it is he? so you can stop talking I think.
YES, JUSTICE
Lol, my leaked copy had 2pac on it.
you must have downloaded some bootleg copy stupid
2pac had the final say… And was probably on sum OH HELL NO!!! Lol… Glad this idea didnt work out
So since we got the tracklist about 4 weeks ago, they must have known they gonna need a sample clearance. So his argument that clearing a sample sometimes “might take 2-3 weeks, maybe a month” is complete bullshit. They fucked up. They had enough time to clear that. You don’t start clearing samples 3 weeks before release.
tyga is epitome of trash
tyga has been really disappointing, i had a little bit of hope for hotel California after a few good tracks on his last album, but his latest album is absolute rubbish. The subject matter is what you would expect from a 12 year old
Thank God he ain’t got a dead rapper on his album. I believe if 2Pac was alive he been working with Lil Wayne and 2Chainz. He was a good rapper – but Snoop and Busta Rhymes were too so…
i hope you are joking….2 chainz and Weezy? nobody really knows i supposed.
But i am happy that 2 pac is off this lil wack rappers album.
Yeah that was a joke right haha.
Damn right you removed that sample you fuckin wack faggot!
2pac, biggie, big l, big pun would never do a song with a label which is run by faggots and morons.
Even MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice are better then these cash money faggots.
PAC called from Cuba and told his people to take him off the record lol. Y’all should checkout http://www.thegrandreport.com too, they usually have some good reads as well
yeah kinda obvious
Yeah I don’t believe it. It’s probably because he was universally shunned for doing it in the first place and just wanted to save face. Not that he really had any rep to save in the first place. Haha, Pac is up in Heaven or Cuba or wherever the fuck he is laughing at this nigga
LOL too bad the hundreds of thousands of leaked downloads had it on there, TYGA and YMCMB are the worst, shit is too embarrassing
we need a trinidad james troll because I popped the molly im sweatin!
Mannnn, Leave Pacs intellectual properties alone please. I understand it’s a publicity stunt but this is just a shameful exploit….I would be ashamed of myself if i was tyga or anyone over at young money. (and call it what it is, young money not YMCMB or whatever acronym those toolbags have made up. if anything that should rename it midlife money with bad tattoo’s on my head MMWBTOMH)
God bless the nigga that denied this sample clearance, we should all take a moment and just thank him
Co-sign. ^
For real though. I was thinking the same damn thing. The nerve of some of these wack ass rappers to even think of putting a legend such as 2Pac in their music.
Anything to avoid talking about the Trick daddy club incident right DX?
From rapping about Coconut Juice to rapping about the streets….this boy is a fraud. No hate just real talk.
You know you wack when the YMCMB trolls ain’t even sticking up for this dude.
LMAO! Co-sign.
You guys do know that if Pac was alive he would have done a feature for Nicki, Drake, Wayne and Tyga etc….yall know that right ?
nope. how can u speak on that subject pacs been dead for over a decade and what 2pac stood for its actually pretty disrepectful to comment that. but then again some people dont know shit about hip hop haha that sucks maybe u should read more about the history of hip hop or watch Beat Street or Wildstyle
haha truth hurts huh.
PSYCH!! I wouldn’t work with those fake pussies.
TYGA MY NIGGA
MURDAAAA
People are actually going to buy this piece of dog shit record? Wtf is wrong with America?
Good! Nigga does not deserve to have Pac in his music.
The same shit happened to his last album with the Dr. King speech on the intro. Nobody give a shit about Tyga haha
why would this nigga think he’s even worthy of having Pac on a track.. simple nigga
if 2pac was alive, THIS FAGGOT WOULD NOT HAVE A CAREER IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. what the fuck makes him think he’s worthy of having 2pac’s vocals on one of his shitty fuckin songs????
Tyga didn’t get cleared do the song cause Im already using the verses for my next single Fresh to Death ft 2Pac, Lil Wayne ya gonna love it cant wait!!!
And to think some niggas would still listen to Tyga over Yelawolf…..
YELAWOLF IS FUCKIN DOPE! FUCK ALL THESE FUCKING HATERS TALKIN SHIT JUST CUS HES WHITE. I SWEAR THE HIPHOP COMMUNITY IS RACIST. BLACK ARENT THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN PUT WORDS TOGETHER. ITS A NEW AGE BRO. NOW IF ONLY THE LATINO COMMUNITY CAN GET A REAL LATINO MC ACKNOWLEDGED BY THESE CORP STIFFS AND THE HIPHOP COMMUNITY…OH YEAH AND FUCK TYGA AND HIS WACK RHYMES. IF U REALLY LISTEN THEN U KNOW ALL HE TALKS ABOUT IS FUCKIN AND CUMMIN’. I USE TO THINK HE WAS TALENTED TILL HE STARTED ALL THIS BULLSHIT
I wish I was alive so I could work with all the greats:
Drake
Lil Wayne
Meek Mill
Rick Ross
Waka Flacka
The list goes on and on. It’s hot where I’m at. The playlists in hell are horrible. Alot of Kendrick Lamar and Joe Budden songs. No wonder it’s considered eternal damnation.
THE ONLY PERSON PAC WOULD WORK WITH OUTTA THIS LIST IT WOULD BE WAYNE…FUCK ALL THEM OTHER HOMOS
NOT!!! That guy is a fake. If I were alive, I wouldn’t work with none of those fake pussies, especially fake ass Wayne. If I were alive, these niggas would be working at McDonalds.
there is a god this faggot ass motherfucka can never use pacs shit pac was 2 real 2 work with a no talent fake ass horrible excuse of a west coast artist let the dead rest in piece cos if pac could hear ur shit now hed put u 2 shame in a diss track.
Jarule told Tyga to remove Tupac from Hotel California