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Loyal to the Game is an album containing previously unreleased music recorded by Tupac Shakur before his death in 1996. Released in the US on December 14 2004 (December 12 in the UK), Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem, and is consequently very reminiscent of Eminem's style.

According to an interview with MTV, Eminem was so moved by Tupac's life and work that he wrote a letter to Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, asking her to consider letting him produce the album. She agreed, and gave the go ahead for artists from Eminem's Shady Records, such as 50 Cent, G-Unit and Obie Trice to appear on the album, as well as popular British artists Dido and Elton John. The album featured two singles- "Thugs Get Lonely Too" and "Ghetto Gospel".

Eminem used various unusual production techniques during the creation of this album, namely modifying the pace and pitch of Tupac's voice to better suit the beats produced. There has also been cutting and pasting of vocals to produce new words now synonymous with current rap culture. Many fans were angry over this and maintain that this has distorted Tupac's voice and messages in such a way that the album should not be officially recognized. [1]

It debuted on the Billboard 200 at number one with sales of over 330,000 copies in its first week. It was later certified Platinum in the US and Gold in UK.[2]

Many fans of Tupac have criticised the new album, for the way that Tupac's vocals have been digitally altered in ways never done before like speeding them up and slowing them down and distorting the pitch. This is mostly a by-product of Eminem's production. Instead of producing beats to match Tupac's vocals he tried to make Tupac's vocals match the beat. Also chopping of Tupac's lyrics, Ghetto Gospel, for example, is missing over 60% of its lyrics. Vocals added by cutting and pasting Tupac's voice to make it sound like he is saying "Trice," "G-Unit" and "Em." Since these artists emerged into popular culture in the years following Tupac's death and never knew them, most fans consider the songs an insult to Tupac


Track listing

  1. "Soldier Like Me (Return of the Soulja)" Featuring Eminem
  2. "The Uppercut" Featuring E.D.I. & Young Noble
  3. "Out on Bail"
  4. "Ghetto Gospel" Featuring Elton John
  5. "Black Cotton" Featuring Eminem, Kastro & Young Noble
  6. "Loyal to the Game" Featuring G-Unit
  7. "Thugs Get Lonely Too" Featuring Nate Dogg
  8. "N.I.G.G.A. (Never Ignorant about Getting Goals Accomplished)" Featuring Jadakiss
  9. "Who Do You Love?"
  10. "Crooked Nigga Too"
  11. "Don't You Trust Me?" Featuring Dido
  12. "Hennessy" Featuring Obie Trice
  13. "Thug 4 Life"
  14. "Po' Nigga Blues (Scott Storch Remix)" Featuring Ron Isley
  15. "Hennessey (Red Spyda Remix)" Featuring E.D.I. & Sleepy Brown
  16. "Crooked Nigga Too (Raphael Saadiq Remix)" Featuring Raphael Saadiq
  17. "Loyal to the Game (DJ Quik Remix)" Featuring DJ Quik & Big Syke
  18. "[Don't You Trust Me?] (Janet Jacksin Remix)" Featuring Janet Jackson

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

2005 "Crooked Nigga Too" Hottest Rap/R&B Singles US Tracks 50
2005 "Thugs Get Lonely Too" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks 78
2005 "Ghetto Gospel" UK Singles Chart, Australian Singles Chart 1 (3 weeks)

Album singles

References

  1. ^ http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=585 Review
  2. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000741125
Preceded by Billboard 200 Number 1 Album
January 1, 2005 - January 7, 2005 		Succeeded by
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