2Pac Album June 2010 from the NEW Death Row.
Features : Lara Lavi: Death Row Records' New Warden

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AllHipHop.com: Speaking of unreleased material, one artist in particular springs to mind. I seem to recall Daz Dillinger claiming that Tupac Shakur had left behind a catalogue of about 700 unreleased songs at the time of his death; is there any truth in that claim?


Lara Lavi: I think that’s an exaggeration. I think it’s more like what’s left is a couple of hundred. Really in terms of unreleased songs, where 2pac is the actual artist, Death Row is entitled - from a settlement that occurred before I was around - to an album’s worth of material. Then Afeni Shakur and Interscope, or whoever she wants to work with, get the balance. I suspect they’re going to end up with a little less than 75 songs when we’re all done. We have such a great relationship with Amaru Entertainment and Afeni, which was my first order of business when we closed on the catalogue. My first thing was to say to those guys, ‘the negativity ends now. This is day one. I’m going to keep my promises and you guys are going to learn to trust.’ We’re two moms talking about the world; that’s where it’s pretty handy to be a soccer mom. She gets me, so it’s all good.


AllHipHop.com: Will you be hoping to continue that relationship with Amaru Entertainment and Afeni when that album, which you are entitled to, is finished?


Lara Lavi: We’re always going to be joined at the hip. You have to understand that they are in publishing and we own a bunch of masters and whatever we do in terms of taking songs for film, TV, advertising and gaming or whatever, we want to do it together. We both have to approve stuff and frankly we’re watching out for each other. If I get a request from a publisher - we have the same company we’re working with – I look at it, if it relates to 2pac I’m checking to see if it is something Afeni would be ok with. She’s doing the same and I’ve caught a few things that I’ve said, ‘I don’t think she’s going to like this.’ She appreciates that I’m paying attention on that level. That’s what you do for your business partners, plus I like her. These are all good people and they deserve better than years of litigation.


AllHipHop.com: So now that the Amaru Entertainment situation is looking much brighter, could you reveal a little about the 2pac album in question?


Lara Lavi: I can. I have made a promise to the fans before we did anything else that, if there was any remix-type stuff, guest features or any type of manipulation, before I would even consider anything like that, we are going to put out the purest 2pac album we physically can. We’re going to focus on Johnny “J” tracks, Daz tracks and we’re going to try to get this record as close to how 2pac would’ve liked it as humanly possible.


AllHipHop.com: I’m sure our readers will be very pleased to hear that. So when should they be able to expect the release?


Lara Lavi: I think we’re looking at June 2010, that’s our goal. We’re trying to put if out as part of our birthday celebration of Tupac. It isn’t just the music, what’s happened in the course of this whole exercise is so many people have come out of the woodwork for video content that no-one’s ever seen before and suggestions for playlists etc. The fans have been wonderful. The release will include a huge DVD of unreleased, never before seen video also.