Tupac Shakur: 2Pac in the Studio (The Studio Years (1989 - 1996)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jake Brown
Publisher: Amber Books
Category: Book
Buy New: $73.28
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1362178
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0976773503
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421649092
EAN: 9780976773504
ASIN: 0976773503
Publication Date: June 10, 2005
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Product Description
Focuses exclusively on the studio craft of the late rap legend, Tupac Shakur. Featuring exclusive interviews with many of his producers, including a lengthy, multi-chapter interview with Shakur's closest musical collaborator, Johnny J, among others, offering fans never-before-revealed insight into 2-Pac's recording method, the inter-workings of his songwriting process Tupac recorded so much material before he died that more Tupac albums have been released since his death than were released while he was alive, thanks to his mother Afeni Shakur's efforts to keep his memory and music alive. These posthumous albums include R U Still Down? (Remember Me?), Lost Tapes 1989, One Million Strong, Still I Rise, Rose That Grew From Concrete, Until The End Of Time, and 2002's Better Dayz, along with his one disc released under the Makaveli alias, Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. A prophetic and prolific artist!! A true prodigy, prophet, and arguably hip hop's most prolific recording artist historically, Tupac left us a legacy that may have been fueled by controversy in the moment, but in the long run, has proven to be the soundtrack for a generation based purely on the message and movement his music inspired. This book is the first true study of the musical making of that legend ."
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 vERY weLL writtEN, GREAT bOOK! May 10, 2008
yo, this booK is just cuT waY above. the style is uptempo and your never bored for a sec. Also some of the comparisons and insight into TupAC and his place in history are beautiFUL. Loved it.
peace.
 Nothing but a collection of information snippets September 18, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just finished reading 2 chapter excerpts on Google Book Search and am already fed up. This is a book I could probabely write myself after pursuing my ongoing research. I doubt Jake Brown has ever spoken to 50 Cent. All the information given seems collected out of interviews, news releases and reports, publicly known information, police reports and mixed together into a 'disclosure' book. I have not found a sinlge information I did not already know. But what I've found were a number of errors: The shooting took place at 11:22 AM, not "On the night of May 24, 2000, while sitting in the backseat..." (be aware, this little error is the first sentence of chapter 9 ...). How this happens? It's just one example of writing when you don't know what you're talking about and rely on google results which you fail to interpret correctly (the police system printout uses the 24hr time scheme BTW).
He keeps on writing that 50's grandma called 911 for an ambulance... huh, little invention here? Everyone knows that the driver (Curtis Brown) was still able to steer the vehicle and they drove themselves to Jamaice Medical Center. Very surprisingly and funny, this exact sentence is unquoted (missing) from the reprint of the MTV.com News report quoted at the head of the chapter...
Nothing new about the injuries and the surgery also, all he found in google it seems was the lawsuit of Dr. N. Paksima vs. 50 Cent regarding the payment of the hospital bills. This is all what is being delivered as information about the surgery. Awesome news!
If that is the kind of journalism and research you're into, go ahead, buy the book. For people who didn't do the research I did, there may be a few new things to find out. However when coupled with assumptions and guessing and misinterpretation of clear and solid facts while throughout the book giving the reader the impression he was talking to Fifty about all those things all the time, I feel nothing but being deceived.
I was tempted to give only 1 star but I credit the author for collecting a lot of information, so it's 2 stars. Still a bad performance for all that work.
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