2pac's Estate Recovers Unreleased Music In Legal Fight

[Goldie]

The Goat still has tons of unreleased music out there.



2Pac’s estate has finally won the battle over his unreleased music. Entertainment One had to fork over a six-figure settlement for unpaid royalties from posthumous releases they had managed, TMZ reports. The estate sued Entertainment One because the estate claimed it had missed out on royalties worth seven figures.

The estate was administered by 2Pac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, who sued Entertainment One in 2013 to recover the unreleased master recordings that 2Pac had made. Though Afeni passed away in 2016, the lawsuit went on, and was overseen by the estate’s other trustees. Now, all the unreleased recordings—which hold a lot of value—will go back to the estate.

2Pac’s untimely death was recently revisited in a diss track by Eminem. In Em’s “Killshot” diss towards Machine Gun Kelly, Em blasts the 28-year-old Cleveland rapper's album sales, man bun, and everything in between. Em jokes that Diddy was involved in 2Pac's death in one of the song's wilder moments.

However, Jay Electronica didn’t find Em’s song too amusing, and he tweeted a warning directed at Em. “How dare you accuse Diddy of killing Tupac while you completely look pass Jimmy Iovine and those who profited from his death the MOST,” Jay tweeted. “You best tread carefully son, before I come tear your ivory tower down like Sulaiman done the Templar Knights.”

 

[Old Man Cain]

It's been 22 years since Tupac Shakur's death.

And now unreleased music is finally going back to where it belongs, with his estate. Shakur's estate just settled a five-year ongoing legal battle with Entertainment One, which will pay the estate for royalties that were never paid, according to TMZ.

The biggest win for the estate, though, is the return of unreleased master recordings made by Shakur before his death in September 1996

The legal battle started in 2013, when the rapper's mother, Afeni Shakur, who was then the administrator of his estate, sued Entertainment One.

The lawsuit claimed the estate had not received royalties to the tune of more than seven figures, some of which will be recouped with a 'substantial six-figure amount.'

Afeni Shakur passed away in 2016 at the age of 69 after suffering a heart attack, but the lawsuit continued, until it was settled this week.

Shakur's estate has been overseen by Tom Whalley, the head of Loma Vista Recordings who worked with the rapper while he was at Interscope.

Whalley had been overseeing the estate since 2013, and after Afeni's death in 2016, her attorney Howard King told Billboard that Tupac's estate will be largely unaffected by Afeni's death.

Now that the recordings are back with the rapper's estate, where they belong, that could mean a new album may be coming in the future.

Shakur released four studio albums when he was alive, 1991's 2Pacalypse, 1993's Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..., 1995's Me Against the World and 1996's All Eyez on Me.

There were also six posthumous albums released, 1996's The Don Killuminati: The Seven-Day Theory, 1997's R U Still Down? (Remember Me), 2001's Until the End of Time, 2002's Better Dayz, 2004's Loyal to the Game and 2006's Pac's Life

 

[AP3.0]

Daz out??

 

[Old Man Cain]

Daz out??

Don't know I was making this thread the other day and something came up. I assume he's out

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

2Pac’s untimely death was recently revisited in a diss track by Eminem. In Em’s “Killshot” diss towards Machine Gun Kelly, Em blasts the 28-year-old Cleveland rapper's album sales, man bun, and everything in between. Em jokes that Diddy was involved in 2Pac's death in one of the song's wilder moments.

However, Jay Electronica didn’t find Em’s song too amusing, and he tweeted a warning directed at Em. “How dare you accuse Diddy of killing Tupac while you completely look pass Jimmy Iovine and those who profited from his death the MOST,” Jay tweeted. “You best tread carefully son, before I come tear your ivory tower down like Sulaiman done the Templar Knights.”

DF these last 2 paragraphs gotta do Pac's estate getting their bread and music back?