Released a few months following 2Pac’s death, the album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory should have benefited from a high-flying featuring.
A featuring refused out of loyalty
The story is little known. As detailed by BET, having published the story of the posthumous album of Tupac Shakur The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theoryunveiled on November 5, 1996 – only a few weeks following the death of the rapper -, a certain Michael Jackson should have been in the featuring lists.
It’s Quincy by the way « QD3 » Jones III, the son of Quincy Jones and producer of To Live & Die in L.A., who revealed the information. Pac’s team would have contacted Michael Jackson, hoping to sign the singer’s participation on the track Thug Nature. A shot in the dark, the King of Pop having refused the invitation, out of loyalty to The Notorious BIG, then in full beef with 2Pac. It must be said that Biggie and MJ had collaborated on the title This Time Around the previous year, as QD3 reminds us: “I organized a meeting at Neverland. I arrive and talk regarding the project to Michael. And you know what he said to me? That he liked Biggie. »
The piece supposed to sign the meeting between Shakur and Jackson will never see the light of day. It’s all the more unfortunate that he was sampling the song Human Nature by Michael, who appeared on the classic Thriller published in 1983. Thug Nature will finally be released on a Death Row compilation in 2000, without MJ.
