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Doug Rasheed Speaks on Producing Tupac Only God Can Judge Me

dougrasheed@gmail.com (Douglas Rasheed) — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:56:51 GMT

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I appreciate you uh sharing that because

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that's not only hip-hop history that's

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world history music you know what I'm

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saying um that was one of the biggest

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records but then you went on to work

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with more artists and like you said

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earlier you worked with Tupac he fresh

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out of jail he on death row and you made

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another record that was almost you know

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all eyes on me that I think it's Diamond

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now so

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I mean you know what I'm saying it all

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right well you know it went it sold over

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10 million within a couple of years uh

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you know his first first hip-hop double

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album in history and yeah Tupac had only

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been out of jail probably less than a

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week when we hooked up and you know

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everybody say Park was a workaholic he

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had already done

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25 of US 24 of them songs on that album

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was already done and then you know in

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the first few days I was like man how

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did you get that much done but and then

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we recorded the two songs that uh that I

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did

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Only God can judge me and I'd rather be

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a both them songs in the same day

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uh got both got got those done and uh

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and pretty much I guess one more after

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that that's the 27th

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wow that's amazing so I mean like I said

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I know you don't work with the best of

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the best but I gotta ask you what was it

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like working with Tupac being in the

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studio with him and then obviously you

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know he ended up passing away not too

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long you know after that

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six months later but it was it was a lot

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of fun he was full of energy man one of

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the most energetic

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people I'd ever had uh the pleasure to

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be around and work with positive energy

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uh pop was you know

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he was the type of guy uh where you know

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if he likes you he loved you he was very

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passionate if he didn't like you he

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probably hated you you know what I'm

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saying and uh and that's just how he was

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he's just so super passionate man you

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know and we we bonded you know he wanted

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to uh do his own label he wanted me to

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work for his label we had an agreement

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already wasn't on paper it was just a

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handshake agreement to work with his

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labor it was going to be called

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euthanasia records that's what he told

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me and uh and so he was trying to get

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that going he told me Quincy Jones was

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working with him to help him get his

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label uh up and running uh I found out

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later that he was you know he was in

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fact working with with Quincy and that

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was his label but you know I know she

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was trying to get him to do the death

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row West and I think he ended up kind of

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because of the because of him owing so

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much money

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to death row

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uh you know he ended up saying okay I'm

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gonna do that it just did you know it

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kind of I think he was a little bit

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stuck you know what I mean when you go

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in debt with the label you know you get

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out of jail they dropping all this money

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on you and cars and all this stuff you

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know that that those are gifts those are

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you know that that stuff has to be

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recouped and it's hard you know when you

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don't understand are you excited you

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just trying to run and you moving fast

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it's a lot of money I think he got in a

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situation where he needed to work his

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way out of the deal instead of just

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moving on you know from the deal

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and unfortunately he wound up getting

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killed

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all right right like you say he didn't

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have enough time to even process all of

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that stuff you know we got to see it and

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I played out musically but unfortunately

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you know he passed away

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HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY TO 'GANGSTA'S PARADISE!!!

DOUG RASHEED TALKS ABOUT THE LEGACY OF 'GANGSTA'S PARADISE

Doug Rasheed Speaks on Producing Tupac Only God Can Judge Me