- Pain (Tupac Shakur song)
"Pain" is a highly-acclaimed song recorded by
Tupac Shakur on the Above the Rim soundtrack. It was one of the two songs which debut Tupac under Death Row Records (the other being Pour Out A Little Liquor featuring Thug Life). Only being included in the B-Side of the cassette copy and the vinyl copy of the Above The Rim soundtrack, 'Pain' was not included on the compact disc re-release of the album. It features Stretch who was killed exactly one year after Tupac's first shooting. There is also a remix version on theNu Mixx Klazzics Vol. 2 which featuresStyles P and Butch Cassidy and is produced by Black Jeruz.Ja Rule's version
There's a version on
Ja Rule 's album calledPain Is Love and the track is called "So Much Pain". Ja Rule recites Tupac's first verse and Stretch's verse and then it ends off with Tupac's last verse. At 0'20" of the song, a very faint clip of someone muttering "government cheese", a reference to the hardships of growing up in the ghetto. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk0tjMX5JFk]
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