Death Row Announces the Remix Album "Nu-Mixx Klazzics"

Death Row Records was planning the next Tupac release without a single new verse: On August 18, 2003, Billboard and Rolling Stone reported that the label intended to release Death Row Presents 2Pac Nu-Mixx Klazzics on October 7. The album was to be distributed through Koch Records, with whom Death Row was now partnering.

Familiar Hits, New Beats

Across ten tracks, familiar Death Row recordings were to be newly produced, including “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted”, “How Do U Want It” and “Hit ‘Em Up”. The reworking was handled by the in-house production team Tha Row Hitters. A new version of “Life Goes On” was announced as the first single, scheduled to go to US radio stations on September 9.

Label head Suge Knight, who was incarcerated at the time, stated via an announcement that they wanted to “spice up a bit” Tupac’s best work. He said he was sure Tupac would have liked the result.

A Project That Bypassed Interscope

Rolling Stone pointed out an important difference: Better Dayz and Until the End of Time had been released through Interscope, which was working with Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur on her son’s estate. Nu-Mixx Klazzics, by contrast, was a project by Death Row alone. Better Dayz had entered the Billboard 200 at number 5 in December 2002 with 366,000 copies sold, and according to Billboard had reached roughly 1.5 million buyers by August 2003.