"Koch Releases \"2Pac Live\" Early Due to Bootlegs"

Bootleg copies forced Koch Records to hurry in the summer of 2004. As Billboard reported on August 2, the label moved the release of 2Pac Live up by four days: instead of August 10, the album was scheduled to be in stores as early as Friday, August 6. According to Rob Scarcello, responsible for sales and marketing at Koch Entertainment Distribution, the reason was bootleg copies of the album that were already circulating and costing sales. Koch specially altered shipping schedules so that all retailers would receive the album on time.

Recordings from the Death Row Era

2Pac Live collects 13 live recordings from Tupac’s time at Death Row Records. Like the remix album Nu-Mixx Klazzics from 2003, it was a project by Death Row, which was by then working with Koch, and not one of the albums that Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur released together with Interscope.