Recordings for "One Nation": Video from Tupac's Final Week

It is footage from Tupac’s final week of life: In early February 2013, director Gobi M. Rahimi, who filmed Tupac in 1996, posted a video online. It shows Tupac during a session with Buckshot, Dru Ha, and other members of the New York label Duck Down. In the clip, Tupac says they are working on a new project called “One Nation,” a collaboration between the East and West Coasts.

An East-West Project After the Coastal Feud

The album never appeared as a complete work: According to The Source, the songs have only been released individually since then. The project belongs to the period following the coastal feud; Complex notes that Tupac and the Death Row artists were considered adversaries of the East Coast at the time.

Kickstarter Campaign for “7 Dayz”

According to these reports, Rahimi was working on a documentary titled 7 Dayz about Tupac’s final days and was raising money for it via Kickstarter. Context on the events of that week: Tupac’s last week.