2PAC GRIDLOCK D SOUNDTRACK ARCHIVE

With a hospitalized Cookie in critical condition, Spoon decides to give up the needle, urging his pal Stretch to “kick” along with him. After a successful performance, they convene back to their place to take in some celebratory heroin, which junkies Spoon and Stretch easily consume and novice Cookie overdoses on. He plays Spoon, a rapping bass player who’s part of a jazz trio/thruple with keyboardist Stretch (a young Tim Roth) and spoken-word songstress Cookie (an even younger Thandiwe Newton). Before he went to jail, he played the heavy in the 1994 basketball drama Above the Rim, one of the many ’90s Black films whose soundtrack is still more popular than the film.Īlthough Shakur was getting the cold shoulder from Hollywood post-release, he triumphantly got one of the leads in Gridlock’d, playing a role Laurence Fishburne and others passed on.

Between a brief jail stint for sexual abuse charges and making music for then-gangsta rap empire Death Row Records, there were a couple of years there when the young MC-who gave impressive performances in Juice (as a murderous teen) and Poetic Justice (as Janet Jackson’s love interest)-didn’t have time to be an on-the-rise thespian. Gridlock’d was supposed to be Shakur’s return to the big screen. (There was also a film he did with Mickey Rourke, a shelved crime flick called Bullet, that went straight to video shortly after his death.) While his final film, the cop thriller Gang Related, wouldn’t get released until later that October, his penultimate, posthumous film Gridlock’d was ready to go that January. List of number-one R&B albums of 1997 (U.S.Famed rapper/actor Tupac Shakur (better known as 2Pac), whose life was unfortunately cut short a few months before as a result of gunshot wounds from a drive-by shooting that’s still unsolved to this day, had a couple films that had not yet hit theaters when he died.List of number-one albums of 1997 (U.S.).^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. 'Deliberation' (Anonymous featuring Cody Chesnutt)Ĭharts Weekly charts Chart (1997) 'Life Is a Traffic Jam' (2Pac featuring Eight Mile Road) 'Will I Rize' ( Storm featuring Val Young) 'Lady Heroin' ( J-Flexx, The Lady of Rage) 'Off the Hook' (Snoop Doggy Dogg featuring Charlie Wilson, Val Young, James DeBarge) 'Out the Moon (Boom, Boom, Boom)' (Snoop Doggy Dogg featuring LBC Crew, Soopafly, Tray Deee, 2Pac) 'Don't Try to Play Me Homey' ( Dat Niggaz Daz)

' Wanted Dead or Alive' ( 2Pac and Snoop Doggy Dogg featuring Val Young) The album was certified Gold on April 16, 1997.

Gridlock'd peaked at #1 on both the US Billboard 200 and the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, selling 150,500 copies in its first week. The album itself went to top the R&B album chart also on the first place.

2PAC GRIDLOCK D SOUNDTRACK ARCHIVE

'Wanted Dead or Alive' was 16th in the UK and was accompanied by a music video with Snoop alone as it was filmed after the death of 2Pac, so he is only present in archive footages from the motion picture. 'It's Over Now' was 46th on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, which was Danny Boy's second chart single. This is both the second to last Death Row Soundtrack Album and second to last Death Row album to be distributed by Interscope, as later in the year they would drop Death Row from their label. 'Lady Heroin' was originally going to be on Sam Sneed's unreleased album Street Scholars. The track 'Out the Moon (Boom, Boom, Boom)' was originally recorded for the LBC Crew debut album Haven't You Heard? (We Givin' Something Bacc To The Street), which was later shelved and the songs were cycled through other Death Row releases. Gridlock'd – The Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Vondie Curtis-Hall film Gridlock'd and was released on 28 January 1997 by Death Row Records and Interscope Records.

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