May 13, 2010 | 11:35am ET
“The songs are from a collection of tracks that were recorded during his Death Row days around [1996’s] All Eyez On Me. I believe that these songs could have been 2Pac’s next record if he were still alive.”
— New Death Row Records President John Payne tells Vibe (via Rap Radar) that a new batch of previously unreleased Tupac Shakur material will be released this Christmas. Payne, who also owns the Toronto-based company Wideawake Entertainment, purchased Death Row last year and is currently looking for ways to clear $18 million worth of debt. He’s hoping a sixth posthumous Tupac album does the trick…