Toss It Up (2Pac song)

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"Toss It Up"
Single by Makaveli (2Pac)
from the album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Released September 26, 1996
Recorded June 7, 1996
Genre West Coast hip hop
Length 5:06
Label Death Row Records/Interscope
Writer(s) Tupac Shakur, Aaron Hall, Danny Boy, Demetrius Meech Shipp, Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, Joel "JoJo" Hailey
Producer Demetrius Meech Shipp
Makaveli (2Pac) singles chronology
"I Ain't Mad at Cha"
(1996)
"Toss It Up"
(1996)
"To Live & Die in L.A."
(1996)

"Toss It Up" is a song by 2Pac under his new name "Makaveli" from his final album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. A music video was shot for the song. This was the last video Tupac shot before his death. It was recorded the day before he flew to Las Vegas to watch the Mike Tyson/Bruce Seldon fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

[edit] Original Production

Dr. Dre was the original producer for the song and was going to use the beat from No Diggity a song by Blackstreet but when Dre left Death Row Records he sold the beat to Blackstreet which made Tupac furious. It samples Bill Whithers "Grandmas Hands".

[edit] Dr. Dre Diss

2Pac dissed Dr. Dre in the song during the whole second verse stating "You crossed Death Row now who you gunna run too?" and "Screamin' Compton but you can't return". He also made a reference though not by name to the song Straight Outta Compton by Dre's former rap group N.W.A by saying "How can some non-players do a song about Compton and then want to do a player song".

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