Happy New Years !  I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday. Barring a Y2K computer breakdown, nuclear holocaust or the Apocalypse look for HitEmUp.com to come even stronger in the year 2000.

Looking for more Tupac or other rap related sites? The new Search Engine is up on a reliable server.  You can check out the search engine here. Expect it to grow rapidly in the next few weeks.   Webmasters add your site here, also if you have a Tupac site there's code on the search page you can use to post the Tupac Search option on your page and I'll post your button on the search engine in return.

Tupac's album "Still I Rise" sold over 408.000 units and landed in the #7 spot on the Billboard charts.  There's a lot of people who are concerned because DMX finished 1st.  However Tupac's album was mass under advertised and I've talked to a lot of people who didn't even know it was released.  Tupac's album will sell strong over the next year and will finish probably 5X platinum regardless.  As for DMX it's a decent CD but not even Swizz Beats can keep all his cd's from sounding the same when the content of the lyrics don't change.

Snoops new album off his new label Dogghouse Records labeled 'Snoop Dogg Presents Tha Eastsidaz' is set for a January 18th release. Tha Eastsidaz include Tray D and Goldie Loc and the album will feature Daz, Kurupt, Xzibit, Quik, Nate Dogg and Suga Free.

Here's the tracklisting:

Well I'm back with a few updates, hope everybody had a good Christmas.

Everybody vote for 2Pac, Baby Don't Cry at MTV. Click on the link and then go to Play My Song.

Looking for more Tupac? The new Search Engine is up on a reliable server. You can check out the search engine here. Webmasters add your site here. Expect it to grow rapidly in the next few weeks.

Go to Rollingstone to vote for Pac as the artist of the century, "All Eyez On Me" as the album of the century, "California Love" as the song of the century and the murder of Pac as mucical event of the century. You can vote unlimited times if you press forward when you've filled out the form and change your e-mail address.

The Deathrow uncut video is still scheduled to be released on the 28th. Features Live Performances by Snoop, Dre and Tupac, X rated movie videos, takes you backstage behind the scenes plus features the last live performances by Tupac. The video is 2h long. You can listen to the commercial on mp3 here.

Here's the LA Times review of "Still I Rise": On this 15-cut collection of unreleased material ... tha late Tupac Shakur displays the passion, rage, insight and awareness that made him one of the decade's most charismatic rappers. He criticizes what he sees as President Clinton's neglect of America's poor in "Letter to the President," and he reflects on the grim realities of the streets in "Teardrops and Closed Caskets." Like the 1994 album Tupac made with the group Thug Life, this project--recorded in 1996, judging by some of the topical references--was intended to advance the careers of some of 2Pac's rapping friends, but the members of the Outlawz quickly become little more than an afterthought here, mainly providing bridges to the next 2Pac verse. Young Noble, E.D.I., Kastro and Napolean are passable rhymers, but they add little to the hard-core rap table. These slickly produced songs have obviously been altered since 2Pac recorded his vocals--on "The Good Die Young," the group sends it's condolences to the victims of the Columbino, Colo., school shooting.

Dr Uncut is a full length video that features never before seen live performances and x rated videos. Also included will be behind the scenes footage from the label folks love to fear and hate. Basically this video will show you everything you ever wanted to know about the Row and their reasons that led to them being the most successful independent record label of all time. If that's not enough there will be unreleased footage of 2Pac's last live performance.. Look for this to drop on December 28th just in time for the new millennium.

I've redone the videos section and added new videos including the Tupac video for the song Baby Don't Cry. If you didn't know Baby Don't Cry is Keep your head up II and is appearing on the new album Still I Rise scheduled to be released on December 21st. Here's the full video in Windows Media Format (3.67MB), thanks to TruThugs for the hookup. [ Download ] 

I'm starting a new Tupac search engine which I will have a domain name for in the near future. Webmasters of Tupac and Rap related sites can add your site here.

Click here for information from Daveyd.com about the Tupac Conference that took place over the Dec 3 and 4th weekend.

This info thanks to BOOKMORE from the Message Forum
Ice T was interviewed by www.sohh.com. They asked him has he noticed people cashing in on 2Pac's *death*, Master P for instance with the "Only God Can Judge Me" album and on Mariah Carey's new album she got a song from 2Pac's Makaveli album... Did you think that they should do that?? Ice T said: "Me and Pac were friends. I knew Pac when he was in Digital Underground. Even on my album I had a song dedicated to them, but I was very cautious about putting it out there. If you knew Pac or Big, I don't see how you could try to come up off them. I got tracks with Pac on it in my studio, but I'm not planning on releasing it. I got like four tracks with Tupac rapping downstairs, crazy stuff. But that's my boy, you know? He gave that to me. A lot of people are just fake. I'm not saying P is fake - you have to ask them."

Apparently there's a suspect in the shooting of Biggie. You can read the article here.

Word is that Soopafly is going to be releasing his new album off of Snoops Dogghouse record label due to a problem with Deathrow.

Vote for California Luv as the best music video ever made at Tvguide.com

Snoop is now doing a Saturday show called The Dogghouse for radio station Power 106 in LA.

Jay-Z was arrested for questioning in regards to the stabbing of Record executive Lance 'Un' Rivera which took place December 1st at Q-Tips album release party. Police are saying the stabbing stemmed from an argument over the bootlegging of Jay-Z's new album The Life And Times Of Shawn Carter. Rivera was taken to the hospital and later released.

Old Dirty Bastard of Wu-Tang, who has been arrested 12 times over the past year and half, was convicted for threatening a security guard at the House of Blues night club and a under a new law in California which prevents felons from wearing Body armor, as he was wearing a bullet proof vest. He was sentenced to 3 years probation, fined 500 dollars, required to take anger management classes and forced to commit to a year in drug rehab.

I've added another desktop theme in the desktops section. It's pretty tight.

I got this news via email from: Khris Drummond
As you know Big Syke is working on his LP on Rap-A-Lot, but now newz comes from Blaze magazine that Fatal Hussien has signed with Rap-A-Lot too. This make three Outlawz on Rap-A-Lot (Gonzoe signed to Yukmouth's imprint, Smoke-A-Lot Records) Plus after "Still I Rise" Outlawz members - EDI, Kastro, Young Noble and Napoleon are free from tha Row, so finally we'll get a real Outlawz LP.

I apologize for the message board being down. The server it was hosted from, alleyez.net is down and so the forum is inaccessible. With any luck the server will be back up soon. Right now I'm looking to get one up on a server of my own but this could take some time.

There's a new song floating around the net on Mp3. It's a radio edit of a song called Killuminati which is set to be released on the upcoming Still I Rise album. In the first verse of the song Tupac says, "Wonder why these niggaz crossed me, I'm certified crazy, so sick the world made me, now Biggie die, everytime I ride it's for reasons, all you bitch ass niggaz, I'm comin back like Jesus.."

The song sounds like it's legit, it doesn't sound remade, despite the fact that the second verse is almost exactly the same as part of the unreleased song Untouchable Freestyle. I'm sure this will add to the alive theories although the verse can be taken different ways.

Check out the new additions:
Fan Appreciation   Desktop Themes   1994 Shooting   Alleged Rape

I've also added to the Anti Puffy Section

The has been running pretty slow lately thanks to my hosting who hasn't answered my questions or done anything to fix the problem. I'm looking into switching hosting.

Here's the tracklisting to Still I Rise with some new audio samples. The new album is still set for a December 21st release.

1. Letter to the President   2. Still I Rise   3. Secretz of War   4. Baby Don't Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II)   5. As The World Turns   6. Black Jesuz   7. Homeboyz   8. Hell 4 A Hustler   9. High Speed 10. The Good Die Young 11. Killuminati 12. Teardrop and Closed Caskets 13. Tattoo Tears 14. U Can Be Touched 15. Y'all Don't Know Us

The singles from the album Still I Rise are "Baby Don't Cry", "Hell 4 A Hustler" and "Homeboyz". In the MTV.Com News there's an article about "Still I Rise", it says that the director for the "Baby Don't Cry" video is J. Jesse Smith.

In Outlaw releases they're appearing on the upcoming, Bully's With Fully's (Guce & Killa Tay) "Westside Stories", Lil' Bruce's "Give It To Me Baby" also featuring Thug Life and they're on a song "Ain't Died In Vein", a Tupac tribute on Rondo's album. As I reported earlier the Outlawz are on Willie D's upcoming album "Loved By Few, Hated By Many". The release date was changed from November 23rd to January 18. Big Syke has an untitled album dropping off Rap-A-Lot February 8.

Snoops new biography is out called "Tha Dogg Father: The Hardcore Truths of Snoop Doggy Dogg". You can buy the book at amazon.com

Tracklist for the upcoming Next Friday soundtrack:

01. You Can Do It - Ice Cube, Mack 10 & Ms.Toi
02. Murder Murder - Eminem
03. We Murderers Baby - Ja Rule & Vita
04. Shaolin Worldwide - Wu-Tang Clan
05. Friday - Krayzie Bone
06. Fried Day - Bizzy Bone
07. Livin' It Up - Pharoahe
08. Mamacita - Don Ciaco, Frost, Kurupt & Soopafly
09. Money Stretch - Lil' Zane
10. Hot - Toni Estes
11. Low Income - Wyclef Jean
12. Make Your Body Sing - Isley Bros featuring Ron Isley
13. I Don't Wanna - Aaliyah
14. Fuck That - N.W.A & Snoop Dogg
15. Good Friday - Big Tymers, Lil' Wayne & Mack 10

There's a new book out by Vibe Magazine titled 'The Vibe History of Hip Hop'. It has a picture of Tupac in the center of the front cover among 7 other pictures. It's the complete story of rap from its start in the Bronx to it's world-wide status today. It also has the complete discograpy of every album by every artist. If you get a first edition copy it includes a free 4-song CD with music from Profilin': The Hits and a new Run-DMC track from their upcoming album, Crown Royal. You can order the book using a credit card at 1-800-426-9922 or included your name and address with check or money order for $21.95* to:

The VIBE History of Hip Hop
PO Box 10214
Dept. 481507-248, Des Moines, IA 50336-0214
*Us Funds. Include applicalbe sales tax in IA, NJ, NY, PA