Ray Luv On Growing Up With 2Pac, Mac Dre, Working With Mac Wanda, Set Shakur, and Dear Mama Series.
Ray Love provides an insider's perspective on the Bay Area hip-hop scene, detailing his close relationships with Tupac Shakur and Mac Dre, while exposing systemic exploitation in the music industry.summaryTupac Shakur's work ethic was driven by necessity; studio time cost $3,500/day, requiring artists to write 8+ songs beforehand to survive 24-hour sessions, resulting in Tupac recording 5 songs a day.takeawayThe music industry exploits artists by taking massive cuts of intellectual property posthumously; Ray Love notes that Afeni Shakur sold more records posthumously than Tupac did in his lifetime due to strategic estate mantakeaway














