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The original tracklist for Biggie Smalls‘ Life After Death album has surfaced. The Brooklyn rapper’s final project was released on March 25th, 1997, 16 days after he was murdered, but the album was missing some of the original songs.

Instagram account 92 Bricks has shared a tracklist from a listening party in January 1997, showing Life After Death… Til Death Do Us Part as the original title.

28 songs were played at the party, four more than the 24 on the official version. The printed tracklist shows many unreleased songs, including ‘Once Upon a Time’ featuring Fat Joe, ‘Stayin’ Alive’, and untitled tracks produced by RZA, Easy Mo Bee, and DJ Clark Kent.

‘Spanish Fly’ also didn’t make the cut, but it appears to be an early demo of Black Rob‘s track of the same name from his 2000 album, Life Story.

Several songs from the final version have different titles on the unearthed tracklist. ‘Comin’ Out’ featuring Ma$e became ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’, ‘Bones Track’ became ‘Notorious Thugs’ featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and ‘Mo Bounce’ became ‘Going Back to Cali’.

Fat Joe once revealed that he was recording an album with Biggie, and ‘Once Upon a Time’ supports his claims.

“You know I say stuff, Tim, and they always say I lie or I say too much,” he told Timbaland on Instagram Live in 2021. “You know I worked on an album with Biggie? We cut about five songs together. He was like, ‘You the Latino don, I’m the Black don.’ And we was in that studio going crazy. It’s verified by Puff Daddy and everybody.”

He added, “I’ma keep it real: at the time, we were dissing Tupac a lot and all that, and so that should have never seen the light of day. Which is respectfully so, because you know they both passed on. But yeah, I worked with the BIG for real.”