Runnin' (Dying to Live)
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| Single by 2Pac featuring The Notorious B.I.G. | |||||||||||||
| from the album Tupac: Resurrection | |||||||||||||
| Released | September 30, 2003  October 7, 2003  December 9, 2003  January 13, 2004  February 3, 2004  March 9, 2004  May 25, 2004  July 20, 2004  September 7, 2004 
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| Genre | Hardcore Hip Hop | ||||||||||||
| Length | 3:52 | ||||||||||||
| Label | Amaru | ||||||||||||
| Writer(s) |
Tupac Shakur Osten Harvey, Jr. Christopher Wallace Marshall Mathers III Luis Resto Edgar Winter |
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| Producer(s) | Eminem | ||||||||||||
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"Runnin' (Dying to Live)", by the late rappers 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. was the first released single from the posthumous soundtrack album Tupac: Resurrection.
The song is a remake of an Easy Mo Bee-produced song called "Runnin' From tha Police", recorded by Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. in 1994. Easy Mo Bee subsequently received songwriting credits on "Runnin' (Dying To Live)".
The chorus is from Edgar Winter's song "Dying to Live" (from the album Edgar Winter's White Trash), which was edited to a higher pitch for the song. The interview of Notorious B.I.G. heard at the end of the track was recorded only a couple of weeks before his death.
The video contains interviews of both Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. It is the only song from the album to feature a music video. The video version mutes all language, violence and drug references, even Biggie's comment about two cops being shot (the radio version only censors all profanity except the word "bitches" in 2Pac's verse). In the video, it has past images of 2Pac and Biggie, and once their verses end, the song fades out.
The song won the Top Soundtrack Song of the Year award at the 2005 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards.
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