Damn Near Dead is the long delayed Death Row debut album released by the rap group O.F.T.B.. The album was initially due for release in 1997, on Death Row Records. However following 2Pac's death and the incarceration of Suge Knight

Suge Knight

Marion "Suge" Knight, Jr. is the founder and CEO of Black Kapital Records and co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough album The Chronic in 1992. After several years of chart successes for artists including...

, the album was shelved.

Upon purchasing the Death Row catalogue WideAwake released the album in it's original form on July 12, 2011. The unreleased video for Check Yo Hood featuring Jewell, was released by WideAwake to promote the album.

It features production mainly from O.F.T.B. themselves, but also features long term 2Pac collaborator Johnny "J"

Johnny "J"

Johnny Lee Jackson , commonly known in the music industry as Johnny "J", was a Mexican multi-platinum songwriter, music producer and rapper who was perhaps best remembered for his production on Tupac Shakur's albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World, as well as many of Shakur's subsequent...

, as well as TKO, Sandman & Brian G.

The album has appearances from Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...

, Kurupt

Kurupt

Ricardo Emmanuel Brown , better known by his stage name Kurupt, also known as Kurupt Tha Kingpin, Kurupt Young Gotti or Young Gotstra is an American rapper and former Executive Vice President of Death Row Records...

, Jewell

Jewell (singer)

Jewell is a female R&B singer who was signed to Death Row Records from 1992-1996. She was working part-time - though still unsigned - for IV Life Records. She had a video and charting hit "Woman to Woman", that reached 72nd on the Billboard Hot 100...

 & MC Hammer

MC Hammer

Stanley Kirk Burrell , better known by his stage name MC Hammer , is an American rapper, entertainer, business entrepreneur, dancer and actor. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s...

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Track listing

1. Thinkin' About That Murder
2. Hot One
3. Damn Near Dead
4. Gun A Nigga Down
5. Niggas Going Down
6. That Was Then, This Is Now - (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Kurupt)
7. Crack 'Em (Remix)
8. Who Got The Hits
9. What Should I Do
10. Girls Ain't Got No Time
11. Penitentiary Bound
12. Check Yo Hood - (Feat. Jewell)
13. So Long - (Feat. MC Hammer)