Lost Files: Unreleased Songs We Want to Hear

Gaga and K-Dot's duet and other songs locked in the vault.

Lost Files: Unreleased Songs We Want to Hear - Pretty much the entire Internet is singing the praises of Kendrick Lamar's new album, good kid, m.A.A.d. city. Well, everyone except Lady Gaga fans. Gaga's "monsters" were no doubt disappointed that the pair's reported collaboration didn't make the album. Gaga and Kendrick worked on a song called "Partynauseous," but due to legal red tape and artistic disagreements, it wasn't cleared for the album. That doesn't mean we don't want to hear it though. In fact, we'll make it the first track on the following playlist of dope, unreleased music we'd love to listen to. Click on to check out the best mixtape you'll never hear. —Alex Gale (Photos from left: John Ricard / BET, Ian Gavan/Getty Images for Coty Beauty UK)
Tupac Shakur in Higher Learning - After earning rave reviews for his performance in Poetic Justice, Shakur was ready to tackle the role of a Black college student on a track scholarship in John Singleton's Higher Learning. Unfortunately, he was sentenced to jail before shooting began and had to be replaced by his Juice co-star Omar Epps.(Photo: Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Nas feat. Frank Ocean, "No Such Thing As White Jesus" - This widely reported powerhouse collaboration between Nas, Frank Ocean—which New York Times writer Jon Caramanica, who heard Ocean's hook, called "what Nas needs right now"—won't ever see the light of day: The producer, Hit-Boy, lost the recording session on his hard drive. Back up your computers, kids. (Photos from left: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Heineken, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)Jay-Z's Primo-Produced Diss Track - In a 2010 interview, legendary producer DJ Premier revealed that he produced an unreleased Jay-Z song that features the God MC smiting old foes. "He was getting a little slick at a lot of people," Primo recalled. "I won’t even say their names. He said a lot of slick s--t about a lot of people from the era he was coming through when he was just coming out with Reasonable Doubt. He was airing them out and doing it properly. If he had done it, he would have been respected for it. He did it so dope, and so cleverly, and he was so witty with it. But he erased it, so it’s going to be a memory I take to the grave."  (Photos from left: Shareif Ziyadat/FilmMagic, Brad Barket/PictureGroup)

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Lost Files: Unreleased Songs We Want to Hear - Pretty much the entire Internet is singing the praises of Kendrick Lamar's new album, good kid, m.A.A.d. city. Well, everyone except Lady Gaga fans. Gaga's "monsters" were no doubt disappointed that the pair's reported collaboration didn't make the album. Gaga and Kendrick worked on a song called "Partynauseous," but due to legal red tape and artistic disagreements, it wasn't cleared for the album. That doesn't mean we don't want to hear it though. In fact, we'll make it the first track on the following playlist of dope, unreleased music we'd love to listen to. Click on to check out the best mixtape you'll never hear. —Alex Gale (Photos from left: John Ricard / BET, Ian Gavan/Getty Images for Coty Beauty UK)

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