The end result? 1987’s fan and critic favorite Sign O’ The Times. Prince’s label, Warner Bros., refused to release a three album set and forced Prince to trim it down to two albums. After The Revolution parted ways, the album went through tons of changes and became a triple album called Crystal Ball. Dream Factory would have been an 18 track double album and is the last album project Prince completed with The Revolution before disbanding the group later that year. Though his movie Under The Cherry Moon was a commercial, critical, and artistic failure, the multi-talented musician was inspired enough to record a few dozen songs for the follow up to the film’s soundtrack. A few of them would wind up on Dwele’s major label debut, Subject, but several of them remain unreleased.ġ986 was a very prolific year for Prince. Either way, fans of Dwele downloaded the songs in droves. It’s unknown whether or not the songs were intended to be an album, or if they were just a bunch of random songs Dwele had put on a CD-R. Shortly after that album got a wider release, an entire album’s worth of songs started making the rounds.

MCA decided not to release the album, and it remained unheard by the masses for several years until it leaked in 2008, 2 years after Dilla’s death.ĭetroit’s Dwele created an insane buzz on the internet in the early 2000’s with his locally released Rize album. Dilla put his production skills on the back burner for the album and enlisted the likes of Pete Rock, Nottz, Kanye West, and ?uestlove to handle production duties. In 2002, the late J Dilla completed his major label debut album for MCA called Pay Jay. Shortly before the video shoot for the album’s second single, “Thug Love” featuring Destiny’s Child, had been released, 50 was shot and hospitalized. In 2000, young Curtis was signed to Columbia Records and was starting to generate a buzz thanks to the song “How To Rob,” a song where 50 fantasizes about robbing several of R&B and Hip-Hop’s most prominent figures. Get Rich Or Die Trying was not 50 Cent’s first album. Here are some of our favorite unreleased albums that a crafty internet user could hunt down with a few properly worded Google searches. On the flipside, sometimes these unreleased albums find their way out of a record label’s vault and get bootlegged. Unfortunately, music fans often miss out on some great work because an album isn’t released. Other times, the artist just decides that the material isn’t up to par and decides not to release it. Sometimes the public doesn’t respond to any of the singles released, or record label politics get in the way. It’s a common occurrence in music for an album to be recorded and never see the light of day.

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