EXCLUSIVE: New Keyshia Cole ft. 2Pac

[EDITED 10/6 9:28 PM:]
I received a few emails tonight from readers alerting me to the fact that this track appeared on 2Pac’s posthumous album, Pac’s Life, released in 2006. Just a few minutes ago, I spoke with Manny Halley, Keyshia’s manager who explained that the song was never released as a single. Here’s what he said:

“It was never a single. It was just a album cut that we did for him… We didn’t want to lose a hit record. We’re going to drop all the big singles with it, but we wanted to keep 2Pac and Keyshia because they never made it a single. So we made it a single.”
— Manny Halley, Imani Ent. Group

Much love to Keyshia Cole’s management for Blessing SR.com with Keyshia’s first single off her new album which drops December 16th!

Normally I don’t get this excited over new music, but we’re talking about Keyshia Cole and the legendary 2Pac Shakur! The single is titled “Play Ya Cards Right” and it is HAWT!

SR.com readers get to hear it right here first before it hits the airwaves! Did I say it is HAWT!

LISTEN:

Play Ya Cards Right

Keyshia will shoot the music video for her new single in L.A. tomorrow. Then she jets back to Atlanta just in time to attend her star-studded 27th birthday party on October 15 and the BET Hip Hop Awards on Oct. 18 at the Atlanta Civic Center.

A Superstar never rests!

netta0281

i am the first to post lol.Sandra the song is hot i love keyshia and i love tupac even more.RIP Pac u the best rapper out.Even though your in your grave.Keep up the great work sandra…
Kymystry

Wow ,… that dosen’t even LOOK Like KeyCole !
shhhh

Hmm I heard this song like 2 years ago. Why is this a new release?
http://myspace.com/thegameoncw Bird

I LOVE IT! Too bad Tupac is not here to do the video with her.
http://myspace.com/tiagurl04 Ms.Tia

i love it!…r&b..not that pop bull that we’ve been forced to listen to. pac sounds great over the beat…one problem,keysh is doin a bit much vocally on the first verse..other then that i’ll rock to it
PAGESINADIARY

I LOVE KEYSHIA, I LOVE THE PHOTOSHOP , I LOVE TUPAC BUT IM NOT DIGGING THE SONG!!
brwnsugga4you

sandra stop it!!! the song was on v103.3 this afternoon at 5pm..lol!! anyways..i like song as well. what’s really strange is that tupac is rapping about things in the world today…obama etc…i’m no ms. cleo…but, this is very strange.
thatGIRL

i heard this on the radio today and i like the song…but this was on 2PAC’s “pac’s life” cd so y is she releasing it as her first single after all this time?
LB

i am NOT a fan of people people putting random Pac verse’s on their songs… BUT…. this is serious! i love it!
Mzsuave

This shyt knocks…feeling the vibe of the song. KeyKey always bring it. Can’t wait till her cd drops. I can see myself now, bumping this on my way to the carwash in sunny Cali, or cleaning up to this joint.

Brwnsugga…(hey girl) I listened to the song twice…where does he mention Obama?

lol…Pac said “take yo time nigga”
candi21

I like that song, is this really the first single??!!!
http://www.myspace.com/kymystrys Kymystry

Morn SR Family !
OhWell

WTF. This song went hard TWO YEARS ago when we first heard it. Anyone who is an avid KC or Pac fan already had this old track.

Trying to ride coat tails off of Pac for a first single KC? Thats a gimmick if I’ve ever seen one. We used to love you cause you were above that. What happened???
Bubbles

Recycling.
shay1

Good Morning Kym, rest of the Fam…..

Yes it was on the radio yesterday…I like it.
brwnsugga4you

#10 you are absolutely right. the song just reference alot that is going on right now in society. but, most of his songs do. i was just bein sarcastic..thanks!
Krysi J

Damn Keyshia is not playing…She just dropped an album, and she’s dropping again already, do it girl!! I don’t know about this single though.
toosexy

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT IT’S KEYSHIA, I LOVE THIS GIRL’S TALENT. I LOVE BOTH OF HER ALBUMS I WAS SLOW TO CATCH ON TO HER AND GOT HER FIRST ALBUM BY MISTAKE AND I WILL NEVER REGRET THAT. THE LAST ONE WAS THE BOMB TOO. I KNOW THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE GREAT TOO.

GOOD MORNING SR FOLKS
leat

Pac never sounds dated its like he was before his time him and Big! this song is nice, however i dont believe it will be a single after they see responses from people who’ve heard this song years ago! its a good album track tho! she needs to put that “Silent Night” as a bonus track or something! it sends chills thru my body i forget its a X-mas song.
Detroit48205

I guess I’m late and out of touch. I’ve never heard this song, I like though.

@ leat….

I never heard her rendetion of Silent Night… where can I find it?
teecee

IM NOT FEELING IT, AND KEY IS BEGINING TO DEVLOP A WINE IN ALL HER SONGS…..
kitty4shigady

Keyshia cole a superstar??? yeah right more like stuck up bitch and please don’t say that is not true because i Know of this first hand I had to work with the cunt this summer. Keyshia thinks she is the best singer alive what a joke. Keyshia just don’t know how many promoters can not stand her ass and don’t won’t to work with her. The things sandra says about beyonce adbout her diva attitude that is all keyshia
candi21

#19 YES, YES .. KEYSHIA SINGING SILENT NIGHT WAS POWERFUL,CHECK IMEEM FOR THOSE THAT HAVENT HEARD IT.
pinky2083

Sandra I’ve had this song in my itunes for almost two years. Loved it when I first heard it. This is def not a new release.
Mississippi16

Dump it.
toosexy

@kitty

yea i can see that in her, but i hope she grows out of it, she has a lot of issues that she had to deal with, and sometimes it’s that anger and guilt that makes you act a certain way, and the funny thing is you really don’t know that’s the real problem. I hope she learns to deal with it and move on, and be a happier person.
missdisrection

Ms. Keyshia if you by any chance read Sandra’s blog PLEASE PLEASE think about doing a remake (if possible) to the Emotions song “Don’t Ask My Neighbor.” I heard that old school jam on 104.1 last night and for some reason thought “dang, Keyshia Cole could do a tight remake of this song with Eve or Amina spitting a verse.
missdisrection

Oh and I LOVE the single but I LOVE KEYSHIA COLE as an artist; no matter what; flaws and all. Keyshia has her flaws but who doesn’t? I am all flawed up and down. Anytime I can feel sincerity in an artist and they put themselves out there, in what they say through their music, then I am a fan. Like MJB said, Take Me As I AM. Too many times we never see the real artist; it’s a facade but understandable.

We all know Beyonce has issues like the rest of us but she doesn’t let any of her flaws show (not intentionally, she fell on her butt but not on purpose) and that’s her prerogative. This is not a diss to B because I know that she is a private person who protects her privacy as she has a right to do; just a comparison. My illustration is that I tend to gravitate more toward artist who aren’t afraid to say yes I am a celebrity/star but “girl, me too.” No, I don’t need or want to know all of your business but it’s nice to know that I could/can relate.
MJB, Lady T and Jill Scott are my faves and KCole is in there!

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