A YouTube upload titled “2Pac – Don’t You Trust Me (ft. 50 Cent, Eminem)” spent this week climbing US trending lists, and a lot of listeners took it for the 2Pac, 50 Cent and Eminem record promised for the new Street Fighter film. It is not that record. The only officially released 2Pac song with that name dates from December 2004, lists no featured rappers in its credits, and the three-way theme 50 Cent described in July had no title or release date when he last spoke about it on October 12.
The real “Don’t You Trust Me?” is 22 years old
The song is track 11 of Loyal to the Game, the posthumous 2Pac album that his mother, Afeni Shakur, put out through her Amaru Entertainment label and Interscope on December 14, 2004. Eminem produced the whole album with Luis Resto, rebuilding vocals 2Pac had cut between 1991 and 1994. That project began with a letter: Eminem wrote to Afeni Shakur asking to produce her son’s next album, and she agreed, first letting him make three songs for the 2003 Tupac: Resurrection soundtrack.
On “Don’t You Trust Me?” the original beat came from Big D The Impossible. Eminem’s version, which runs 4 minutes 55 seconds, is built around a sample of Dido’s “Do You Have a Little Time,” which is why so many fan uploads over the years have labeled it “ft. Dido.” Eminem does appear as a guest elsewhere on the album, on “Soldier Like Me” and “Black Cotton,” and G-Unit, 50 Cent’s group, is credited on the title track. Neither is credited as a featured artist on this song.
The album did big numbers for a record of reworked vault material. It opened at No. 1 on the US albums chart, moving more than 330,000 copies in week one, went platinum in February 2005 and had sold about 1.2 million US copies by 2011. Its official audio sits today on the auto-generated “2Pac – Topic” channel on YouTube, titled simply “Don’t You Trust Me.”
Where the Street Fighter song actually stands
The confusion has a real starting point. On July 24, promoting his work on a US morning TV show, 50 Cent said: “I got some music that I’m working on. I did something currently – me, Eminem, and 2Pac.” Asked whether 2Pac’s part was artificial, he was firm. “It’s his estate. No, it’s not AI,” he said. “They delivered it.” He said 2Pac’s family and estate “loved it” and that the song would be “coming out shortly.” He had first floated the idea on Instagram in December 2025, writing that he was going to get Eminem “on deck to make some music for this movie Street Fighter.”
The update fans did not want came at the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Monday, October 12. “Em, he put a couple of pieces together for it and decided because he got closer to his album, he kinda fell back on that because he’s preparing his presentation for the next album,” 50 Cent said on the red carpet. He did not say whether the 2Pac vocals would still be used, who might replace Eminem, or whether the song would come out at all.
The film itself, in which 50 Cent plays the boxer Balrog, reached US theaters on Friday, October 16 through Paramount, and had taken about $31 million worldwide by Saturday. Its soundtrack album arrived digitally from Milan Records on the same day, and the original songs listed for the film are two by the band Health, “Negative Edge” and “Brainrot.” We wrote earlier about another surprise in the film, the hand-drawn anime flashbacks hidden inside it.
How to check a “new” 2Pac feature before you share it
Posthumous 2Pac releases have a long, legitimate history, which is exactly what makes fan edits easy to believe. A few quick checks would have settled this one:
- Read the channel name. The 2004 song’s official audio is on the “2Pac – Topic” channel; an upload that adds feature credits in brackets on a fan channel is not a label release.
- Match the credits. On Loyal to the Game, Eminem and Luis Resto are the producers of “Don’t You Trust Me?” and Dido is a sample, not a guest verse.
- Check the dates. 50 Cent called the theme new music in July 2026; a song name from a 2004 tracklist is a strong sign of a re-edit.
- Look for the announcement. A real three-way release would come with a title and a date from the artists, the estate or the label. None had appeared as of 50 Cent’s October 12 comments.
Eminem and 50 Cent are not short of history together. 50 Cent signed to Shady Records in 2002, Eminem and Dr. Dre were among the executive producers of Get Rich or Die Tryin’ in 2003, and their most recent shared track was “Gunz N Smoke” with Snoop Dogg on the 2024 album Missionary. Eminem’s latest new music is “Madara,” his single with Filipino-American rapper Ez Mil, released on October 8.
Until 50 Cent, Eminem’s camp or the Shakur estate puts a title and a date on the Street Fighter theme, the only “Don’t You Trust Me?” with an official stamp is the 4-minute-55-second version from 2004.
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