No, the 2Pac Song in the New Street Fighter Trailer Is Not the Eminem Track — It Has Been in the Trailers Since April

It is “Ambitionz Az a Fighta,” a 1995 Mike Tyson recording — and it has been soundtracking Street Fighter trailers since April, four months before 50 Cent announced the theme song. The Eminem record is still unreleased.

Paramount and Legendary released a new Street Fighter trailer on Tuesday, September 1, 2026. It is the most substantial look yet at the October film — Chun-Li pulling Ryu and Ken back together, a Guile haircut faithful to the sprite, and what looks a great deal like Evil Ryu at the back end. It also arrived as a genuinely strange piece of marketing: the full trailer was made playable through YouTube Playables as the "Street Fighter Combo Challenge," where you clear inputs to unlock the promo inside an arcade-cabinet interface. It debuted on the Shinjuku Yunika Vision screens in Tokyo before it hit the internet.

And under it: Tupac Shakur. Here is the trailer — the Pac cut is the first thing you hear:

Within a day, that had been written up in Eminem fan circles as the first audible evidence of the 50 Cent / Eminem / 2Pac theme song — the one 50 confirmed on national television in July. The reasoning goes that you can hear the word "fighter" where Pac's original says "ridah," which would mean somebody in 2026 built something new out of the vault.

We went and checked. That is not what happened, and the actual explanation is more interesting than the rumour.

What the song actually is

The track is "Ambitionz Az a Fighta." It is a real, genuinely obscure 2Pac recording, and it is thirty-one years old.

In 1995, Pac cut an alternate version of All Eyez on Me's opening track "Ambitionz Az a Ridah," rewriting the lyrics around fighting, as a ring-entrance record for Mike Tyson. Tyson was returning to boxing that year, and the song was made for his December 1995 comeback bout against Buster Mathis Jr. It was never released commercially in Pac's lifetime and surfaced later on posthumous compilations and unofficial mixes.

So the word "fighter" in that trailer audio is not a 2026 edit, and it is not somebody's vocal layered over Pac's beat. It is 2Pac, in 1995, rapping the word "fighter," because he wrote the version that says "fighter" for a heavyweight champion's walk-out.

Here is the record itself. There is no official release of it, so this is an unofficial upload — but it is the recording under both trailers, and you can hear Pac say "fighter" for yourself:

The Street Fighter connection is even neater than that. The boxer in the game — the one 50 Cent plays in this film — is Balrog, a character openly modelled on Mike Tyson, and originally named M. Bison in the Japanese release before Capcom swapped the names for the West. A song written for Tyson, in a film where the Tyson character is the muscle. That is a music supervisor earning their fee, not a leak.

The timeline is the whole answer

Here is why this cannot be the Eminem record, laid out by date:

• December 1995 — 2Pac records "Ambitionz Az a Fighta" for Mike Tyson's comeback fight.
• December 2025 — 50 Cent posts a promo image of himself as Balrog and writes, "I'm gonna get @eminem on deck to make some music for this movie Street Fighter." A promise, nothing more. We covered it at the time in 50 Cent Promised Eminem on the Street Fighter Soundtrack — The Clock Is Ticking.
• April 2026 — the first full trailer debuts at CinemaCon. It uses "Ambitionz Az a Fighta," before handing off to 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?" for the Ken material. Outlets covering the trailer that month identified the Pac cut and its Tyson history explicitly.
• July 24, 2026 — 50 Cent goes on NBC's TODAY and confirms the theme song: him, Eminem, and an authentic unreleased Tupac recording, estate-approved, no AI. Our full breakdown is here: 50 Cent Confirms It: Eminem and an Unreleased Tupac Verse Are on the Street Fighter Theme.
• September 1, 2026 — the new trailer arrives, using the same 2Pac cut that was already in the April trailer.

You do not have to take our word for the April part. Here is that trailer, from four months before 50 said a word about a theme song — same Tupac record:

The Pac music in this campaign predates the announcement of the collaboration by roughly four months. It is trailer licensing, established in April and carried forward, and it tells you nothing about the theme song's contents.

Why this distinction matters

Not to be pedantic about a movie trailer — but because of what the actual record would represent if and when it lands.

Eminem has cited Tupac as his single largest influence for his entire career. He curated and produced Loyal to the Game for Afeni Shakur in 2004. Despite that, an official, cleared, commercially released song with both men rapping on it has never existed. Not a mashup, not a fan edit. If 50's theme song comes out the way he described it in July, that is a first in hip-hop history, thirty years in the making.

A trailer sync of a 1995 Tyson promo does not clear that bar, and treating it as the reveal spends the moment early on the wrong thing. When the real record surfaces, it will be a single with credits, a release date, and Eminem's voice on it — not a needle-drop that has been sitting in the campaign since spring.

What is still genuinely open

As of today, six weeks out from release, the situation is this:

• The theme song is unreleased. 50 said "coming out shortly" on July 24. Nothing has come out.
• No single, no credits, no title. There has been no announcement from Shady, Aftermath, Interscope, or Paramount.
• Eminem's camp has said nothing at all. Every word about this project has come from 50 Cent. That has been true since December 2025 and it is still true.
• The window is closing. Street Fighter opens October 16, 2026. A promotional single that is going to do promotional work has to arrive within weeks, not days before the premiere.

The film itself remains stacked: Andrew Koji as Ryu, Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Callina Liang as Chun-Li, David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, Jason Momoa as Blanka, Roman Reigns as Akuma, Cody Rhodes as Guile, 50 Cent as Balrog, directed by Kitao Sakurai and set in 1993.

One more warning, while we are here

Search YouTube for the theme song right now and the top results are tracks titled things like "50 Cent, Eminem, 2Pac — Street Fighter [2026 Unreleased] (Full)." They are fan-made. Some are AI voice constructions, the exact thing 50 Cent went out of his way to rule out in July. None of them are the record. If you are about to share something claiming to be this song, check whether it has credits, a label, and a distributor before you do — because the real one will.

When the Eminem song drops, it will be obvious. Until then: the thing you are hearing in the trailer is Tupac, from 1995, made for Mike Tyson. Which is a great story. It is just not this story.

Sources. Trailers via Paramount Pictures (September 1, 2026 and April 16, 2026). Playables mechanic and Tokyo debut: JoBlo, Anime News Network, Dark Horizons. "Ambitionz Az a Fighta" identification and its 1995 Mike Tyson origin: EventHubs, April 17, 2026; Consequence. 50 Cent's theme confirmation: NBC's TODAY, July 24, 2026. Cast and release date: Paramount.