 The idea for " Temptations " began in late 1993 when record producer Easy Mo Bee came to Shakur while he was on the set of Above the Rim ( 1994 ) . At Rucker Park in New York City , Mo Bee approached Shakur with several different songs they could sample from in the Me Against the World album . Out of the pieces he showed the rapper , Shakur favored the Zapp song " Computer Love . " Despite being frequently sampled in the past by other artists , Shakur proposed that they simply speed up the tempo of " Computer Love " and use a low frequency automatic filter to retrieve the song 's bassline . 
