"Wanted Dead or Alive" is a gangsta rap song by American West Coast hip hop recording artists 2Pac and Snoop Dogg.
It was released in January 1997 via Death Row Records and Def Jam Music Group Inc. as the lead single from Gridlock'd – The Soundtrack.
Production was handled by Daz Dillinger, who utilized an interpolation of Zapp's "Dance Floor".
AllMusic's Andrew Hamilton described the song as "2Pac supplies the bullets with his aggressive, authentic, unmistakable delivery and Snoop's at his spacy best, laid-back, effective, super cool, and chronic mellow".
It shows the police trying to catch Snoop Dogg along with clips of the deceased rapper Tupac Shakur.