2pac all eyez on me album disc 1
“No More Pain” is yet another song that addresses his rivals, only this time he is a little more specific. So now I’m back to be a m***********g menace!
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Now I’m back, my adversaries been reduced to tears I’ve been hesitant to reappear, been away for years It is 2Pac, “back, reincarnated,” getting out of prison to face his adversaries, and he is not going to play nice: This song is an almost-perfect beginning for the album. Dogg Pound member Daz, who really does some excellent – albeit largely unheralded – work here by providing four other blazing tracks, provides the minimalist G-Funk to carry ‘Pac’s fiery lyrics of retaliation against his enemies, complete with an addictive sing-songy hook (“I won’t deny it, I’m a straight ridah/You don’t wanna f**k with me/Got the police busting at me/But they can’t do nothing to a G”). “Ambitionz Az a Ridah” has become one of ‘Pac’s most popular songs. The first half of All Eyez On Me has a promising start. All Eyez On Me is such a record, and while some of 2Pac’s most devoted – albeit least discerning – fans would still like to argue that this is his best, I would rather contend otherwise.
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But once the heat of the record dissipates, you notice them. Sometimes a record is so hot you can initially fail to detect its flaws. And countless rappers afterwards, most notably Ja Rule and DMX, have borrowed chunks of this album, reveling in the captivating thug persona and virtually being transformed into ‘Pac clones.īut the success of All Eyez On Me is nothing but a facade. If you ask any 2Pac fan to name their favorite songs, chances are most of them would come from All Eyez On Me. As a result it has become his most popular and most influential. All Eyez On Me is 2Pac’s best-selling album of original material, spawning a slew of hit singles and eventually selling over nine million copies (although being a double CD, it actually sold a little over 4.5 million). Well, 2Pac succeeded with the sales alright. Heck, if you are on Death Row circa 1996, you better sell a buttload of records – you’re practically competing with Snoop Doggy Dogg, its biggest star, a guy who sold more than four million copies of his debut classic Doggystyle. Besides, as a rapper who was increasingly getting as famous for his run-ins with the law than his music, maybe he could expand upon and exploit the thug persona he birthed in Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., noting that it could take his sales sky-high. So why regress to gangsta rap that shunned any moral repercussions or responsibility? Why did he even accept Suge Knight getting him out of prison? Didn’t he think such a gesture would come with strings attached? Perhaps he was a desperate man, he was broke, he needed the money.
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Me Against the World was a sure sign that he was going in the right direction. It was this formula that made Death Row the most successful rap label in the world at that time.īearing these things in mind, one can understand 2Pac’s dilemma…well, at least to an extent. However, this brand of gangsta rap was the most successful around, and it also helped that Death Row had Dr.
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2Pac was joining a label that was synonymous with the most nihilistic gangsta rap ever released – it was a far cry from the level of responsibility and discipline found in 2Pac’s previous album, the outstanding Me Against the World. Of course there was a catch – I mean, what, you think Suge was that generous to have paid 1.4 million dollars for nothing? Who are you kidding? ‘Pac ended up reportedly signing a three-album contract with him, and the outlook couldn’t have looked good. Marion “Suge” Knight, the notorious CEO of Death Row records, paid his bail and got him out of jail. The 2-CD release in hip-hop became the epitome of the genre’s excess, nihilism and ostentation, and to this day, no one has ever done it better than ‘Pac.īlame it partly on his new label. Many other lyrical greats would follow suit – the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z and Nas. With All Eyez On Me he released the first 2-CD set of original material in hip-hop history.