Though All Eyez on Me has the sound of an upbeat party album, it also has the vicious rhymes of the most hardcore gangsta-rap release, with 2Pac setting his sights on jealous men, backstabbing friends, groupies, gold diggers, the police, and the media.

In short, one of the reigning kings of ’90s G-funk on one of the genre’s most defining releases.īut a harder exterior emerged after a series of personal struggles: his being shot in 1994, financial troubles, serving eight months in prison, and signing with West Coast rap powerhouse Death Row Records. However, most of the 27 tracks on All Eyez on Me showcase 2Pac as a gangsta-rap tough guy, an Alizé-sipping lothario, a Benz-pushing big shot, and a California party-starter. In a recording career that lasted less than five years, hip-hop's most complex figure showed us many sides-the political firebrand of 1993’s Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., the introspective diarist of 1995’s Me Against the World, and the temperamental hothead of his Makaveli project, released shortly after his death in September of ’96. 1 single-the libidinous “How Do You Want It” backed with the giddy “California Love” (here in remixed form). Released in February 1996, All Eyez on Me is his only Diamond-certified collection and features his only No. The final album released during 2Pac’s lifetime was also his most successful-two discs and more than two hours of the rapper, actor, activist, and poet at the absolute peak of his popularity.

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