This is the quintessential album if you want that classic west coast hip-hop sound, period. you've got to say that when the album starts off with Ambitionz Az a Ridah - which has the most recognizable sound off the composition for me next to the remix of California Love, Shorty Wanna Be a Thug (odd choice, but the beat is the best part about it) and of course the title track on the second half. Returning to the production 2Pac's rapping sounds enjoyable and crisp, the beats are mostly a highlight, I mean. His first and his last appearance on Death Row records really gave him an iconic sound/image which is one of the best selling points of this album. Returning to the point of improved rapping you have to agree that this is the best 2Pac has ever sounded on an album not just in terms of production and iconic beats - but his flows and confident non-apologetic deliveries are at their best here which is evident on tracks like Ambitionz Az a Ridah, How Do U Want It (phenomenal rhyme schemes!) 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted, Can't C Me (love the confidence on this track) Picture Me Rollin', and the title track - it definitely gives you the feeling that he was made for this. they start to get old and come across as uninspired, even if it picks up. The best examples that prove that would probably be the four songs dedicated to 'b-tches' in a row at the beginning starting with "All Bout U" - though these songs as well as the rest of the whole damn album demonstrate great improved rapping ability and rhyme schemes from 2Pac once you put those songs together four times in a row. 2Pac's verses still come out on top out of all of them in my opinion.Īlso as many have claimed, the project as a whole is two hours long and is prolonged - which I normally would not complain about if it was not filled with filler as many of these tracks seem to be. The first thing to note when starting this album is the intense length 27 tracks long and it might as well be a listenable story, appropriate since both halves of the project are split into two parts - 'books' as the album claims.Īlthough there is plenty of songs here to prove the album as a whole that is not always a huge positive - the album has quite a bit of features and yet. If that is the case than Tupac Shakur must be both in the eyes of hip-hop listeners everywhere, he was arguably the best to ever do it at least in terms of the colossal mark he left - whether you agree with them or not, he is important in the genre.Īlso in the eyes of most hip-hop listeners, his pièce de résistance is the last album he released while he still had air in his lungs Īll Eyez on Me - though many have repudiated that mindset it is still one of the most recognizable hip-hop albums released shortly after his release from prison and shortly before his assassination and impactful death. They say heroes get remembered but legends never die. Tupac's extended, lone verse explains the birth and it's repercussions in great detail.Review Summary: ".a captivating listen and as iconic as it gets in rap, though there is still some low moments here and there that hurt the album." Brenda, who never knew a mother or a father, found comfort in this older man who took advantage of her naivety. To be real, it's actually a pretty uncomfortable song all around as Tupac tells the story of a twelve year old child who was impregnated by an older man.
There's no chorus, no hook, and nothing fun about it. The first single Tupac ever released was hardly a mainstream-sounding track.