Listen 2pac all eyez on me album
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Ultimately quintupling the sales of its predecessor, All Eyez On Me was a watershed in hip-hop history and elevated 2Pac from an outstanding west coast rapper to a veritable hip-hop institution. Just five months after his release from prison, he released the first hip-hop double album- legally regarded as two individual releases- All Eyez On Me. Emerging from an eight-month hiatus, 2Pac had plenty of material to get him started he reportedly hit the studio within hours of his release, completing fully twenty-seven song in a mere two weeks. Speculation on just how bad the deal was for the rapper is as badly informed today as it was a decade ago, but it’s safe to say that he was at least organising his release schedule to fulfil the contract as soon as possible. In return, he required 2Pac release three albums on his Death Row label- he even offered to take a larger than usual stake in the rights. Knight, co-founder of the soon-to-be hip-hop empire Death Row Records, used his unique powers of persuasion to lobby for Shakur’s release, raising the $1.4 million bail himself. Shakur was, in late 1995, serving the first of four years in prison for an alleged sexual assault when Knight offered to engineer his release in September of that year, Shakur was essentially prepared to submit to any agreement. Indeed, this was less a thuggish alliance than the rash submission of a desperate man, and the exact details of the deal the two struck (or rather the deal Suge dictated) are still unclear. it took me forever to locate that Bone CD i mentioned above.It was an association that was fated to end in tears: ‘Sugar Bear’ Knight (commonly known by the more sexually-innocuous moniker ‘Suge’), the label head who once dangled Vanilla Ice from a twentieth-story balcony in order to secure the rights to 'Ice Ice Baby,' and international badass rapper Tupac Shakur.
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Looks like i'll just have to keep my eyes open at the used CD stores and hope i get lucky. but unfortunately, the sellers listed in the latter haven't made the same distinction as at least a few of them are selling the remastered one! and i wouldn't take the chance on those sellers who don't even specify which version they're selling.
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1996 original versions of the 2pac album. I'm looking at amazon and there are separate listings for the 2001 remastered vs. at least one pressing didn't even bother to change the songlist on the back to reflect the change, and the only way to tell the difference was by looking at whether a semi-opaque or totally clear jewel case was used! 1999 Eternal w/ "crossroad" rather than the similarly titled but totally different "tha crossroadz" in its place. case in point: Bone Thugs 'n' Harmony album E. Sometimes finding the original issues of rap releases can be a pain. now i'm gonna have to go searching for the original Death Row issue of this release.