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Track List
01) Ambitionz az a Ridah
02) All Bout U
03) Skandalouz
04) Got My Mind Made Up
05) How Do U Want It
06) 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted
07) No More Pain
08) Heartz of Men
09) Life Goes On
10) Only God Can Judge Me
11) Tradin War Stories
12) California Love (remix)
13) I Ain't Mad at Cha
14) What'z Ya Phone #
01) Ambitionz az a Ridah
02) All Bout U
03) Skandalouz
04) Got My Mind Made Up
05) How Do U Want It
06) 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted
07) No More Pain
08) Heartz of Men
09) Life Goes On
10) Only God Can Judge Me
11) Tradin War Stories
12) California Love (remix)
13) I Ain't Mad at Cha
14) What'z Ya Phone #
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First Released
1996
Hip-Hop
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9,000,000 copies
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All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac, released February 13, 1996 on Death Row Records and Interscope Records.
The album is frequently recognized as one of the crowning achievements of 1990s rap music. It has been said that "despite some undeniable filler, it is easily the best production 2Pac's ever had on record". It was certified 5× Platinum after just 2 months in April 1996 and 9× platinum in 1998. The album featured the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles "How Do U Want It" and "California Love". It featured 5 singles in all, the most of any 2Pac album. Moreover, All Eyez On Me (which was the only Death Row release to be distributed through PolyGram by way of Island Records) made history as the first double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption. It was issued on two compact discs and four LPs.
Chartwise, All Eyez on Me was the second album from 2Pac to hit number-one on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. It sold 566,000 copies in the first week of its release, and was charted on the top 100 with the top one-week Soundscan sales since 1991. The album won the 1997 Soul Train R&B/Soul or Rap Album of the Year Award. Shakur also won the Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the 24th Annual American Music Awards and is also commonly referred to as one of the greatest hip hop/rap albums of the 1990's.
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The title of 2PAC’s fourth album, All Eyez on Me, is not just a reflection of his usual arrogance and paranoia — people are watching 2Pac. This two-disc set comes just four months after he was released on bail pending appeal on his conviction for sexual assault. It comes barely a year after he was shot. Most important, All Eyez on Me marks 2Pac’s new allegiance with the West Coast’s powerhouse rap dynasty, Death Row Records.
All this drama was bound to affect 2Pac’s music. What made him interesting in the past was his contradictory nature: He would play the thug one second and exude vulnerability the next. He wrote some of the most woman-positive songs in rap, “Keep Your Head Up” and “Dear Mama,” while throwing down rhymes about ho’s and bitches. Sadly, those intriguing conflicts have now vanished. Rendering himself a cardboard cutout of a “playa,” 2Pac has surrendered wholesale to his thug side. There’s no equivalent to “Dear Mama” on this record, unless you count the vaguely affectionate “Wonda Why They Call U Bytch.” Now everything’s about (expensive) booze, bitches, cash, cars and contempt for his enemies. “What’d I tell ya I was gonna do, nigga, when I got out of jail?” he calls out on the introductory “Heartz of Men.” “I’s gonna start diggin’ into these niggas’ chests.”
But if 2Pac has traded in his complex persona for a place in the Death Row camp, the payback, as they say, has been a muthafucka. The lyrical content may be less original, but the sound is better. His new crew has given him badass beats, rolling choruses and funky quirks, and 2Pac, with his appealing voice and distinctive delivery, makes the most of this foundation. He moves easily between an angry staccato, as on “Holla at Me,” and a slower, more melodic drawl, as on “Life Goes On.” Dr. Dre, Death Row’s producing genius, turns out two songs — the grooving single “California Love” and the riotous “Can’t C Me,” with George Clinton — that prove to be two of the LP’s best for sheer melodic inventiveness.
Guests joining 2Pac include Zapp’s Roger Troutman and the new R&B crooner Danny Boy, as well as members of Jodeci. The hypnotic “Got My Mind Made Up,” with Dat Nigga Daz and Kurupt (both of Tha Dogg Pound), Redman and Method Man stands out, as do tracks with Snoop Doggy Dogg. Even as a garden-variety thug, 2Pac shows more skill than most. He deserves to have all eyes — and ears — on him.
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/all-eyez-on-me-205069/
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All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac, released February 13, 1996 on Death Row Records and Interscope Records.
The album is frequently recognized as one of the crowning achievements of 1990s rap music. It has been said that "despite some undeniable filler, it is easily the best production 2Pac's ever had on record". It was certified 5× Platinum after just 2 months in April 1996 and 9× platinum in 1998. The album featured the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles "How Do U Want It" and "California Love". It featured 5 singles in all, the most of any 2Pac album. Moreover, All Eyez On Me (which was the only Death Row release to be distributed through PolyGram by way of Island Records) made history as the first double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption. It was issued on two compact discs and four LPs.
Chartwise, All Eyez on Me was the second album from 2Pac to hit number-one on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. It sold 566,000 copies in the first week of its release, and was charted on the top 100 with the top one-week Soundscan sales since 1991. The album won the 1997 Soul Train R&B/Soul or Rap Album of the Year Award. Shakur also won the Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the 24th Annual American Music Awards and is also commonly referred to as one of the greatest hip hop/rap albums of the 1990's.
User Album Review
The title of 2PAC’s fourth album, All Eyez on Me, is not just a reflection of his usual arrogance and paranoia — people are watching 2Pac. This two-disc set comes just four months after he was released on bail pending appeal on his conviction for sexual assault. It comes barely a year after he was shot. Most important, All Eyez on Me marks 2Pac’s new allegiance with the West Coast’s powerhouse rap dynasty, Death Row Records.
All this drama was bound to affect 2Pac’s music. What made him interesting in the past was his contradictory nature: He would play the thug one second and exude vulnerability the next. He wrote some of the most woman-positive songs in rap, “Keep Your Head Up” and “Dear Mama,” while throwing down rhymes about ho’s and bitches. Sadly, those intriguing conflicts have now vanished. Rendering himself a cardboard cutout of a “playa,” 2Pac has surrendered wholesale to his thug side. There’s no equivalent to “Dear Mama” on this record, unless you count the vaguely affectionate “Wonda Why They Call U Bytch.” Now everything’s about (expensive) booze, bitches, cash, cars and contempt for his enemies. “What’d I tell ya I was gonna do, nigga, when I got out of jail?” he calls out on the introductory “Heartz of Men.” “I’s gonna start diggin’ into these niggas’ chests.”
But if 2Pac has traded in his complex persona for a place in the Death Row camp, the payback, as they say, has been a muthafucka. The lyrical content may be less original, but the sound is better. His new crew has given him badass beats, rolling choruses and funky quirks, and 2Pac, with his appealing voice and distinctive delivery, makes the most of this foundation. He moves easily between an angry staccato, as on “Holla at Me,” and a slower, more melodic drawl, as on “Life Goes On.” Dr. Dre, Death Row’s producing genius, turns out two songs — the grooving single “California Love” and the riotous “Can’t C Me,” with George Clinton — that prove to be two of the LP’s best for sheer melodic inventiveness.
Guests joining 2Pac include Zapp’s Roger Troutman and the new R&B crooner Danny Boy, as well as members of Jodeci. The hypnotic “Got My Mind Made Up,” with Dat Nigga Daz and Kurupt (both of Tha Dogg Pound), Redman and Method Man stands out, as do tracks with Snoop Doggy Dogg. Even as a garden-variety thug, 2Pac shows more skill than most. He deserves to have all eyes — and ears — on him.
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/all-eyez-on-me-205069/
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