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So Many Tears вЂ“ This was the second single released from MATW. This is easily one of my favorite songs in PacвЂ™s catalog.

#Thugs dont die album 2pac movie#

This song appeared in the movie Bad Boys and was on the soundtrack, which was released a week after MATW. Pac and Dramacydal (which is the name that PacвЂ™s crew, Outlawz went by before changing the group name) use the beautiful instrumental to discuss the stress, problems and demons they face day to day in isolation. Me Against The World вЂ“ SoulShock & Karlin hook up a brilliant backdrop built around a well-used Isaac Hayes sample, an ill Minnie Riperton loop (from the same song that ATCQ sampled for вЂњLyrics To GoвЂќвЂ¦Tribe Degrees of Separation: check), hard hitting drums, and angelic adlibs from Puff Johnson. I completely forgot about this song, so it ended up being a pleasant surprise. Pac rides Mo BeeвЂ™s solid backdrop, beautifully. What the hell does that mean? And who is the вЂњtheyвЂќ that says that? Even with his ludicrous opening line (that he also uses to begin the third verse), he does spit some strong bars on this one: вЂњIвЂ™m sick of psychotic society, somebody save me, addicted to drama so even mama couldnвЂ™t save meвЂќвЂ¦вЂќGoing insane, never die, I live eternal, who shall I fear? DonвЂ™t shed a tear for me nigga, I aint happy here, I hope they bury me and send me to my rest, Headlines reading: вЂњMurdered To DeathвЂќ, my last breathвЂќ. Pac falls in love with words that start with P, as he potently plasters this song with a plethora of P words (see what I did there?): вЂњThey say pussy and paper is poetry, power and pistolsвЂќ. If I Die 2nite вЂ“ This is one of two tracks that the severely underappreciated Easy Mo Bee is credited for producing on MATW.

Intro вЂ“ Me Against The World opens with a standard drum beat and some emotional guitar licks (courtesy of Darryl Crooks) placed underneath a bunch of snippets taken from news reports about the Quad Studio shooting that Pac survived. ItвЂ™s been awhile since IвЂ™ve listened to it from beginning to end, so letвЂ™s see how it sounds 25 years after its release. Me Against The World has always been my favorite 2pac album. The album is universally considered PacвЂ™s best work, and is often put on greatest of all-time list for hip-hop albums and all genres. Me Against The World would go double platinum and Pac would become the first artist to have a number one album on the Billboard 200 while serving a prision sentence (this would become a marketing strategy that several labels and artists would soon follow). Me Against The World would be released a month after Pac begin serving his sentence for sexual assault, which is why he wouldnвЂ™t appear in any of the music videos for the albumвЂ™s singles.

But through all the turmoil, Pac was still able to record music and would release his third solo effort, Me Against The World in March of 1995. He was charged and found guilty for assaulting Menace II Society co-director, Allen Hughes, in and out of court for sexually assaulting Ayanna Jackson (which he would eventually be convicted of and serve 9 months for in 1995), and to bring his already drama-filled year to an end, he was robbed and shot 5 times at ManhattanвЂ™s Quad Studios on November 30, 1994. Musically, Pac would bounce back nicely in вЂ™94 with his crew, Thug Life and the Volume 1 album, but his personal life was in shambles. The rest of those posthumous albums come with asterisks), regardless of how commercially successful it was. is and will always be my least favorite 2pac album (fyi, I only count the albums from 2Pacalypse Now through The Don Killuminati as PacвЂ™s catalog. Thanks to its lackluster production and poor mixing, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.