Upon release, All Eyez on Me received instant critical acclaim, and it has been ranked by critics as one of the greatest hip hop albums, as well as one of the greatest albums of all time. Shakur also won the award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the American Music Awards of 1997. The album won the 1997 Soul Train Music Award for Rap Album of the Year posthumously, and was also posthumously nominated for Best Rap Album at the 39th Grammy Awards in 1997. Seven months later, 2Pac was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting. Moreover, All Eyez on Me made history as the first ever double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption globally.Īll Eyez on Me was the second album by 2Pac to chart at number one on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, selling 566,000 copies in the first week. It featured four singles in all, the most of any of Shakur's albums. Dre, featuring Roger Troutman) and the hip-hop ballad " I Ain't Mad at Cha", along with the Snoop Doggy Dogg collaboration " 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" as a promotional single. The album includes the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles " How Do U Want It" (featuring K-Ci and JoJo) and " California Love" (with Dr. It was the only Death Row/Interscope release that was distributed through Island Records/Polygram in the United States.Ī gangsta rap album, 2Pac raps about his experiences of living in poverty and in luxury critics particularly note that 2Pac widely diverges from the social and political consciousness of 2Pacalypse Now (1991) and Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. Dre, DJ Bobcat, Dat Nigga Daz, DJ Pooh, DeVante Swing, among others. The album features productions by Shakur alongside a variety of producers including DJ Quik, Johnny "J", Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Redman, Method Man, Nate Dogg, Kurupt, Daz Dillinger, E-40, K-Ci & JoJo, and the Outlawz, among others. Released on February 13, 1996, by Death Row and Interscope Records, the album features guest appearances from Dr. “Dear Mama” peaked at #9, “So Many Tears” hit #44 and “Temptations” claimed the#68 spot.All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac and the last to be released during his lifetime. The singles from the project “Dear Mama,” “So Many Tears” and “Temptations” all made appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The project was Tupac’s most positively reviewed album and has been called the magnum opus of his career. In the year after its release, the album received the Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Album. Along with being #1 in the US, the album also ranked #23 in Germany and #20 in Sweden.
Debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, the album has been certified double platinum selling over 3.5 million copies in the United States alone. The realism of this album brought a ridiculous amount of commercial success. Much less high energy than the tracks from his previous album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z…, this album showed genuine reflection on his life and career path as an artist along with shining light on some of his personal struggles with paranoia and self-loathing. The subject matter and tone of this project were a lot more serious and introspective than anything he had previously released. This album was nothing like the music that gave him his “thug life” gangster image and street credentials. Recorded shortly after his near-fatal assassination attempt in New York and released while he was in prison, this album marked a change in 2Pac as an artist and a man.
This album came at one of the most pivotal times in ‘Pac’s life and career.
On this day in Hip-Hop History, the late Tupac Shakur released his third studio LP, Me Against the World.
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