Artist: SHAKUR??TUPAC</br>genre: Rap?? Hip-Hop</br>product type: Compact Disc</br>Rating: PA</br>Release Date: 10-MAR-1998</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Watershed 1995 album from the hip hop icon?? recorded following his near-fatal shooting in New York! Includes "r Mama". (TUPAC ; 2 PAC ; 2-PAC)</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>The gruesome details surrounding Tupac's third solo offering are enough to give any music fan the willies. Released when Tupac was in jail serving time for a rape conviction and just after his recovery from being shot-up gangland-style at a recording studio?? this was his most introspective piece of work to date. The heavy-hearted album opens up with a radio commentary describing the circumstances surrounding his shooting?? and then plunges headfirst into Pac's infatuation with death. " Many Tears??""Death Around the Corner??"and "If I Die 2Nite" are all dark?? eerily prophetic tunes that lend credence to widespread theories which suggest that Pac anticipated his impending death. The perpetually thugged-out wonder reveals a more benevolent side when it comes to gender and family issues. On "ear Mama"--a fitting tribute to his mother recorded in the "Keep Ya Head Up" vein--Pac takes listeners into the loving recesses of his heart?? while on "an U Get Away??"he echoes similar respectful sentiments to black womynkind. This is probably Pac's most progressive issues-oriented release before he signed to Death Row and became a full-blown thug. <I>--Dalton Higgins</I></br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000005Z0K  Energy S