All Eyez On Me 20th Anniversary :blessed:

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This is one of the CDS that really got me deep into this hip hop shyt. I remember falling asleep listening to "Picture Me Rolling" thinking Pac was talking to me at the end :pachaha:

This gotta be the most stolen album in hip hop too, somehow I ended up with grey and green disc's and some OG and remastered joints after the amount of times I've copped this.
 

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I think this Amazon review captures this album perfectly:

Simultaneously serving as both endless fodder for intellectual debates and the album most likely to be blaring out of the adjacent car's window, All Eyez on Me is a phenomenon that packs a wallop with every listen. Unquestionably the most nihilistic album to top the Billboard charts--and it's doubtful that any will match it--Eyez also manages to dish out the good-times dance tunes and still flow seamlessly. Recording commenced within hours of Tupac Shakur's release from prison, and a year's worth of pent-up ideas are unleashed with a fury akin to lifting the lid on a box of plutonium. The line between high art and insufferable reality, possibilities and self-destruction, has never been so blurred. Eyez is a landmark achievement that is unlikely to be topped by any heir apparent to the hip-hop crown. --Gregg Turkington

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i do have to cop again, it's been a long time but when i do it will be probably my 4th or 5th copy. i'm pretty sure i remember having green cd's back in 96. :yeshrug: don't know if that was an Australian/Euro release thing or what because they're grey now i think.
 

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i do have to cop again, it's been a long time but when i do it will be probably my 4th or 5th copy. i'm pretty sure i remember having green cd's back in 96. :yeshrug: don't know if that was an Australian/Euro release thing or what because they're grey now i think.

I think the green discs were UK (524 204-2) and Australian (524 204-2) pressings.
 

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QUOTE="1-8-7-Skillz, post: 17734317, member: 27124"]Damn Life Goes On has gotta be one of Pacs greatest songs...
I remember listenin to it the day one of my classmates died from cancer...:mjcry:[/QUOTE]
Great song a lil bit depressing sometimes but yeah ...:mjcry::to:...thing to me that makes pac an amazing artist that he has back to back classic songs that never get old :ooh::pachaha:...
 
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Heard he made the whole album in only 2 weeks.:wow:

I mean, what other rapper could drop a double album, full of classic shyt, in only 2 weeks time?:wtf:

Thing with Pac is his aggression , passion , anger wasn't just his as an individual, it was our collective pain as black people in America.In particular, its as if he was possessed, and used as a medium to articulate our pain in a way that most couldn't. That's why Pac, even to this day, still resonates.It's a special "something" no other rapper or musician for that matter has.It was like he was us and we where him.

Based on how prolific he was as an artist, I seriously think Pac was a clairvoyant...A rap savant who saw the world in an unusual, yet dope kind of way.

The amount of depth/soul laced in his music was mutant levels.It went beyond lyrics/multi's/metaphors...It's some spiritual, knee deep shyt that resonates like something i've never heard/felt before(musically).And to do it at the pace he did it at--that young----with the amount of distraction going on in his life-->It's fukking ridiculous ..It's Pac then everybody else.That's how I rank em.
 
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