In retrospect, with renewed standard and freshened perspective …. R U Still Down is a 5 mic classic

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What is he is saying is an interesting observation to be able to be perceptive of

The songs are so hallmark that it's hard to think of them as not 2Pac

But a majority if the album was set-up for something else - perhaps a Dre and Ice Cube project

And those songs were given to Tupac for him to do his thing on a plug and play basis

Now there are some songs that are definitively Tupac ... Ambitionz Az a Ridah

I Ain't Mad At Cha, Life Goes On

But others were plug and play and thus, it is a project that Tupac was not thr creative spearhead of
Not even just that. But when you compare the engineering of the album it sounds more clean and commercial compared to everything else he was putting out. Like 2Pacalypse Now sounded underground, Strictly sounded underground and muddied, Thug Life sounded raw, MATW was a little more clean, and Makaveli had that raw sound.
 
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