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Best of 2Pac is a posthumous greatest hits compilation series from rapper Tupac Shakur released in two parts – Thug and Life. Both albums were released on December 4, 2007 in the United States and December 3, 2007 in the United Kingdom, [ 1 ] having had been leaked on November 30.
" (This was the first time in history a solo hip hop artist had 2 albums debut at #1 in the same year, and making it his 3rd straight #1 album along with 1995’s Me against the world and All Eyez on Me )It was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and is regarded as one of Shakur's most profound ...
Dotdash, formerly About.com, while ranking him fifth among the greatest rappers, nonetheless notes, "Tupac Shakur is the most influential hip-hop artist of all time. Even in death, 2Pac remains a transcendental rap figure." [257] Yet to some, he was a "father figure" who, said rapper YG, "makes you want to be better—at every level."
[3] [4] With 5.33 million units sold which is 10.66 million in RIAA sales, [5] it remains the best-selling rap greatest hits compilation of all time and the twentieth best-selling rap album since Nielsen Soundscan began tracking record sales in 1991. [6]
Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... received generally positive reviews from music critics.In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide book, Greg Tate saw 2Pac "comes with a sense of drive, and eruptive, dissident, dissonant fervour worthy of Fear of a Black Planet and AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted", and called it Shakur's "best constructed and most coherent album, and it's also his most militantly political". [7]
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Year Album Other Performer(s) Producer(s) "Against All Odds" 1996 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory — Hurt-M-Badd, Makaveli "Against All Odds" 2007 Life Goes On: Trae: Q-Stone "Ain't Hard 2 Find" 1996 All Eyez on Me: E-40, B-Legit, C-Bo, Richie Rich: Mike Mosley, Rick Rock Cassius Roman Tikhon Shepelev Tyler Metzger "All Bout U" 1996 All ...
The song is widely regarded as one of Shakur's greatest songs, as well as one of the greatest rap songs of all time. In 2017, Consequence ranked the song number two on their list of the 20 greatest Tupac Shakur songs, and in 2020, Far Out ranked it number six on their list of the 10 greatest Tupac Shakur songs.