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Greatest Hits is a posthumous double-disc greatest hits album by American rapper 2Pac, released by Amaru Entertainment, Death Row Records, Interscope Records, and Jive Records on November 24, 1998.
He has scored 5 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and 8 No. 1 albums on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [2] Shakur began his music career in the early 1990s, initially gaining attention as a member of the hip-hop group Digital Underground. Shakur released his debut studio album, 2Pacalypse Now, in November 1991.
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.
Tupac: Resurrection — Eminem "God Bless the Dead" 1998 Greatest Hits — "The Good Die Young" 1999 Still I Rise: Val Young, Napoleon, Young Noble, Kastro, E.D.I. Mean: Big D "Good Life" 2001 Until the End of Time: Big Syke, E.D.I. Mean: Mike Mosley "Got My Mind Made Up" 1996 All Eyez on Me: Tha Dogg Pound, Method Man, Redman: Dat Nigga Daz
"Toss It Up" is a song by rapper Tupac Shakur from his fifth studio album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996). Released under the stage name Makaveli, the song served as the lead single to the posthumous album.
R U Still Down? was the name of several handwritten track lists 2Pac had written in 1993 and 1994 that featured both, unreleased songs and songs that would later be issued on Me Against The World and Thug Life: Volume 1. [3] Interscope Records originally planned to release an album under the same name in December 1995, during 2Pac's imprisonment.
Released posthumously on his album Greatest Hits, the song talks about all of the different issues that were related to Tupac's era of influence—notably racism, police brutality, drugs and gang violence. The "Huey" that 2Pac mentions in the song ("two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead") is Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. [3]
It includes several previously released 2Pac recordings, including "Death Around the Corner" from Me Against the World, "Secretz of War" from Still I Rise, "Holler If Ya Hear Me" from Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... and "Rebel of the Underground" from 2Pacalypse Now; and unreleased 2Pac verses re-constructed into new tracks such as "Ghost", "One Day at a Time", and "Runnin (Dying to Live)".