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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.
The song's title originally came from the lyrics of fellow West Coast rapper, Spice 1's 1992 song, "Welcome to the Ghetto", [1] and contains a direct sample of Cameo's 1978 song, Two of Us. [2] Many of the song's lyrics were reused in 2Pac's 1992 single "Changes" . Rapper Nas interpolated "I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto" in the song "Black ...
"Do for Love" (originally titled "Sucka 4 Luv" in its unreleased form) was the second and final posthumously released single by Tupac Shakur from his second posthumous album R U Still Down? (Remember Me). The vocal sample is from "What You Won't Do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell. The song was produced by Soulshock & Karlin.
"R U Still Down? (Remember Me)" 1997 R U Still Down? (Remember Me) — Tony Pizarro "Ratha Be Ya Nigga" 1996 All Eyez on Me: Richie Rich: Doug Rasheed "Ready 4 Whatever" 1997 R U Still Down? (Remember Me) Big Syke: Johnny "J" "Real Bad Boyz (Westside)" 1997 Hitworks, Volume One: Dee tha Mad Bitch, DJ King Assassin "The Realist Killaz" 2003 ...
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]
The Recording Industry Association of America certified the album gold on April 19, 1995 for passing the sales mark of half a million copies. After 2Pac's death in 1996, the album made it to the US Catalog Albums, peaking at number 3. It also made its charting debut on the UK Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart, reaching number 35.
A rare and precious photo has surfaced on Reddit: a letter from Eminem to Tupac's mother. The document is a hand-written page on which the rapper Marshall Mathers jotted down his thoughts ...
In the song, Tupac's lyrics are sampled from his song "Happy Home" [8] which was a part of his fourth posthumous album (seventh studio album overall) Until the End of Time, released on March 27, 2001. "Are U Still Down" peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the R&B chart in 1998. [9] [10]