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2Pac Live is a live album by American rapper 2Pac, released by Death Row Records and Koch Records. [3] It consisted of recordings of live club performances during the All Eyez on Me (1996) period in his career. [1] Originally planned for an August 10, 2004 release, the album's release date was moved to August 6 due to a leaked bootleg version.
Loyal to the Game is the ninth studio album and fifth posthumous studio album by American rapper Tupac Shakur.The album was produced by Eminem and consists of remixes of previously unreleased music recorded by Tupac before his death in 1996.
(Remember Me) (1997), Still I Rise (1999, with Outlawz), Until the End of Time (2001), Better Dayz (2002), Loyal to the Game (2004), and Pac's Life (2006). Each of these albums continued to achieve commercial success, with several reaching the top of the Billboard charts and earning multiple platinum certifications.
I photographed Tupac in 1993, at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, in L.A. It was for a magazine, I forget which now, tied to the John Singleton movie, Poetic Justice, that he was in with Janet ...
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)".
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]
Although the album is credited solely to 2Pac, the concert was in fact a joint show with Snoop Dogg and tha Dogg Pound.Throughout the first half of the show, 2Pac, backed by his hip-hop-clique, the Outlawz, performs and features the R&B duo, K-Ci & JoJo, while in the second half, Snoop Dogg goes back and forth with tha Dogg Pound and features West Coast singer, Nate Dogg.
[4] Two more unreleased songs from this period of 2Pac's career, " Changes " and "God Bless the Dead", were released the following year on the next posthumous release, Greatest Hits . This period of 2Pac's career would then go unexplored until the release of the 2003 song " Runnin' (Dying to Live) ", which was followed by the 2004 album Loyal ...