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Shakur released his debut studio album, 2Pacalypse Now, in November 1991. The album peaked at number 64 on the United States Billboard 200 and has since been recognized as a groundbreaking work of the hip-hop genre. Its singles included "Brenda's Got a Baby" and "Trapped," both of which highlighted Shakur's focus on social issues.
"Trapped" is the political hip hop song written and performed by American rapper 2Pac. It was released on September 25, 1991, through Interscope Records as the lead single from his debut solo studio album 2Pacalypse Now. Recording sessions took place at Starlight Sound Studio in Richmond, California.
The album peaked at No. 64, No. 13 and No. 3 on the respective charts in the first third of 1992. 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 ...
Four influential classic hip hop albums — Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, Snoop Doggy Dogg’s Doggystyle, 2Pac’s All Eyez On Me (2x tape set) and Makaveli’s (2Pac) The Don Killuminati (7 day ...
Amaru Entertainment (formerly Amaru Records) was a record label founded in 1997 by Afeni Shakur after the death of her son Tupac Amaru Shakur.The label was created to handle the release of Tupac's previously unreleased material, and was given the rights to release recordings made during his time at both Interscope and Death Row Records, as well as the rights to re-release his Interscope albums ...
Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988–1991 is a compilation album consisting of unreleased recordings of American rapper Tupac Shakur.The album was originally released on April 18, 2000, in bootleg form under the title The Lost Tapes: Circa 1989, but the selling was quickly halted due to not receiving approval from then head of the Tupac estate, Afeni Shakur.
Johnny "J", 2Pac "Runnin' (Dying to Live)" 2003 Tupac: Resurrection: The Notorious B.I.G. Eminem "Runnin' On E" 2001 Until the End of Time: Outlawz: 2Pac "Same Song" 1991 This Is an EP Release / Nothing But Trouble soundtrack: Digital Underground: Shock G "Salsa Con Soulfood" 1992 Chicano Blues: Funky Aztecs "Scared Straight" 2006 Pac's Life ...
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]