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2Pacalypse Now is the debut solo studio album by American rapper 2Pac. It was released on November 12, 1991, through TNT Recordings and Interscope Records, while EastWest Records America, a division of Atlantic distributed the album. [2] The recording sessions took place at Starlight Sound Studio in Richmond, California.
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.
2Pacalypse Now: Pee-Wee Jeremy "Something 2 Die 4" 1993 Strictly 4 My Niggaz — 2Pac, Big D the Impossible "Soon As I Get Home" 2006 Pac's Life: Yaki Kadafi: QDIII "Soulja's Story" 1991 2Pacalypse Now — Big D the Impossible "Souljah's Revenge" 1993 Strictly 4 My Niggaz — Bobcat "Starin' Through My Rear View" 1997 Gang Related: The ...
With the release of his debut album 2Pacalypse Now in 1991, he became a central figure in West Coast hip-hop for his conscious rap and political rap lyrics. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Shakur achieved further critical and commercial multi-platinum success with his follow-up albums Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...
"If My Homie Calls" is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now (1991). The song was released as a double A-side single with Brenda's Got a Baby.A mostly black-and-white music video with elements of red, blue and sepia was made for the single. 2Pac performed the song live in 1992 on the popular MTV show Yo!
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]
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)".
"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.