All Eyez On Me
2Pac
Death Row / Interscope Records, 1996
REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 03/12/1997
Note: The following review was originally written in
December 1996 for publication on HitsWorld - long before the
shooting death of Tupac Shakur's rival, The Notorious B.I.G. The
review was scheduled to run on "The Daily Vault" before I learned
of Biggie Smalls's death.
Rap music is rap music, no matter what coast it came
off of. Killing "rival" rappers doesn't solve anything - it only
depletes the genre of talented musicians, and I'm tired of shedding
tears for these acts of stupidity.
Stop the violence - please.
Like many people, I became interested in the music of Tupac
Shakur not long after his murder. However, I've been faced with one
tremendous challenge: How does one put aside the violence of
Shakur's life and death and give an unbiased review?
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