THUG LIFE ALBUM 2PAC FULL

The conviction that each exhibits makes it hard not to feel the desperation, entrapment, injustice, and do-or-die mentality that they purvey, and this is what makes their narratives so compelling. While this may sound terribly proverbial on paper, they share with 2Pac passion and charisma that usually compensates for any lyrical and conceptual deficiencies. As their name suggests, the Thug Life boys seek to engrain the listener into the day-to-day existence of a West Coast thug. HeвЂ™s also the driving creative force more often than not his verses provide the backbone and direction of the songs, and the others merely echo his sentiments. A far greater rapper and character than his buddies, вЂPacвЂ™s larger than life persona is the immediate star, and he is the only member afforded solo cuts. вЂњThug Life: Volume 1вЂќ maintains an unusual balance between a group album and a 2Pac project. While not an official member, вЂPacвЂ™s friend Stretch from the Digital Underground days, a frequent producer and guest rapper on the first two 2Pac LPs, raps on two tracks and produces five he too would be gunned down in late 1995. With 2Pac as the obvious focal point, the Thug Life lineup included InglewoodвЂ™s Big Syke, who would go on to a moderately successful solo career and record with Outlawz as Mussolini Los Angeles rappers Macodoshis and Rated R, who would later be convicted of murder and вЂPacвЂ™s elder stepbrother Mopreme. After achieving superstardom as a solo entity, another group of friends and frequent collaborators credited as Dramacydal began to appear on his records, the group that would later evolve into Outlawz. Shakur was affiliated with a few different lineups in his recording years, beginning of course with Digital Underground in the early 1990s.

THUG LIFE ALBUM 2PAC FULL

Perhaps most significantly, the Thug Life project is the only full album that places 2Pac in the context of a rap group. His incarceration strongly influenced the volatile and deeply philosophical recordings of his Death Row days, which produced the most celebrated and controversial music of his catalog, and his output immediately before might serve as a suggestion of another path his career may have taken had he faced different circumstances. This album thus provides a snapshot of a pivotal albeit overlooked time in ShakurвЂ™s life.

Already infamous for his first two solo albums and various run-ins with the law yet not quite the household name he would become in his final two years of life, вЂњThug Life: Volume 1вЂќ was released by Interscope in September 1994, just two months before the New York shooting that embattled the star with Bad Boy Records, five months before beginning his eleven-month stay at Clinton Correctional Facility, a year before signing on with Suge Knight and Death Row, and two years before his Las Vegas murder. As we all know, Shakur never lived to see this dream realized, and before any of these ideas could be put into effect Thug Life was the name of a group and an album by вЂPac and his friends. Some may only recognize Thug Life as the two words infamously tattooed across 2PacвЂ™s abdomen, but interviews from the mid-90s reveal that he had big plans for the brandГўв‚¬вЂќhe foresaw it as the name of a worldwide movement, culture, and lifestyle of a revolutionary urban lower class.

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