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Tragically, All Eyez On Me would be the last album to be released during his lifetime, though it created a sonic boom that would be felt by the music industry for years to come. The fact that it was recorded in just two weeks after he was released from prison astounded everybody. It was evident he had a lot to get off his chest, having just been released from prison and keen to turn public opinion around. “I always wondered if he had the entire album written while he was in prison,” says California rapper KXNG Crooked, speaking on the phone from LA. “But then you realise it was his passion fuelling the urgency. Once you get in a creative zone like that, nothing can stop you.” Jimmy Jam, one half of the legendary R&B songwriting duo with Terry Lewis (behind hits for Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Usher and George Michael), compares the late artist’s output to Prince. “And if it wasn’t a song a day, it was a couple of songs a day.” “Prince would literally do a song a day and that’s how 2Pac was too,” he says during a Zoom call. Not everything ran smoothly: rapper The Lady of Rage reportedly pulled out of her spot on “Got My Mind Made Up” because she was uncomfortable with the number of male rappers on the track (Method Man, Redman, Dillinger, Kurupt).

“She was on there doing some hard s*** but unfortunately she didn’t want to be a part of it,” Dillinger alleges. “2Pac ended up taking the verse off.” Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck was another artist who missed out, his verse failing to be included due to some misplaced tapes and a misunderstanding between Dillinger and Dr Dre.Įlsewhere, there were happy coincidences: KXNG Crooked, then 19, says he was initially offered the beat for “How Do U Want It” but turned it down because his older brother had already used the same “Body Heat” sample, originally by Quincy Jones, on one of his own tracks. “I didn’t want it to seem like I was copying him,” he says.

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