This was the time Tupac was at his very best 1995 to 1996. Me Against The World I enjoy every song you don't have to skip songs like some of the other artist. They are all classic albums. Me Against the World, All Eyez On Me or Makaveli.

As we now know, it wouldnt last.Double vinyl LP pressing. While 2Pac was in prison, the album over-took Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Hits as the current best-selling album of the year in the United States.When he released third album Me Against The World in 1995, Tupac Shakur was arguably the biggest name in hip-hop. ' Dear Mama' was released as the album's first single in February 1995 and would be the album's most successful single, topping the Hot Rap Singles chart, and peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Shakur purposefully made Me Against the World's lyrics more personal and reflective than previously. In rapid succession, however, he had become embroiled in one criminal allegation after another.All for incidents in 1993, Shakur was sentenced to 15 days of jail for assaulting director Allen Hughes while filming Menace II Society, had seen the charges dropped after he shot two off-duty police officers, and was sentenced to 1.5 to 4.5 years in prison for, with two other men, sexually assaulting a woman.According to Shakur, Me Against the World aimed to show the hip-hop audience his respect for the art form. His second album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., going Platinum, had entered the top 25 on the Billboard 200, and offered two Gold singles, ' I Get Around' and ' Keep Ya Head Up', both entering the top 15 of the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), in conjunction with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, included Me Against the World in its list of the Definitive 200 Albums of All Time.By 1994, Tupac Shakur, age 23, was already a prominent and controversial rapper. The album received acclaimed reviews by critics, being ranked among the best albums of the 1990s.

Jon Pareles of the New York Times called the production a 'fatalistic calm, in a commercial mold', and added that 'while 2Pac doesn't sing, other voices do, providing smooth melody'. Several critics found the album's musical production the best on any of Shakur's albums to date.Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews, scoring the production a perfect 10 of 10, particularly praised ' So Many Tears' and ' Temptations'. The album was recorded at ten different studios, and it was mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering by Brian Gardner.

It was like a blues record. So Me Against the World was deep, reflective. And whatever mistakes I make, I make out of ignorance, not out of disrespect to music or the art. That I do take it like that. That's a shameвЂ”if they were more in-your-face, the lackluster beats might be less noticeable.' Themes Me Against the World was really to show people that this is an art to me.

ThereвЂ™s a song on there dedicated to mothers, just a song I wrote just for my mother. It talks about the streets but talks about it in a different light. ItвЂ™s explaining my lifestyle, who I am, my upbringing and everything. And it took a whole album to get it all out. Everybody thought that I was living so well and doing so good that I wanted to explain it.

Nostalgic jubilance distinguishes 'Old School'вЂ”a roster his favorite rap songs, with associated joys, predating his adulthoodвЂ”while bittersweet optimism occurs in 'It Ain't Easy'. Such dark tracks, sometimes simultaneously menacing, are 'If I Die 2Nite', 'Lord Knows', 'Outlaw', and 'Fuck The World'. Often depicting the travails of male survival in the ghetto, prominent sentiments include anguish, despair, hopelessness, paranoia, and self-loathing. It affected a lot of people. I just wanted to do something for all mothers.

The album ended up holding the top spot for four consecutive weeks. Release Me Against the World debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 210,500 copies in the first week. Throughout the album, Shakur employs various poetical devices, such as alliteration ('If I Die 2Nite') and paired couplets ('Lord Knows'). And the track most popular, ' Dear Mama', is a reverent ode to his mother.

Singles ' Dear Mama' was released as the album's first single in February 1995, along with the track 'Old School' as the B-side. Tupac Shakur's virtual appearance at the annual Coachella Festival (April 15, 2012) led to the album selling 1,000 copies the following week (up by 53% from the previous week). As of September 2011, the album has sold 3,524,567 copies in the United States. On December 6, 1995, the album was certified double platinum for sales of over two million copies in the United States. Shakur became the first artist to have a number one album while serving a prison sentence. While Shakur was in prison, the album over-took Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Hits as the best-selling album in the United States, a feat which he took pride in.

It included the Soul Power Remix and the Soul Power Hip Hop Remix.Critical reception Professional ratings Review scoresMe Against the World received critical acclaim. 'Me Against the World', the title track, was released as a single in Europe. The single would be the least successful of the three released, but still did fairly well on the charts, reaching number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100, 35 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, and 13 on the Hot Rap Singles charts. ' Temptations,' released in August, was the third and final single from the album. The single would reach the number six spot on the Hot Rap Singles chart, and the 44th on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was certified platinum in July 1995, and later placed at number 51 on the year-end charts.The second single, ' So Many Tears,' was released in June, four months after the first single.

Steve Huey of AllMusic noted that, with Me Against the World, the rapper became markedly more 'confessional,' 'reflective,' and 'soul-baring.' 'This may be the first hip-hop blues LP,' observed Matt Hall in Select. Augustine of gangster rap' due to his ambivalence towards the behavior and nature of the gangster lifestyle. Jon Pareles, writing in The New York Times, called Shakur the ' St. Coker at Rolling Stone called the album Shakur's best and said it was 'by and large a work of pain, anger and burning desperation вЂ” is the first time 2Pac has taken the conflicting forces tugging at his psyche head-on'.

Desperation follows raw anger on 'Fuck the World' and 'It Ain't Easy,' but most tracks confess frailties beneath the rapper's tough exterior. Jaleel Abdul-Adil of the Chicago Sun-Times stated that '2Pac's latest also mixes toughness and tenderness. Me Against the World is a statement of intent, a note from the depths of America, and a fine, thoughtful LP.' In The Guardian, critic Caroline Sullivan observed a 'surprisingly optimistic' and thoughtful 2Pac on display on the album, deeming it 'worth a listen' despite criticizing the presence of 'anodyne' beats and predictable samples.

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