![]() ![]() Instead, the CD booklet offers six pages of ads for “official 2Pac gear,” including Tupac T-shirts, beanies, bandannas and commemorative phone cards. There are no recording dates, and no clues about how much of the music was added posthumously by We Got Kidz Productions, whoever they are. The liner notes don’t tell you why these particular tracks were culled from the pile he left behind. The album doesn’t really make sense of the Tupac legacy it’s no map of the emotional complexities and contradictions that he brought to musical life. R U Still Down? doesn’t even dig into the Death Row trove - these are outtakes Tupac recorded and abandoned while he was under contract to Interscope, between 19. She claims that there are almost 200 more tracks where these came from, so bet on Tupac to rival Jimi Hendrix as the hardest-working dead guy in show business. Shakur formed to release Tupac’s leftovers after winning the rights to his music in her lawsuit against Death Row. R U Still Down? is the maiden release for Amaru, the label Ms. Tupac’s career as a dead icon is just beginning, guided by this album’s co-executive producer, his mother, Afeni Shakur. R U Still Down? is the first collection of Tupac’s unreleased tracks, and if you think it’ll be the last, Jim Morrison has a hotel he’d like to sell you. Instead, they sound like business as usual. On the double album R U Still Down? (Remember Me), these fantasies stand at center stage, but they don’t sound particularly prophetic, unseemly or, God knows, ironic. ![]() Long before he was murdered in September 1996 at the age of 25, Tupac rapped obsessively about his death-trip fantasies. But then, death was always Tupac’s thing. Certainly the specter of death hovers over all these tracks, as the late hip-hop superstar brags about dying young in a blaze of glory and getting buried with his. The strangest thing about Tupac “2Pac” Shakur’s first official posthumous album is that it doesn’t sound all that different from his other albums. ![]()
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