Shakur also won the award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the American Music Awards of 1997.Īll Eyez on Me widely received positive reviews from critics. The album won the 1997 Soul Train Music Award for Rap Album of the Year posthumously, and was also posthumously nominated for Best Rap Album at the 39th Grammy Awards in 1997. Seven months later, 2Pac was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting. Moreover, All Eyez on Me made history as the first ever double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption globally.Īll Eyez on Me was the second album by 2Pac to chart at number one on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, selling 566,000 copies in the first week. It featured four singles in all, the most of any of Shakur's albums. Dre, featuring Roger Troutman) and the hip-hop ballad " I Ain't Mad at Cha, along with the Snoop Dogg collaboration " 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" as a promotional single. The album includes the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles " How Do U Want It" (featuring K-Ci and JoJo) and " California Love" (with Dr. Released on February 13, 1996, by Death Row Records and Interscope Records, It was the only Death Row/Interscope release that was distributed through Island Records/Polygram in the United States.Ī gangsta rap album, 2Pac raps about his experiences of living in luxury and as a thug critics particularly note that 2Pac shows disdain for women on the album and widely diverges from the social and political consciousness of 2Pacalypse Now (1991) and Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. Dre, DJ Bobcat, Dat Nigga Daz, DJ Pooh, DeVante Swing, among others. The album features productions by Shakur alongside a variety of producers, including DJ Quik, Johnny "J", Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, George Clinton, E-40, Redman, Method Man, Nate Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, K-Ci & JoJo, and Roger Troutman, among others. The album features guest appearances from several artists including the Outlawz, Dr. Released on February 13, 1996, by Death Row Records and Interscope. All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac, and the last to be released during his lifetime.
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