Tupac Shakur - Until The End Of Time
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Rolling Stone Rating: 2.5
Death isn't nearly the career hindrance it used to be in hip-hop. Witness Tupac Shakur. He's spoken from beyond the grave on seven albums since his 1996 murder, most recently on Until the End of Time, the offspring of the unholy alliance between mother Afeni Shakur's Amaru Records and Suge Knight's Death Row Records. Built partially upon unheard shards of Shakur's verse, the double-disc Until is weighty without being deep, filled out as it is with heavy bluster from Pac's Outlawz crew. On the better tracks, when Pac is unchained from posse-boasting purgatory, his keen sense of justice and fidelity - be it of the political or street variety - is at its sharpest. "Everything They Owe" features what may be the first recorded pro-slavery-reparations verse, in which Pac warns, "In case you don't know, ghetto-born black seeds still grow/We coming back, for everything you owe." "When Thugz Cry" explores the jailhouse mind, asking, "How does it feel to lose your life over something that you did as a kid?"...
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