2Pac / Makaveli The Truth Behind The Killuminati Album [Full Breakdown]

[killagee]

[dnjp4life]

I will watch this later on but I will say this (on the 30th anniversary of the release of All Eyez On Me, no less) - every time I listen to the Makaveli album it scares the shit out of me. 

If All Eyez On Me was a 'celebration of life' as 2Pac said, then The 7 Day Theory is the complete opposite; it's raw, extremely dark in parts, insular and can be a difficult, downbeat listen if you're not in the right mood for it (aside from the singles).  I don't know what 2Pac's frame of mind was like in those final months to just cut off basically all the producers and featured artists from the previous album, which was massively successful, and make this one.

It must have been so bizarre being of the age of buying records when this album dropped under a different name and being so different sounding to 2Pac's previous effort.  From what I've read it was meant to be more of a mixtape than a traditional album in that it was rough and ready and was meant to be available to buy in mom and pop stores/swap-meets as opposed to big stores, so in a way 2Pac was ahead of his time in that respect.

Even though it's clearly not true, it's like 2Pac was rapping from beyond the grave, settling scores and letting certain things be known about the state of the world, the direction that the rap game at large was headed and those who he considered enemies.

I used to think 'Against All Odds' was literally the last track 2Pac recorded before his death being that it came at the end of the album and it seemed so fitting that he closed the album calling out anyone and everyone and declaring war on Puffy and everyone else.  People who claim 'Hit 'Em Up' is the best 2Pac diss or rap diss record as a whole are wrong, this right here is the pinnacle and it would have been really interesting to see how this would have played out had 2Pac lived to see it.