2pac's Makaveli Record To Me Is Still Shrouded In Mystery

[GangstaBoogy]

I didnt like at all All Eyez On Me! That was, like you said, a "different" Pac, not the deep Pac i loved.

touch down!

[acbaylove]

I didnt like at all All Eyez On Me! That was, like you said, a "different" Pac, not the deep Pac i loved.

touch down!

Man i'm not saying All Eyez On Me wasnt a good album. Shit it's a hell of a album!! (and i'm a real Pac fan, i own all his albums and CD Singles, from the first to the last, so i appreciate him for real, he's my GOAT). Shit I havent heard an album like that in years!! (5-6 years at least). I'm saying that was a different Pac, more commercial, more tracks for the ladies, he made that album TO SELL. Shit Pac said it himself. He was different, he just wanted to say: "Hello! I'm back!".. you know what i mean? Makaveli is totally different.. Makaveli is hard! And lyrically it's one of the best albums ever created. Probably my fav one ever.

[Makaveli R.I.P.]

For me it's one of the best rap albums ever....

[Traumatized]

Best album ever, a fuckin' masterpiece.

[makaveli11]

I didnt like at all All Eyez On Me! That was, like you said, a "different" Pac, not the deep Pac i loved.

touch down!

Man i'm not saying All Eyez On Me wasnt a good album. Shit it's a hell of a album!! (and i'm a real Pac fan, i own all his albums and CD Singles, from the first to the last, so i appreciate him for real, he's my GOAT). Shit I havent heard an album like that in years!! (5-6 years at least). I'm saying that was a different Pac, more commercial, more tracks for the ladies, he made that album TO SELL. Shit Pac said it himself. He was different, he just wanted to say: "Hello! I'm back!".. you know what i mean? Makaveli is totally different.. Makaveli is hard! And lyrically it's one of the best albums ever created. Probably my fav one ever.

^very true what you just said, but I still love AEOM as much as the makaveli album even though I think it was his best album. Actually I like the makaveli a little bit more due to the lyrics and the new dark sound he brought on, but the smooth g funk sound and the way how he kept switching moods on AEOM from how do u want it, only god can judge me, and to cant c me was too much.

[bigg sherm]

i was like 16 going to scoop up that ghostface ironman and mo thugs whne i saw a listening booth for makaveli....i heard hail mary and scopped it up right then!! but the album as a whole took a long time to grow on me but it is a great album

[V2DHeart]

It was originally titled the "3 day theory" because of the amount of time it took to record the album.

Hurt-M-Badd claimed that Hail Mary alone was half an hour to do. The pace of the work put in was incredible, which explains the reasons in your original post as to why there were very few features on the album besides the Outlawz, and a couple of others - IE: No Nate Dogg, Snoop etc..

Both 2 tracks together - White Manz World's and To Live and Die in LA's vocals (including ad-libs) took 30 mins total. We are talking about an average of 4 track vocals being done in an hour. Hold Ya Head written and recorded in 11 minutes with a beat that was made available via Hurt-M-Badd that was originally intended for an R&B track. He also sung the hook to the song "afterwards".

He worked with these producers because they weren't fully scheduled for much projects around the time, and the album was meant to be a street release, but commercial tracks were added in and according to sources - Interscope wouldn't allow them to release it at low-level. To Live & Die in LA was the longest recorded track with different takes, and a video recorded for it.

After this album and the One Nation project. 2Pac and QD3 were to be the new 2Pac & Johnny J and be integrated into the Non Stop productions team. QD3 would try and connect Michael Jackson & 2Pac together who was originally sought out for the Niggaz Nature (Thug Nature on Too Gangsta 4 Radio) and would eventually be cut and stored away in the hopes for MJ to do vocals for it to be released on a future project.. Other cut tracks Lost Souls appeared on the Gang Related soundtrack, Watch Ya Mouth, and The World is Mine/Friends which would later appear on the Too Gangsta 4 radio compilation

[Hack Wilson - real]

the only sad thing is that the album is that after it came out, we found out that they could have added a few extra classics on it..... Fuck Friendz and Niggaz Nature.  oh and Watch Ya Mouth.


twas a perfect album otherwise though 

[dexter]

see this album was hella nice. it wasnt none of that ima thug, fuck biggie, mob bullshiet like "All Eyez On Me".

no it was the fuck puffy, fuck dre, fuck mobb deep, fuck nas record

[BIGWORM]

I Hated the shit out of this album when it first dropped.

Maybe I was looking for the pop sounding AEOM.

I remember being pissed that I bought it. But like the majority of the posters stated before me damn did it grow on me and it turned out to be my 3rd favorite pac album after MATW and Thug Life album.

I think back and realize now  what he meant in the thank you's on the AEOM booklet were he say's something to the effects of "To my real fans I will be rectified in 96" and that was the GENIUS (non sell out)MAKAVELI album....

[D1G1T4L]

from Xzibit (not a real diss) to Nas.

Huh? When does he mention Xzibit? Which song?

[Hack Wilson - real]

from Xzibit (not a real diss) to Nas.

Huh? When does he mention Xzibit? Which song?

bomb first, EDI has a line "if you aint in this rap game for this motherfucking cash mang, what is your motherfuckin purpose" aimed at X to the Z

maybe PAc has some subliminals too

[V2DHeart]

All eyez on me was to me a Death Row compilation. They could have easily made that into a 1 disc album to strengthen it

[Smackdog]

it's shrouded in hennesssy.

[Cavvy]

by far his worst record.
Poorly mixed and some terrible beat decisions.