Today, in celebration of the album's 25th anniversary, which is on Feb. Anyone that wants to imagine ’Pac at his best only had to play this album.Ĭontradictory, poignant and compelling, All Eyez on Me is ’Pac at his best. On 'Picture Me Rollin',' he taunts the judge and anyone else who doubted him as he paints a picture of himself in 4-D. 2Pac2020 2Pac Tupac2Pac performing Hail MaryLyrics:Makaveli in this, KilluminatiAll through your bodyThat blows like a 12-gauge shotty, feel meAnd God sa. Meanwhile, on his more sentimental side, ’Pac delivered an ode to old homies with 'I Ain't Mad At Cha' and a song dedicated to friends he lost in the streets on 'Life Goes On.' Sometimes, he just focused on flossing, basking in the moment he'd been waiting for as he sat behind prison walls in upstate New York. With slick bars and a hard beat, the two created an indelible anthem. On '2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted,' he posits himself as one of America's most-wanted criminals, teaming up with Snoop Dogg, who was facing a murder charge at the time, in the process. I christened my collection of Crocheted Art 'HAIL MARY' because I truly believe in Christ and I believe that Mary was, maybe not his wife, but at least his counterpart. Songs like 'When We Ride,' 'Ambitionz Az a Ridah' and 'Ain't Hard 2 Find' see him provoking his would-be killers from the year before. I for one, will never believe that Mary the Magdalene was just some pathetic prostitute following Christ and his disciples around. On All Eyez on Me, he shoots first, and there's no mercy. He grips an AK-47, but only in response to danger.

Before, he'd been ambivalent about a thuggish lifestyle.

Though the stylistic DNA of All Eyez on Me existed before he actually dropped the album, the then 24-year-old rapper was harsher and more unapologetic than he was on his 1995 album, Me Against the World.

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