It’s easiest to look at his achievements as one vast sum, just to nod and say, yes, 2Pac was everything to hip-hop and maybe more. The impact he had on his genre, if not pop culture as a whole, extends to this day. Though he was often dubbed a gangsta rapper, he excelled at everything from gentle introspection to incisive social commentary to (yes) unrepentant tough talk. He was killed at 25, but he recorded so much music that you could believe he lived another decade. Hip-hop has arguably never seen a more complex, conflicted rapper, and seemingly all of him made it on record at some point.
Michael Madden (MM): There’s something daunting about having to write at length about a single 2Pac album, to risk focusing too much on just one body of work. In light of its 20th anniversary, Consequence of Sound’s M ichael Madden, Jill Hopkins, Brian Josephs, and Will Hagle revisit the album to discuss where it fits in 2Pac’s discography and just how influential it’s been in the two decades since its release. It became his first full-length to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. 2Pac’s third album, Me Against the World, was released on March 14th, 1995, while the rapper served a prison sentence for sexual abuse.
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