2Pac: All Eyez on Me (Death Row/Island 524 204-2)
Andy Gill, The Independent, 1 March 1996
THE GANGSTA-rap double-whammy of surviving both multiple wounding and prison has left Tupac Shakur in unrepentantly triumphalist mood on this daunting double-album. It's a toss-up whether this is any more attractive a prospect than the perhaps justifiably paranoid rantings of its multi-platinum predecessor Me Against the World, but for a while he manages to make it glamorous enough.
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