2Pac

The formula for posthumous 2Pac albums is simple: take obscure or unreleased verses and lay them over hip-hop's sound du jour. "Untouchable Swizz Beatz Remix" starts off with a burst of gunfire and 2Pac screaming out the hook: "Am I wrong cuz I want to get it on 'till I die?" It's the latest eerie prognostication in a career littered with them. Elsewhere, he teams up with ATL "king" T.I. on the album's title track.

As the story goes, Tupac Shakur spent untold hours in the studio recording rhymes for no
particular reason other than to express his vast creativity. But after ten posthumous
albums, we must finally be getting to the bottom of 'Pac's barrel, right? Several of his verses
on this eleventh post-death disc -- released ten years after his demise -- are undercooked
snippets looped and padded out with verses from a new generation of acolytes l... More >