2Pac

Entertainment Weekly (4/20/01, p.72) - "...At his best, 2pac elevated gangsta boasts into poetic, sorrow-filled ruminations on thug life..." - Rating: B

Death isn't nearly the career hindrance it used to be in hip-hop. Witness Tupac Shakur.
He's spoken from beyond the grave on seven albums since his 1996 murder, most recently
on Until the End of Time, the offspring of the unholy alliance between mother Afeni
Shakur's Amaru Records and Suge Knight's Death Row Records. Built partially upon
unheard shards of Shakur's verse, the double-disc Until is weighty without being... More >