Until The End Of Time - Tupac

Pickaxe and shovel in hand, Afeni Shakur and Suge Knight went digging in the lost vaults of Tupac Shakur. There's plenty of motive to go around for such sweat and toil - he is still Death Row's biggest star even post-humously, and she wants to keep her son's name and memory alive in the public eye. Statistically though the law of diminishing returns is creeping ever higher - the more nuggets that they mine, the less that are left to find amidst the dust and rubble. When the rumors of this album first surfaced, the question on everyone's minds was whether they had actually hit a motherlode or were just trying to pass off cubic zirconium and pyrite as ...

I wasn't aware that 2Pac was adept at 'takin hits from the 80s' and making them 'sound so crazy', but he is. This grueling double CD from the estate of 2Pac has some high points, but it's mostly filled with average Pac tracks. Nonetheless "Until the End of Time" is filled with ominous and dark lyrics, making it intriguing if not a strictly hot rap album. Let me give you the only songs that stand out to me at all: "Breathin", "Until the End of Time", "M.O.B.", "Why U Turn on Me", and "Lastonesleft". These are the only songs that even appear on my radar. The rest of the songs are ...

That's how long I waited to be truly inspired by the latest offering from the estate of the late Tupac Shakur (God rest the dead). Quite frankly I could only find about 8 tracks out of a possible 22 excluding remixes, that I could honestly say I would reach for! Now I have been accused of being hard to please, which is true, but when one spends their hard earned cash on an album from an artist of 2pac's stature I'd expect at least half of it to be bangin' & perhaps 1/5 to be album fillers, the reamainder should be listenable but I'm afraid I was dissapointed, not so much in lyrical content cause when you buy a 'Pac album you should know ...