Unlimited Streaming
Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps
Start my trial period and start listening to this albumEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
SubscribeEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
Digital Download
Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
More prolific dead than alive (well, not really, but the amount of records issued by the Californian rapper after September 13, 1996, far outweigh the number issued before), 2Pac has -- mostly thanks to his mother, Afeni Shakur -- come out with another release, ten years after his death. Despite the fact that Pac's Life claims to be comprised of all (minus one verse) previously unheard material, most of the rhymes on the album have been floating around the Internet or on unofficial (and possibly illegal) bootlegs for some time now, which makes listening a little anticlimactic. This isn't to say that there is not some great material on Pac's Life, because there is ("Watch and bear witness to the pleasures of participation/Separation and self-destruction, what's needed is unification," he spits in "Whatz Next"), but the power of 2Pac's words is often lost behind the modern production (from Sha Money XL and L.T. Hutton, among others) and new verses from artists like Ludacris, Lil Scrappy, Ashanti, and Young Buck. It's understandable that Ms. Shakur and her collaborators want to continue to promote 2Pac and his music in the world, and that one way of going about this could be by modernizing the beats, but unfortunately it doesn't quite work here, and everything ends up sounding a bit commercialized, and a bit dull. There are still some bright spots on Pac's Life -- he was too talented, and recorded so much to have it be otherwise -- that could be of some interest to fans, and keep the album from being a total loss: "Don't Sleep" has a nice soft intensity, while the single "Untouchable" (produced and remixed by Swizz Beatz and featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) has a great, catchy hook, and "Soon as I Get Home" is fantastic, probably the best track on the album, mostly because the original production by QDIII hasn't been changed at all; but still, this isn't enough to make the album good. All in all, Pac's Life is a nice attempt, but it comes nowhere close to showing off his talent as something like All Eyez on Me or Me Against the World does, and ends up being kind of disappointing because of that.
© Marisa Brown /TiVo
You are currently listening to samples.
Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.
From $16.65/month
Kasseem Dean, ComposerLyricist - Krayzie Bone, FeaturedArtist - Anthony Henderson, ComposerLyricist - Bruce Washington, Composer - Yafeu Fula, ComposerLyricist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Johnny Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Ricardo Brown, ComposerLyricist - LT Hutton, Producer - Clifford Harris, ComposerLyricist - Malcolm Greenidge, ComposerLyricist - Katari Cox, ComposerLyricist - Mutah Beale, ComposerLyricist - Ashanti Douglas, ComposerLyricist - T.I., FeaturedArtist - Ashanti, FeaturedArtist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Delmar Arnaud, ComposerLyricist - Lenton Hutton, ComposerLyricist - Rufus Cooper, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Ronald Brooks, ComposerLyricist - Ricardo Brown, ComposerLyricist - Bruce Washington, ComposerLyricist - Willie Mackie, ComposerLyricist - Carl Thomas, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Delmar Arnaud, ComposerLyricist - Papoose, FeaturedArtist - Hussein Fatal, FeaturedArtist - Canei Finch/Mclervoix, ComposerLyricist - sean cole, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Johnny Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Yafeu Fula, ComposerLyricist - Tyruss Himes, ComposerLyricist - Maurice Harding, ComposerLyricist - Carvin "Ransum" Haggins, ComposerLyricist - Ivan Barias, ComposerLyricist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Keyshia Cole, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Johnny Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Tyruss Himes, ComposerLyricist - Maurice Harding, ComposerLyricist - Salih Williams, ComposerLyricist - Jay Rock, FeaturedArtist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - A3, FeaturedArtist - Johnny McKinzie, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Hakeem Seriki, ComposerLyricist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - Young Buck, FeaturedArtist - Chamillionaire, FeaturedArtist - David Brown, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Delmar Arnaud, ComposerLyricist - Michael Clervoix, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Calvin Broadus, ComposerLyricist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - Young Dre, FeaturedArtist - Andre Terry, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Lenton Hutton, ComposerLyricist - Greg Nice, ComposerLyricist - Nipsey Hussle, FeaturedArtist - Ermias Asghedom, ComposerLyricist - Jacob Clark, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Yafeu Fula, ComposerLyricist - Malcolm Greenidge, ComposerLyricist - Mutah Beale, ComposerLyricist - Lil Scrappy, FeaturedArtist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Delmar Arnaud, ComposerLyricist - Nutso, FeaturedArtist - Stormy, FeaturedArtist - Yaki Kadafi, FeaturedArtist - Darryl Richardson, ComposerLyricist - sean cole, ComposerLyricist - Chicago Craig, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Yafeu Fula, ComposerLyricist - Michael Marshall, ComposerLyricist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Quincy Jones III, ComposerLyricist - Alex Hill, ComposerLyricist - Yaki Kadafi, FeaturedArtist - MARCUS THOMPSON, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Johnny Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Yafeu Fula, ComposerLyricist - Keon Bryce, FeaturedArtist - Tyruss Himes, ComposerLyricist - Maurice Harding, ComposerLyricist - Carvin "Ransum" Haggins, ComposerLyricist - Ludacris, FeaturedArtist - Ivan Barias, ComposerLyricist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Keyshia Cole, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Johnny Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Bruce Washington, ComposerLyricist - Yafeu Fula, ComposerLyricist - Malcolm Greenidge, ComposerLyricist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Lenton Hutton, ComposerLyricist - E.D.I, FeaturedArtist - Rufus Cooper, ComposerLyricist - Young Noble, FeaturedArtist - Hussein Fatal, FeaturedArtist - BIG SYKE, FeaturedArtist - Stormy, FeaturedArtist - Yaki Kadafi, FeaturedArtist - Tyrus Himes, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Johnny Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Ricardo Brown, ComposerLyricist - LT Hutton, Producer - Clifford Harris, ComposerLyricist - Malcolm Greenidge, ComposerLyricist - Katari Cox, ComposerLyricist - Mutah Beale, ComposerLyricist - Ashanti Douglas, ComposerLyricist - T.I., FeaturedArtist - Snoop Dogg, FeaturedArtist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Delmar Arnaud, ComposerLyricist - Lenton Hutton, ComposerLyricist - Rufus Cooper, ComposerLyricist - Chris Starr, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Kasseem Dean, ComposerLyricist - Anthony Henderson, ComposerLyricist - Bruce Washington, Composer - Yafeu Fula, ComposerLyricist - Gravy, FeaturedArtist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, MainArtist - Hussein Fatal, FeaturedArtist - Yaki Kadafi, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Album review
More prolific dead than alive (well, not really, but the amount of records issued by the Californian rapper after September 13, 1996, far outweigh the number issued before), 2Pac has -- mostly thanks to his mother, Afeni Shakur -- come out with another release, ten years after his death. Despite the fact that Pac's Life claims to be comprised of all (minus one verse) previously unheard material, most of the rhymes on the album have been floating around the Internet or on unofficial (and possibly illegal) bootlegs for some time now, which makes listening a little anticlimactic. This isn't to say that there is not some great material on Pac's Life, because there is ("Watch and bear witness to the pleasures of participation/Separation and self-destruction, what's needed is unification," he spits in "Whatz Next"), but the power of 2Pac's words is often lost behind the modern production (from Sha Money XL and L.T. Hutton, among others) and new verses from artists like Ludacris, Lil Scrappy, Ashanti, and Young Buck. It's understandable that Ms. Shakur and her collaborators want to continue to promote 2Pac and his music in the world, and that one way of going about this could be by modernizing the beats, but unfortunately it doesn't quite work here, and everything ends up sounding a bit commercialized, and a bit dull. There are still some bright spots on Pac's Life -- he was too talented, and recorded so much to have it be otherwise -- that could be of some interest to fans, and keep the album from being a total loss: "Don't Sleep" has a nice soft intensity, while the single "Untouchable" (produced and remixed by Swizz Beatz and featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) has a great, catchy hook, and "Soon as I Get Home" is fantastic, probably the best track on the album, mostly because the original production by QDIII hasn't been changed at all; but still, this isn't enough to make the album good. All in all, Pac's Life is a nice attempt, but it comes nowhere close to showing off his talent as something like All Eyez on Me or Me Against the World does, and ends up being kind of disappointing because of that.
© Marisa Brown /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:55:00
- Main artists: 2Pac
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: 2Pac - Pac's Life
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
© 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records ℗ 2006 Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records
Improve album information
Why buy on Qobuz...
-
Stream or download your music
Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalogue with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions.
-
Zero DRM
The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit. You can download them as many times as you like.
-
Choose the format best suited for you
Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF...) depending on your needs.
-
Listen to your purchases on our apps
Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go.