The album was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA) on July 23, 2014, eighteen years after Shakur's death, with shipments of over 5 million copies (each disc in the double album counted as a separate unit for certification). Shakur also won the award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the 24th Annual American Music Awards. The album won the 1997 Soul Train award for Rap Album of the Year posthumously, and was also posthumously nominated for Best Rap Album at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards. All Eyez on Me received instant critical acclaim, and it has been ranked by many critics as one of the greatest hip hop albums, as well as one of the greatest albums of all time. Seven months later, 2Pac was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting. Moreover, All Eyez on Me made history as the first ever double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption globally.Īll Eyez on Me was the second album by 2Pac to chart at number one on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, selling 566,000 copies in the first week.

It featured four singles in all, the most of any of Shakur's albums. The album includes the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles ' How Do U Want It' and ' California Love'. Released on February 13, 1996, by Death Row Records and Interscope Records, It was the only Death Row/Interscope release that was distributed through Island Records/Polygram in the United States. Dre, DJ Bobcat, Dat Nigga Daz, DJ Pooh, DeVante Swing, among others. The album features productions by Shakur alongside a variety of producers, including DJ Quik, Johnny 'J', Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, George Clinton, E-40, Redman, Method Man, Nate Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, K-Ci & JoJo, and Roger Troutman, among others. All Eyez on Me features guest appearances from several artists including the Outlawz, Dr.

Other interesting finds from this study is that 2001 is apparently the most profane year since 1985, averaging over 20 curse words per year among the Top 5 most “influential rap albums” as determined by Best New Ticket.All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac and the last to be released during his lifetime. While All Eyez On Me being a double disc album with 27 songs could explain its high volume of profanity, the Notorious B.I.G.’s 1997 double disc album Life After Death contained 23 songs and only 615 instances of cursing at a rate of 26.73 curses per song. The most frequent curse word was the N-word appearing 404 times (over 44% of the curses on the album). According to the study, Tupac’s first album on Death Row, 1996’s double disc All Eyez On Me contained 901 instances of cursing at a rate of 33.52 curse words per songs. The study only took into account 2,296 rap albums from 1985-2013, which were chosen based on “Total sales, artist name recognition, and album hit density” as well as Best New Ticket ‘s opinion of what is “popular”. Yesterday (April 1st) Best New Ticket did a study of the frequency of profanity in rap albums from 1985-2013 and 2Pac’s All EyeZ On Me was #1. (AllHipHop News) Tupac was a poet who articulated the plight of the downtrodden, intelligently expressed his anger and he liked to curse a lot.

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