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The Album

  • Awesome Music: Consistently ranked as one of Death Row's best releases, and a regular contender for Pac's best album, period.
  • Broken Base: While most will agree both albums are good musically, fans often argue over what album showcases the real Tupac. The albums in question are Me Against the World VS All Eyez On Me. Proponents of the former claim that the album is better than AEOM because of its depth and dark, introspective approach, while claiming that AEOM is just a typical mainstream rap album people jumped on the bandwagon for. Conversely, fans of the latter argue that Tupac works with a much wider range of topics in AEOM than in MATW, living it up on a few songs while exploring more serious topics in others.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • The intro of "I Ain't Mad At Cha"'s video depicts Tupac getting gunned down protecting a friend from an assailant. The video was shot mere weeks before Shakur was shot in a drive-by, and was released just days after his death.
    • Another good example is "Life Goes On", where he memorializes friends of his that were murdered and talks about how he'll see them again after death. Tupac himself was killed just seven months after the song was released.
    • "Hit 'Em Up" contained a diss to Mobb Deep (who took part in taking shots on the West Coast on Capone N Noreaga's "L.A, L.A" remix, which Pac felt dissed him), mocking Prodigy for having sickle-cell anemia. Many thought that this was way below the belt, but it's even harsher as of June 20th, 2017, when Prodigy finally lost his battle with sickle-cell.

The Film

  • Broken Base: There's a huge one concerning whether or not this film did Tupac's legacy justice, or was a rushed, sloppy cash grab.
  • Ending Fatigue: The scenes of Pac and Suge riding in the car shortly before the former's death is filled with false alarms and fake-outs, which might sound tense on paper but only serves to unnecessarily drag out the ending for no real reason; especially since most people who watched the film already knew how Pac's story ended.

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