Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ (Parental Advisory) [PA] - 2Pac

Listening to STRICTLY FOR MY N.I.G.G.A.Z. is like listening to 2PACALYPSE NOW, PART TWO, which is not a bad thing, but a GOOD thing. There are sporadic insults hurled at politician Dan Quayle, who ostracized Tupac's debut album; and Tupac still sticks to the same subject matter--Get the connection? Sounding like a cohesion of the 1960's Black-Power socio-political thought, the 1960's and '70's black musical landscape and the 1990's gangsta rap persona, ...
...like "Holla If Ya Hear Me"--with its resounding African drums and thundering organs--the hectic "Last Words", and "Souljah's Revenge" reveal Tupac at his commentative best, while more emotional tracks like "Keep Ya Head Up" and "Papa'z Song" find Tupac exalting black women and denouncing his negligent father respectively. It's quite interesting to know that in "Pac's Theme (Interlude)", ... more

Listening to STRICTLY FOR MY N.I.G.G.A.Z. is like listening to 2PACALYPSE NOW, PART TWO, which is not a bad thing, but a GOOD thing. There are sporadic insults hurled at politician Dan Quayle, who ostracized Tupac's debut album; and Tupac still sticks to the same subject matter--Get the connection? Sounding like a cohesion of the 1960's Black-Power socio-political thought, the 1960's and '70's black musical landscape and the 1990's gangsta rap persona, STRICTLY FOR MY N.I.G.G.A.Z. is a very attractive collage. Songs like "Holla If Ya Hear Me"--with its resounding African drums and thundering organs--the hectic "Last Words", and "Souljah's Revenge" reveal Tupac at his commentative best, while more emotional tracks like "Keep Ya Head Up" and "Papa'z Song" find Tupac exalting black women and denouncing his negligent father respectively. It's quite interesting to know that in "Pac's Theme (Interlude)", the social commentator recognizes his shortcomings--"I'm not a role model", he suggests--and in "Guess Who's Back", he hopes "to get rich by [the year] '96"--ironically, the year he died. What a shame this tremendously gifted man had to die so young, a blood-curdling fact concerning many a young black male in America. 

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