“He worked like a fucking racehorse,” said former Death Row lablemate Snoop Dogg in an interview with VladTV in 2013. Shakur was pumping out records on a whole other level.

Big L, who died at the age of 24 in 1999, possessed a deeper cache, having enough material for his brother Donald Phinazee to put together another three albums from the Harlem spitta. The Terror Squad member’s only other release was Endangered Species in 2001, which was partially filled with remixes of previously released tracks. Besides Biggie’s Life After Death LP, which was completed before he was killed, his team was only able to put together one additional patchwork project ( Born Again ) of unreleased material, which took the assistance of over 20 artists to complete.īig Pun’s posthumous album Yeeeah Baby was also completed before his death in 2000. ’Pac’s laboriousness in the time leading up to his death especially stands out when compared to other rap legends who died before their times in the same era. “He was moving fast like a race every day,” said Cali rapper Bad Azz who recorded with the rap icon in the months leading up to his death and appeared on the Don Killuminati track “Krazy.” “Things it takes people a lifetime to do, he was doing them in two weeks.” Yet, he still had enough song material for six posthumous LPs. He recorded over a dozen music videos and also completed three feature films- Bullet, Gridlock’d, and Gang Related-which were released following his death.

In that 11 months’ time, he completed two albums, including one double disc that contained a staggering 27 songs in All Eyez on Me, and a plethora of other tracks, some which still have not been released nearly 20 years later. Between October 1995, when he was bailed out of prison by Suge Knight and signed to Death Row Records, until September 1996, when he was killed, ’Pac was in constant go mode. One thing that is undeniable is that he worked as if he knew his time he wasn't going to be around for long. Did 2Pac know he was going to die? That question, worthy of its own episode of Unsolved Mysteries (Google it, kids), may never be answered.

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