The Best of 2Pac, Pt. 1: Thug [Edited]

Performer: 2Pac
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Additional personnel: Anthony Hamilton. Entitled THUG, the first disc in this double CD collection put together in coordination with the rapper's mother Afeni Shakur focuses on 2Pac's gangsta side--bringing together Pac's best-known Death Row joints and Makavelli recordings. THUG also contains 2Pac's debut single, "Trapped" and the previously unreleased track "Resist the Temptation," as well as a new remix of "Dear Mama" featuring Anthony Hamilton.

Beginning his career in the early 1990s as a member of the Oakland rap-funksters Digital Underground, 2Pac rose to become perhaps the single most controversial figure in rap music, easily equal in popularity and notoriety to Snoop Dogg on the West Coast and sometime rival Notorious B.I.G. out East. Taking his moniker from a South American revolutionary, 2Pac managed to embrace themes of black self-determination and social conscience without dulling the edge of his thug image. Achieving almost unrivalled popularity while alive, 2Pac had a penchant for religious and iconic motifs, ensuring his status as a rap martyr after his murder in 1996.

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