The book is written by Maxime Delcourt, freelance journalist who specializes in music. Pac gave this track another try for Me Against The World, I digg it but of course it was eventually scrapped.) 5.
From Harlem to Los Angeles, from Marin City to Atlanta and Baltimore, these pages, anxious to re-contextualize the work of the rapper, also speak about cruelty of gangs in the United States, the war between West Coast and East Coast, the militancy of the Shakur family, the emergence of gangsta rap in the late 1980s and the adventure of Death Row Records. According to 2Pac, Me Against the World was made to show the hip hop audience his. Drawing lyrical inspiration from his impending prison sentence, troubles with the police, and poverty, the album is described as being 2Pacs most introspective album. Tupac Shakur is one of the most famous American rappers whose success has contributed to the global commercial explosion of rap in the 1990s. Twenty years after his death at the age of twenty-five years, he continues to inspire many rappers and generate all the phantasms through a work, musical and cinematographic, as abundant and political as viscerally attached to the street.īehind the scandals that have marked his career and the many rumors hovering over his death, this book has the ambition to understand the work of 2Pac, his conception, its blind spots, his meticulous pen, her obsessions, her prospects or similarities she has with his personal evolution. Me Against The World is the album that made 2Pac the artist we know and revere today. Twenty years ago today, Tupac Shakur s landmark third album, Me Against the World, debuted at No. Me Against the World is the third studio album by American rapper 2Pac, released on March 14, 1995, by Interscope Records and Jive Records.