Pac's Life

by 2Pac

Overview

More prolific dead than alive (well, not really, but the amount of records issued by the Californian rapper after September 13, 1996, far outweigh the number issued before), 2Pac has -- mostly thanks to his mother, Afeni Shakur -- come out with another release, ten years after his death. Despite the fact that Pac's Life claims to be comprised of all (minus one verse) previously unheard material, most of the rhymes on the album have been floating around the Internet or on unofficial (and possibly illegal) bootlegs for some time now, which makes listening a little anticlimactic. This isn't to say that there is not some great material on Pac's Life, because there is ("Watch and bear witness to the pleasures of participation/Separation and self-destruction, what's needed is unification," he spits in "Whatz Next"), but the power of 2Pac's words is often lost behind the modern production (from Sha Money XL and L.T. Hutton, among others) and new verses from artists like Ludacris, Lil Scrappy, Ashanti, and Young Buck. It's understandable that Ms. Shakur and her collaborators want to continue to promote 2Pac and his music in the world, and that one way of going about this could be by modernizing the beats, but unfortunately it doesn't quite work here, and everything ends up sounding a bit commercialized, and a bit dull. There are still some bright spots on Pac's Life -- he was too talented, and recorded so much to have it be otherwise -- that could be of some interest to fans and keep the album from being a total loss: "Don't Sleep" has a nice soft intensity, while the single "Untouchable" (produced and remixed by Swizz Beatz and featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) has a great, catchy hook, and "Soon as I Get Home" is fantastic, and probably the best track on the album, mostly because the original production by QDIII hasn't been changed at all; but still, this isn't enough to make the album good. All in all, Pac's Life is a nice attempt, but it comes nowhere close to showing off his talent as All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World do, and ends up being kind of disappointing because of that. [The 2006 edition includes one bonus cut.] ~ Marisa Brown

Product Details

Release Date:	12/19/2006
Label:	Amaru/Interscope
UPC:	0602517168886

Tracks

1. Untouchable
2. Pac's Life
3. Dumpin'
4. Playa Cardz Right (Female)
5. Whatz Next
6. Sleep
7. International
8. Don't Sleep
9. Soon as I Get Home
10. Playa Cardz Right (Male)
11. Don't Stop
12. Pac's Life
13. Untouchable
14. Dear Mama

Album Credits

Performance Credits

2Pac   Primary Artist
Anthony Hamilton   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
A3   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
T.I.   Primary Artist,Featured Artist,Guest Artist
Snoop Dogg   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Big Skye   Primary Artist
Keon Bryce   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony   Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Bone   Primary Artist
Keyshia Cole   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
E.D.I.   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Fatal Hussein   Primary Artist
Edi   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Carl Thomas   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Lil Scrappy   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Ludacris   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Nutso   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Young Dre   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Yaki Kadafi   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Nipsey Hussle   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Young Buck   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Gravy   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Papoose   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Big Syke   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Chamillionaire   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
A-3   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Jay Rock   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Chris Starr   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Stormy   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Young Noble   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Young Dre the Truth   Primary Artist
Nuttso   Primary Artist
Hussein Fatal   Featured Artist
Christopher Starr   Featured Artist
Ashanti   Featured Artist
Al West   Keyboards
Krayzie Bone   Featured Artist
Johnnie "Smurf" Smith   Keyboards

Technical Credits

Ivan And Carvin   Audio Production
QD III   Audio Production
Swizz Beatz   Audio Production,Producer
Sha Money   Audio Production
L.T. Hutton   Audio Production
Kasseem Dean   Composer
Al West   Producer
Marcus Thompson   Composer,Composer
Clifford Harris   Composer
Kevan Griffin   Engineer
Chicago Craig   Composer
Ashanti Douglas   Composer
Tom Whalley   Executive Producer
Gloria Cox   Consultant
Bruce Washington   Composer
Mel Lee   Engineer
Danny Zook   Sample Clearance
Anthony Henderson   Composer
Molly Monjauze   A&R
Ricardo Brown   Composer
Tyruss Himes   Composer
Tony "D" Pizarro   Composer
Keon Bryce   Composer
Keyshia Cole   Composer
Ivan Barias   Composer,Musician,Producer
Chuck Reed   Digital Transfers
Carvin "Ransum" Haggins   Composer,Producer
Fatal Hussein   Performer
Carl Thomas   Composer
Greg Nice   Composer
Daz Dillinger   Producer
Tupac Shakur   Composer
Johnny Jackson   Composer
Salih Williams   Composer,Producer
Johnny J   Producer
Alex Hill   Composer
Yaki Kadafi   Performer
Nipsey Hussle   Performer
Gravy   Performer
Vatana Shaw   Digital Editing
Claudio Cueni   Mixing,Engineer
Joe Sample   Composer
Michael Marshall   Composer
Calvin Broadus   Composer
Hakeem Seriki   Composer
Canei Finch   Composer
Eric "Erk" Vargas   Engineer
Afeni Shakur   Liner Notes,Executive Producer
Sean Cole   Composer,Composer
Delmar Arnaud   Composer
Sam Lobue II   Engineer
D. Prosper   Production Coordination
Young Dre the Truth   Performer
David Brown   Composer
Johnny McKenzie   Composer
Darryl Richardson   Composer
Katari T. Cox   Composer
Yafeu Fula   Composer
Maurice Harding   Composer
Johnny McKinzie   Composer
Quincy Jones III   Composer
Michael Clervoix   Composer
Ronald Brooks   Composer
Rufus Cooper   Composer
Tony Pizarro   Composer
Andre Terry   Composer
Jacob Clark   Composer
Malcolm Greenidge   Composer
Lenton Hutton   Composer
Mutah Beale   Composer
Willie Mackie   Composer
Ermias Asghedom   Composer
Katari Cox   Composer