R U Still Down

2Pac - R U Still Down

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Artist: 2Pac
Brand: Tupac
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1997-11-25
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Redemption
  2. Open Fire
  3. R U Still Down? (Remember Me)
  4. Hellrazor
  5. Thug Style
  6. Where Do We Go From Here (Interlude)
  7. I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto
  8. Nothing To Lose
  9. I'm Gettin Money
  10. Lie To Kick It
  11. F**k All Y'All
  12. Let Them Thangs Go
  13. Definition Of A Thug N**ga
Music CD 2
  1. Ready 4 Whatever
  2. When I Get Free
  3. Hold On Be Strong
  4. I'm Losin It
  5. Fake Ass Bitches
  6. Do For Love
  7. Enemies With Me
  8. Nothin But Love
  9. 16 On Death Row
  10. I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto (Hip-Hop Version)
  11. When I Get Free II
  12. Black Starry Night (Interlude)
  13. Only Fear Of Death

Free Music Notes for R U Still Down

Free Music Review: Hip Hop
Hit: 5 Stars

I'm surprised how this album has been accepted. Lets not get carried away with "his legacy" and his tragic death and all the controversy surrounding 2Pac. Everybody already knows about all that.

R U Still Down is my favorite album by 2Pac. Makaveli and All Eyez are both 5 stars to me, but R U Still Down is more raw. Especially as far as the production is concerned. A lot of people are apparently disappointed by the production on this album. I find it to have a sense of being more genuine, and more fitting than the other posthumous releases. This is probably since Pac actually had some input on creating these tracks. Overall, the sound of the album (and individual tracks) is more whole. Listening to R U Still Down helps to show how much of a project Makaveli and All Eyez On Me were. Those two albums were obviously much more orchestrated and calculated, and designed to provoke in every way. They were much more surgical and precise.

R U Still Down, however, is just straight hip-hop. There's scratching on here! There's no name dropping, or disses aimed at specific people. Just general expression of different emotions. Instead of a song about Tipper Gore or Bad Boy (for example) specificly, you get the more general (and undated) song about the struggles in general with government oppression or social commentary or anger or whatever. This is technically easier for a listener to relate to, since hardly any of us actually know Tipper Gore or Puffy, etc.....but somehow the audience doesn't want that. wtf?

"Thug Style" is probably the single song by Pac to most adhere to the street chronicling and nostalgic waxing scenarios in hip-hop. And at the same time, he's replying directly to everybody giving this album bad reviews: 'you don't know my style.'
Just because All Eyez sounded one way, or Makaveli sounded one way, or Strictly 4 My sounded one way....don't get it twisted. Its art. You gotta be open. Don't expect artists to be how you want them to be. You cannot expect anything from art, all that does is turn it into a product instead of art.

The lyrics on this album are of things more accesible to the common listener. The production is reminiscent of earlier 2Pac and more of a east-coast style of the early 90's (pre-Death Row). There's more lyrical acrobatics than usual (Let Them Thangs Go), and more of the same techincal (Lie to Kick It) and simple formats (F*** All Y'All) we're used to from 2Pac.

If you ignore all the hype and controversy surrounding the artist, and drop your expectations of him...just listen to the music on R U Still Down for the music, then maybe you can re-discover the best MC with this album.

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Media Type: CD
Artist: TUPAC
Title: R U STILL DOWN? (REMEMBER ME?)
Street Release Date: 11/25/1997
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Genre: RAP/HIP HOP

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