2Pac - "Dear Mama"
2Pac - "Temptations"
2Pac - "So Many Tears"
April 01, 2009 @ 7:38 pm
365: April 1, 1995 - Jail Can't Hold 2Pac Down
With ’Pac away serving time, Me Against The World debuts at No. 1
It was no April Fool’s. Fourteen years ago today, Tupac Shakur’s third album, Me Against The World (Interscope, 1995), debuted at the top of The Billboard 200 despite the fact that the controversial rapper/actor/icon was two months into an 18-month sentence for sexual abuse at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility. Me Against The World, which included such classic singles as “Dear Mama,” “So Many Tears” and “Temptations,” held the number one spot for four weeks and went on to sell two million copies. “If thug life is real, then let somebody else represent it, because I’m tired of it,” ’Pac told VIBE during an exclusive interview from prison which ran as an April 1995 cover story, Ready To Live. Six months later, infamous label mogul Suge Knight posted $1.4 million for ’Pac’s bail and signed the rapper to Death Row Records.
2Pac - "Temptations"
2Pac - "So Many Tears"
2Pac - "Temptations"
2Pac - "So Many Tears"
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