![]() I will say I won’t be including BEGINNINGS: THE LOST TAPES 1988–1991 (2007), although that’s a worthwhile curio to see the earliest expression of Tupac Shakur, which morphed into something quite different by the time of his second or third album. So with this piece, I’ll be ranking the 11 “canon” Tupac albums, even if the vast majority of them were not made with his direct involvement. Tupac put out only four albums during his lifetime under his own name, not including the first and only release from Thug Life, the group he co-founded, THUG LIFE VOL. 2 (2005), on which other artists speak, interpret, and perform Tupac’s poetry. That’s not counting the numerous greatest hits and remix compilations and records like THE ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE (2000) and THE ROSE, VOL. After being killed at the age of 25, Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur kept the money rolling with seven posthumous “studio albums” of relatively original and/or unreleased content. ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, I guess it can’t really be blamed on Tupac himself. The man put out so many lengthy and/or double albums, which at some point just constitutes a lot of filler. Look, I’ll be honest right off the bat: it was a slog getting through the 2Pac discography (2Pac being the stage name of course, but I’ll be using “Tupac” to name Shakur from now on). ![]()
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