was more calculated, but no less ambitious: his sophomore album, which he’d been writing and recording on both American coasts and in Trinidad, surveyed the entirety of mid-’90s rap and swallowed every style whole. (When Pac was assassinated seven months later in Las Vegas, he was already mostly finished with a follow-up album.)
All Eyez On Me, the yield from a few weeks of marathon sessions, was breathless and brilliant. 2Pac was fresh out of jail – as in literally he was bailed of a maximum-security prison in upstate New York and flew immediately to California to write and record––and determined to exact revenge on, well, everybody. Each was by a superstar rap act at the height of their power, and all three were acts of real-time mythmaking. Those three double albums came out in quick succession, between February 1996 and June of the following year. Three case studies: All Eyez On Me Life After Death Wu-Tang Forever.
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