All Eyez on Me was released following an agreement between Knight and Shakur which stated Shakur would make three albums under Death Row Records in return for them paying his bail.
At the time, Shakur was broke and thus unable to make bail himself. In October 1995, Suge Knight and Jimmy Iovine paid the $1.4 million bail necessary to get Shakur released from jail on charges of sexual abuse. The title of this album, “All Eyez On Me,” is the same title used for Tupac’s biopic, released on June 16th, 2017 which would have been Shakur’s forty-sixth birthday. The album was certified Diamond by the RIAA on July 23, 2014, almost eighteen years after Shakur’s death. The album is among the most acclaimed hip-hop albums of the 1990s. Shakur also won the Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the 24th Annual American Music Awards. The album won the 1997 Soul Train R&B/Soul or Rap Album of the Year Award posthumously. It was issued on two compact discs and four LPs.Īll Eyez on Me was the second album by 2Pac to chart at #1 on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, selling 566,000 copies in the first week. Moreover, All Eyez on Me (which was the only Death Row Records release to be distributed through PolyGram by way of Island Records) made history as the second double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption (the first one being IAM‘s 1993 Ombre est lumière album ).
It featured five singles in all, the most of any of Shakur’s albums.
The album featured the Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles “ How Do U Want It” and “ California Love“. It was released on February 13, 1996, by Death Row Records and Interscope Records. All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac and the last one to be released during his lifetime.
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