1 – Thug Life – Songs, Reviews, Credits". "And a very chilling one." Track listing No. "A shockingly considered, thoughtful rap record," opined Select's Matt Hall. Full of machismo and do or die stances," wrote Jake Barnes in Q, "the lyrics' hardcore posturing is perversely undercut by sweet and delicate backings from artists like Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton and The Isley Brothers." The album has been met with critical acclaim retrospectively as a classic underground rap album. This version features an alternate verse by 2Pac with different lyrics that was not issued on the album. In 2019, Universal Music Group posted the video version to the song "How Long Will They Mourn Me?" to their YouTube channel. In commemoration of its twenty-fifth anniversary, it was released on vinyl on November 22, 2019.
It sold 500,000 copies in the United States in 1994.
The track "How Long Will They Mourn Me?" appeared later in 1998 from 2Pac's Greatest Hits album. Although the album was originally released on Interscope Records, Amaru Entertainment, the label owned by Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, gained the rights to it. Several of these unreleased recordings include a 4 verse solo version of Bury Me A G with two new 2Pac verses, a radio version of Bury Me A G with another new unreleased verse by 2Pac and two alternate recordings of Str8 Balllin', which include never before released adlibs by the rapper.Īlthough the original version of the album never came to fruition as the album went through a number of changes, Tupac performed the planned first single from the album, "Out on Bail" at the 1994 Source Awards. It has been said that 2Pac created two other versions of this album, with many of the songs still remaining unreleased.
The album only contains ten tracks because Interscope Records felt many of the other recorded songs were too controversial to release. Due to heavy criticism on gangsta rap at the time, the original version of the album was scrapped and re-recorded with many of the original songs being cut.
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