Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", 4 stars out of 5 - "...One of the few occasions where 2Pac's music matches his kinetic personality....he really was the peerless embodiment of gangsta rap, a strutting provocateur staking out turf, calling out enemies and consoling peers...", Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", "Pac’s writing is inherently and inescapably political, and his feelings about prison, about race, and about America permeate nearly every verse.", 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...Even as garden-variety thug, 2Pac shows more skill than most. He deserves to have all eyes--and ears--on him.", 7 (out of 10) - "...As long as you don't expect philanthropy from him, you'll find honesty and some pleasurably twisted scenarios...", 7 (out of 10) - "...Backed by `everything we push goes platinum' Death Row Records and a new crew of comrades...the lyrical Jesse James is back to expound on his lengthy dogmas within the infrastructure of his music....This album conveys sudden gleams of brilliance and thick and chunky hits, radio-friendly or not...", Ranked #3 on Entertainment Weekly's List of the `Top 10 Albums and Singles of 1996.', "...gangsta rappers pretty much share the values of their Republican detractors: the emphasis on making money, the righteousness of bearing arms, the wonderfulness of consumption, respect for hierarchy and loyalty to one's own as overriding principles...", "...On ALL EYEZ ON ME, 2Pac is clearly thrilled to host his own bustin'-out party. But even on this booty-shaking album, he's watching his back throughout the entire bash.", 9 (out of 10) - "...ALL EYEZ is his angry, end-of-tether, couldn't-give-a-shit meditation....an immense spewing of indignation and provocation, set to a brilliantly varied range of G-funk grooves....Tupac blasts out his non-PC opinions...with a competition-eliminating relentlessness..."
