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Lead Performance: Tupac Shakur; Genres: Hip-Hop/Rap, Reissues

While featuring four high-quality songs from 2Pac's never-ending supply of unreleased tracks, his career-spanning collection of Greatest Hits is truly vital for painting a complete picture of rap's symbol of martyrdom: 2Pac could be a paranoid gangsta (''2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted''), a West Coast rump shaker (''California Love''), and, most interestingly, a sensitive ghetto poet (''Dear Mama''). Together, these seemingly disparate strands depict a fascinating portrait of an artist unafraid to be — or unable not to be — complicated. A-


Posted Dec 11, 1998
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