Pac's Life

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Pac's Life
Studio album by Tupac Shakur

Publication
(s)

November 21, 2006

Label (s) Interscope , Amaru Entertainment

Format (s)

CD , LP , download

Genre (s)

Hip-hop , rap

Title (number)

13/14

running time

55:08 / 60:49

production

chronology
Loyal to the Game
(2004)
Pac's Life -
Single releases
February 28, 2006 Untouchable
October 21, 2006 Pac's Life
October 31, 2008 Playa Cardz Right

Pac's Life ( English for: Pacs Life ) is the tenth and final studio album of American rapper Tupac Shakur . It is the artist's fifth posthumously released album and was released on November 21, 2006 via the Interscope and Amaru Entertainment labels .

production

Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur and Tom Whalley served as executive producers on the album . The music producers Sha Money XL and LT Hutton each produced four songs on the sound carrier. In addition, one instrumental each comes from Swizz Beatz , QD3 , Orthodox, Ransum, Salih Williams, EDI Mean and Nitty.

Cover design

The album cover is in sepia and shows Tupac Shakur wearing a suit and clasping his hands in front of his body. From the observer's point of view, he looked to the right. The words 2Pac and Pac's Life are at the top right of the picture . The background is completely white.

Guest Posts

In addition to Tupac Shakur, other artists appear on all of the songs on the album. So Untouchable (Swizz Beatz Remix) cooperation with the rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony , while the rapper TI and the singer Ashanti on the title song Pac's Life are heard. On Dumpin 'Tupac is supported by musicians Hussein Fatal , Papoose and Carl Thomas, and on Playa Cardz Right (Female) he works with singer Keyshia Cole . Don't Stop is a mass collaboration with rappers Big Syke , Yaki Kadafi , Hussein Fatal, EDI, Young Noble and Stormy. Other guest musicians include the rappers Young Buck , Chamillionaire , Snoop Dogg , Lil Scrappy , Ludacris and Gravy as well as the singer Anthony Hamilton .

Professional reviews
Reviews
source rating
laut.de
Rolling Stone
allmusic
RapReviews

Track list

# title Guest musician producer length
1 Untouchable (Swizz Beatz Remix) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Swizz Beatz 4:16
2 Pac's Life TI , Ashanti LT Hutton 3:37
3 Dumpin ' Hussein Fatal , Papoose, Carl Thomas Sha Money XL 4:28
4th Playa Cardz Right (Female) Keyshia Cole Orthodox, Ransum 4:33
5 Whatz Next A3, Jay Rock Salih Williams 4:18
6th Sleep Young Buck , Chamillionaire Sha Money XL 4:10
7th International Nipsey Hussle , Young Dre the Truth LT Hutton 4:03
8th Don't sleep Lil Scrappy , Nutso, Yaki Kadafi , Stormy EDI mean 3:36
9 Soon As I Get Home Yaki Kadafi QD3 3:40
10 Playa Cardz Right (Male) Ludacris , Keon Bryce Sha Money XL 4:54
11 Don't stop Big Syke , Yaki Kadafi, Hussein Fatal, EDI, Young Noble, Stormy LT Hutton 5:25
12 Pac's Life (Remix) Snoop Dogg , TI, Chris Starr LT Hutton 3:38
13 Untouchable Yaki Kadafi, Hussein Fatal, Gravy Sha Money XL 4:30
14 (*) Dear Mama (Remix) Anthony Hamilton Nitty 5:41

(*) Bonus song of the international version

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Pac's Life
  CH 62 December 3, 2006 (2 weeks)
  UK 90 12/02/2006 (1 week)
  US 9 12/09/2006 (15 weeks)
Singles
Pac's Life
  DE 31 01/26/2007 (5 weeks)
  UK 21st 01/27/2007 (7 weeks)
Playa Cardz Right (Female)
  US 63 11/29/2008 (13 weeks)

Pac's Life entered the US charts at number 9 and stayed in the top 200 for 15 weeks. In contrast, the album could not place in the German charts.

As singles , the songs were Untouchable , Pac's Life and Playa Cardz Right (Female) decoupled.

The album sold about 500,000 times in the United States, so it could no longer build on the commercial success of previous albums.

Individual evidence

  1. album cover
  2. Rating: laut.de
  3. Rating: Rolling Stone
  4. Rating: allmusic.com
  5. Rating: RapReviews
  6. Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  7. US: 0.5 million sales