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Still I Rise | 
 enlarge | Artist: 2pac & Outlawz
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  257 reviews
Sales Rank: 27132
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 490413
UPC: 606949041328
EAN: 0606949041328
ASIN: B00003GPPA
Release Date: December 21, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Letter to the President | | • | Still I Rise | | • | Secretz of War | | • | Baby Don't Cry (Keep Ya Head up II) | | • | As the World Turns | | • | Black Jesuz | | • | Homeboyz | | • | Hell 4 a Hustler | | • | High Speed | | • | The Good Die Young | | • | Killuminati | | • | Teardrops and Closed Caskets | | • | Tattoo Tears | | • | U Can Be Touched | | • | Y'all Don't Know Us - 2Pac, Quim |
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Still I Rise, the third posthumous release of "new" material by Tupac Shakur, is not surprisingly a mixed bag. Recorded in 1996 with the Outlawz, the disc at its best does showcase the power of 'Pac. More politically acute (and complexly anti-Clinton) than most gangsta rap even attempts to be, "Letter to the President" and "The Good Die Young" find the star turning in some of his most focused lyrics and performances. Elsewhere, he often cedes the mic to other voices; the collaborations that result--"Secretz of War," "Tattoo Tears," the title cut--are the equivalent of campfire songs for the latter-day black cowboy. Dominated by phat beats and familiar imagery, they entertain but hardly illuminate. --Rickey Wright
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 And still they rose March 9, 2008
I remember some of these songs from the unreleased One Nation album. This posthumous album was one of the few that I would give a pass because they didnt do such a bad job on it. My gripe with this album is Fatal Hussein is missing on some of these tracks and he was originally on them. Baby Dont Cry(Keep Your Head Up II), Letter To The President, Hell 4 A Hustler, Teardrops And Closed Caskets feat Nate Dogg are vintage 2pac and Outlawz tracks. Tatoo Tears, High Speed and as The World Turns are slammin highlights also. Still I Rise is cool but I liked the original version with Fatal better. Homeboyz is tight all around and the The Outlawz do well on tracks by themselves. U Can Be Touched and Y'all Dont Know Us are proof of that. There are two songs I dont like. Killuminati sounds a little too pop to be a 2pac record and Secretz Of War is extremely pale in comparison to the original. Bottom Line: Still I Rise is one of the better posthumous Pac releases and is one of the highlight albums of 1999. Even though they changed the beat around for a lot these songs that I have heard before, they changes did not hurt the songs in any way so I would still recommend it. Standouts: LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT, BABY DONT CRY, AS THE WORLD TURNS, HOMEBOYZ, HELL 4 A HUSTLER, THE GOOD DIE YOUNG, TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS, TATOO TEARS and YOU CAN BE TOUCHED.
 OFFICAL HIP-HOP AMAZON REVIEWER December 15, 2006
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Well iv read through a few reviews now, some good, some totaly wierd and none understanding, some dont know what they'v even on about but i read the review by G FUNKINN which i think is 3rd down. im a huge tupac fan and will defend his reputation if anyone dare try portray him as something other then a true hip-hop legend.
i was realy looking forward to writing this review about this great album as it's easly one of my best if not my best, but i was so shocked to see some write such a detailed review on this album (someone love's this album as much as me) G FUNKINN you'v done a brilliant job on reviewing this album and made me want to buy another copy incase anything happened to the one iv got.. .. ..
i'd just like to add what the story line of the best song on the album "tear drops and closed caskets"
the song is so well writen when listening to it your mind fallows the song and make you feel like your reading a book due to the way the songs writen, after its finished it makes you feel like after you have just watched a realy good film and you get that feeling inside that make you feel like what you'v just watch is actualy one of your own memories ( not mean that you have had happen to you what the songs lyrics are about but more that it's such a graphic song) the rhyming of the word is nearly unbelievable. you do tend to hear the same thing been rhymed alot in songs ie: im a G from CPT and other things that ryhme with G or E, but not in this song
the song start's by intruducing the 3 mean characters which are two friends called little moe and little trigga and a woman called little precious. it tells you how prcious is a getto girl and wont even bother with you unless you have a nice car and money, litle trigga's heart broken by the fact he's got no money and he want precious to be with him. so he meets up with his best friend little moe and plot to kill the two neibourgh hood deals and steal there drugs and money. they complete there mission and little trigga is seen as a big time man of the getto.
in the second vurse it goes on to tell you how precious and trigga are together and have a baby on the way but little known to trigga but his best friend lil moe has been seeing precious and it would apear that them two are togeher, after people see both precious and moe together start talking and trigga finds out.
3rd vurse goes on to say that now moe and trig are now enemys and precious is to doped up on drugs not to notice, the song ends with the lyrics. " small time dealing to selling keys, i cant believe the sh** there telling me, they opened fire 3 bodys dropped so call the cops, precious little moe and trig, tear drops and closed caskets".
the way the stories is told is as if tupac and the outlaws are rapping to each other about the stories as if it happened and they had heard about it.
In the other views people have said that the outlawz have spoiled this album but i strongly disacree with these comment.
the outlawz when i first heard this album i felt the same way and thought the outlawz maded this album not as good as it could of been but after a few years of owning the album you start too realise what the outlawz are saying, too the commen listener poeple do tend to get hook up in the beat and with tupac been on the album alot of people only start properly listening when pac starts speaking.
after owning the album for some time i started to notice the outlawz and although there lyrics can be spitted out in a fast and sometimes non-understandible style people dont actualy hear the words, if you do buy this album please dont just listen to pacs word but also listen to the outlawz because true listeners with a good ear for proper hiphop will notice the talent and lyricial skill of the outlawz and infact in a few song i find that they are very much on the same level as pac.
what more can i say. if you dont buy the album please down load the song tear dropz and close caskets
i actualy rate this 5 stars im not sure why it's only put a 1 star rating? ? ?
 The Best Outlaw's Album Ever December 9, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
R.I.P Pac - R.I.P Yak - Outlawz 4 Life
if ive lost this album...
im gonna buy again man..even if it gonna cost me 50 $...
thats right..
Best Of The Best..
Sheer Brilliance On Teardrops! October 7, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My first Pac review. "Still I Rise" is one of those posthumous Pac albums that still keeps with the west coast sound of the mid-90s. I'm more into g funk than "pure" gangsta rap so I'll write the review from this perspective. He was larger than life so I'll do my best...
Pac was no g funk artist like Quik, Warren or Tha Dogg Pound, but somehow, he has some of the best and most memorable songs out there. Pac's funk can be divided into two types; The "syrupy" g-funk of "Keep Ya Head Up" and "Dear Mama" or the hard funk of "Skandalouz" and "All About U." I prefer the former. And this is what we find here in "Still I Rise." The conscious stuff. The profound deep kind. And Pac brings it like only he can. Although g-funk is thought of as minimalistic with throwaway lyrics, 2 Pac proves that he can do pretty much anything he wants. The song sports 2 classics 4 near classics and great songs throughout.
The first classic is "The Good Die Young" featuring the female Nate, Val Young. The title already reveals the subject matter. However, from the very first lines, Pac steps out of South Central, out of Harlem and out of Oakland. He's talking about things that transcend his experience. That transcend race and class. And every part of his story is backed by a brilliant beat. Guitars, bass, all organic sounding. Outlawz come big with lyrics as insightful as 2 Pac's. Val Young soothes the subject matter every time the hook comes rolling along. The song is sad, but with the beat, Val Young's beautiful voice and Pac's tribute, hope is still possible: "I told you we'd make it to the sunshine one day/You just got there a little quicker/But like my homeboys Thugs say/I'll catch ya at the crossroads." The song is dedicated to the Columbine victims.
How do I introduce the next one? It's Pac's best song. It's one of the g-funk era's best products. It's one of Nate's best hooks. It's a hip-hop classic by any standards. "Teardrops and Closed Caskets" is in a world of its own from the very first sound--drums; sounds like the beginning of an 80s rock song (a bang on the drum, a pause, another bang). Then some strange synths come in. Then Pac spits the best opening verse I've heard in my life, with Outlawz by his side. So fluid. This is also some of the most professional sounding MUSIC I've heard in my life, doesn't matter if we're talking rap, rock, pop or R&B. QDIII, the producer, should be held in the same regard as Quincy Jones for producing this song. But there's more. There's Nate sounding even better than he did on Regulate, another one of those special songs. Val Young helps out too, from the 2nd replayed hook on. She too, at the top of her game. I don't know how they recorded this thing but everyone just sounds so much more real. And then there's the subject matter. Again bleak. Again sad. Brilliant line in:" s**t, it's like I done ran out of suits homey/I done ran out of tears" But again, the entire production is hopeful--from the mellow beat to the voices of our two crooners. However, there's a difference between a hope--the peaceful and beautiful sounds created--and a reality--expressed in the violent, bleak lyrics. Unlike 99.9% of any music, you really get the feeling that, rather than being a passive listener, you're involved in something EPIC. I will listen to this one until I die, marching along with Pac each and every time.
The near classics include "Letter to The President," "Still I Rise," "As the World Turns" and the follow-up to "Keep Ya Head Up," "Baby Don't Cry." The lyrics are arguably just as good, especially on "Letter to The President," but the production is not as ground-breaking. "Killuminati" is also worth listening to. The least substantive song, it's straight g-funk.
All in all this album is one of Pac's best efforts. More focused and positive than some of his more known work--"All Eyez on Me" comes to mind--like millions of his fans, we only wish he lived longer to teach, confound and astound. However, his work will live on for generations. 5/5
Would've been 5 stars if it wasn't for the Outlaws January 11, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Look, it's not that I don't like The Outlaws,in fact I have much respect for them for bein loyal and true to Pac , but to be quite honest,lyricly, they might be the worst group of rappers Iv'e ever heard in my life.The fact that this album went Double Platinum tells you everything you need to know about 2Pac's popularity more then anything else. Okay Hussein Fatal(who for some reason isn't even on the album) was cool and Kadafi(R.I.P.) was okay, but the rest of them,at best, were a little below average.I can't tell you how many Pac songs they've brought down because of their obvious lack of lyrical talent.
With that being said, I really do think that this was a good album. The stand out tracks for me are "Mr.President", "Secrets Of War"(Pac comes off nice on this one.He also has an unreleased verse on this song), "Homeboys", "The Good Die Young", "killuminati", "Hell For A Hustler","Baby Don't Cry" and "Tattoo Tears". My favarite song on this album has to be "Hell For A Hustler". Pac's rage and emotion on this song is unbelieveble.
"Whatching over me threw every murder scene"
"Guess you can call me anti-social,n****z shaken like they caught the holy ghost when I approach you".
Bottom line,if your a fan of 2Pac then you should probably snatch this album up because Pac's lyrics on this album alone is worth the price even though he's only rapping on 1-2 verses per song.
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