Happy Birthday Album (Feb-16): 30 years to 2Pac's "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..."
Happy 30 birthday to "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..." by 2Pac (Tupac Shakur). I discovered Rap only after I discovered Rap-Metal through Rage Against the Machine 's debut album which released a few months before Tupac's 2nd album. About the Album: The album features guest appearances from the group Live Squad, Wycked, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Treach, Apache, Poppi, Deadly Threat, R&B singer Dave Hollister and Digital Underground. Similar to his debut, "2Pacalypse Now", the album contains many tracks emphasizing 2Pac's political and social views. The album sold around 1.7M copies in the US alone About Tupac: 2Pac was born as Lesane Parish Crooks , June 16, 1971 in NYC, to parents who were both political activists and Black Panther Party members. The panthers started in Northern California in 1966. With the Afro-American Association, they organized in an emergent black nationalist tradition inspired by Malcolm X and others. In 1969 Hoover said the party was ...