2Pac Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... (25th Anniversary Edition) 2LP

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"Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. picks up where 2pacalypse left off. In search of his own voice, he continues to impersonate Cube when not biting Pete Rock, At the end of the day, Pac was arguably a better actor than an MC, as his appearances in Fresh, John Singleton's Poetic Justice (with Janet Jackson), and Gridlocked prove. What Pac lacked in lyrical invention and wit he made up for in passion, urgency, and charisma. The difference between him and a lyric lover's MC like Ice Cube, Snoop, Chuck D., or Biggie is that the truly great MCs have so much music in their voice, they can make a hook out of how they pronounce one word. Hell, Biggie could do your phone number and make it sound like butter. Pac has a big stage voice, but it's not so jazzy. He has to be saying something of deep meaning, to himself at least, to move those of us who aren't cult members. Thankfully, Strictly finds him with a lot on his mind. He comes with a sense of drive and eruptive, dissident, dissonant fervor worthy of Fear of a Black Planet and AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted. In many ways, it's his best constructed and most coherent album, and it's also his most militantly political. As with 2Pacalypse, when Strictly breaks for sensitivity, it's all about the sistas in the struggle: 'Keep Ya Head Up' may be the most universally embraced song he ever wrote; it manages to pay tribute to black women without pandering, patronizing, or getting all soporific. By the same token, 'I Get Around' is his catchiest and bounciest sex song. The presence of Pac's former employer Shock G, from Digital Underground, certainly doesn't hurt the cause in that regard." -G.T., The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), pg. 830, 5/5 stars