All About U – 2Pac, Top Dogg, Nate Dogg, Hussein Fatal, Snoop Dogg, PDAWG

PDAWG – 2Pac, Top Dogg, Nate Dogg, Hussein Fatal, Snoop Dogg

All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac and the last to be released during his lifetime. Released on February 13, 1996, by Death Row Records and Interscope Records, All Eyez on Me features guest appearances from several artists including the Outlawz, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, George Clinton, E-40, Redman, Method Man, Nate Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, K-Ci & JoJo, Roger Troutman, among others. The album features productions by Shakur alongside a variety of producers, including DJ Quik, Johnny „J“, Dr. Dre, Rick Rock, Daz Dillinger, DJ Pooh, DeVante Swing, among others.

The album includes the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles „How Do U Want It“ and „California Love“. It featured four singles in all, the most of any of Shakur’s albums. Moreover, All Eyez on Me made history as the first ever double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption globally.

All Eyez on Me was the second album by 2Pac to chart at number one on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, selling 566,000 copies in the first week. Seven months later, 2Pac was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting. The album won the 1997 Soul Train award for Rap Album of the Year posthumously. Shakur also won the award for Favorite Rap Hip-Hop Artist at the 24th Annual American Music Awards. The album was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on July 23, 2014, eighteen years after Shakur’s death, with shipments of over 5 million copies (each disc in the double album counted as a separate unit for certification).

In 1998, Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight planned to launch many new rappers to come for the second generation of Death Row Records. Although he was incarcerated, he pushed rapper Top Dogg (also known as YGD) as his first new face making his television debut appearance in the video „All About U“ on the 2Pac „Greatest Hits“ album replacing Snoop Dogg. The video also featured the newly released 1998 tricked out convertible Volkswagen Beetle. Top Dogg had generated a buzz from a hidden track on the „Gang Related“ titled „Goin Back To Cali“ aimed toward Biggie Smalls & Puff Daddy. The video, „All About U,“ received heavy play and Suge followed in 1999 with Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000 album to introduce a brand new roster headed by Top Dogg, Tha Realest, and Soopafly, with Daz Dillinger as the veteran lead-producer.

This particular track titled „All Bout U Remix“ incorporates Top Dogg’s verse from the video along with some other elements which gives the song a distinct sound.

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