![]() Shakur formed to release Tupac’s leftovers after winning the rights to his music in her lawsuit against Death Row. R U Still Down? is the maiden release for Amaru, the label Ms. Tupac’s career as a dead icon is just beginning, guided by this album’s co-executive producer, his mother, Afeni Shakur. R U Still Down? is the first collection of Tupac’s unreleased tracks, and if you think it’ll be the last, Jim Morrison has a hotel he’d like to sell you. ![]() Instead, they sound like business as usual. ![]() On the double album R U Still Down? (Remember Me), these fantasies stand at center stage, but they don’t sound particularly prophetic, unseemly or, God knows, ironic. Long before he was murdered in September 1996 at the age of 25, Tupac rapped obsessively about his death-trip fantasies. But then, death was always Tupac’s thing. Certainly the specter of death hovers over all these tracks, as the late hip-hop superstar brags about dying young in a blaze of glory and getting buried with his. The strangest thing about Tupac “2Pac” Shakur’s first official posthumous album is that it doesn’t sound all that different from his other albums.
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