Country: U.S.A.
Genre: Hip-Hop
Style: Gangsta Rap, Pop Rap
Label Number: 01241-41628-2
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© 1997 Amaru/Jive Records
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Shortly after 2Pac
died, there were rumors that hundreds of unreleased songs remained in
the vaults; a mere two months after his death, the first posthumous
record, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, appeared. Death Row released the record, and shortly afterward, 2Pac's mother, Afeni Shakur,
gained the rights to all of his unreleased recordings from both the
Interscope and Death Row labels. She founded the Amaru label and
released the double-disc R U Still Down? (Remember Me) in late 1997. Culled from 2Pac's
unreleased Interscope recordings between 1992 and 1994, including
several tracks that have had backing musical tracks "reconstructed," R U Still Down? doesn't have the aura of exploitation that haunts the Makaveli album, but it isn't much better, either. For the most part, Shakur
sounds good, spinning out rhymes that are alternately clever or
startling, but he eventually begins repeating himself and running out of
ideas. That's much better than the music itself, which is pretty much
standard-issue gangsta rap that never deviates from the course. There
are enough hidden gems to make it worthwhile for hardcore 2Pac
fans, but it doesn't necessarily bode well for the Amaru label's series
of unreleased recordings. If this mediocre mess is the top of the heap,
they'll truly be hurting for strong material once they reach the bottom
of the allegedly hundreds of unreleased 2Pac recordings.
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