R U Still Down? (Remember Me)

R U Still Down? (Remember Me) Artist: 2 Pac
Label: Jive
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio Cassette


UPC: 012414162847
EAN: 0012414162847
ASIN: B00000055F


Release Date: 1997-11-25

R U Still Down? (Remember Me)


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Tracks:

  1. Redemption
  2. Open Fire
  3. R U Still Down? (Remember Me)
  4. Hellrazor
  5. Thug Style
  6. Where Do We Go From Here (Interlude)
  7. I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto
  8. Nothing to Lose
  9. I'm Gettin Money
  10. Lie to Kick It
  11. Fuck All Y'all
  12. Let Them Thangs Go
  13. Definition of a Thug Nigga

Tracks:

  1. Ready 4 Whatever
  2. When I Get Free
  3. Hold on Be Strong
  4. I'm Losin' It
  5. Fake Ass Bitches
  6. Do for Love
  7. Enemies With Me
  8. Nothin but Love
  9. 16 on Death Row
  10. I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto [Hip-Hop Version]
  11. When I Get Free II
  12. Black Starry Night (Interlude)
  13. Only Fear of Death

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26 cuts of "gangsta rap" that only increase in doom when you realize the guy talking it didn't live to laugh about it. Perhaps he now knows the answer to his question, "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto," which shows up here twice. Shakur, like most hard rappers, liked to sound tough, kicking it with song titles unprintable in a family newspaper. But, underneath the braggadocio, there was fear. "Only Fear of Death," "Nothing to Lose," and "I'm Losin' It" tell a far different story than "Fake Ass Bitches." His artistry could never, however, catch up to the sad fate of his life. <I>--Rob O'Connor</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The Best Posthumous Pac Album....................2007-04-19

Top Joints:
R U Still Down? (Remember Me)
Hellrazor
Thug Style
I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto
Nothing To Lose
I'm Gettin Money
Lie To Kick It
F**k All Y'All
Definition Of A Thug N**ga
When I Get Free
Do For Love
Nothin But Love

4 out of 5 stars What would Jezus do?.......2007-02-03

If Jezus was riding alongside 2Pac would he have shot back at the snipers who took down hip/hop's only real martyr? Ok, Biggie's a martyr too, and Jezus would not have taken Biggie out either. The hits on these two men were not by true hip/hop fans. But Jezus would have picked this CD up if he was shopping at Circuit City when it came out, without having listened to it just because 2Pac was praying on the cover, and we all know who he was praying to. 2Pac made a lot more sense to ghetto youth than some white guy from 2000 years ago, plain and simple, so Jezus owes him respect!

5 out of 5 stars Real Life.......2007-01-24

This is Tupac's third best album. #1 All eyez on me, #2 Until the End of Time. Put this cd in the player and listen to it from start to finish. If you dont get goosepimples, check your pulse! This cd got me through many hard times growin up, its that real.

5 out of 5 stars The Last Great Pac Album.......2006-09-07

RU Still Down first posthumus 2pac album is my favorite one created after he died. Pacs vocals are not sped up and the production sounds like a 2pac album. I could list this whole album as the best songs but the standouts to me are RU Still Down, Hellrazor, Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto hip hop version, Open Fire, When I Get Free 1 and 2, Do For Love, F=== All Yall, well just forget it. Every song on here is a standout in my eyes. Pac's albums would go downhill from here.

5 out of 5 stars Hip Hop.......2006-07-09

I'm surprised how this album has been accepted. Lets not get carried away with "his legacy" and his tragic death and all the controversy surrounding 2Pac. Everybody already knows about all that.

R U Still Down is my favorite album by 2Pac. Makaveli and All Eyez are both 5 stars to me, but R U Still Down is more raw. Especially as far as the production is concerned. A lot of people are apparently disappointed by the production on this album. I find it to have a sense of being more genuine, and more fitting than the other posthumous releases. This is probably since Pac actually had some input on creating these tracks. Overall, the sound of the album (and individual tracks) is more whole. Listening to R U Still Down helps to show how much of a project Makaveli and All Eyez On Me were. Those two albums were obviously much more orchestrated and calculated, and designed to provoke in every way. They were much more surgical and precise.

R U Still Down, however, is just straight hip-hop. There's scratching on here! There's no name dropping, or disses aimed at specific people. Just general expression of different emotions. Instead of a song about Tipper Gore or Bad Boy (for example) specificly, you get the more general (and undated) song about the struggles in general with government oppression or social commentary or anger or whatever. This is technically easier for a listener to relate to, since hardly any of us actually know Tipper Gore or Puffy, etc.....but somehow the audience doesn't want that. wtf?

"Thug Style" is probably the single song by Pac to most adhere to the street chronicling and nostalgic waxing scenarios in hip-hop. And at the same time, he's replying directly to everybody giving this album bad reviews: 'you don't know my style.'
Just because All Eyez sounded one way, or Makaveli sounded one way, or Strictly 4 My sounded one way....don't get it twisted. Its art. You gotta be open. Don't expect artists to be how you want them to be. You cannot expect anything from art, all that does is turn it into a product instead of art.

The lyrics on this album are of things more accesible to the common listener. The production is reminiscent of earlier 2Pac and more of a east-coast style of the early 90's (pre-Death Row). There's more lyrical acrobatics than usual (Let Them Thangs Go), and more of the same techincal (Lie to Kick It) and simple formats (F*** All Y'All) we're used to from 2Pac.

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