The album is significantly more political than the rapper's subsequent releases, showing an intelligent, talented, and angry young man (he was only 20 when it came out) who wanted desperately to express and reveal the problems in the urban black community, from racism to police brutality to the seemingly near impossibility of escaping from the ghetto. The closest thing to it, and what ended up being the best-known track from 2Pacalypse Now, is "Brenda's Got a Baby," which discusses teenage pregnancy in true Pac fashion, sympathetically explaining a situation without condoning it, but it doesn't even have a hook, and most of the other pieces follow suit, more poetry than song. Part of its initial problem, what held it back from extensive radio play, is that there's not an obvious single.
08 2Pac - Crooked Ass Nigga 09 2Pac - If My Homie Calls 10 2Pac - Brenda's Got A Baby 11 2Pac - Tha' Lunatic 12 2Pac - Rebel Of The Underground 13 2Pac - Part Time Mutha When 2Pac's full-length debut, 2Pacalypse Now, came out in 1991, it didn't have the same immediate impact, didn't instantly throw him into the upper echelons of rap's elite, as Nas', Jay-Z's, or even his biggest rival, Notorious B.I.G.'s did, but the album certainly set him up for his illustrious and sadly short-lived career. 01 2Pac - Young Black Male 02 2Pac - Trapped 03 2Pac - Soulja's Story 04 2Pac - I Don't Give A Fuck 05 2Pac - Violent 06 2Pac - Words Of Wisdom 07 2Pac - Something Wicked.
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