Shakur also won the award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the 24th Annual American Music Awards. The album won the 1997 Soul Train award for Rap Album of the Year posthumously. All Eyez on Me received instant critical acclaim, and it has been ranked by many critics as one of the greatest hip hop albums, as well as one of the greatest albums of all time. Seven months later, 2Pac was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting. Moreover, All Eyez on Me made history as the first ever double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption globally.Īll 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. It featured four singles in all, the most of any of Shakur's albums. The album includes the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles " How Do U Want It" and " California Love". Dre, Rick Rock, Daz Dillinger, DJ Pooh, DeVante Swing, among others. The album features productions by Shakur alongside a variety of producers, including DJ Quik, Johnny "J", Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, George Clinton, E-40, Redman, Method Man, Nate Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, K-Ci & JoJo, Roger Troutman, among others. 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.
Only God can judge me Only God can judge me, only God Only God can judge me Only God can judge me Only God can judge me, only God Only God can judge me now Only God can judge me, only God Only God can judge me Only God can judge me, only God Only God can judge me I hear the doctor standin' over me, screamin' I can make it Got a body full of bullet holes, layin' here naked Still I can't breathe, something's evil in my IV ‘Cause everytime I breathe I think they killin' me I'm havin' nightmares, homicidal fantasies I wake up strangled, entangled in my bed sheets I call the nurse ‘cause it hurts to reminisce How did it come to this? I wish they didn't miss Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here ‘Cause even thugs cry, but do the Lord care? Try to remember but it hurts I'm walkin' through the cemetery, talkin' to the dirt I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward There's a ghetto up in Heaven and it's ours "Black Power!" is what we scream As we dream in a paranoid state And our fate is a lifetime of hate Dear Mama, can you save me? And fuck peace ‘Cause the streets got our babies, we gotta eat No more hesitation, each and every black male's trapped And they wonder why we suicidal running 'round strapped Mr.All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album by American rapper 2Pac and the last to be released during his lifetime. Only God can judge me (that right?) Only God can judge me now Nobody else (nobody else) All you other motherfuckers get out my business (really) Only God can judge me now Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies, just a bunch of dirty rats Will I succeed? Paranoid from the weed And hocus pocus, try to focus, but I can't see And in my mind I'm a blind man doin' time Look to my future, ‘cause my past is all behind me Is it a crime to fight for what is mine? Everybody's dyin', tell me what's the use of tryin' I've been trapped since birth, cautious ‘cause I'm cursed And fantasies of my family in a hearse And they say it's the White man I should fear But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here I can't lie, ain't no love for the other side Jealousy inside, make 'em wish I died Oh my Lord, tell me what I'm livin' for Everybody's droppin', got me knockin' on Heaven's door And all my memories of seein' brothers bleed And everybody grieves, but still nobody sees Recollect your thoughts, don't get caught up in the mix ‘Cause the media is full of dirty tricks