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When ‘Pac got shot (for the second time), fans (like the 16 year old me), patiently waited for his return while tearing his discography apart for clues, grasping for unattainable straws of hope, worshipping at the desperate altar of denial. Denial was masked with intrigue, morbid curiosity supplanted logical thought, and no one wanted to admit Tupac was as dead as Kennedy. Owing to human nature’s incapability to resist anything shrouded in mystery, the 1996 death of Tupac Shakur set off a colossal wave of paranoia. In 2005, MTV.com ranked Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory at #9 on their greatest hip hop albums of all time list, and, in 2006, recognized it as a classic.Review Summary: Exit 2Pac, Enter Makaveli. To this day THE DON KILLUMINATI: THE 7 DAY THEORY is considered by many as one of 2Pac greatest works. It also was certified 4X Platinum on June 15, 1999. The album debuted at number one on both the pop album and R&B/Hip-Hop album charts, with 663,000 albums sold in its first week. Aside from “Toss It Up”, the album lacked the more up-tempo, party style tracks that he included in his previous releases. The album spawned 3 singles “Toss It Up”, “To Live and Die in L.A.” and “Hail Mary”, all of which were included on his Greatest Hits album released in 1998. For the most part, the beats on the album were somber an melancholy, which played as the perfect backdrop for Pac’s more insightful lyrics. If you analyze his lyrics, it almost seemed like he was looking for a escape from himself and his own reality. On the tracks “Blasphemy”, “White Mans World” and “Hold Ya Head”, he rapped about his own struggle of coming up in the black community, which was an underlying theme in much of his material throughout his career. It was obvious that Pac was still heated about the tension that accrued between him and his counterparts, but aside from the verbal lashing, he also provided some of his most introspective work off all-time. Next time grown folks talk, nigga close your mouthĭone seen too many real players fall to let these bitch niggas beat me” Mobb Deep wonder why nigga blowed them out

We shook Dre punk ass, now we out of the closet You living fantasies, nigga I reject your deposit Talkin bout he left the hospital took five like me “This little nigga named Nas thinks he live like me On the track “Against All Odds” Pac delivered: In the wake of the East Coast-West coast beef, Makaveli also took numerous shots at East Coast rappers including Nas, The Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy, Mobb Deep, and Jay-Z. You can sense 2Pac’s angst and urgency in his lyrics which were either based on the problems that he was facing within the media and the music industry in general, or his battle with his own demons. The theme of the album had a collectively darker tone than his previous releases. On top of being 2Pac’s first post-humous release, the album caught industry insiders off guard mainly because it came out only 8 months after Shakur’s iconic double-disc album All Eyez On Me. In reality, the title referred to the fact that the album was recorded and mixed in a 7 day span in August of 1996. People even speculated that the depiction of 2Pac’s crucifixion on the cover, and the title of the album “The 7 Day Theory” was a reference to 2Pac’s death itself, since he died on the 7th day after he was shot. There is even text with in the album sleeve that reads “Exit 2Pac, Enter Makaveli”. Particularly Shakur’s decision to to change his moniker prior to his first post-humous release. The coincidences are enough to raise the eyebrow of even the biggest skeptics of the theory. There was an immediate firestorm of controversy surrounding the album, even to the point that it caused people to speculate that 2Pac was still alive and that he staged his own death. It was released November 5, 1996, approximately 8 weeks after his untimely death on September 13th.

THE DON KILLUMINATI: THE 7 DAY THEORY is 2Pac’s 5th studio album and his first release under his alternate stage name Makaveli.