2Pac Friday
5 January 2024
This song shares the title with the album Still I Rise, which features the Outlawz and was released after 2Pac’s death. As we enter 2024, it makes this a perfect track to kickstart the new the new year and its first 2Pac Friday.
This is a very soulful and beautiful track with 2Pac delivering a very lengthy and solid verse that is almost a minute-and-a-half-long after an intro from Kastro that is slightly over half a minute.
This song has a quintessential 2Pac sound with frequent 2Pac producer, the late Johnny “J,” delivering another classic 2Pac track.
With Johnny “J,” the Outlawz, and so much 2Pac, this has all the markings of a legit 2Pac song, not a kind of Frankenstein track patched together long after his death. 2Pac feels very present in this song—even as we listen to it so many years after his death in 2024.
In 2024, 2Pac still rises.
Happy New Year everyone!
Happy 2Pac Friday!
May this be a good year for us all, starting with a good weekend for us all, starting with a good 2Pac Friday for us all.