![]() ![]() To them, he obviously faked his own death to avoid his enemies as well as more jail-time, and his very alias “Makaveli” was proof. While the truth is that Shakur was a prodigiously prolific writer with a penchant for marathon recording sessions in the studio, people seemed hard- pressed to accept that he had a whole album worth of material ready to go before he died. What followed was a firestorm of controversies related to the album the best known of these being the theories that Tupac Shakur never really died. The always unconventional Death Row Records shared no such sentiments. Even those who expected a disc of his unreleased songs or a “Greatest Hits” retrospective would have waited until ’97 when a “respectable” amount of time had gone by since he passed. Coming only eight weeks after the rapper was shot and in the same year as his massive “All Eyez On Me” double album, the new album and alias caught industry insiders by surprise. Tupac Shakur’s “Makaveli” CD was the first in a long series of posthumous recordings (bootleg and otherwise) released after his death in September of 1996.
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