{"id":55086,"date":"2015-03-17T14:33:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siccness.net\/?p=55086"},"modified":"2015-03-17T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T14:33:47","slug":"tupac-shakurs-landmark-release-me-against-the-world-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/tupac-shakurs-landmark-release-me-against-the-world-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"Tupac Shakur’s Landmark Release ‘Me Against The World’ Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES<\/span>, March 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Me Against The World<\/b><\/a> is considered one of the most influential rap albums of all-time and serves as an artistic milestone in Tupac Shakur’s<\/a> career. It was his most introspective and emotionally deep release to date, giving a raw and honest insight into one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all-time.<\/p>\n

March 14th<\/span>, 2015\u00a0marks the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of Tupac Shakur’s<\/a> critically acclaimed, GRAMMY\u00ae nominated, double-platinum release\u00a0Me Against The World<\/b><\/a>. Originally released in 1995, this landmark album debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 <\/i>and Billboard’s R&B Albums<\/i> charts and was Shakur’s<\/a> first album to go to No. 1 on both charts where it stayed for four weeks straight.<\/p>\n

Me Against The World<\/b><\/a> features the GRAMMY\u00ae nominated single “Dear Mama,” a song paying tribute to his mom, Afeni Shakur<\/span>, that reached No. 1 on the Hot Rap Singles<\/i> and Hot Dance Music\/Maxi-Singles Sales<\/i> charts concurrently, and “So Many Tears,” which hit No. 6 on the Hot Rap Singles<\/i> chart and Top 50 on The Billboard Hot 100<\/i>. Other classics include the single “Temptations,” which hit No. 13 on the Hot Rap Singles<\/i> chart, “Lord Knows,” “Death Around the Corner” and “Outlaw.”<\/p>\n

Tupac<\/a> Shakur leaves a legacy of honesty and passion. With sales of over 75 million albums worldwide, his unapologetic lyrics are as relevant today as they were 20 years ago. Tupac’s music has earned attention and respect through a poetic style that allowed his message of hope to come through as he diagnosed issues our society struggles with to this day. Considered by many to be one of the biggest influences on modern hip-hop, Tupac’s thought provoking lyrics continue to be a catalyst for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES, March 2015 \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Me Against The World is considered one of the most influential rap albums of all-time and serves as an artistic milestone in Tupac Shakur’s career. It was his most introspective and emotionally deep release to date, giving a raw and honest insight into one of the greatest hip-hop artists of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[668,21596],"class_list":["post-55086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2pac","tag-me-against-the-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}