R U Still Down? [Remember Me]

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R U Still Down? [Remember Me] is 2Pac’s sixth studio album and second posthumous release, issued as a double album on November 25, 1997 through Amaru Entertainment and Interscope. It is the first project released under Afeni Shakur’s Amaru imprint after she won legal control of Pac’s unreleased material from Death Row, and the first posthumous album assembled entirely without 2Pac’s direct creative input. The 26 tracks—running about 1 hour 42 minutes—consist almost entirely of previously unreleased songs recorded between 1992 and 1994, spanning the eras of Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z…, Thug Life: Volume 1, and Me Against the World. Commercially, the album was a major success: it sold 549,000 copies in its first week, topped the US R&B chart for three weeks, and spawned two hit singles, “Do for Love” and “I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto,” with “Do for Love” going Gold.Because the material predates the height of the East Coast–West Coast feud and Pac’s Death Row era, R U Still Down? offers an extended look at his pre‑1995 mindset: politically aware, steeped in street reality, and already consumed by thoughts of mortality. Songs like “Open Fire,” “Thug Style,” “Only Fear of Death,” “Hellrazor,” and “Fuck All Y’all” burn with paranoia, anger, and fatalism, showing a young Pac caught up in street wars and emotional pain but still working within a more traditional boom‑bap and early G‑funk sound. At the same time, tracks such as “Do for Love”—a Bobby Caldwell “What You Won’t Do for Love” interpolation that explores love, loyalty, heartbreak, and vulnerability—and “I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto” showcase his capacity for introspection and spiritual questioning. Show more