Tupac Shakur’s estate is celebrating the 25th anniversary his third studio album, Me Against The World, by releasing an exclusive range merchandise. It’s been a quarter a century since dropped MATW, which he recorded and released in prison in 1995. The line includes items like vinyl copies the critically acclaimed project, as well as three different graphic T-shirt designs and a pullover hoodie, all with the album’s tracklist emblazoned on the back. The products range from $30-$96, the latter price applying to a bundle fer for an “exclusive and limited” tan-coloured 2LP the album along with the hoodie. Everything is available for pre-order on Pac’s online store, and is expected to ship next month.
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Me Against The World has been praised by fans and critics alike ever since it was released. for a first-degree ***ual assault charge. Tupac on to become the first artist at the time to record and release a #1 album while imprisoned. “Me Against the World was really to show people that this is an art to me,” Pac said in an interview during his time in prison. “That I do take it like that. And whatever mistakes I make, I make out ignorance, not out disrespect to music or the art. So Me Against the World was deep, reflective. It was like a blues record. It was down-home. It was all my fears, all the things I just couldn’t sleep about. Everybody thought that I was living so well and doing so good that I wanted to explain it. And it took a whole album to get it all out. It’s explaining my lifestyle, who I am, my upbringing and everything. It talks about the streets but talks about it in a different light. There’s a song on there dedicated to mothers, just a song I wrote just for my mother. And it digs deeper like that. I just wanted to do something for all mothers. I’m proud that song. It affected a lot people.”