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Until the End of Time (Tupac Shakur

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Until the End of Time is the third


posthumous studio album released from the
late rapper Tupac Shakur. This album
consists of a collection of unreleased material
and remix end songs from Tupac's "Makaveli"
period while signed to Death Row Records.
This album was the second solo album
released without Shakur's creative input.
Until the End of Time was very highly
anticipated and ended up being the best
selling hip hop album in 2001.[1]
The single "Until the End of Time" features
Richard Page and contains a sample from the
song "Broken Wings", a 1985 song by Mr.
Mister (from which Page is lead singer). The
video for this song featured a compilation of
unreleased footage of Tupac Shakur. Suge
Knight and Afeni Shakur were the executive
producers of this album, with ten of the songs
being produced by longtime Tupac producer
and friend Johnny "J". Most of the tracks were
remixed from their original master tape
versions and were censored of any
references to Death Row Records or its artists
(for example, the track "This Ain't Livin" has
a shout out to Snoop Dogg, but due to him
being a Death Row artist, it was censored to
prevent Amaru's association with the label,
although this was a joint release between the
two labels). Songs like "Fuckin' with the
Wrong Nigga", "Ballad of a Dead Soulja",
"Good Life", "LastOnesLeft", "Runnin' On E"
are the only tracks known to have been kept
true to the original mixes, albeit "Ballad of a
Dead Soulja" is missing a couple of
instruments to keep from registering the
original C. Mayfield sample. The only tracks
that weren't censored of Death Row were "All
Out", "U Don't Have 2 Worry" and both
remixes of "Until The End Of Time".

Until the End of Time

Studio album by 2Pac


Released March 27, 2001
Recorded 1995-1996
(2Pac's vocals)

2000-2001
(Production, guest vocals, and mixing)

Genre

West coast hip hop, gangsta rap,


G-funk

Length

124:05

Label

Amaru, Death Row, Interscope

Producer Johnny "J", QDIII, L.T. Hutton


2Pac chronology
The Rose That Until the End Better Dayz
Grew from
of Time
(2002)
Concrete
(2001)
(2000)
Singles from Until the End of Time
1. "Until the End of Time"
Released: February 18, 2001
2. "Letter 2 My Unborn"
Released: June 5, 2001

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Rating
(51/100) link (http://www.metacritic.com/music/until-the-end-of-time/2pac)

Review scores
Rating
link (http://www.allmusic.com/album/r523616)
(mixed) link (http://www.avclub.com/articles/2pac-until-the-end-of-time,18277/)
B link (http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,280883,00.html)
link (http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/album-reviews/id.38/title.2pac-until-the-end-of-time)
(6/10) link (http://www.nme.com/reviews/2pac/4860)
(8.0/10) link (http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2001_03_untilthe.html)
link (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/until-the-end-of-time-20010416)

(49/100) link
ve.org/web/20010405104827/http://wallofsound.go.com/reviews/stories/tupacshakur_untiltheendoftimeIndex.html)
at the Wayback Machine (archived April 5, 2001)

Contents
1 Commercial success
2 Accolades
3 Track listing
3.1 Disc One
3.2 Disc Two
4 Album chart positions
5 Samples
6 Samples Later Used
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Commercial success
Until the End of Time debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first week sales
of 427,000 copies.[2] It has sold 2,220,589 copies in the United States as of 2011.[3] On
June 10, 2014 it was certified 4x platinum by RIAA.[4] On 22 June 2001 it was certified

Sliver (60,000) by BPI.[5] On May 24, 2001 it was certified 2x platinum (200,000 units) in
Canada.[6]

Accolades
BET put it number 3 on their list of 'The 25 Best Posthumous Albums of All Time'.[7]

Track listing
Disc One
No. Title
1. "Ballad of a Dead Soulja"
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

9.
10.
11.

Producer(s)
Length
Remix by Cold 187um
4:15
Original by Johnny "J"
"Fuck Friendz" (featuring Tiffany Villarreal) QDIII
5:19
"Lil' Homies"
Johnny "J"
3:43
"Let Em Have It" (featuring SKG & Honey)
L.T. Hutton
4:53
"Good Life" (featuring Big Syke & E.D.I.)
Mike Mosley
4:17
"Letter 2 My Unborn" (featuring Anthem & Remix by Trackmasters
3:55
Tena Jones)
Original by Johnny "J"
"Breathin'" (featuring Outlawz)
Johnny "J"
4:04
"Happy Home" (featuring Yusef Sharid,
Remix by JIM GITTUM, Daren
3:56
Barbara Wilson & Tracy Hardin)
Vegas & Crooked I Original by
Johnny "J"
"All Out" (featuring Outlawz)
Big Simon Says
5:32
"Fuckin' wit' the Wrong Nigga"
Hurt-M-Badd
3:37
"Thug N U Thug N Me" (Remix) (featuring K- Johnny "J"
4:11
Ci & JoJo)

12. "Everything They Owe" (featuring Timothy) Johnny "J"


13. "Until the End of Time" (featuring R.L.
Remix by Trackmasters
Huggar of Next, back vocals by Anthem)
Original by Johnny "J"
14. "M.O.B." (featuring Outlawz & Thug Life)
Remix by Ant Banks Original
by Kurt Couthan
15. "World Wide Mob Figgaz" (featuring
Johnny "J"

3:07
4:26
5:01
4:37

Outlawz & Ta'he)

Disc Two
No. Title
1. "Big Syke Interlude" (featuring Big Syke)
2. "My Closest Roaddogz" (featuring Shiro &
Timothy)

Producer(s)
Cold 187um
Johnny "J"

Length
1:45
4:04

3. "Niggaz Nature" (Remix) (featuring Lil' Mo)


QDIII
4. "When Thugz Cry" (featuring Nanci Fletcher) Johnny "J"

5:04
4:22

5. "U Don't Have 2 Worry" (featuring Outlawz) QDIII

5:07

6. "This Ain't Livin'" (featuring Vanessa)

Johnny "J"

3:41

7. "Why U Turn on Me"

Remix by JIM GITTUM,


Darren Vegas & Crooked I
Original by 2Pac
Johnny "J"

3:32

8. "LastOnesLeft" (featuring Napoleon (rapper)

3:59

and Kastro)

9. "Thug N U Thug N Me" (featuring K-Ci & JoJo) Johnny "J"


10. "Words 2 My First Born" (featuring Above the DJ Quik

4:29
4:07

Law)

11. "Let Em Have It" (Remix) (featuring Lisa "Left L.T. Hutton

4:25

Eye" Lopes)

12. "Runnin' on E" (featuring Outlawz)


13. "When I Get Free" (featuring J. Valentine)

14. "Until the End of Time (Remix)" (featuring


Richard Page, back vocals by R.L. Huggar &

2Pac
Remix by Cold 187um, SR.
Shakur Original by Johnny
"J"
Johnny "J" & Franky "Nitty"
Pimentel

5:37
4:30

4:27

Anthem)

Unused Tracks
Komradz (Johnny J Remix), featuring The Outlawz - unused original from "All Eyez
On Me".
Watch Ya' Mouth (QDIII Remix) - unused original from "The Don Killumiinati: The
7Day Theory".
Fade Me (Johnny J Remix) - unused original of, All Eyez On Me"
Until The End Of Time (Johnny J Remix) featuring Jon B
Still Ballin' (Johnny J Remix) featuring Napoleon & Young Noble - Later remixed
again in Better Dayz album (2002)
Everything They Owe (On-Beat Johnny J Remake)
Letter To My Unborn Child (Johnny J Remix) - unused original from, All Eyez On
Me"
Thug N Me Thug N U (Johnny J Remix)
World Wide Mob Figgaz (Additional Chorus) featuring The Outlawz
Ballad Of The Dead Soulja (Johnny J Remix)
Ballad Of The Dead Soulja (Alternative Remix) featuring 6 Feet Deep

Album chart positions

Chart (2001)

Peak positions

Australian Charts

#37[8]

Austrian Charts

#63[9]

Belgium Charts (Flanders)

#6[10]

Billboard 200

#1[11]

Canadian Charts

#2[11]

Deutsch Charts

#23[12]

Dutch Charts

#10[13]

French Charts

#38[14]
#25[15][16]

Irish Charts
New Zealand Charts

#24[17]

Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums

#1[11]

Switzerland Chart

#34[18]
#31 / #33[19][20]

UK Chart

Samples
"Ballad of a Dead Soulja"
"Little Child Running Wild" by Curtis Mayfield
"Letter 2 My Unborn"
"Liberian Girl" by Michael Jackson[21]
"Until the End of Time"
"Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister
"When Thugz Cry"
"Fragile" by Sting

Samples Later Used


"Fuck Friendz"
"Ether" by Nas from the album Stillmatic
Niggaz Nature
What's Luv?* by Fat Joe from the album Jealous Ones Still Envy
Precededby
Hot Shot by Shaggy

Billboard 200 number-one album


Succeededby
April 14, 2001 - April 20, 2001
Now 6 by Various artists

See also
List of number-one albums of 2001 (U.S.)
List of number-one R&B albums of 2001 (U.S.)
List of best-selling hip hop albums in the United States

References
1. "Recording Industry Association of America" (http://www.riaa.com/newsitem.php?
news_year_filter=&resultpage=74&id=70FD6EC4-E18F-D8CC-F154-C5B6643FA225). RIAA.
Retrieved 2011-09-19.
2. Anders Wright (April 4, 2001). "Chart Watch: Tupac on Track"
(http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=107238&page=1). ABC News.
3. "Tupac Month: 2Pacs Discography" (http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2011/09/tupac-month2pacs-discography/#2). Retrieved May 27, 2013.
4. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH
5. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx
6. http://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/#!/gp_search=2%20pac
7. http://www.bet.com/music/photos/2012/06/the-25-best-posthumous-albums.html#!061412music-25-best-posthumous-albums-tupac-until-the-end-of-time
8. Steffen Hung. "2 Pac - Until The End Of Time" (http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?
interpret=2+Pac&titel=Until+The+End+Of+Time&cat=a). australian-charts.com. Retrieved
2011-09-19.
9. Steffen Hung. "2 Pac - Until The End Of Time" (http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?
interpret=2+Pac&titel=Until+The+End+Of+Time&cat=a). austriancharts.at. Retrieved
2011-09-19.
10. "2 Pac - Until The End Of Time" (http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showitem.asp?
interpret=2+Pac&titel=Until+The+End+Of+Time&cat=a). ultratop.be. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
11. "2Pac" (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p50051/charts-awards). AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
12. musicline.de / PhonoNet GmbH. "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News,
Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Knstler-Suche, Musik-Suche,
Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche"
(http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/2Pac/Until+The+End+Of+Time/longplay)
. musicline.de. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
13. Steffen Hung. "2 Pac - Until The End Of Time" (http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?
interpret=2+Pac&titel=Until+The+End+Of+Time&cat=a). dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
14. Steffen Hung. "2 Pac - Until The End Of Time" (http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?
interpret=2+Pac&titel=Until+The+End+Of+Time&cat=a). lescharts.com. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
15. "GFK Chart-Track" (http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?
c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240002&arch=t&lyr=2001&yea
r=2001&week=16). Chart-track.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
16. "GFK Chart-Track" (http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?
c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240002&arch=t&lyr=2001&yea

r=2001&week=18). Chart-track.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-09-19.


17. Steffen Hung. "2 Pac - Until The End Of Time" (http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?
interpret=2+Pac&titel=Until+The+End+Of+Time&cat=a). charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
18. Steffen Hung. "2 Pac - Until The End Of Time" (http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?
interpret=2+Pac&titel=Until+The+End+Of+Time&cat=a). hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
19. "2Pac - Until The End Of Time" (http://archive.is/v7Oa). Chart Stats. 2001-04-21. Archived from
the original (http://www.chartstats.com/albuminfo.php?id=5740) on 2012-07-31. Retrieved
2011-09-19.
20. "2PAC - The Official Charts Company" (http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/2pac/).
Theofficialcharts.com. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
21. "samples used in 2PAC songs all 80's songs" (http://www.remixboard.com/site-related/49samples-used-2pac-songs-all-80s-songs.html). Remixboard.com. Retrieved 2011-09-19.

External links
Until the End of Time (http://www.metacritic.com/music/until-the-end-of-time/2pac)
at Metacritic
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