| Day | What happened | |------|----------------| | 1-2 | Wrote lyrics in a Vegas hotel room, fueled by Hennessy and weed | | 3-4 | Recorded vocals in a Can-Am studio (engineered by The轨 himself, Darryl Harper) | | 5-6 | Mixed and arranged—Tupac personally sequencing the tracks like a suicide note | | 7 | Mastered. Finished. Walked out. |
The Setup: August 1996. 2Pac is alive, but barely. He is fresh out of jail, signed to Death Row Records, and fresh off a gunshot wound from a Vegas shooting that hasn’t happened yet (this album was recorded before that fatal night, but released after ). He changes his name to Makaveli —after Niccolò Machiavelli, the Renaissance philosopher who wrote The Prince and famously faked his own death to deceive his enemies.
| Day | What happened | |------|----------------| | 1-2 | Wrote lyrics in a Vegas hotel room, fueled by Hennessy and weed | | 3-4 | Recorded vocals in a Can-Am studio (engineered by The轨 himself, Darryl Harper) | | 5-6 | Mixed and arranged—Tupac personally sequencing the tracks like a suicide note | | 7 | Mastered. Finished. Walked out. |
The Setup: August 1996. 2Pac is alive, but barely. He is fresh out of jail, signed to Death Row Records, and fresh off a gunshot wound from a Vegas shooting that hasn’t happened yet (this album was recorded before that fatal night, but released after ). He changes his name to Makaveli —after Niccolò Machiavelli, the Renaissance philosopher who wrote The Prince and famously faked his own death to deceive his enemies.