Tupac "All Eyez On Me" [1996]

Gee, it's hard to believe such a helpful, concerned citizen could have left us so suddenly… psssh, yeah right. Tupac popped so much shit he bagged it up and sold it as brown popcorn. "All Eyez On Me" went platinum nine times over, proving that it wasn't only the 'hood that was looking to suffer at the hand (er, voice) of an ignorant, sadistic punk-ass with a death wish. Dr. Dre put his best prime-time TV clean genericism on the production, but the lowlife sleaze, woman-hating and overall misanthropy permeates through like the stink of a fresh doodie on the back seat attempted to be covered up by a Christmas tree air freshener. Tupac is the perfect representation of gangsta rap: recklessly hateful and stupid, calling out women for bad decision-making while basically begging to get himself filled with lead calling out his gun-toting rivals. The desensitized worldview is astonishing, with the end result giving rednecks a perfectly good reason to continue discriminating against black people (and "bitches," depending whether they choose to agree with Tupac or not). Between this guy, Biggie Smalls and OJ, it's no wonder Eminem got to have a career in hip-hop. About as far away as you can get from "I Have a Dream," Tupac would have been Martin Luther King's biggest nightmare ever.