| "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Single by 2Pac & Snoop Dogg | ||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album All Eyez on Me | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | May 7, 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Format | Airplay | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | October 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, G-funk | |||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:05 Album version 5:31 Music video |
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| Label | Death Row Records | |||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Tupac Shakur Calvin Broadus Delmar Arnaud |
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| Producer | Dat Nigga Daz Tracy Robinson |
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2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted (sometimes confused with Gangsta Party) is a hip hop song written by 2Pac, Snoop Dogg and Daz Dillinger for 2Pac's 1996 double album All Eyez on Me. The song is a duet performed by 2Pac and Snoop Dogg. "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" was released as promotional recording and was the album's second single, after "California Love". The song peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay.[1]
"2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" was later included on 2Pac's Greatest Hits in 1998. A remix of the song was also featured on the album Nu-Mixx Klazzics in 2003.
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The original music video director dropped out of the project because he didn't want to share directing credit with Tupac (since Tupac had written the concept) . It was up to Gobi M. Rahimi to step in as a director and his production company to deliver a hit video for Tupac.
The video was filmed four months prior to Tupac's September 1996 shooting. The prelude for the song shows a parody of Biggie Smalls ("Piggie") and Puff Daddy ("Buff Daddy") in discussion with Shakur while abasing themselves of the November 1994 shooting. Many rap fans consider this an outrageous moment that had been followed by the "Hit 'em up" video and may have led to the fatal shooting incident in September, 1996. Although Pac says "I ain't gonna kill you, Pig" and "Once we're homeboys, we're always homeboys", because of the ironic manner in which he says this, came through as an offense, and remained one of his diss songs. However an uncut (probably uncensored) version of the video shows 2Pac and his guards pulling out pistols from their jackets ready to shoot, while the intro suddenly ends, reminiscent of a scene from the movie Scarface. Apart from that, the song is about Snoop and 2Pac's arraignment, while 2Pac was just released from jail, Snoop's trial was about to come to a head. There is also a guest appearance by Tha Dogg Pound and Nate Dogg.
Snoop's first line in the song, "I keep my hand on my gun, 'cos they got me on the run" is a reference to "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash.
This song was played as tribute to 2Pac on the Up In Smoke Tour, in 2000, by Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg. They played this, along with 2 other songs, as tribute to 2Pac. The sample of 2Pac verse, is played with the crowd waving their hands, with their twos' in the air. On Snoop Dogg's verse, he raps it. On the chrous, Snoop Dogg has the crowd sing, "Say, 2Pac. Say we love you. We miss you."
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