Makaveli Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory CD

Enhanced:Re-Issue & Remastered



This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Makaveli: Tupac "2Pac" Shakur (rap vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Danny Boy, Aaron Hall, KC, Jo-Jo, Val Young, Tyrone Wrice (vocals); E.D.I., Young Noble, The Outlawz (rap vocals).
Producers include: Makaveli, Darryl "Big D" Harper, Hurt-M-Badd, Dametrius Ship, Troy Staton, QDIII.
Engineers include: Tommy Daugherty, Steve Anarden, Lance Pierre.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Makaveli: Tupac "2Pac" Shakur (rap vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Danny Boy, Aaron Hall, KC, Jo-Jo, Val Young, Tyrone Wrice (vocals); E.D.I., Young Noble, The Outlawz (rap vocals).
Producers include: Makaveli, Darryl "Big D" Harper, Hurt-M-Badd, Dametrius Ship, Troy Staton, QDIII.
Engineers include: Tommy Daugherty, Steve Anarden, Lance Pierre.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Released only eight weeks after Tupac Shakur died from gunshot wounds, Death Row released this posthumous album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, under the name of Makaveli, a pseudonym derived from the Italian politician Niccolo Machiavelli, who faked his own death and reappeared seven days later to take revenge on his enemies. Naturally, the appearance of Don Killuminati so shortly after Tupac's death led many conspiracy theorists to surmise the rapper was still alive, but it was all part of a calculated marketing strategy by Death Row. All Eyez on Me proved that Tupac was continuing to grow as a musician and a human being, but Don Killuminati doesn't improve upon that image; instead it concentrates on G-funk beats and East Coast/West Coast rivalries. If Tupac had survived to complete Don Killuminati, it is likely that the record would have been even better. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Everything about The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory smacks of exploitation. Released only eight weeks after Tupac Shakur died from gunshot wounds, Death Row released this posthumous album under the name of Makaveli, a pseudonym derived from the Italian politician Niccolo Machiavelli, who faked his own death and reappeared seven days later to take revenge on his enemies. Naturally, the appearance of Don Killuminati so shortly after Tupac's death led many conspiracy theorists to surmise the rapper was still alive, but it was all part of a calculated marketing strategy by Death Row -- the label needed something to sustain interest in the album, since the music here is so shoddy. All Eyez on Me proved that Tupac was continuing to grow as a musician and a human being, but Don Killuminati erases that image by concentrating on nothing but tired G-funk beats and back-biting East Coast/West Coast rivalries. Tupac himself sounds uninterested in the music, which makes the conventional, unimaginative music all the more listless. If he had survived to complete Don Killuminati, it is possible that the record could have become something worthwhile, but the overall quality of the material suggests that the album would have been a disappointment no matter what circumstances it appeared under. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Makaveli is the artist otherwise known as 2Pac, and this album arrives in stores two months after 2Pac was murdered in Las Vegas. Many 2Pac fans believe his lyrics regularly foreshadowed his tragic death, and there is plenty here to keep those conversations going. But the lyrics on THE DON KILLUMINATI: THE 7 DAY THEORY also represent life. The rapper's haunting voice carries songs like "Krazy" and "White Man'z World," on which Makaveli appears almost as a spirit, providing guidance for living in the same world that 2Pac lost his life in.
Not surprisingly, the production is top-quality, upholdinRolling Stone (12/26/96, p.184) - "...The tracks are fat with funky menace (the upfront bass in `Life of an Outlaw' smells of Bootsy Collins-meets-Robbie Shakespeare), and the choral-vocal effect in many of the raps has a street-corner, pass-the-bottle charge..."
Rolling Stone (12/26/96, p.184) - "...The tracks are fat with funky menace (the upfront bass in `Life of an Outlaw' smells of Bootsy Collins-meets-Robbie Shakespeare), and the choral-vocal effect in many of the raps has a street-corner, pass-the-bottle charge..."
Muzik (1/97, p.113) - 5 out of 5 - "...one of the most important [albums] of the year....perfectly captures the dark tensions arising from the centre of the vicious heat that is the City of Angels..."
Muzik (1/97, p.113) - 5 out of 5 - "...one of the most important [albums] of the year....perfectly captures the dark tensions arising from the centre of the vicious heat that is the City of Angels..."