The Intro, wherein several of 2Pac's hits succeed one another, recaps his monumental, and highly enviable track record, and plunges us into a sequence tinged with more drama than Kay Slay could provide. 2Pac's aggressive tone on Revolution, a call to arms of sorts, and Fight Music, a rallying chant, more than grabs your attention.

Xzibit makes a cameo on the latter track and it is one of the better guest performances. Other notable verses come from Scarface, the ever slept-on Bun B, Busta Rhymes and Jadakiss. On the flipside, Bounty Killa and Wayne Marshall seem outta place, DMX's verse on Homeboyz pales in comparison to Pac's and Jada's, and Big Pun drags down what we could have hoped to be a heavyweight collaboration - his laid back tone doesn’t bode well with Pac's hyper energy.

However, these few moments of grimace barely dent on the trio's tour de force. Not only do they manage to match 2Pac's verses with more current beats, but they orchestrate a symbiosis so effective at times (Revolution, Fight Music, I'm A Rider, Thug 'N' Me) you'd think 2Pac had really tailored his rhymes for the likes of Nas' Hate Me Now or Diplomats' Dipset Anthem; you'd swear Mr. Shakur was in the studio with Scarface to record On My Block, were you not familiar with all his lyrics.

Furthermore the DJs managed to maintain thematic coherence throughout. All the verses in a given song, albeit from different sources, relate to each other. The variety of themes also depict the different facets and attributes of 2Pac. "Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about", he says in an interlude. There's as much raunchiness and bravado as philanthropy and self-effacement.

The mixtape concludes with a live version of Dear Mama, arguably his biggest hit. The last seconds of the mixtape are from an interview bit in which 2Pac coins his music as soul music. "Like Bill Withers and Marvin Gaye, [...] no matter who was listening, [...] the music lets you know that another person understands."