『All Eyez On Me』(1996)発表後、政治思想家に感銘を受けてステージネームをMakaveliに改名した2Pacの5作目となるスタジオ・アルバム。
1996年8月にレコーディングされ、翌9月に当時米Hip Hop界に起こっていた西海岸vs東海岸抗争の象徴的な西海岸の犠牲者として死を迎えた。
発売・販売元 提供資料(2022/09/29)
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
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4.『to live & die in l.a.』など個人的に好き。
未発表音源でこのクオリティ、2PACがHip-Hopの歴史に名を刻むのも容易に推測出来る。