With “Blasphemy,” Makaveli continued the religious trend found in the album’s artwork, which depicts Tupac crucified as Jesus was (who resurrected in seven days). Dre, the Notorious B.I.G., De La Soul, Jay Z, Mobb Deep and others pepper the LP, and “Bomb First (My Second Reply)” remains one of the most incendiary intros in Rap history. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Tupac album without some controversy, and disses to Dr. Conspiracies aside, Don Killuminati certainly plays darker than Pac’s more well known works ( “Hail Mary”), but it still featured the bombastic personality fans had grown to love ( “Toss It Up”).

Shakur died six days after being shot, which has led many to suggest he not only prophecized his own death with the LP, but was also suggesting that he was deceiving the world into thinking he had died, when in reality he was to be reborn at some unknown place and time. Reportedly finished in one week’s time, The 7 Day Theory has done its fair share to fire up conspiracy theories. Tupac Shakur Has Been Nominated For The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame As such, it is often used in the context of power or politics, subjects commonly found in Pac’s music. Best known for his book The Prince, Machiavelli was a strategist who popularized the idea of faking one’s own death and has since lent his name to Machiavellianism, a concept used to describe a lack of morality and use of deception to attain personal advantages.

Released during the first week of November in 1996, it was his fifth solo album (and first posthumously released) and was recorded under the name Makaveli, an adaptation of the name of Niccolò Machiavelli, the 15th and 16th-century philosopher and humanist who thrived during the Italian Renaissance.

As an album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory did more to contribute to Tupac Shakur’s propethic and iconoclastic image than any others in his discography.

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