AMG Review of Best of 2Pac, Pt. 2: Life

Jason Birchmeier
All Music Guide

The separately packaged two-part Best of 2Pac series released in 2007 features four fewer songs than the fairly definitive double-disc Greatest Hits collection previously released in 1998, and of the 21 songs spread across two packages (less than an hour of music per disc), about a quarter are posthumous productions or remixes. For every classic like "California Love," there's a latter-day remix such as the newly produced version of "Dear Mama" on the Thug release or the "previously unreleased" song "Dopefiend's Diner" on the Life release.