More than three years after his death, it's difficult to believe there's still unreleased
2Pac material out there, much less quality material. After no less than three posthumous albums built around what
2Pac produced when he was still alive (plus an assortment of bootlegs making the rounds), the well apparently still hasn't run dry, and
Still I Rise is the inevitable result. As on the
Notorious B.I.G. album released just weeks before though, there are some pretty wide gaps on
Still I Rise between rhymes actually delivered by
2Pac. There's also an undeniable -- some would say obvious -- impression that this album just doesn't bear the mark of
2Pac himself.