![]() The hit parade started just weeks after Shakur’s 1996 death with Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (released under the nom de rap, Makaveli). Shakur’s body of work is a hip-hop hydra for every legitimate posthumous release that is cut from his vaults springs a flurry of LaserLight-esque releases of dubious merit. Shakur’s live fast/die young existence has invited post-mortem comparisons to James Dean, but Dean’s vaults didn’t run nearly as deep. The late, great West Coast rapper’s double-disc Until the End of Time sold 426,870 copies last week, according to SoundScan, to claim the top spot from Hotshot, Shaggy’s backdoor success, which in its thirty-fourth week of release is finally slowing down to catch its breath as it nears the 5 million copies sold mark. ![]() If the tsunami of posthumous 2Pac releases suggests an eventual market fatigue for the rhymes of Tupac Shakur, record buyers have yet to be informed.
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