Until the End of Time is the seventh studio album and third posthumous album by American rapper 2Pac. It follows his previous posthumous albums R U Still Down? (Remember Me) and Still I Rise. The album consists of material recorded while the rapper was on Death Row Records from 1995 to 1996. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 426,870 copies in its first week. The album was certified quadruple platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Background The album is the result of a collaboration between Afeni Shakur's Amaru Records and Suge Knight's Death Row Records, and features previously unreleased works by Shakur. The majority of the music compositions were remixed from their original state. Highly anticipated, Until the End of Time was ultimately one of the best selling hip hop albums of 2001. There were only three times references to Death Row Records were not censored. ("Until the End of Time" (both versions), "U Don't Have 2 Worry", and "All Out"). The core vocal tracks and some instrumentation was recorded during and after the All Eyez On Me and The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory sessions.

Accolades BET placed the album number 3 on their list of the '25 Best Posthumous Albums of All Time'.

Commercial performance Until the End of Time debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 426,870 copies in its first week, which will be the last number one album released by Death Row Records. On June 10, 2014, the album was certified 4× platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over four million copies in the United States.

On June 22, 2001, the album was certified Gold by British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales of over 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom. On May 24, 2001, the album was certified double platinum for sales of over 200,000 copies in Canada.

Track listing Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Notes signifies the original producer. signifies a remixer. signifies a co-producer. "Fuck Friendz" contains background vocals by Tiffany Villarreal. "Until the End of Time" and "Until the End of Time (Remix)" contain background vocals by Anthem. "My Closest Roaddogz" contains background vocals by Shiro and Timothy. "Until the End of Time (Remix)" contains background vocals by R.L. Huggar.

Personnel Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

Vocals

2pac – all tracks 6 Feet Deep – (track 1) Tiffany Villarreal – (track 2) Honey – (track 4) SKG – (track 4)

Instrumentation

Guitars

Alfred Spanky – (track 25) Greg Dalton – (track 3) Marion Williams (track 4)

Bass

Cornet Mims – (track 3)

Keyboards

Cold 187um – (track 1) Ronnie king – (track 3)

Arrangement Cold 187um (track 1) Johnny J (track 3)

Technical

Cold 187um – Mixing Engineer (tracks 1, 4) Keston Wright – Engineer (tracks 1, 4) Paul Smith – Engineer (track 1) Jamyz Hardy-Martin III – Assistant Engineer (tracks 1, 4) Brian Gardner – Mastering Engineer ( tracks 1, 3, 4) Claudio Cueni – Mixing Engineer (track 2), Digital Editor (track 2) Ian Boxill – Engineer (track 3), Mixing Engineer (track 3) Johnny J – Mixing Engineer (track 3) Jeff Burns – Assistant Engineer (track 3) Don Smartt – Assistant Engineer (tracks 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14) Brian Springer – Mixing Engineer (track 4)

Production

Johnny J – (track 1) QDIII – (track 2) L.T. Hutton – (track 4)

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2001) PeakpositionAustralian Urban Albums (ARIA) 7

Year-end charts +Year-end chart performance for Until the End of Time by Tupac Shakur Chart (2001) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 37Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)67Canadian R&B Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)15Canadian Rap Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)6 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) 78 UK Albums (OCC) 146 US Billboard 200 40 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 9 Chart (2002)PositionCanadian R&B Albums (Nielsen SoundScan) 114Canadian Rap Albums (Nielsen SoundScan) 64

Certifications

See also

List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2001 List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 2001

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