2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted

"2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted"
Single by 2Pac featuring Snoop Dogg
from the album All Eyez on Me
Released	May 1996
Format	Airplay
Recorded	1996
Genre	West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap
Length	4:05 Album version; 5:31 Music video
Label	Death Row Records
Writer(s)	Tupac Shakur; Calvin Broadus; Delmar Arnaud
Producer	Dat Nigga Daz; Tracy Robinson
2Pac chronology
Snoop Dogg chronology

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"2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" is a hip hop song written by 2Pac, Snoop Dogg and Daz Dillinger for 2Pac's 1996 double album All Eyez on Me. The song is a duet performed by 2Pac and Snoop Dogg. "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" was released as promotional recording and was the album's second single, after "California Love". The song peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay.^[1]

"2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" was later included on 2Pac's Greatest Hits in 1998. A remix of the song was also featured on the album Nu-Mixx Klazzics in 2003.

[edit] Music video

The original video director was drop back the assignment because of 2Pac's disdainful behaviour towards him. So it was up to Gobi's production company to take charge in the filming process and finish the video.

The video was filmed four months before Tupac's death. The prelude for the video shows a parody of Biggie Smalls and Puff Daddy in discussion with Tupac Shakur while abasing themselves. Many consider this an outrageous moment that had been followed by the "Hit 'em up" diss video and after led to the fatal shooting incident in September, 1996. Although Pac says "I ain't gonna kill you, Big" and "Once we're homeboys, we're always homeboys", because of the ironic manner in which he says this, came through as an offense, and remained one of his diss songs. However an uncut (probably uncensored) version of the video shows 2Pac and his guards pulling out pistols from their jackets ready to shoot, while the intro suddenly ends, reminiscent of a scene from the movie Scarface. Apart from that, the song is about Snoop and 2Pac's arraignment, while 2Pac was just out of jail, Snoop's trial was about to come to a head, so a court scene was inserted into the video. There is also a guest appearance by Tha Dogg Pound.