Everything important that would happen in rap music in the next few years would somehow relate back to Tupac Shakur, even after his own death. Whether by design or through a lurid and unpredictable sequence of events, Tupac Shakur was rap's protagonist by the time he released 1995's Me Against The World, his third album. A few months later, Shakur was in prison, but he also had the #1 album in America. Sitting in that wheelchair, Shakur learned that he'd been convicted of sexual assault, and a judge sentenced him to between 18 months and four and a half years in prison. Shakur always angrily insisted that he was innocent, that they'd merely had consensual sex. A year earlier, a woman had accused Shakur and two other men of raping her in a hotel room. The next day, Shakur sat in a New York courtroom in a wheelchair. Against doctors' orders, he checked himself out just a few hours after getting out of surgery. When Shakur resisted, the gunmen shot him five times. In the studio's lobby, three gunmen beat and robbed Shakur and the two men he had with him. 7 is sure to please the Deep Elm faithful and is a good introductory calling card for many of its participants.In November of 1994, Tupac Amaru Shakur was on his way into Manhattan's Quad Studios to record a guest verse. Reviewer Johnny Loftus of Allmusic remarks that "Sonically, it is a little more diverse, or at least there are a few left turns among all the quiet-loud dynamics this time around." He calls the album "Just as worthy as its Emo Diaries brethren yet filled with refreshing moments of instrumental or melodic experimentation, Vol. As with the rest of the series, Me Against the World features mostly unsigned bands contributing songs that were previously unreleased. As with all installments in the series, the label had an open submissions policy for bands to submit material for the compilation, and as a result the music does not all fit within the emo style. Me Against the World is the seventh installment in The Emo Diaries series of compilation albums, released Maby Deep Elm Records.
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