Considered by several music critics to be the best of any of his albums up to that point in his career, the album's musical production was handled by his mentor Shock G, Easy Mo Bee, Tony Pizarro, Johnny 'J' and the Danish hip-hop duo Soulshock and Karlin, among others. Lyrically, he intentionally tried to make the album more personal and reflective than his previous efforts. 2Pac draws lyrical inspiration from his impending prison sentence, troubles with the police and poverty, the album is described as being Tupac's most introspective album.Īccording to him, Me Against the World was made to show the hip hop audience his respect for the art form. 1, he refers to Echo as ‘his Becky Thatcher,’ the small-town sweetheart in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and writes that ‘Everybody said she looked like Brigitte Bardot, and she did.Me Against the World is the third studio album by American rapper 2Pac, released on March 14, 1995, by Interscope Records and Jive Records. Love to the most beautiful girl in school. In her yearbook, Dylan wrote: Let me tell you that your beauty is second to none. His first girlfriend was Echo Helstrom Casey, the girl he took to the Hibbing High School junior prom in 1957 and whom is widely viewed as the inspiration for his 1963 Girl From the North Country. That never happened, but Dylan found his own Bardot. He said he intended to play it one day for Brigitte when they met. He wrote for the piano the unrecorded Song for Brigitte, a teen paean to love and desire that was only revealed when Dylan mentioned the song in a 1966 Playboy interview. And it’s not the first time BB was on Bobby’s mind.Īnd God Created Woman appeared on American movie screens when Bob was 15. It sounds like a throwaway line, a useful rhyme.

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