JAY-Z Doesn’t Have An Album Better Than 2Pac’s ‘All Eyez On Me,’ Says Spice 1

JAY-Z doesn’t have an album in his catalog that’s better than 2Pac‘s groundbreaking album All Eyez on Me, according to Bay Area rapper Spice 1.

On the latest segment from his conversation with The Art of Dialogue, Spice 1 said he doesn’t believe Jigga or anyone has a better album than ‘Pac’s fourth studio album. According to Spice, 2Pac’s album is one he can listen to from beginning to end with no skips.

“Yeah, hell yeah, I mean shit, I mean damn All Eyez on Me and Makaveli, like come on, man. Like, what can you compare to that shit,” Spice said. “It’s not too many whole albums you can compare to that ’cause only album I could compare to All Eyez on Me is like one of the first N.W.A. albums or something.”

He continued: “‘Cause I can listen to every song, and all of them slap. Every muthafuckin’ song slaps. It’s a difference when you got maybe six songs on the album, and they all bang but every fucking song, and then you got a double CD and every song on that muthafucka slapping. Every song, not one of them muthafuckas was just an OK song.”

Spice 1 then brought up the fact that his own self-titled debut album sold one million copies with no features, and that still wasn’t a big enough deal to surpass what ‘Pac was able to do with All Eyez on Me. As Spice explained, there was really no competition for ‘Pac.

“Like, shit, man, you can’t compete with that shit. My first album, we did a million copies with no features,” Spice said. “I was just on there by myself. I didn’t have Dr. Dre or nobody famous making big beats for me. I had Ant Banks, Blackjack and E-A-Ski making my beats. So with all of that said, shit, when you do shit like that, shit is timeless. Like that first album went platinum with no features on there shit, you can’t fuck with that.

Spice 1 went on to say one of his favorite JAY-Z songs was one with Beanie Sigel but didn’t make it clear which record. He did say that whenever Hov linked up with Beans, it was guaranteed to be something special, and he wanted to collaborate with the Broad Street Bully because of that.

2Pac’s All Eyez on Me was released on February 13, 1996 and was the first double-disc Hip Hop album in history. It charted at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, selling 566,000 copies in its first week.

The album was also nominated for Best Rap Album at the 1997 Grammy Awards and certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2014.