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TIL Tupac's final album All Eyez on Me was released after Suge Knight paid Tupac's $1.4 million bail to get him released from jail. In return, Tupac agreed to release three albums on Death Row Records. The double album All Eyes on Me served as the first two albums in the three-album contract.

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