Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. My Sweet Temptation Gino Vannelli

Gino Vannelli

an underground Memphis set that blends churchy Southern soul

As described by Jazz Messengers

with some reviewers finding the experimentation rewarding and others lamenting the departure from the rawer energy of the first three albums

“Do for Love” and “I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto

Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. My Sweet Temptation Gino VannelliStrictly 4 My N. I. G. G. A. Z is 2Pacs second solo studio album, released on February 16, 1993 via TNT Recordings, Interscope Records, and EastWest Records America. The title is a backronym for Never Ignorant in Getting Goals Accomplished, with the Z pluralizing it, signaling 2Pacs attempt to reclaim and politicize a racial slur as a statement of Black selfdetermination. Recorded across studios in Richmond, Los Angeles, and New York in the wake of