The title track off of 2Pac’s album All Eyez on Me samples Linda Clifford’s “Never Gonna Stop” (also used for Nas' “Street Dreams,” which was released a few months later in July 1996). Producer Johnny J recalls connecting with 2Pac for this track:

That was the very first track I laid when we got together at Death Row. When he just got out of jail, just got released, two days later he’s like, “‘J’, get to the studio, I’m with Death Row now.” I assumed it was a joke, somebody perpetrating Tupac. I’m like “Hell no – ‘Pac is locked up!” He’s like “J, I’m out” I walk in, 15 minutes into the session, the first beat I put in the drum machine is “All Eyez On Me.” I wasn’t going to show him the track, honestly. I was like, “This track? Nah, it’s not finished. It’s incomplete.” My wife says, “Hey, it’s a dope beat!” So I just pop it in, titles just come right off his fuckin’ head.

This classic gives us an idea of what the media was doing with Pac’s life. At this moment, all eyes in the music world were on him due to the intrigue around his release from prison, signing with the notorious Death Row Records, as well as the 2Pac/Death Row/West Coast vs. Biggie/Bad Boy/East Coast beef.