2PAC

'2PAC' sits at the midpoint of Saturation as a moment of stillness. The track pulls back from the album's opening run of singles into something more introspective, a bridge into the quieter material that follows. The title echoes 2Pac's own work, and the song carries a similar weight of consequence and regret. The lyrics trace a life shadowed by trouble: drug dealing, addiction, legal pressure, the weight of maternal prayer. There's a pull between the speaker's actions and the people watching from the margins of his choices, dead friends, a mother's faith, a woman he's disappointed. The repetition of "shadow keep following me" and "trouble keep following me" becomes a kind of refrain, less a hook than a confession of inescapability. Brockhampton builds the track as a moment of reckoning before the album moves forward.