New York emcee Nas was also the recipient of a verbal attack from Shakur on "Bomb First", but he and Tupac had already squashed their beef before the song's release. Dre, who had defected from Death Row that same year after growing sick of the label's violent practices, and started his own label, Aftermath. And, of course, Tupac left plenty of room for him to throw barbs at not only The Notorious B.I.G. Of all the guests on the album, only Danny Boy and K-Ci & JoJo were the only ones to return from All Eyez On Me.
Also notable was the near-complete dearth of features from Death Row artists or other notable rappers. Unlike the bright, groovy G-Funk that made up the majority of All Eyez On Me, The Don Killuminati went into the complete opposite direction, showcasing much darker production and lyricism than any other 2Pac album up to that point with a heavier focus on death, violence, and even religion. 21 songs were recorded for the album during that week, but only 12 made the final cut. Tupac, who was at Can-Am studios trying to record, saw them there, and practically dragged them into producing his album. Before Don Killuminati, Wrice and Harper were mainly Death Row's main R&B producers, and most of the rappers on the label thought their production was weak. Instead, Shakur worked almost exclusively with Tyrone "Hurt-M-Badd" Wrice, and Darryl "Big D" Harper with Reggie Moore and Demetrius Shipp Sr. Unlike All Eyez on Me and his other past projects, none of Tupac's usual collaborators, with the exception of Quincy "QDIII" Jones III, worked on this album.
The album's title was derived from its recording process: Tupac had wrote, produced, and recorded the album within the first three days of August 1996, with final mixing taking an extra four days hence the "7 day theory". It's also the only official release that credited Tupac under his alternate stage name, Makaveli. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (often shortened to just The Don Killuminati or Makaveli) is the fifth studio album by Tupac Shakur, released on Novemjust under two months after Shakur's murder, though the album had already been completed months beforehand, so it's not a posthumous album in the strictest sense.
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