From what I remember reading and hearing, Still I Rise didn't get much promotion in magazines and such because of some contract disputes. After Pac died, the Outlawz (with the exception of Fatal) signed with Death Row around late 1996 or early 1997, but they left Death Row shortly afterward. Supposedly Death Row dicked them over through the influence they had at the time with Interscope, through whom Still I Rise was released. Somehow, it limited the actual advertisement of the album to a rarely seen TV commercial on BET as someone mentioned earlier, which ended with Hell 4 a Hustler playing in the background, and an ad in a few rap magazines that was only around for a month or two. The Outlawz made an appearance on BET Rap City: Da Bassment with Big Tigger to promote it, but they were just being the incompetent idiots they normally are, just saying that same "we some Makaveli-trained soldiers, he's our general" crap. (I remember Kastro going, "Everybody, go out there and buy the album, please," almost sounding like he was going to break down and start crying.) The only video for the album, Baby Don't Cry, was played a few times on MTV and peaked at #9 on TRL, but fell off within a week. Despite having a beautiful booklet and decent material, they had a terrible cover and debuted behind DMX's ...And Then There Was X album, which sold 698,000 copies that week. I think Still I Rise sold in the vicinity of 400,000 copies that same week, which wasn't bad, and it eventually hit platinum. I was just disappointed that they cut Fatal not only out of every song he was originally on, but out of pictures as well. They even photoshopped him out and put other people over where he was. Lame, if you ask me.
