To that point, in less than three years, Big had released his acclaimed 1994 debut Ready To Die, and a 1995 group album by Junior M.A.F.I.A. Later that month (March 25), Bad Boy Records would release Life After Death, a diamond-certified double-album containing 24 tracks from the Brooklyn, New York MC. (a/k/a Christopher Wallace) was murdered on March 9, 1997, he did not leave much music behind, relatively speaking. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death, the second full-length studio album of his career, and one that he never even got to see exist in the world because he was slain two weeks prior to its release.When The Notorious B.I.G. Quick aside: How many albums does somebody need to release before they can rightfully enter into the Greatest Rappers Of All-Time discussion? Biggie has only two proper studio albums to his credit, and he is definitely in that conversation. Is that the baseline? Is it a minimum of two? Or can you get away with having only one? What if Nas had released only Illmatic and nothing else afterward? Would he still be included? I don’t see how you’d be able to keep him out, but I also don’t see how you’d be able to get him in. Over Life After Death’s 24 songs, Biggie, same as he’d done on his debut album, showed himself to be a profoundly gifted songwriter and mood-setter.
It was a somber but lively but terrifying but occasionally funny piece of work, which is a combination of things only a handful of rappers have ever been able to pull off at the same time. What’s more, in addition to accidentally proving himself sadly prophetic, he was also wildly insightful. The project was (and is) stuffed fat with wisdom and cultural understanding. “If I go, you got to go.” - Biggie, “Somebody’s Gotta Die” “I’m a criminal way before the rap shit.” - Biggie, “Somebody’s Gotta Die” These are the 27 most important, useful, informative, transformative pieces of advice: Truly, the only thing you need (or anyone needs) to live a strong and happy and fulfilling life is tucked within the songs. This is one of those eye-for-an-eye situations.
Biggie’s rapping about how if he dies, then the person who kills him has to die, too. (I’m assuming it’ll be carried out by proxy. Or else it’s a thing where Biggie’s ghost comes back and kills the killer.
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That seems way less practical, though.) (Semi-related: Do you remember in that movie Ghost how the ghosts could jump inside of humans and take over their bodies for a minute or so? Like, there was the scene where Patrick Swayze jumped into Whoopi so he could hang out with his wife? Let me just go on and say it right now so that it’s out in the open: If that’s a true thing - if it turns out that ghosts can jump into humans and control their bodies - then when I become a ghost I am absolutely doing that, and I am absolutely going to just control a whole bunch of the bodies of people I don’t like and make them in front of and off and so on.
“Fuck all that plannin’ shit.” - Biggie, “Somebody’s Gotta Die” #Life after death biggie smalls meaning movie# I’d actually heard somewhere that Nike’s “Just Do It” slogan was originally “Fuck All That Plannin’ Shit,” but I wasn’t able to confirm that. “At my arraignment, note for the plaintiff: ‘Your daughter’s tied up in a Brooklyn basement.’” - Biggie, “Hypnotize” “You got it, nigga, flaunt it.” - Biggie, “Hypnotize” (Getty Images)ĥ. This line has always stuck out to me, all the way back to when I heard this album for the very first time in 1997 or maybe 1998 or probably 1999 (San Antonio always was, like, at least two years behind everyone else when it came to these sorts of things).Ĭall me around 10.” - Biggie, “Hypnotize” I wonder what level of law school it is that they teach terror-kidnapping? This is, in no uncertain terms, one of the most creative legal defenses that I have ever heard of.
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