1/2/2023 0 Comments Notorious big daughter![]() “At the time I was making the album,” B.I.G. “I had a master plan/I’m in a caravan/On my way to Maryland/With my man Two Techs to take over these projects,” he says on “Everyday Struggle,” a real account (according to B.I.G.) of a drug-selling expedition down South. offers a point-blank perspective on his experiences, rendered with cinematic clarity. From his first gasp of air in the delivery room in “Intro” to his first stickup (“Gimme the Loot”), from his views on women (“Me and My Bitch,” “One More Chance”) to the chilling finale of “Suicidal Thoughts,” B.I.G. ![]() On Ready to Die, the tracks are rugged uptempo funk produced by Easy Mo Bee, the Bluez Brothers and DJ Premier the music rushes you through B.I.G.’s nihilistic existence and life history like a jolting, uptown subway ride. delivered his own underground smash, “Party and Bullshit” from 1993’s Who’s the Man soundtrack. makes a cameo on “This Time Around,” a track from Michael Jackson’s upcoming new album, History Past, Present and Future Book I. Check the autobiographical slant of “Things Done Changed”: “If I wasn’t in the rap game/I’d probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game/Because the streets is a short stop/Either you’re selling crack rock, or you got a wicked jump shot.”ī.I.G. wields undeniable insight, grit and brutal honesty when it comes to wordplay and rhymes. I don’t even know how to freestyle.”ī.I.G. in the clear, commanding baritone that makes his rhymes so easily digestible and memorable. immediately, ” ’cause he said it sounded like I could just rhyme forever,” says B.I.G. One of these tapes was passed on to The Source magazine’s Unsigned Hype column editor and from there to Uptown Records’ A&R man Sean “Puffy” Combs, who signed B.I.G. The Ave is also where he hooked up with his DJ, 50 Grand they made demos during raucous, marijuana-infused sessions in B.I.G.’s basement. The 100 Best Albums of the Nineties: The Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die spent his time kickin’ it with the other dealers and “just being one of those flashy teen-age niggas,” as he describes it. A fixture there since the age of 15, B.I.G. The notorious part comes from his days selling crack on the Ave, as the main strip of Fulton Street is known to the residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. If the police or feds ain’t on you, the niggas on the street are on you.” He’s a mountain of a man: 6 feet 3 inches, 280 pounds, black as tar, with a W.C. ![]() “Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever,” says B.I.G. Biggie Smalls or the Notorious B.I.G., is more than content with hitting the big time he’s actually getting paid to rap about his life on the streets. But with sales of his runaway debut, Ready to Die (Bad Boy/Arista), approaching platinum, Wallace, a.k.a. It’s also the nom de rap of Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Chris Wallace, 22, a modern-day hustler turned MC, a million-selling artist who never expected to be pushing legal product. Biggie Smalls was the name of a flamboyant hustler in the 1970s action comedy Let’s Do It Again, starring Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier.
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