

I study Biggie at times because I want to know how his mind puts together bars and lyrics and rhymes.įor instance, when I listen to “ Kick in the Door” and the last verse, in particular, I often find myself thinking about how brilliant the rhyme structure is and how he stacked those rhymes. Released SeptemReady to Die Tracklist 1 Intro Lyrics 79.5K 2 Things Done Changed Lyrics 277K 3 Gimme the Loot Lyrics 795K 4 Machine Gun Funk Lyrics. For both Life After Death and Born Again, this is the first time digitally remastered audio has been available on any physical release. Just kidding.īut even though that “top 3” is locked in, Biggie stands head and shoulders above the rest in my eyes for one simple reason: I’m still impressed by Biggie, even all these years later. 9LP box set featuring Biggie's four albums-Ready to Die (2LP), Born Again (3LP), Life After Death (2LP), & Junior Mafia’s Conspiracy (2LP)-bundled together for the first time, pressed on clear vinyl and housed in a boxed set.


Watch popular content from the following creators: oghiphop.90s.80s(oghiphop.90s.80s), jarred jermaine(jarredjermaine), HipHopTipss(hiphoptipss), Robert Abbott(robertdabbott), HipHop Vault(thehiphopvault). Like most people who came of age in the ’90s (as I did) and for whom hip-hop is central, I’ve argued at length with people about who belongs on hip-hop’s Mount Rushmore and, more importantly, who takes up space in my “top 5 M.C.s.” That list almost always includes Jay-Z, Biggie, Nas, and the last two slots are a revolving list of André 3000, Ice Cube, Lauryn Hill (circa The Score she is responsible for probably my favorite hip-hop verse ever on “ Zealots“), Prodigy and Juicy J. Discover short videos related to juicy biggie on TikTok. Their lives and contributions to hip-hop, the art form that is as essential to my core being as the life lessons my parents taught me. I know their life stories as if they’re my family at this point. There are books, movies, podcasts, dedication songs, etc., about the deaths of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in September 1997 and Biggie, six months later, in Los Angeles. Biggie’s iconic crown sells at auction for nearly $600Kīut you already know this.
