1. Notorious Big Ready To Die
2. Biggie Smalls Total Album Sales

The album that reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age, made a star, and vaulted ' Bad Boy label into the spotlight as well. Today it's recognized as one of the greatest hardcore rap albums ever recorded, and that's mostly due to 's skill as a storyteller. His raps are easy to understand, but his skills are hardly lacking -- he has a loose, easy flow and a talent for piling multiple rhymes on top of one another in quick succession. He's blessed with a flair for the dramatic, and slips in and out of different contradictory characters with ease. Yet, no matter how much he heightens things for effect, it's always easy to see elements of in his narrators and of his own experience in the details; everything is firmly rooted in reality, but plays like scenes from a movie.

Biggie Smalls passin any test, I'm ready to die! [Outro: Notorious B.I.G. (Puff)] I'm ready (Time to go, we gonna put you out your misery motherfucker) Niggaz definitely know what time it is The Notorious one in full effect for '93! Suicidal, I'm ready! (Now I lay me down to sleep) Yeah (Pray the Lord my soul to keep) (If I should die before I.

Notorious Big Ready To Die

A sense of doom pervades his most involved stories: fierce bandits ('Gimme the Loot'), a hustler's beloved girlfriend ('Me & My Bitch'), and robbers out for 's newfound riches ('Warning') all die in hails of gunfire. The album is also sprinkled with reflections on the soul-draining bleakness of the streets -- 'Things Done Changed,' 'Ready to Die,' and 'Everyday Struggle' are powerfully affecting in their confusion and despair. Not everything is so dark, though; ' production collaborations result in some upbeat, commercial moments, and typically cop from recognizable hits: 's 'I Want You Back' on the graphic sex rap 'One More Chance,' 's 'Juicy Fruit' on the rags-to-riches chronicle 'Juicy,' and ' 'Between the Sheets' on the overweight-lover anthem 'Big Poppa.' Producer 's deliberate beats do get a little samey, but it hardly matters: this is 's show, and by the time 'Suicidal Thoughts' closes the album on a heartbreaking note, it's clear why he was so revered even prior to his death.

I have a confession to make.I never listened to to this album or Biggie when this came out. No reason why, just wasn't what I followed. Today by chance, I found a nice copy of this and put this on. What a joyous journey to be listening to this for the first time. I agree with Benny, the flow and track selection/arrangement is like reading a book. A book about a seriously talented individual growing up in uncontrollable chaos that cared enough to share his experience for the brief moment of time he was around.

A masterpiece. This is not a reissue ( as stated by discogs ), but the original with 18 Tracks including 9 extra tracks, that only came out on this 2LP edition in 1995. To obtain those extra 9 tracks, this is the only chance and the real deal. Reissue would indicate that those 9 extra tracks came out at an earlier stage, which is not true. To be precise, the 1994 'LP' is more like an EP, compared with this 2LP. In other words, this is the first Notorious B.I.G.

LP, completing the 'mini LP' that came out in 1994. I would strongly recommend getting this legit 2LP version, one of the very best HipHop LP's from the 90ties.

Biggie Smalls Total Album Sales

Ready To Die (O.G. Version) I saw that the original version of this album was hosted on the Archive, but not this one, which contains uncensored versions of some tracks, and some tracks with the original uncleared samples. 10 Crucial Facts About Biggie's 'Ready To Die'. The Grammy nominated single propelled the album into the stratosphere, and cemented B.I.G. And Puff’s legacy for all time. Biggie Smalls didn’t alter the hip-hop landscape so much as crater it, leaving behind an unfillable void and an unhealable wound. His double-album follow-up to Ready to Die was released two.