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Ready to Die is the debut album of American rapper The Notorious B.I.G., released September 13, 1994 on Bad Boy Records. The first release on the label, it features production by record producer and Bad Boy founder Sean 'Puffy' Combs, Easy Mo Bee, Chucky Thompson, DJ Premier, and Lord Finesse, among others. Recording sessions for the album took place during 1993 to 1994 at The Hit Factory and D&D Studios in New York City. The partly autobiographical album… read more
Tracklist
Track number | Play | Loved | Track name | Buy | Options | Duration | Listeners |
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1 | Intro | 3:24 | 98,703 listeners | ||||
2 | Things Done Changed | 3:57 | 261,965 listeners | ||||
3 | Gimme the Loot | 5:04 | 326,975 listeners | ||||
4 | Machine Gun Funk | 4:16 | 271,875 listeners | ||||
5 | Warning | 3:40 | 360,885 listeners | ||||
6 | Ready to Die | 4:24 | 160,554 listeners | ||||
7 | One More Chance | 4:43 | 236,938 listeners | ||||
8 | Fuck Me (Interlude) | 1:31 | 30,492 listeners | ||||
9 | The What — The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Method Man | 3:57 | 677 listeners | ||||
10 | Juicy | 5:03 | 778,974 listeners | ||||
11 | Everyday Struggle | 5:19 | 219,053 listeners | ||||
12 | Me & My Bitch | 4:00 | 122,544 listeners | ||||
13 | Big Poppa | 4:13 | 551,732 listeners | ||||
14 | Respect | 5:22 | 171,376 listeners | ||||
15 | Friend of Mine | 3:28 | 146,262 listeners | ||||
16 | Unbelievable | 3:43 | 236,246 listeners | ||||
17 | Suicidal Thoughts | 2:54 | 241,648 listeners |
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1. Biggie Smalls was anything but small. He was 6'3' and 400 pounds.
2. Before ruling the streets, Biggie was a good student, earning A's.
3. Biggie, Jay-Z, and Busta Rhymes all attended the same high school in downtown Brooklyn: Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School.
4. Biggie's first recording deal was in 1993, with Uptown Records.
5. Biggie had two kids, a boy and a girl. The first child was his daughter, with his girlfriend 'Jan.' He had his son (pictured) with his wife, Faith Evans.
6. Biggie's first DJ was from his old Brooklyn neighborhood, '50 Grand'.
7. Biggie's debut album was called Ready To Die.
8. In 1995, Biggie debuted in the top five of the pop singles chart with is single 'One More Chance.'
9. Biggie appeared an 'New York Undercover' where he played himself on a talk show along side M.C. Lyte and Sticky Fingaz.
10. B.I.G. stands for Books Instead of Guns, named by his foundation since his death. The foundation was formed in memory of the rapper and helps bring in books and computers for impoverished schools in New York and Atlanta.
11. Biggie had a clothing line called 'Brooklyn Mint.'
12. Biggie's real name is Christopher Wallace.
13. Biggie's second album Life After Death sold more than 10 million copies, giving it a Diamond status.
14. Biggie had plans to open up a food chain called, what else, 'Big Poppa's.'
15. During the Biggie/Tupac beef, Biggie made a track called 'Who Shot Ya?' The track was thought by many to be in response to the many diss tracks that Tupac put out.
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16. Biggie referred to himself as 'Frank White' due to the movie King of New York after Christopher Walken's character.
17. The alias 'Biggie Smalls' comes from the 1975 movie Let's Do It Again starring Sidney Porter and Bill Cosby. A character in the movie played by Calvin Lockhart, was 'Biggie Smalls,' and was the leader of a group of gangsters.
18. Biggie was arrested 3 years in a row, in 1989, 1990, and 1991. He spent nine months in a North Carolina prison for drug dealing.
19. Biggie suffered a broken leg after a car crash that occurred during the time he was recording his second album Life After Death. This is the injury that forced him to use a cane.
20. Many hip hop artists still reference Biggie in some way in their music today. Whether his lyrics have been sampled or quoted, Biggie is remembered by tracks from Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Nas, Fat Joe, Nelly, Pharrell Williams, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Big Pun, and more.
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EDITORS’ NOTES
Fittingly for an album where the star memorably plays two characters (on stick-up classic “Gimme The Loot”), Christopher Wallace’s debut opus has a beguiling duality at its core. For every swaggering corner boy anthem (“Juicy”, “Who Shot Ya”, g-funk-jacking slow jam “Big Poppa”) there’s a corresponding blast of hood paranoia and introspection (“Warning”, “Suicidal Thoughts”). Sprinkled with cinematic grandeur and held together by that unassailable flow, Ready to Die represents Biggie—and hip hop—at its contradictory best.
EDITORS’ NOTES
Fittingly for an album where the star memorably plays two characters (on stick-up classic “Gimme The Loot”), Christopher Wallace’s debut opus has a beguiling duality at its core. For every swaggering corner boy anthem (“Juicy”, “Who Shot Ya”, g-funk-jacking slow jam “Big Poppa”) there’s a corresponding blast of hood paranoia and introspection (“Warning”, “Suicidal Thoughts”). Sprinkled with cinematic grandeur and held together by that unassailable flow, Ready to Die represents Biggie—and hip hop—at its contradictory best.
TITLE | TIME |
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The Notorious B.I.G. & Method Man |
- 19 Songs, 1 Hour 16 Minutes
- Released: Sep 13, 1994
- ℗ 2004 Bad Boy Records LLC for the United States and WEA International Inc.for the world excluding the United States, South America and Central America
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