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| the albums starts with talks of the past "back in the days" continue with songs that will make your mouth wide open, also songs that will kick your ass back to the ground, for example the sharp-witty-clever line "I am seeing body after body & our mayor Guiliani ain't tryin to see no black man turn to John Gotti". one of the best hiphop albums of all time and for opinion of a lot of hiphop fans "THE BEST hiphop album of all time". | the albums starts with talks of the past "back in the days" continue with songs that will make your mouth wide open, also songs that will kick your ass back to the ground, for example the sharp-witty-clever line "I am seeing body after body & our mayor Guiliani ain't tryin to see no black man turn to John Gotti". one of the best hiphop albums of all time and for opinion of a lot of hiphop fans "THE BEST hiphop album of all time". | ||
| In 1995 after everyone wonder about the shouts in ready to die album about "junior mafia" or "j. mafia qlique" biggie relesed album called "Conspiracy" by Junior M-a-f-i-a (initials of "M-asters A-t F-inding I-ntelligent A-ttitudes" with some big's verses over the album, and some of lil' kim and lil' ceaser best verses EVER. | |||
| on 1996 he droped some kickin' verse's on jay-z's debut album "reasonable doubt" | on 1996 he droped some kickin' verse's on jay-z's debut album "reasonable doubt" | ||
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher Wallace (May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls but best known as The Notorious B.I.G., was a Brooklyn-born rapper in the mid 1990s.
He first gained notice for working with Mary J. Blige on What's the 411?, then released Ready to Die, his debut album, in 1995. The next year, One More Chance debuted at #5 on the Pop Charts, tying Scream/Childhood as the highest debut single in music history. Ready to Die brought massive fame to Biggie, and he soon became involved in a heated feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers. Specifically, Biggie was a rival of Tupac Shakur, a Los Angeles rapper. Tupac was murdered in Las Vegas while Biggie was working on his second album. Rumors of a possible Biggie involvement in the murder cropped up almost immediately. On March 9, 1997, Biggie was shot and killed in Los Angeles. Neither murder has ever been solved and at present no-one has ever been charged in connection to them.
Life After Death, Biggie's second album, was released posthumously and debuted at #1 on the charts. Born Again (1999) was also released posthumously. It had a hit single with "Notorious B.I.G." which was a tribute song to the slain rapper, featuring guest raps from Biggie's friends, Lil Kim and P. Diddy. The video for the song also featured appearances by 98 Degress and Fat Joe. In addition to this tribute, Puff Daddy released a massively successful single dedicated to Biggie called "I'll Be Missing You," which featured Puff Daddy, Wallace's widow Faith Evans and R+B group 112, and sampled the melody of The Police's hit song "Every Breath You Take." All these artists performed the song with (former Police vocalist) Sting during the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards
Biggie's biggest chart hit was with the song "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems," an upbeat number featuring rappers Mase and Puff Daddy, and sampling the disco song "I'm Coming Out" by Diana Ross for the beat.
Biggie's first hit "One More Chance" was sampled by pop music artist Ashanti.
kodman, israel - notes: "One More Chance" in the single remix version sampled a song called "Stay With Me", ashanti sampled the same source for her song "foolish" and irv gutti made a remix with biggie's verse from "fucking you tonight" song.
"Ready to Die" is a true classic by biggie. 15 classic songs, 1 intro & 1 interlude, inculds the best hustlers/playas/pimps hiphop anthem of all time: "big poppa". the albums starts with talks of the past "back in the days" continue with songs that will make your mouth wide open, also songs that will kick your ass back to the ground, for example the sharp-witty-clever line "I am seeing body after body & our mayor Guiliani ain't tryin to see no black man turn to John Gotti". one of the best hiphop albums of all time and for opinion of a lot of hiphop fans "THE BEST hiphop album of all time".
In 1995 after everyone wonder about the shouts in ready to die album about "junior mafia" or "j. mafia qlique" biggie relesed album called "Conspiracy" by Junior M-a-f-i-a (initials of "M-asters A-t F-inding I-ntelligent A-ttitudes" with some big's verses over the album, and some of lil' kim and lil' ceaser best verses EVER.
on 1996 he droped some kickin' verse's on jay-z's debut album "reasonable doubt"
on 1997 "Life After Death" biggie's second album got out, only 2 weeks after biggie's murder. It hitted number 1 on the charts with hit singles all around the US from california to new york. sold 10 million copys and it is the biggest selling hiphop album of all time.
on the end of 1997 puff daddy a.k.a p. diddy a.k.a whatever realesed if debut album "No Way Out" with some biggie verses and even biggie singing "been around the world" hook over david bowies sample ("let's dance!") but the single that carried this album to the top was "I'll Be Missing You" big's tribute. on 1999 puff's relesed the lame album Born Again. latley puff latted 50 Cent to sample biggie's verses from "Niggas" (born again) in a song called "To All My Niggas" got out as a single and hitted N.Y radios and also got out on some rocafella b-sides & some street mixtapes by shady records and other djs. kod.
Discography
- Ready to Die (Bad Boy Records, 1995)
- Life After Death (Bad Boy Records, 1997)
- Born Again (Bad Boy Records, 1999)