Havoc and Mobb Deep get their hands on this for the dreamy, hardcore production, and Biggie once again takes a darker route on this track. “Last Day” probably has the best artist feature on the entire album with The Lox. Kelly that brings a more sexual theme to the album. His first official feature contains a verse from R. Then, Biggie changes things up tonally with the song, “(Bleep) You Tonight,” featuring R. There is a skit in the beginning featuring D-Dot that could have erased though. We see some of that legendary production on “Kick in the Door,” where again Biggie shows off his ability to make people think while jamming. The dark production from this track leads into more of a club banger with “Hypnotize.” Commercially, one of his best songs of all-time, Biggie uses lyrics like, “Poppa been smooth since days of underoos,” and, “Dare I squeeze three at your cherry M-3, bang every MC easily,” to discuss the harshness of the streets with his clever lyrical ability.
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He has lyrics in this song that describes his dealer lifestyle prior to rapping, which may help in his character’s current situation on the song. Whether true or not, Biggie takes listeners down a dark road on the first official song on the album, “Somebody’s Gotta Die.” The track follows a drug dealer informing Biggie that one of their friends had gotten murdered for stealing from a crack dealer. The double disc track-list of 24 songs isn’t just an album, it’s a cinematic experience set in Brooklyn, New York during the mid-90s. Biggie’s unconventional lyrics and exceptional production from RZA, DJ Premier, Puff Daddy, and Havoc created for a timeless masterpiece. Biggie was always known as a storyteller, and this project was the perfect representation of that. Not only do listeners laugh on this album, but there are themes on here that can be serious, realistic, and impactful. What makes Life After Death so memorable in music history is the fact that Biggie can mix in so many different emotions. Sixteen days later, on March 25, 1997, the classic album was released, and hip hop changed forever. Sadly, Biggie was involved in a drive-by shooting that would kill him in Los Angeles in March of 1997, immediately following the finishing of his second studio album, Life After Death. When his first project, Ready to Die came out in 1994, Biggie solidified himself as the central piece of the East Coast hip hop scene, pitted up against the very talented West Coast crew of Tupac and Snoop Dogg. With only two studio albums under his belt, Biggie Smalls is still considered to be one of the most influential rappers of all time. No one was better at that then Notorious B.I.G. I listen to this song all the time.The genre of hip hop in the 1990s was all about storytelling. I really hate the person who shot Biggie. When he first played the loop for Biggie, Biggie smiled and hugged him." He had always remembered that summer and that song. He told me that in the summer of 1979 when he was I think 10 years old the song was a huge hit everywhere in New York and 'Rise' along with Chic's 'Good Times' were 'The Songs' that all the kids were dancing and roller skating to that summer. Diddy (known as Puff Daddy at the time) produced this and sampled the music from Herb Alpert's 1979 hit "Rise," which was written by Andy Armer and Herb's nephew, Randy Badazz Alpert, who told us: "I asked Puffy, in 1996 when he first called me concerning using 'Rise' for 'Hypnotize,' why he chose the 'Rise' groove.
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But this song is without any doubt his best song, amazing! The lyrics, the flow.
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Most of this list is terrible, no "Kick In The Door", "Warning", This is the greatest song Biggie could have because he told his whole life in 5 minute with those great rhymes, meaningful lyrics and nice and good background beat/music. Best Notorious tune ever, I will never get mad to it. The beat is perfect, the flow too, and we can see his mother at the end of the clip. This song reminds me a lot of my 90's period, I can't even explain why this song is the best of Notorious big. Tupac was more about the deeper lyrics and his songs were about what was being said in the songs. Biggie was about the wordplay in his songs, the rhymes, and in that sense, his songs were masterpieces. G was better than Tupac, but they were different.