First, we’ll look at production and then go through track by track with a rating and best verse/bars as well as album strengths, weaknesses, and the overall album rating. It is still ranked as one of the greatest albums in Hip Hop and the album that gave Bad Boy the notoriety it has today. Let’s take a closer look at the album that made Biggie a legend. BIG’s album had a perfect balance of easy to understand tales from the streets, smooth laid back bangers and a delivery and flow that was (and still is) unmatched in the industry. Not only would he release his debut “ Ready To Die” but with it, he would change the entire New York rap scene. While BIG was still getting his feet wet in the industry, 1994 would change all of that. The following year in 1993, we would hear BIG as a guest appearance on a few tracks until his solo “Party And Bullshit” and of course the “Flava In Ya Ear” remix with LL and Busta.

BIG would also leave Uptown and sign to the new label. Before anything would happen with Uptown though, Puffy would get fired from the label and went out on his own to create “Bad Boy Records”. It was as a result of this column that Uptown Records caught wind of this rapper and set up a meeting and later Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs would sign Smalls to the label. In 1992, that column would introduce rap fans to a hidden gem who went by the name of Biggie Smalls (taken from a 1975 movie character). – Ready To Dieįor those of us who religiously bought and read The Source magazine back in the nineties, we will always remember the often forgotten but highly anticipated column “Unsigned Hype”.

( Republished from , By The Notorious B.I.G.

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