* Our Collingwood shop has large selection of vinyl with over 1,000 titles to choose from. From the recording process to the label situation, the legal hustle provoked by the samples, it is not just one story, it's multiple stories surrounding this album. It's simply one of the best albums ever, one that every rap fan can talk about with lyrics everyone can quote - or should be able to quote from. How to describe this album with words that have not been used over and over again? Without superlatives? Not possible. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Ready to Die: The Remaster (2006) Explicit Lyrics (CD) at Target. I listen to this song all the time.One of the greatest albums in HipHop ever with one of the most iconic album covers of all time - right next to Nas' Illmatic and Wu-Tangs 'Enter The Wu'. Read reviews and buy The Notorious B.I.G. The album cover is often cited as one of the greatest of all time, with Billboard magazine placing it no.4 on its list of The 50 Greatest Album Covers of All. 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. But this song is without any doubt his best song, amazing! The lyrics, the flow. 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.

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