There are also a few rarities at the end (“Come On,” with Sadat X, the original “Who Shot Ya?” demo and others), but if you’ve ever searched “Notorious B.I.G.” on Limewire, chances are you’ve heard them before.
'Juicy' contains a sample of Mtume 's 1983 song, 'Juicy Fruit', though it is. It was produced by Poke of the duo Trackmasters and Sean 'Puffy' Combs based on an original version produced by Pete Rock. And who doesn’t know that the two censored words from “Gimme the Loot” are “pregnant” and “strangled”? song) ' Juicy ' is the first single by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. 13), and much like any relic in hip-hop, theres a lot about Biggies debut album that you may not be aware of. A jazz-guitar loop sounds all right as the original backdrop for the title track, but it also means it lacks the epic, echo-heavy drive of the original Pete Rock’s drum loop on “Juicy” trades the original’s angular beat for a bouncy-but-boring alternative. The Notorious B.I.G.s Ready to Die turns 20 years old tomorrow (Sept. Instead of a guitar loops that spirals downward, the version of “Me & My *$&%!” that appears here has a low-key guitar figure that works its way upward.īut most of the “never-heard-before” moments are unexciting. “The What” features an alternate first verse, DJ Premier supplies what was apparently the original beat for “Machine Gun Funk” (though it’s kind of repetitive and not as good as the lazy guitar loop that appears on the main album). elevated the form to a divine art of brutal. While hardly the first to rap about the pleasures and pitfalls of drug dealing, The Notorious B.I.G. Edition)," a mixtape released by DJ Semi and available through, purports to be Biggie’s original vision for the landmark record, featuring extra verses, alternate beats that were scrapped because a sample couldn’t be cleared or because a better one came along, and demos.Īnd there are some interesting moments. By naming his debut Ready to Die, the Brooklyn rapper bluntly encapsulated both his fearless, take-no-prisoners lyrical style and his perpetual sixth sense that death could come for him at any time. But even more so than "Madvillainy," the Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 debut, "Ready to D.I.E.," is among the top 10 hip-hop records, period.ĭespite my co-worker Adam Huber’s insistence that Biggie sounded like he was trying to rap with six packs of Bubblicious in his mouth, the gritty detail in his rhymes and the way he commanded attention puts him in firmly on the Mount Rushmore of Rappers. Eight years on from the albums release, and their original review, they bumped it up to a 5 mic rating. 1 from this week's Madvillain review, it’s never a good idea to mess with a classic.
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