Biggie - Ready To Die 25th Anniversary Appreciation Thread

[djfilthyrich]

Biggie smalls is the illest

Biggie's last interview

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

The What
Warning
Unbelievable

Classic album even though i prefer LAD

likewise

 

[djfilthyrich]

 

[Street Knowledge]

It’s crazy that Meth is the only guest rapper on the album. Big carries the entire album

 

[Danie84]

Seein Body after Body and Mayor GuiliaNi ain't trying to See a Black Man turn to John Gotti

 

[Mike the Executioner]

If I wasn't in the rap game, I'd probably have a key knee deep in the crack game
Because the streets is a short stop
Either you're slinging crack rock, or you got a wicked jump shot
shyt, it's hard being young from the slums
Eating five-cent gums, not knowing where your meals coming from
And now the shyt's getting crazier and major
Kids younger than me, they got the Sky Gram pagers
Going out of town, blowing up
Six months later, all the dead bodies showing up
It make me wanna grab the nine and the shotty
But I gotta go identify the body
Damn, what happened to the summertime cookouts?
Every time I turn around, a nikka getting took out
shyt, my mama got cancer in her breast
Don't ask me why I'm motherfukking stressed, things done changed

 

[really tho]

 

[Kogami]

Way better than Life After Death.

 

[3rdWorld]

Without a doubt one of my most spun albums ever. I played this mainly on tape that my sister bought for me..
Blew me away how intense this album is..

 

[Knicksman20]

 

[smokeurobinson]

I copped the juicy single back then cuz that song was poppin and the b side was unbelievable, copped ready to die 1st day it dropped.bumped it on the way home from school

Copped the Ready To Die CD and Big Daddy Kanes "Daddys Home" CD the same day. Threw Biggie on first cuz I didnt know what to expect and thought I was saving the best for last. Little did I know I threw the classic on first and saved the dud for last.

 

[djfilthyrich]

It’s crazy that Meth is the only guest rapper on the album. Big carries the entire album

Yup....even more testament to Big. It's unfortunate though that Nas didn't end up gettin on the Gimme The Loot RMX as planned:

Quote from Nas from his DJ Khaled interview
“I know he had tried to get me on Ready to Die and um, it never happened, so he wanted to do the ‘Gimme the Loot’ remix, so we was in there to do [the song]. ‘Cause Ready to Die had already come out and was already killing everything and so we was in there trying to do that.” Trying is the operative word, as Esco then begins to describe what went down next and how it derailed any productive recording that was meant to take place. “He put up the beat and I started writing, but then he started smoking this shyt,” he says. “He had some of that chocolate and uh, he lit some of that up…so we kinda, like, lit and I was like ‘I ain’t got nothing’. I was sayin’ ‘this is over today.'” Despite their elevated state, Nas says Biggie was still able to deliver some impressive lyrics (which would eventually end up on Puff Daddy & the Family’s 1997 track “Young G’s”). On the other hand, Nas wasn’t able to compete and didn’t come up with a verse. As he describes, “I knew it was a wrap for me that night and um, you know, he went on and did that [track] without me,” concluding his anecdote of the evening in question by saying “after witnessing that genius, I just went home.”

Nas Details That Time He & Biggie Were Supposed to Collaborate (Video)

 

[Sir Brehsington]

So let's get this straight....you want us to NOT celebrate the 25th anniversary of a legendary artist & hip hop album, all because Pac died today?
Do you know how ridiculous you sound? That is the DUMBEST thing I've ever heard (and I'm a Pac fan!). It's YOU who needs to get the fukk outta here . Anything else you'd like? How about the earth to stop revolving for the day? Would that be enough?

Shout out to the people who voted 5 stars on this thread to cancel out this lame's 1-star vote

Smh. The fact you have to explain this at all...

Prob a CAC or a young dummy.

 

[Megadeus]

Yup....even more testament to Big. It's unfortunate though that Nas didn't end up gettin on the Gimme The Loot RMX as planned:

Quote from Nas from his DJ Khaled interview
“I know he had tried to get me on Ready to Die and um, it never happened, so he wanted to do the ‘Gimme the Loot’ remix, so we was in there to do [the song]. ‘Cause Ready to Die had already come out and was already killing everything and so we was in there trying to do that.” Trying is the operative word, as Esco then begins to describe what went down next and how it derailed any productive recording that was meant to take place. “He put up the beat and I started writing, but then he started smoking this shyt,” he says. “He had some of that chocolate and uh, he lit some of that up…so we kinda, like, lit and I was like ‘I ain’t got nothing’. I was sayin’ ‘this is over today.'” Despite their elevated state, Nas says Biggie was still able to deliver some impressive lyrics (which would eventually end up on Puff Daddy & the Family’s 1997 track “Young G’s”). On the other hand, Nas wasn’t able to compete and didn’t come up with a verse. As he describes, “I knew it was a wrap for me that night and um, you know, he went on and did that [track] without me,” concluding his anecdote of the evening in question by saying “after witnessing that genius, I just went home.”

Nas Details That Time He & Biggie Were Supposed to Collaborate (Video)

The equivalent to a breh asking you to team up for 2 on 2 and he proceeds to drain 11 straight buckets on they azz without you ever touching ball.

 

[Dynamite James]

Copped the Ready To Die CD and Big Daddy Kanes "Daddys Home" CD the same day. Threw Biggie on first cuz I didnt know what to expect and thought I was saving the best for last. Little did I know I threw the classic on first and saved the dud for last.