Your reaction to when you heard Biggie's Ready to Die for the first time

[the author]

Honestly, didn't care for it too much when it first came out but I was mad young...over time it became a personal favorite til today.

 

[phatphuck]

i was bumpin the fuq outta gimme the loot, and was wondering who that other cat rhymin wit big on the track cuz he sounded iller

 

[jerzboy]

fukk all the bullshyt...

if Biggie was alive today 85% of the rappers out now would be flipping burgers....real talk.

tell me i'm lying.

You're lying

 

[Mr. Negative]

I'm not gonna lie....

Ready to Die is my LEAST favorite album from the "Torch Carrying" rappers of that era.

The only songs I listened to were Everyday Struggle, The What, MachineGun Funk, Warning and Me & My bytch.

I'm gonna catch hate for saying it, but hey... fukk it.

 

[Insensitive]

I listened to it and immediately respected Biggie as an Emcee,Song Writer,Story Teller
and as an artist.
I remember sitting down, playing the album and just having my whole view of Hip Hop
shifted in one sitting.
It was given to me as a gift by my aunt and around the time and I knew Big's history but
I didn't know big's music like that.

I already respected Jay-Z and Nas, I'd listened to Biggie in passing at a young age but around this time I listened to a lot of underground. When I turned it on I didn't know I was about to sit through one hell of an experience, when this album had reached it's end I felt like I'd just sat through an amazing film.

In fact I think I'm going to play this sh1t again, Gimme The Loot ? Machine Gun Funk ? Me & My bytch ? The What ? Damn this album has nothing but bangers from beginning to end.

i was bumpin the fuq outta gimme the loot, and was wondering who that other cat rhymin wit big on the track cuz he sounded iller

The other dude is BIG.

 

[Capitol]

i was bumpin the fuq outta gimme the loot, and was wondering who that other cat rhymin wit big on the track cuz he sounded iller

 

[Curioser]

I'm not gonna lie....

Ready to Die is my LEAST favorite album from the "Torch Carrying" rappers of that era.

The only songs I listened to were Everyday Struggle, The What, MachineGun Funk, Warning and Me & My bytch.

I'm gonna catch hate for saying it, but hey... fukk it.

Thats real talk I feel the same way..

 

[phatphuck]

The other dude is BIG.

yeah i didnt know at first when big was like 'my man inf had a tech and a 9 at my crib', then the 'other guy' started spitting '...and im stressed yo biggie lemme get the vest...' i thought the other guy on the track was called 'inf'

 

[DANJ!]

shyt had me dazed. A lot of the beats were next-level from what a lot of people had at the time ("Things Done Changed", "Warning")... Biggie was killin' it lyrically... Only songs I don't recall liking the first time I heard it were "Big Poppa" and "Respect". Or should I say those were the only ones I thought were just "aiiiight". But good got-damn... from the intro to the end, I was stuck on it. Up until then, the album I listened to most in '94 was Illmatic... but when RTD came out, that was pretty much the soundtrack for the fall and following winter. Played that shyt every morning on the way to school, at night when I was home... took me a hot minute to stop listenin' to that album regularly.

 

[The War Report]

 

[phatphuck]

btw was 'gimmie the loot' the first (maybe even only time?) when a rapper acted as two different ppl on a track?

 

[CASHAPP]

btw was 'gimmie the loot' the first (maybe even only time?) when a rapper acted as two different ppl on a track?

Kim

 

[Nick Barnes]

My favorite album of all time.

 

[CASHAPP]

Kim

my bad just reread the comment before

yeah Em was just one person using 2 different voices

Biggie actually was 2 different people

 

[rapdonttweet]

btw was 'gimmie the loot' the first (maybe even only time?) when a rapper acted as two different ppl on a track?

Masta Ace pretended to be Biz Markie on Me and the Biz.