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Ready to Die (Music)
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Ready to Die is the first album (of two) by The Notorious B.I.G., released on September 13th, 1994.The album is in part a semi-autobiographical (and exaggerated) account of Biggie's younger days as a criminal, and consists of mostly hardcore gangsta rap, with a few light party jams (the most popular being the first single "Juicy", although the second single, "Big Poppa", is no slouch, either).It went on to become one of the biggest-selling hip-hop albums of all time, helping revitalize the East Coast hip-hop scene commercially in the face of the West Coast's dominance in the early 90s. Three of its songs — "Juicy", "Big Poppa", and "Warning" — went on to become singles, accompanied by music videos.Sadly, Ready to Die was the only album Biggie saw the release of during his lifetime — he was murdered in Los Angeles just 16 days before the release of his second album, ironically named Life After Death.XXL Magazine has an in-depth, track-by-track article about the making of Ready to Die, available right here. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Most of the humor on the album is this. The shining example is probably "Gimme the Loot"; you can't help but laugh at a lot of Biggie's lines just because they're so mean. "I wouldn't give a fuck if you're pregnant / gimme the baby rings, and the #1 Mom pendant!" Although infamous due to preceding the 9/11 attacks, the line "...blow up like the world trade" from "Juicy", which referred to the 1993 bombings, was still a pretty morbid joke at the time, given that it killed eight people and injured over a thousand. | |
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Title Track | |
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Title Track: "Ready to Die". | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Method Man joins Biggie on "The What". | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Referenced in "The What", where Biggie complains that, "Pop Duke left mom Duke. The faggot took the back way." | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: "Me & My Bitch" ends with Biggie getting a distress page from his titular girlfriend. He goes to her, but it's too late - she's been shot dead. The whole album ends with "Suicidal Thoughts", which finds Biggie contemplating and finally committing suicide. It's softened a bit on the Remaster version, which ends the album with the bonus tracks "Who Shot Ya?" and "Just Playing (Dreams)", but "Suicidal Thoughts" is still the true ending. | |
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Donut Mess with a Cop | |
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Donut Mess with a Cop: In "Gimme the Loot", after robbing the bank, stealing a getaway car and robbing the couple inside, the younger robber freaks out when he sees the cops nearby, but the older one just says "Be cool, fool / they ain't gonna roll up, all they want is fuckin' donuts." He underestimated them. | |
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Sampling | |
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Sampling: All over the album, of course, but to name just the most notable cases... The album intro, which is a summary of Biggie's life up until the recording of the album, uses samples to mark the notable time periods of not just his life, but of hip-hop: He's born to Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly" in the '70s, gets in trouble as a kid in '79/the early '80s to The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" (marking the birth of hip-hop), commits robbery as a teenager in the '80s to Audio Two's "Top Billin'" (marking the Golden Age of hip-hop), and is released from prison in the early '90s to Snoop Dogg's "Tha Shiznit" (marking the rise of West Coast hip hop in the early '90s). "Gimme the Loot", "Machine Gun Funk" and "Ready to Die" became the source of some legal trouble in 2006 over their samples of "Singing in the Morning" by the Ohio Players (both "Gimme the Loot" and "Ready to Die") and "Up for the Down Stroke" by the Horny Horns ("Machine Gun Funk"). The samples were removed on all further pressings. note Puffy and Bad Boy Records were criticized by some for not using the "fair use" doctrine, but in 2014 when The Impressions member Lee Hutson sued for the alleged illegal sampling of "Can't Say Enough About Mom" in "The What", they did successfully claim fair use and got to keep the sample. "Warning" samples "Walk On By" by Isaac Hayes. The hook of "One More Chance" is based on The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" ("Oh Biggie, give me one more chance...") "Juicy" samples (and is named for) "Juicy Fruit" by Mtume. "Everyday Struggle" samples "Either Way" by Dave Grusin. "Big Poppa" samples "Between the Sheets" by The Isley Brothers. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The album starts and ends with life and death: the intro begins with a childbirth scene, and the closing track "Suicidal Thoughts" ends with Biggie committing suicide. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Bad Boy labelhead and Biggie's best bud Puffy serves as executive producer. Easy Mo Bee handled the majority of the production, but there are also beats by DJ Premier, Lord Finesse, the Trackmasters, Darnell Scott, Chucky Thompson and the Bluez Brothers (no, not these guys). | |
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Manly Tears | |
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Manly Tears: Biggie starts crying when he finds out his girlfriend's been murdered at the end of "Me & My Bitch". | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: "Juicy". The title makes sense when you realize that it samples "Juicy Fruit" by Mtume, but the word doesn't appear anywhere in the song. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: "Suicidal Thoughts". | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: "Me & My Bitch". | |
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Bolivian Army Ending | |
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Bolivian Army Ending: "Gimme the Loot" ends with Biggie and his accomplice getting cornered by the cops and engaging them in a shootout. We don't find out who won; a sample of Ice Cube saying "Take that, muthafuckas!" is heard, but that could be from either party. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: The two bank robbers in "Gimme the Loot" (both played by Biggie). The younger one is the hotheaded, skittish Red, while the older one is the cooler, more confident Blue. | |
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Bank Robbery | |
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Bank Robbery: "Gimme the Loot" is about two criminals (both rapped by Biggie) sticking up a bank. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Most notably "Gimme the Loot" and "Who Shot Ya?" | |
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Gangsta Rap | |
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Gangsta Rap: A mix of Blue Collar, Commercial and Hardcore, with a pinch of Mafioso (the Mafioso influence would become greater on his second album). | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: "Unbelievable" contains a jab at old-school polka-dot wearing rapper Kwame in the line "Your life is played out like Kwame and them fuckin' polka dots". Most infamously, however, "Who Shot Ya?" (initially released as a B-side on the "Big Poppa" single) was interpreted by 2Pac as a diss aimed at him mocking his '94 shooting (as well as proof that Biggie had orchestrated it). That's unlikely (Lil' Cease stated that Biggie recorded the song months before the shooting), and the song doesn't explicitly mention 2Pac (or anyone in particular, for that matter), but Biggie did perform the song live a lot during their beef, which Pac found very insensitive. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: From "Me & My Bitch" - "You look so good, huh, I suck on your daddy's dick." | |
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Rags to Riches | |
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Rags to Riches: "Juicy" is all about this. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Warning", "Juicy", "Respect" and "Unbelievable". | |
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White Void Room | |
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White Void Room: The album cover. | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: Shockingly enough, "Ready to Die". | |
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Updated Re-release | |
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Updated Re-release: In 2004, The Remaster was released. In addition to being a remastered version of the album, it adds "Who Shot Ya?" and "Just Playing (Dreams)" as bonus tracks and includes a DVD containing the music videos. | |
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African-American Media / int_6ec112dd | |
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Gangsta Rap / int_6ec112dd | |
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Hardcore Hip-Hop / int_6ec112dd | |
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| The Golden Age of Hip Hop | seeAlso |
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