

“I remember when he was doing the title track, I was a little disturbed,” Easy Mo Bee, who produced several of the album’s standouts, tells Apple Music. elevated the form to a divine art of brutal honesty. While hardly the first to rap about the pleasures and pitfalls of drug dealing, The Notorious B.I.G. 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.

The partly autobiographical album tells the story of the rapper's experiences as a young criminal, and was the only studio album released during his lifetime.By the age of 22, Christopher Wallace had already lived quite the life. It was recorded from 1993 to 1994 at The Hit Factory and D&D Studios in New York City. The album features productions by Bad Boy founder Sean "Puffy" Combs, Easy Mo Bee, Chucky Thompson, DJ Premier, and Lord Finesse, among others.

Ready to Die is the debut studio album by rapper The Notorious B.I.G., originally released in 1994. The partly autobiographical album tells the story of the rapper's experiences as a young criminal, and was the only studio album released during his lifetime. PREORDER Dayglow - People in Motion plus Catalog Vinylĭouble vinyl LP pressing.
