Period’s March 9 series) and unfulfilling official releases ( Duets: The Final Chapter and Faith Evans’ The King & I), which allows an alternative perspective over the original production and also what might have been.īeing a snapshot of one of the all time greats growing into his prime, it’s not unfair to say that the production is the least interesting part of Ready To Die. With some notable exceptions, at best it doesn’t get in his way or distract from his engrossing storytelling. The years since his death have seen an extraordinary amount of recycling of Biggie’s verses for new albums, including some revelatory bootlegs (J. The rich-gangster-who-came-from-nothing persona that the Brooklyn rapper portrays is fully formed across the record, and though this was his debut, he writes of riches and celebrity as if his notoriety was well established, and references both his mother and producer Sean ‘Puffy’ Combes like his personal biography is already the stuff of legends. The audacity of vision is astounding - a concept record that mapped a fictionalised version Biggie’s life from birth to suicide - and remains an epic form of myth making. The years have been kind to Ready To Die it’s pop-leaning singles can still be heard regularly at clubs, while Biggie’s gritty street narration matched with charm, wit and a remarkable flow have had a profound influence on the rap universe ever since.
in his lifetime, has now lived longer than its creator ever did, with September 13 marking its 25th anniversary. Ready To Die, the only album released by The Notorious B.I.G. in 1994, Photo by Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
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