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[Intro: Puff Daddy]
Yeah..
Yeah..
You ready motherfucker?
We gon' kill your ass.
As I grab the glock, put it to your headpiece
One in the chamber, the safety is off release
Straight at your dome homes, I wanna see cabbage
Biggie Smalls the savage, doin your brain cells much damage
Teflon is the material for the imperial
mic ripper girl stripper the Henny sipper
I drop lyrics off and on like a lightswitch
Quick to grab the right bitch and make her drive
the Q-45, glocks and tecs are expected when I wreck shit
Respect is collected, so check it
I got techniques drippin out my buttcheeks
Sleep on my stomach so I don't fuck up my sheets, huh
My shit is deep, deeper than my grave G
I'm ready to die and nobody can save me
Fuck the world, fuck my moms and my girl
My life is played out like a jheri curl, I'm ready to die!
[scratched:]
{Yes I'm ready} (X3)
{So die, mothafucka, die mothafucka, die!}
As I sit back and look when I used to be a crook
Doin whatever it took from snatchin chains to pocket books
A big BAD motherfucker on the wrong road
I got some drugs tried to get the avenue sold
I want it all from the Rolexes
to the Lexus gettin paid, is all I expected
My mother didn't give me what I want, what the fuck?
Now I got a glock, makin motherfuckers duck
Shit is real, and hungry's how I feel
I rob and steal because that money got that whip appeal
Kickin niggaz down the steps just for rep
Any repercussion lead to niggaz gettin wet
The infrared's at your head real steady
You better grab your guns cause I'm ready, ready.
[scratched:]
{Yes I'm ready} (X3)
{So die, mothafucka, die mothafucka, die!}
I'm ready to die!
(Nah we ain't gon' kill your ass yet)
(We gonna make you suffer)
In a sec I throw the tec to your fuckin neck
Everybody hit the deck, Biggie bout to get some wreck
Quick to leave you in a coffin, for slick talkin
You better act like CeCe, and keep on walkin
When I hit ya, I split ya to the white meat
You swung on like you slumber right you fell to the conrete
Your face, my feet, they meet, we're stompin
I'm rippin MC's from Tallahassee, to Compton
Biggie Smalls on a higher plane
Niggaz say I'm strange deranged because I put the 12 gauge to
your brain, make your shit splatter
Mix the blood like batter then my pocket gets fatter
after the hit, leave you on the street with your neck split
down your backbone to where your motherfuckin cheek drip
The shit I kick, rip it through the vest
Biggie Smalls passin any test, I'm ready to die!
[Outro: Notorious B.I.G. (Puff)]
I'm ready
(Time to go, we gonna put you out your misery motherfucker)
Niggaz definitely know what time it is
The Notorious one in full effect for '93!
Suicidal, I'm ready!
(Now I lay me down to sleep)
Yeah
(Pray the Lord my soul to keep)
(If I should die before I wake)
(I pray the Lord my soul to take)
(Cause I'm ready to die)
(All y'all motherfuckers come with me if you want to)
(Biggie Smalls the biggest man)
(Rockin on and on in '93, Easy Mo Bee)
(Third Eye, and the rest of the Bad Boy fam)
(I don't wanna see no cryin at my funeral).
Welcome to the new and improved Essential Album of the Week discussion thread!
Every Wednesday we will discuss an album from our Essential Albums list
Last Week:Nas - Illmatic
This Week:Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
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The album that reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age, Ready to Die made the Notorious B.I.G. a star, and vaulted Sean 'Puffy' Combs' Bad Boy label into the spotlight as well. Today it's recognized as one of the greatest hardcore rap albums ever recorded, and that's mostly due to Biggie's skill as a storyteller. His raps are easy to understand, but his skills are hardly lacking -- he has a loose, easy flow and a talent for piling multiple rhymes on top of one another in quick succession. He's blessed with a flair for the dramatic, and slips in and out of different contradictory characters with ease. Yet, no matter how much he heightens things for effect, it's always easy to see elements of Biggie in his narrators and of his own experience in the details; everything is firmly rooted in reality, but plays like scenes from a movie. A sense of doom pervades his most involved stories: fierce bandits ('Gimme the Loot'), a hustler's beloved girlfriend ('Me & My Bitch'), and robbers out for Biggie's newfound riches ('Warning') all die in hails of gunfire. The album is also sprinkled with reflections on the soul-draining bleakness of the streets -- 'Things Done Changed,' 'Ready to Die,' and 'Everyday Struggle' are powerfully affecting in their confusion and despair. Not everything is so dark, though; Combs' production collaborations result in some upbeat, commercial moments, and typically cop from recognizable hits: the Jackson 5's 'I Want You Back' on the graphic sex rap 'One More Chance,' Mtume's 'Juicy Fruit' on the rags-to-riches chronicle 'Juicy,' and the Isley Brothers' 'Between the Sheets' on the overweight-lover anthem 'Big Poppa.' Producer Easy Mo Bee's deliberate beats do get a little samey, but it hardly matters: this is Biggie's show, and by the time 'Suicidal Thoughts' closes the album on a heartbreaking note, it's clear why he was so revered even prior to his death.
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How has this album affected hip-hop? WHY do you like this tape? What are the best tracks? Do you think it deserves the praise it gets? Is it the first time you've listened to it? What's your first impression? Have you listened to the artist before? Explain why you like it or why you don't.
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Ready To Die is ranked as the best album by The Notorious B.I.G.
Members who like this album also like:Illmatic by Nas, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan and Nevermind by Nirvana.
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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1. | Intro | 75/100 (79 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
2. | Things Done Changed | 87/100 (116 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
3. | Gimme The Loot | 88/100 (110 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
4. | Machine Gun Funk | 85/100 (99 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
5. | Warning | 84/100 (96 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
6. | Ready To Die | 85/100 (95 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
7. | One More Chance | 83/100 (93 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
8. | Fuck Me (Interlude) | 54/100 (77 votes) Comments: 7 comments | |
9. | The What (Feat. Method Man) | 81/100 (89 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
10. | Juicy | 90/100 (170 votes) Comments: 3 comments | |
11. | Everyday Struggle | 86/100 (102 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
12. | Me & My Bitch | 79/100 (84 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
13. | Big Poppa | 89/100 (124 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
14. | Respect | 82/100 (85 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
15. | Friend Of Mine | 78/100 (80 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
16. | Unbelievable | 80/100 (78 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
17. | Suicidal Thoughts | 88/100 (108 votes) Comments: 0 comments |
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Related links:top tracks by The Notorious B.I.G.top tracks of the 1990s, top tracks of 1994.
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Latest 20 charts that this album appears in:
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2019 | baystateoftheart | And You Don't Stop | 75/76 | - |
2019 | LebowskiRams | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 95/100 | 6 |
2019 | Space-Dementia | Top 17 Music Albums of 1994 | 7/17 | 3 |
2019 | Cardboardfolder | Top 47 Music Albums of 1994 | 27/47 | 2 |
2019 | Lukeanaderdude | Top 26 Music Albums of the 1990s | 11/26 | 12 |
2019 | Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1994 | 4/50 | 5 |
2019 | RockyRaccoon | Top 43 Music Albums of 1994 | 31/43 | 2 |
2019 | aminoff | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 12/40 | 73 |
2019 | Mother Nature's Son | Top 38 Music Albums of 1994 | 37/38 | 0 |
2019 | Mattdup279 | Top 31 Music Albums of 1994 | 10/31 | 4 |
2019 | Elauqsapid | Top 32 Music Albums of 1994 | 18/32 | 2 |
2019 | AlienCinema | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 90/100 | 11 |
2019 | JR | Top 15 Music Albums of 1994 | 14/15 | 1 |
2019 | saltysurprise | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 18/100 | 17 |
2019 | TheKing | Top 40 Music Albums of 1994 | 2/40 | 5 |
2019 | maxacare | Top 98 Greatest Music Albums | 65/98 | 35 |
2019 | rnanderson8 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 94/100 | 7 |
2019 | rliberty | Top 28 Music Albums of 1994 | 25/28 | 1 |
2019 | guzguzgarbit | Top 35 Music Albums of 1994 | 9/35 | 4 |
2019 | iamthewalrus | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 21/100 | 16 |
Total Charts: | 485 | |||
Total Rank Score: | 10,840 |
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Almost flawless. I'd scrap Friend of Mine. Me & My Bitch and Respect are somewhat enjoyable, but I could leave them too.
Although I like Jay-Z's Blueprint a little more, this album, with its mix of street tales and concept songs and radio hits, actually laid the blueprint for East Coast mainstream rap.
Was going through every rap classic and giving them a listen. Not impressed with this one with the exception of the closing track.
There was a time I HATED this album, boy was I wrong. This is a masterpiece possibly the greatest album in the history of rap music. No Body i mean NOBODY flows like Biggie.
Not much to say. An absolute hip hop classic. Not even going to bother listing my favorite tracks because there are so many.
This is pretty much a classic I don't know what else to say
After several listens, it's apparent how well integrated the songs are to form a cohesive narrative, and each song is touching in its own way.
I think the Intro gave me more understanding of hip-hop/rap than anything else I've ever experienced in just over 3 minutes.
Also, probably my favorite song was Respect (I only pay attention to lyrics like 20-50% of the time.. this one was musically raw and liked Diana King.
Ridiculously enjoyable, so so good, his flows are ridiculous, the Fuck Me interlude was kinda cringe as well as blowjob sounds but this album is unbelievably consistent and brilliant. His lyrics feel so natural and real. Instrumentals are catchy and immersive too. Beats are classic. A pioneer of modern hip-hip for sure. Died far too young.
Gets better with every listen, its official he's a legend
Didn't like it as much as I'd hope.
7.3
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from the album Ready To Die 路Copyright: Writer(s): Clarence Satchell, Barbara Mason, Osten Harvey, Sean Combs, le Roy Roosevelt Bonner, Gregory A. Webster, Christopher Wallace, Marshall Eugene Jones, Walter Morrison, Ralph Middlebrook Lyrics Terms of Use
Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language:
Yeah..
Yeah..
(you ready motherfucker?)
(we gon' kill your ass)
As I grab the glock, put it to your headpiece
One in the chamber, the safety is off release
Straight at your dome homes, I wanna see cabbage
Biggie smalls the savage, doin your brain cells much damage
Teflon is the material for the imperial
Mic ripper girl stripper the henny sipper
I drop lyrics off and on like a lightswitch
Quick to grab the right bitch and make her drive
The q-45, glocks and tecs are expected when I wreck shit
Respect is collected, so check it
I got techniques drippin out my buttcheeks
Sleep on my stomach so I don't fuck up my sheets, huh
My shit is deep, deeper than my grave g
I'm ready to die and nobody can save me
Fuck the world, fuck my moms and my girl
My life is played out like a jheri curl, I'm ready to die
As I sit back and look when I used to be a crook
Doin whatever it took from snatchin chains to pocketbooks
A big bad motherfucker on the wrong road
I got some drugs tried to get the avenue sold
I want it all from the rolexes
To the lexus gettin paid, is all I expected
My mother didn't give me what I want, what the fuck?
Now I got a glock, makin motherfuckers duck
Shit is real, and hungry's how I feel
I rob and steal because that money got that whip appeal
Kickin niggaz down the steps just for rep
Any repercussion lead to niggaz gettin wet
The infrared's at your head real steady
You better grab your guns cause I'm ready, ready
I'm ready to die!
(nah we ain't gon' kill your ass yet)
(we gonna make you suffer)
In a sec I throw the tec to your fuckin neck
Everybody hit the deck, biggie bout to get some wreck
Quick to leave you in a coffin, for slick talkin
You better act like cece, and keep on walkin
When I hit ya, I split ya to the white meat
You swung on like you slumber right you fell to the conrete
Your face, my feet, they meet, we're stompin
I'm rippin mc's from tallahassee, to compton
Biggie smalls on a higher plane
Niggaz say I'm strange deranged because I put the 12 gauge to your brain
Make your shit splatter
Mix the blood like batter then my pocket gets fatter
After the hit, leave you on the street with your neck split
Down your backbone to where your motherfuckin cheek drip
The shit I kick, rip it through the vest
Biggie smalls passin any test, I'm ready to die!
I'm ready
(time to go, we gonna put you out your misery motherfucker)
Niggaz definitely know what time it is
The notorious one in full effect
For ninety-three!
Suicidal, I'm ready!
(now I lay me down to sleep)
Yeah
(pray the lord my soul to keep)
(if I should die before I wake)
(I pray the lord my soul to take)
(cause I'm ready to die)
(all y'all motherfuckers come with me if you want to)
(biggie smalls the biggest man)
(rockin on and on in ninety-three, easy mo bee)
(third eye, and the rest of the bad boy fam)
(I don't wanna see no cryin at my funeral)
Song Discussions is protected by U.S. Patent 9401941. Other patents pending.
Label: Bad Boy Records
'Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game,' Nas observed on 'Represent,' from his impeccable debut album. Where Illmatic exposed the ravages of the drug trade through the eyes of a project poet, Biggie Smalls' debut Ready to Die told a similar story from the inside looking out. This shift in perspective was clear from the opening moments of the album's first single, a cut called 'Juicy' that laid crack-dealer angst over a radio-friendly Mtume sample: 'This album is dedicated to all the teachers who told me I'd never amount to amount to nothin',' Biggie said with more than a touch of bitterness. 'To all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustling in front of that called the police on me when I was just trying' to make some money to feed my daughter, and all the niggas in the struggle.'
Christopher Wallace was well acquainted with said struggle. A small-time hustler who grew up on the streets of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Biggie came to discover that he was even better at rapping than slanging and stickups. He made his name in the rap game battling on street corners and went on to record his demo in the home studio of local DJ 50 Grand. That tape found its way to Big Daddy Kane's DJ Mister Cee and from there to The Source's 'Unsigned Hype' column, which soon landed Biggie in the office of Sean 'Puffy' Combs, the youngest A&R exec in the history of Uptown Records. By that time Puff was already planning to launch his own label and he wanted Biggie down with his team. Biggie's lyrical gifts were undeniable, his booming voice spitting punchlines so hard that they left dents in listeners' brains. But he was nobody's sucker, and took a fair amount of convincing to believe the 'it was all a dream' visions with which Sean 'Puffy' Combs was filling his head.
Comparing Ready to Die and Illmatic may be unfair, but in the end it's unavoidable.
The album was recorded in two bursts of creativity, the first half-hard-body cuts like 'Machine Gun Funk,' 'Things Done Changed' and 'Gimme The Loot'-laid down when Biggie was signed through Uptown Records. After Puffy was fired (no doubt for spending too much time and energy on his own dreams and not enough working for his employer) financial pressures led Biggie to resume hustling in North Carolina while Puffy negotiated the multi-million-dollar deal at Arista to launch his own Bad Boy imprint. The hits came during the second wave of recording: 'Big Poppa' and 'One More Chance' and 'Juicy' were the songs that made the 300-pound-plus BK roughneck an unlikely pop star.
Comparing Ready to Die and Illmatic may be unfair, but in the end it's unavoidable. Like most great MCs after 1994, Biggie was profoundly influenced by Nas. Moreover, the composition of his album—from the cover art that led to Biggie getting called out on 'Shark NIggas (Biters)' from Raekwon's stellar debut OB4CL, to the opening interlude that was so reminiscent of 'The Genesis'—is so close that it almost feels like an Illmatic homage.
There were many important differences as well. While Ready to Die was certified platinum in less than a year, it took almost two years for Nas' debut to be certified gold. Puffy and Biggie proved that New York rappers could earn platinum plaques, even if they did it by taking a page from Dr. Dre's funk-driven production style and blending it with rugged New York beats by the likes of DJ Premier, Easy Mo Bee, and Lord Finesse with tracks that took.
On songs like 'Warning' and 'Unbelievable' Biggie Smalls raps like 'a motherfuckin rap phenomonen,' as he immodestly put it on 'The What,' another of Ready to Die's untouchable classics. Songs like these are what earned Ready to Die its spot among the top 5 albums of rap's greatest decade.
Nas and Big remain two of the greatest MCs in history, and their debuts stand as pillars of New York hip-hop. Where Nas followed his debut with a 20-year career and a rich and varied body of work, Biggie's debut album ended with a song depicting his own suicide. The fact that he did not live to see the release of his masterpiece, Life After Death, says more about hip-hop in the 1990s than 10,000 thinkpieces, and underscores the realness that oozes from every pore of this remarkable album. --Rob Kenner