What happened in the intervening period would weigh on anybody’s soul.
Life After Death gave us a dapper don who always dressed like he was ready for a funeral. Big was rocking Kangol hats, Coogi sweaters, dark sunglasses, and a pager tucked into his baggie jeans. The 22-year-old Bed-Stuy emcee channeled his experiences as a low-level street hood and dreams of large-scale success through vivid lyricism and superhuman rap ability. The cinematic rise and fall of a gangster gave us the clearest iteration of the New York street hustler this side of Super Fly. Released in 1994, Ready to Die is a rum punch of a rap record - maybe the greatest ever made. Without Life After Death, Biggie’s oeuvre would have leaned on just one album. Rarely has an artist done so much in a discography so compact. The way things played out makes Life After Death a chilling work of dark prophecy. Had its creator lived to see its release, the album would still have been a cutting meditation on mortality, akin to Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal. Yet, flowing through its platinum outline is the dark specter of death. It’s a blockbuster rap record - all fulsome beats, commanding verses, unchecked experimentation, sharp pop instincts, and mammoth singles. But we was always still cool with him and wound up sampling some of his records and he wound up not chasing me for them in the future.The legend of Big was crystallized on his double-disc sophomore opus, Life After Death, released just 16 days after his death. “But this was during a time when Prince wasn’t really rocking with hip-hop and wasn’t really clearing any samples, so that really didn’t go too well. “We met with Prince We did the thing ('This Time Around') with Michael Jackson, and me and was always Prince fans and stuff like that,” Diddy explained. Though the album did sample the late artist’s work, the Bad Boy team was attempting to lock down a full-fledged feature. In honor the album’s 20th anniversary, Bad Boy Records boss Sean “Diddy” Combs appeared on Revolt TV to share his Life After Death memories, some of which have never been heard before.ĭuring the sit down, the hip-hop mogul revealed he and Biggie were in talks with Prince. There’s no doubt the impact of Biggie’s sophomore album is still seen today however, after two decades since its release, there are a number of untold stories about Life After Death, including how it came to be and what it almost was. The two-disc project is widely regarded as one of the most influential releases in hip-hop, as it took the traditional dark subject matters of gangsta rap and fused them with radio-friendly, infectious beats. released his seminal and final album Life After Death. Twenty years ago on March 25, The Notorious B.I.G.
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