March 9.
GENERAL By Gotty™ on March 9, 2007 at 8:11 am
What’s expected today is for us to create a big salutations post to Big.
Realistically, what can we say that hasn’t been said?
If you don’t know by now, you’d be best served dusting yourself off after you climb from under that rock.
Ready To Die, coupled with a few choice others, signaled that the West’s reign of g-funk inspired popularity in previous years had ended, at least until Pac & the Row came on the scene later. We won’t even go into that though.
I’m old enough to remember when the cassette. Yes, cassette because CDs weren’t the preferred choice of media for most. It was my first year of college and I remembered my freshman survival kit contained in my backpack consisted of a few constants: my Walkman, extra batteries and two tapes – Illmatic and Ready To Die.
At the time, most of us were in awe. You had to listen to it in bits & pieces, and in sections because Big did so much with the album lyrically & conceptually. And if you look back, it was a part of a turning point for hip-hop because never before had an artist had an equal amount of commercial success and street love.
Chicks loved him…They used to sub in names for the chorus of “One More Chance.”
Purists loved him because this was before the idea that there was any subgenres of hip-hop. Backpackers, thugs, intellectual…everybody could find a track to vibe to.
Street aggins loved him…I remember Low the barber always yelling out “…and then we cry together, lie together/I swear to God I hope we fuckin die together!”
Everybody loved him – Imagine that bar scene in Hardball where Keanu is singin “Big Poppa” occurring everywhere because you could find anyone singing that song. Your mom & dad. Aunties. Old ass player uncles played it in their whips. Anybody.
So really, there wasn’t much to be said that hasn’t been said in previous years.
And in light of Big’s death, Canibus quite possibly said it better than any journalist could have anyways.
The Best of Biggie Hosted by Mister Cee
As an aside, you can peep Mister Cee Speaking on Biggie. In all truth, we owe Cee just as much as Puff for exposing us to Christopher Wallace in his rawest form.
Simply Red – Stay (2007)
Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers – Upside Down
Wynton Marsalis – From The Plantation To The Penitentiary
Stephen_Marley-Mind_Control-2007
Worldwide Legacy Presents Wayne’s World 5
VA-OG_Ron_C_Presents-Grind_Mode_2_(Hosted_By_Khujo_Goodie)
Corinne Bailey Rae – Live In London & New York
VA – The Timeless Interpretations (Dopeness Galore)
Sounds Of The Seventies: 70’s Dance Party Boxset (6 Discs)
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I was in the 12th grade when BIG passed. I remember that day very clearly. I was getting ready for school when the news came on Hot 97. He’s always been one of my favorites. I never got emotional about his death until today. Maybe because it’s the 10th anniversary…I don’t know, but in 10 yeas it never really got to me they way it did today.
RIP
R.I.P. Biggie Smalls Aka The Notorious BIG
Christopher Wallace is great !!!
Ready to die ! The prophecy ! Life after Death ! The prophecy run !
His HIP-HOP IS Universal, Emotional, and INFINITE !!! Reeeaaalll !
Oh My God !!!
You’re the “Brooklyn’s Finest” !!!
The HipHop’s Finest !!!
H to the Izzo, V to the Izza !
Eternal !
I LOVE U MAN !
PEACE Y’ALL
#
Ready 2 Die Remastered
http://lix.in/c7b990
Life Afta Death
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QMOI3Z85
Biggie vs Sinatra – Blue Eyes Meets Bedstuy
http://rapidshare.com/files/8211604/Notorious_B.I.G.___Frank_Sinatra-Blue_Eyes_Meets_Bed_Stuy-2005.rar.html
Jay-Z & Biggie – The Commision mixtape
http://rapidshare.com/files/14829077/Jay-Z_And_Notorious_BIG-The_Commission-Bootleg-2006-UKP.rar
Biggie Duets
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=99R1QCYY
King Of New York
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6KSQWGPS
Unsolved Mysteries
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WV0VRMXI
Rap Phenomenon
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X3YP15GP
Comment by R.I.P. – Biggie Smalls — March 9, 2007 @ 6:48 am
BIG R.I.P
For all you cats in the NL tonight a tribute gig in the Bitterzoet(Amsterdam!)
For more info : http://www.nalden.net/comments.php?id=903_0_1_0_C
The_Notorious_B.I.G.-Hot_97_Tribute_Mix-TAPE-1998
http://rapidshare.com/files/19878763/The_Notorious_B.I.G.-Hot_97_Tribute_Mix-TAPE-1998-WCRpart1.rar.html
Biggie and Pac are sorely missed.. I shed tears for both when I heard the news my senior year in highschool..
On another note.. Can somebody reup the Amy Winehouse links? I was sleeping on them and don’t wanna miss out :)
Thanks!!
Anyone got the password for the Wynton Marsalis album?
Glad you got that stephen marley posted….too bad you dont have the video posted that i did for the first single..holla…still workin on that press pass
#1 on my all-time list…..
R.I.P B-I-G!!!!!
I was just the tender age of 10 when I got the news of B.I.G.’s death. Surprisingly enough, my moms loved Biggie, and we’re from Compton. So him and Snoop got played non-stop.
Life After Death changed my life. Its arguably the best hip hop album ever, like Gotty said ‘commercially’ and ‘hood-wise’.
Big up.
K – you gotta holler @ me when you get those shits man. charge it to my head and not my heart. Get @ me w/it.
& definitely keep me posted. I’mma hit you on Sun as a reminder.
I had that Mister Cee in high school and of course it disappeared to god knows where about two months after I got it; thanks for putting that up
That Mister Cee was the shit when it dropped. mine also disappeared. thanks for the post…
I’m with you on the Illmatic and Ready to Die tapes on me at all times during my junior year of college. Both those shits were ill.
biggie was an over-rated fat fuck!!! lazy as hell, too! ny cats WISH he was the the g.o.a.t. cuz after he died ny rap took a plunge that they havent recovered from. i just wish you cats would stop jocking a nigga who was smoke & mirrors…at best
great guest post on the site about 5 of biggie’s mashups including gnarls biggie
http://findasoul4sale.blogspot.com/2008/03/mix-after-death-five-best-biggie.html