Notorious Big Full Album
Biography
The Notorious B.I.G.* – Ready To Die Label:Bad Boy Entertainment – 0-2 Format CD,Album Country: US Released:1994 Charles 'Prince Charles' Alexand. Skip navigation Sign in. His debut album Ready to Die (1994). Ready to Die is described by Rolling Stone as a contrast of 'bleak' street visions and being 'full of high-spirited fun, bringing the pleasure principle back to hip-hop'. Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Christopher Wallace was born on May 21, 1972, in Brooklyn, New York. His parents had Jamaican descent. The father left the family when Chris was just eighteen months and this fact made him never think anything good about the old man. He studied together with Busta Rhymes and Jay-Z. Christopher’s mother worked hard day and night to support her son and protect him from the mean streets, but this was not enough. As Chris made friends with the other guys outside he named himself B.I.G. and took up drug dealing. At that time, rapping was no more than just a hobby for the young man. As the friends kept telling him how good he was at freestyles, Chris gave it a try and made a demo. Spread widely throughout New York clubs, this record eventually caught the eye of Sean Combs (widely known as Puff Daddy), a celebrated producer. He gave Chris his stage name Notorious B.I.G. and decided to turn the young man’s talent into a big rapping act. Trying to support his little daughter, B.I.G. kept selling drugs, which went contrary to Combs’s rules. He made the young rapper quit it and commit himself solely to music.
In 1994, Notorious B.I.G. released his debut album, Ready To Die. Two weeks later, the record ran double platinum, exploding a bomb in the American hip-hop society. The new rap star from New York became the person who could finally bring the fame back to the East Coast hip-hop from the leading West Coast. His songs, soaked in his vicious memories of the wrongful past, appeared a sincere revelation of the criminal life that found a huge response all over the USA. Along with his unrivaled skill to rhyme the words rapidly, B.I.G. was excellent at combining gangster tales with romantic ballads. Unwillingly, he became the main figure in the war between the two rap schools of the States. Tupac Shakur, a leading performer from the other coast, released an outrageous song defiling the image of his new competitor from New York. Notorious B.I.G. restrained himself from the direct reply. However, the slaying of Tupac shortly afterwards raised the flux of speculations on Wallace’s involvement into this affair. Apart from this, the rapper had numerous troubles with the law. He was arrested several times for a number of offences, including battering, drugs and weapon possession and robbery.
During the preparation of his second album, Life After Death, Notorious B.I.G. suffered a car accident that chained him to a wheelchair for a while and then made him use a cane. In March 1997, two weeks before the release of Life After Death, Notorious B.I.G. was murdered in his car by a streak of gun shots from another vehicle. Although he was immediately delivered to a hospital, the doctors were unable to save his life ruined by the four bullets in his chest. This killing has remained unsolved until now and raised a lot of alleged connections with Tupac’s murder. Wallace’s tragic death made his second album even more anticipated. This resulted in the sensational distribution of eighteen million copies if this CD worldwide. Several months later, Puff Daddy released his debut long player with a lot of vocal parts performed by B.I.G. and the song I’ll Be Missing You commemorating him. Wallace left a rich legacy to the supporters of his art and hip-hop in general. Even after his death, Puff Daddy kept releasing his albums where one could hear B.I.G. singing with other celebrated performers. Probably, the last one, saw light in 2005. The CD, titled Duets: The Final Chapter, mostly featured the fragments and remakes of his old songs. The name of Notorious B.I.G. is likely to draw broad attention again as the biographical movie Notorious is ready to appear on the screens in 2009.
Studio Albums
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Duets: The Final Chapter
Compilation albums
| Greatest Hits | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greatest hits album by | ||||
| Released | March 6, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 1994–2005 | |||
| Genre | Gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop | |||
| Length | 76:08 | |||
| Label | ||||
| The Notorious B.I.G. chronology | ||||
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| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| About.com | [1] |
| AllMusic | [2] |
| RapReviews | (8/10)[3] |
| Rolling Stone | [4] |
| The Skinny | [5] |
| Stylus Magazine | B−[6] |
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by The Notorious B.I.G. The album was released on March 6, 2007 by Bad Boy Records and Atlantic Records, three days before the 10th anniversary of his death.
The album was criticized for not containing many of the Notorious B.I.G.'s biggest hits, including: 'Mo Money Mo Problems', 'Going Back to Cali', 'Player's Anthem' and 'Sky's the Limit'.[2] It was also criticized as an unnecessary release, given the limited amount of material which the Notorious B.I.G. released in his lifetime and the inferior quality of his posthumously-published work.[4]
Greatest Hits debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number one in the issue dated March 14, 2007, with 100,000 copies sold in its first week of release.[7] As of 2017, it is the last greatest hits album to debut at the number one position on the Billboard 200. It is B.I.G's 3rd US #1 on the Billboard 200.
The album sold 178,702 units in four weeks. The album has been certified Platinum by both the BPI and RIAA and has sold over 1,003,000 copies in the US to date.[8]
- 2Charts
Track listing[edit]
Notorious Big Full Albums
| No. | Title | Source album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 'Juicy' | Ready to Die (1994) | 5:02 |
| 2. | 'Big Poppa' | Ready to Die | 4:10 |
| 3. | 'Hypnotize' (featuring Pam from Total) | Life After Death (1997) | 3:50 |
| 4. | 'One More Chance (Stay With Me Remix)' (featuring Faith Evans & Mary J. Blige) | Bad Boy's Greatest Hits Volume 1 (2005) (originally from Ready to Die) | 4:28 |
| 5. | 'Get Money' (with Junior M.A.F.I.A.) | Conspiracy (1995) | 4:35 |
| 6. | 'Warning' | Ready to Die | 3:39 |
| 7. | 'Dead Wrong' (featuring Eminem) | Born Again (1999) | 4:58 |
| 8. | 'Who Shot Ya?' | Ready to Die - The Remaster and Born Again | 5:17 |
| 9. | 'Ten Crack Commandments' | Life After Death | 3:24 |
| 10. | 'Notorious Thugs' (featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) | Life After Death | 6:08 |
| 11. | 'Notorious B.I.G.' (featuring Lil' Kim & Diddy) | Born Again | 3:12 |
| 12. | 'Nasty Girl' (featuring Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge & Avery Storm) | Duets: The Final Chapter (2005) | 4:47 |
| 13. | 'Unbelievable' | Ready to Die | 3:40 |
| 14. | 'Niggas Bleed' | Life After Death | 4:52 |
| 15. | 'Running Your Mouth' (featuring Snoop Dogg, Fabolous, Nate Dogg & Busta Rhymes) | previously unreleased | 3:33 |
| 16. | 'Want That Old Thing Back' (featuring Ja Rule & Ralph Tresvant) | previously unreleased | 4:59 |
| 17. | 'Fuck You Tonight' (featuring R. Kelly) | Life After Death | 5:45 |
| Japanese bonus track | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Source album | Length |
| 18. | 'Mo Money Mo Problems' (featuring Puff Daddy & Mase) | Life After Death | 4:17 |
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
| Chart (2007–2015) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums Chart[9] | 36 |
| Canadian Albums Chart[10] | 183 |
| UK Albums Chart[11] | 65 |
| UK R&B Albums Chart[12] | 5 |
| US Billboard 200 | 1 |
| US BillboardTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums | 1 |
| US Billboard Top Rap Albums | 1 |
Certifications[edit]
| Region | Certification | Certified units/Sales |
|---|---|---|
| United States (RIAA)[13] | Platinum | 1,350,000^ |
^shipments figures based on certification alone | ||
References[edit]
- ^'Gary Allan - Biography'.
- ^ abAllMusic review
- ^'RapReviews.com Feature for March 13, 2007 - Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Greatest Hits''. www.rapreviews.com.
- ^ ab'Notorious B.I.G.: Greatest Hits : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone'. 12 March 2008. Archived from the original on 12 March 2008.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ^'The Notorious B.I.G. - Greatest Hits - The Skinny'.
- ^'Stylus Magazine review'.
- ^Sisario, Ben (2007-03-15). 'Arts, Briefly; Notorious B.I.G. on Top'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
- ^'The Notorious B.I.G. Scores Fifth Million-Selling Album'. Billboard. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ^'australian-charts.com - The Notorious B.I.G. - Greatest Hits'. Australian Recording Industry Association. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
- ^'CANOE - JAM! Music SoundScan Charts'. Jam.canoe.ca. 2012-02-09. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^'The Notorious BIG - Greatest Hits'. Chart Stats. 2009-02-21. Archived from the original on 2012-07-30. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^'Official R&B Albums Chart Top 40 - Official Charts Company'. www.officialcharts.com.
- ^'American album certifications – Notorious B.I.G. – Greatest Hits'. Recording Industry Association of America.If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.