The second release on Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records label (the first being Craig Mack's Project: Funk Da World, an overall exercise in futility, albeit with one or two hits), Biggie would soon become Bad Boy Records, epitomizing the lavish lifestyle of a successful rapper (at least right until he was usurped by his boss ). Ready To Die was the debut album from the upstart Notorious B.I.G. (His songs had more emotion than you could shake a stick at, though.) I haven't seen this level of incompetence in the handling of a legend since Pac died, and I don't think Pac was even a good rapper in the truest sense. It's too bad that a certain somebody feels otherwise, repeatedly raping his corpse by releasing sub-par albums chock-a-block full with collaborations with rappers that Biggie probably would never have worked with otherwise.
Gunned down during the heat of the "east coast/west coast" beef, Biggie was never truly able to create the catalog of music that would define his legacy.
Ten years ago to this day, actually, and Christopher Wallace can still safely be considered one of the greats, with little to no argument. The overrated rapper Canibus once said, "The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th".
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