Robert Christgau from The Village Voice commented 'His sex raps are erotic, his jokes are funny, and his music makes the thug life sound scary rather than luxuriously laid back. It's difficult to get him out of your head once you sample what he has to offer'. From the breathtakingly visual moments of his birth to his Cobainesque end in 'Suicidal Thoughts,' B.I.G. Coker stated ' Ready to Die is the strongest solo rap debut since Ice Cube's Amerikkka's Most Wanted. Ready to Die received critical acclaim from music critics. Rock explained this in an interview with Wax Poetics: Notorious Big Ready To Die Zippyshare It document the star's transition from Brooklyn knucklehead to magazine cover story.' Producer Pete Rock, who was commissioned to remix the track, alleged that Puffy stole the idea for the original song's beat after hearing it from him during a visit.
Andrew Kameka, of, stated that the song was one of his 'greatest and most-revealing songs' and went on to say it was a 'Part-autobiography, part-declaration-of-success. AllMusic's Steve Huey stated that, along with the other singles, it was an 'upbeat, commercial moment', calling it a 'rags-to-riches chronicle'. Produced by Combs, it features a prominent sample of 'Juicy Fruit' as performed by James Mtume. It shipped 500,000 copies in the United States and the RIAA certified it Gold on November 16, 1994. It peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 14 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and reached number 3 on the Hot Rap Singles. 'Juicy' was released as the lead single on August 8, 1994. 'Things Done Changed' was also one of the few hip hop songs in The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. In the original Rolling Stone review, Cheo H Coker declared that he 'maintains a consistent level of tension by juxtaposing emotional highs and lows'. The album is also noted for its dark tone and sinister sense of depression. Touré, writing for The New York Times, referred to The Notorious B.I.G., proclaiming that he stood out from other rappers because 'his lyrics mix autobiographical details about crime and violence with emotional honesty, telling how he felt while making a living as a drug dealer'. He also went on to mention that his lyrics are 'firmly rooted in reality, but play like scene from a movie'. Many critics applauded his story-telling ability such as AllMusic writer Steve Huey, who stated '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'. We do this for our culture.The Notorious B.I.G.'s lyrics on the album were generally praised by critics. Hit the jump and take a journey through hip-hop’s most vibrant decade. The classics you’ve played every day since elementary school, to the records you forgot existed, and maybe an album or two you didn’t even know about-all compiled in one place. With that in mind, we’ve ranked the Best Rap Albums of the 90s. At the time, your musical menu most likely depended on what part of the country you lived in. But with the benefit of hindsight, and the Internet, it’s now possible to survey the cream of the crop and make informed decisions about which records are good, better, and best. There was so much great music being made in so many different places and spaces that it’s far too easy for great things to get overlooked. They’re works that set the tone for the future of hip-hop, secured their legacies, and made us realize beyond a reasonable doubt that the genre was already taking over the world just as quickly as it took over our music libraries.Īll rap fans know these classics, but they’re only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to 90s hip-hop.
They’re records you know front to back, even if some of them outdate you.
And in the process, these men and women created classics. Tupac, 3 Stacks, Lauryn, Jay, Biggie visionaries who took an art form just over a decade removed from its infancy and gave it the attention it needed to develop into adulthood, where it now stands three decades later as the most-consumed genre of music in the U.S. The storytellers of the ’90s were, and will always be, some of the greatest to touch a microphone. This feature was originally published in 2014.
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