Ready To Die

Ready To Die was considered to be the album that brought the east coast back, it dropped in '94 a time when the west coast had Snoop, Dr. Dre and Tupac. The west had control of the rap music scene, until Biggie dropped Ready To Die. With the first single Juicy, the album began to soar. Going into my listening process of this album I was expecting big things (no pun intended), and i was not let down. After the 2nd song "Gimmie The Loot" I could see the story telling ability that he was known for. The album has plenty of what I call hidden gems in, "Suicidal Thoughts", "Everyday Sturggles", "One More Chance" and "The What". The what features Method Man, and the way that he and Big Rhyme going back and forth is bananas. Lyrically they both bring, Big even said that he thought Method Man got him on the track. I call One more chance a hidden gem because I had never heard this (the original) version. When I first looked at the ipod to see what track was playing you should have seen my face when it read "One More Chance", after listening to it a few times I thought it was (lyrically) better than the remix which is the more popular version of the song. The album is filled with what I consider east coast beats, (duh, he is the king of NY) which made it a little harder for me to listen to at first but actually grew on me. Puff Daddy, is prominently on the album his voice is on 9 tracks thus starting his trend of jumping on his artists albums. The 4 singles that came off this album "Juicy", Big Poppa", "One More Chance" remix and though it isn't officially a single there was a video for "Warning". Most of your favorite rappers (cough, Jay -Z) use lyrics from this album in their own music. Overall it was very easy to see why this album received the accolades that it did, and was considered a timeless classic going 4x's platnium. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Stay tuned tomorrow is "Life After Death". One.

Ready To Die