Soul Strut 100: # 62 - Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die

[Rishan]

Jonny_Paycheck said:that is the most sour old man shakes fist at the sky shit I've read on this site in a long time and that's really saying something.





I'm not even the biggest Ready To Die fan in the world. But to my ear BIG, and that record, have gotten better with age, not the reverse. Dudes showing their ass and bloomers... posturing against fans' interpretation of artists' work is strictly little dude.








b/w








as soon as I saw this one poasted I knew it was only a matter of time before the so-called "real heads" came out to say that it wasn't all that, "too polished", he wasn't lyrically lyrical enough, overrated, etc.





Great record.










I didn't say it was a bad record, just that I couldn't get into it. I bet when Illmatic or PE appears, there will be peeps saying the shit sounded tired/dated on release. Doesn't take anything away from the album, but nothing exists in a vacuum, and this one is overrated to me.

 

[batmon]

"Ultimately Ready To Die is the second greatest Hip Hop Album ever made."





- Kool Moe Dee

 

[drbrownscelray]

staxwax said:HarveyCanal said:It just doesn't seem that you were around to witness when 2Pac and Biggie were at their peak, nor able to recognize the influence it spawned. I mean, there's no arguing that at a certain point, young rappers pretty much across the board ceased looking to our heroes of the 80's as their inspiration and replaced them with a school that reveres the Pac/BIG combo as its foundation. Maybe it's your opinion that that was a bad thing, but it's basically you against the millions who actually count in hip-hop, as well as you just bucking the natural order of the evolution.




I dont know what conversation you're in. Re read my posts until you get it. No-one is talking about 'young rappers and their inspiration'. This is Soul Strut 100 #62. Were on some next level, mardi grass without the bells, deep understanding of the music, numbnuts can play the sidelines type shit over here. So run along.


And let me tell you i dont give a fuck about these 'millions who actually count in hip hop' - what the hell are you even talking about? Cd racks in wall mart? The millions who actually count in footwear are rocking crocs kid.





Allow me to remind you that the world at large doesnt give 2 fucks about gerald g dj screw or the league of extraordinary g's nor does it give a fuck about unheard ethiopian jazz reissues being sold in obscure record boutiques either. so get off your high horse.





edpowers said:"Wild Wild West" was just as corny as "Mo Money Mo Problems"

Jokes. but if you really knew the history of the music, you'd know how much of your ass is showing.





End of the day, just know this: from the dress code to the thought mode - this shit is still a secret society.


We are the wolves among the sheep.


We were actually there 'when it happened'.


Our wax collection is deeper.


Our sneaker collection is deeper.


We will buy your fucking house and your business.


While the toys are sleeping, sucking their thumbs -


Were out here - every day - shitting on kids, king kong style.





:hi:




English is for you, a second language. No?

 

[bboyparkz]

Ready To Die is a real nice album.


On holiday in Turkey the guy who ran the poolside bar asked to hear some of the music I was playing on my Walkman. So he put my cassette of Ready To Die on the bar soundsystem and he was kind of uninterested in it till the sex skit came on, that fight his attention he was hysterical about it, even rewinding and playing it to his friends as they popped in the bar.

 

[dopeshit]

staxwax said:I vividly remember this album dropping. Having heard dreams of fucking an r&b bitch blow up about a year before this came out there was quite a lot of anticipation to this and i copped it the first week. I remember at the time thinking it was classic, but making a tape with just the standout tunes because there was a bit of filler on the record imo. Its an obvious classic and big was a great great mc. But i didnt check for any of the post humous output and went sour on puff and bad boy and all the utter crud that came out of that camp soon afterwards. All these kids repping big as the greatest ever and the whole biggie and pac adulation that followed their deaths is some real gossipy outside looking in sucker shit to me. All these kids buying into the myth capitalising off the violent death he suffered and the glorifying and romanticising of his death is wack as hell. The album is a classic, no doubt, and big is def one of many great mcs. But take the whole best there ever was myth and sell it back to the herbs pushing it. thats where my memories end and the fake non head marketing of east vs west and bullshit non hip hop hype came in and polluted the whole game with bullshit to the point where people now understand this to be some universal truth about hip hop and big being the best ever. Fuck that. He was just a great mc, and this was a great, albeit very short moment. But these 80's and 90's babies who bought the shirt and fawn over the myth need to fall way way the fuck back to the back of the rear.




the whole "western" civilisation is basically built upon worshipping dead people ask jesus


while i type this a 7 year old i s building a shrine for some dead popstar or movie hero...


i think its sad...


and ready to die is one of my fav albums i once found a copy on the flea market in a box of schlager

 

[leon]

dopeshit said:


the whole "western" civilisation is basically built upon worshipping dead people ask jesus




Next time i run into Him we'll discuss more important matters.





Like, if He favors Thriller above Off the wall.

 

[batmon]

leon said:dopeshit said:


the whole "western" civilisation is basically built upon worshipping dead people ask jesus




Next time i run into Him we'll discuss more important matters.





Like, if He favors Thriller above Off the wall.




I had Jehovah Witness friends who couldnt watch Thriller cause of the "satanic" imagery.


So i bet Jesus prefers Off The Wall.

 

[dopeshit]

damn, you guys is so cool

 

[Big_Stacks]

Hey,





The "Ready to Die" LP was a big part of my early grad school experience. I remember riding around in my gray Escort LX pumping the cassette in the deck (wow, that was long ago). My favorites were "Machine Gun Funk," "Warning," "The What," "Unbelievable," and "Suicidal Thoughts." Overall, the album was landmark in how it mixed more R&B-ish cuts with raw, hip-hop joints. In that respect, "Ready to Die" changed the landscape of rap album architecture, and it rightly deserves to be acknowledged on the Soul Strut 100.





Peace,





Big Stacks from Kakalak

 

[Dolo76]

Rishan said: sounds forced and trite




pretty much my view of your terrible opinion.





LP is a classic, beyond the genre of hiphop.





GImme The Loot is one of my favorites on there, stick-up kid anthem.



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