He only has two studio albums so that Greatest Hits would be short. I don’t feel like my life was improved by finally listening to a full album of his music. It’s not terrible and I “enjoyed” it the more I listened to it but I am not going to queue it up on a playlist anytime soon.īrad: Personally, all I want or need from Biggie would be a greatest hits EP. Jason: This is one of those rap albums that I would listen to an instrumental album of. It’s somehow both misogynistic and homophobic at the same time.īrad: Yeah, on one hand I was thinking “Good for RuPaul to be mentioned in a rap song in 1994 and still be around today” but also thinking “That was a horrible dis on RuPaul and X-scape” Jason: That’s a backhanded compliment if I ever heard one. He raps “I’ll fuck RuPaul before I fuck them ugly ass X-scape bitches” I don’t enjoy the sex skit either. My biggest revelation was that RuPaul gets mentioned in the lyrics of the misogynistic bonus track “Just Playing (Dreams)”. One thing I don’t need to hear is someone giving birth for 5 minutes.īrad: Yeah, I agree. Jason: I skipped it after the first time. I was tempted to skip it midway through the first time. Jason: This album is 72 minutes long and the intro “skit” feels about an hour of it.īrad: I listened to this 5 or 6 times but skipped that intro skit after the 3rd time. But what I realized is I don’t care about him I just really like his samples and the production on some of the songs.īrad: I appreciate that he is telling his story on this album but I’m not sure how I’m supposed to feel about that. I liked “Big Poppa” of course because it’s nostalgic but that’s about it. Jason: There are about 2 maybe 3 tolerable songs on this album.īrad: I always liked his big singles but listening to a full album is a bit much. Jason: People LOOOOOOOVE The Notorious B.I.G.īrad: They do and I’m slightly afraid to say…I think he’s just meh. This album is on almost every “Best of…” list you can think of. After his death the album charted again and eventually went 6x Platinum. His lyrics are critically praised for unique storytelling. On September 7, 1996, Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, and no culprit was apprehended, and rumors circulated that Smalls was somehow implicated in the death due to the ongoing feud, rumors Smalls refuted.Released on Septemand is a semi-autobiographical account of his crime days. If the police or feds aren’t on you, the n***** on the street are on you.”ĭrawn into the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry following the success of Ready to Die, Smalls came to represent the East Coast alongside Bad Boy Records, while rapper and former friend Tupac Shakur and Los Angeles-based Death Row Records were the West Coast, with both sides taking subliminal and blunt digs against the other in music releases, videos and interviews. “Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever,” Smalls told Rolling Stone at the time.
Upon finding out, Combs is said to have tried to make him stop. Though his success was growing, Smalls reportedly returned to drug dealing in order to make more money following the birth of daughter T’yanna. In his music, Smalls exalted the excesses a life of crime could provide but was lyrically gifted enough to counter such notions by also revealing the downside to such behavior on songs “Suicidal Thoughts” and “Everyday Struggle” which, according to Smalls, was a real account of a drug-selling expedition. The rapper highlighted both the ups and downs of a life of crime in his music We did have a very violent relationship.” “It happened,” she said during a 2018 interview with Ebro In the Morning, adding the recounted story was very “close to the truth. Lil’ Kim would eventually confirm the affair and rumors of violence in her relationship with Smalls, revealing that a story regarding Smalls threatening her at gunpoint during a studio session did in fact occur.
Evans would eventually reconcile with Smalls and give birth to a son, Christopher “CJ” Wallace Jr., in October 1996, a time in which Smalls was reportedly continuing his affair with Lil’ Kim, on whose record he was working. He also began dating performer Charli Baltimore with the two appearing in public together, something he had avoided previously with Lil’ Kim. “We should have got to know each other and then got married,” he added.Įvans soon separated from Smalls, reportedly when she discovered his affair with Lil’ Kim. That was my baby,” he said to Vibe magazine but would concede the speed of their courtship did not provide a solid foundation. “I married her after knowing her eight days and I was happy. A month prior to the release of his first album, Smalls married R&B singer Faith Evans, whom he had recently met at a Bad Boy Records photoshoot.
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