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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Diddy & Lil' Kim) – Notorious B.I.G.
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The song contains samples from “Notorious” by Duran Duran. It was released posthumously on the album Born Again. It features Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs and Lil Kim, friends and
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) – Notorious Thugs
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The opening track of Disc 2 of Life After Death (13th track overall) is a collaboration between two of the most prolific acts in hip-hop: The Notorious B.I.G., and Bone Thugs-N-
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Avery Storm, Diddy, Jagged Edge & Nelly) – Nasty Girl
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This was the first single from The Notorious Duets: The Last Chapter which was released at the end of 2005, almost 9 years after B.I.G.’s death. This Jazze Pha produced hit was a
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy
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“Juicy” is the first single from Big’s debut album, Ready to Die, and is the track that established him as a titan.
It was one of the first mainstream rap songs about a rapper’s
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize
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Biggie’s first number one hit “Hypnotize” was released just a week before his death on March 9, 1997. The song was the first single from his second album Life After Death.
The
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Intro
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Ready to Die’s intro serves as a brief summary of Biggie Small’s journey up until the recording of the project, using a variety of classic songs to represent each era of his life
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Ten Crack Commandments
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In “Ten Crack Commandments,” Biggie presents himself as the Moses of the drug game, juxtaposing the force of God with the dark forces of capitalism, much like Jay Z’s “D'Evils” As
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Method Man & Redman) – Rap Phenomenon
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Released on Biggie’s 3rd album “Born Again”.
The original verses come from the Tracey Lee song “Keep Your Hands High” in which he was featured in.
Produced by one and only, DJ
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Faith Evans & The Game) – 1970 Somethin'
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This is the 8th track of Duets: The Final Chapter.
Biggie’s verses are taken from “Respect”, which is the 14th song of his debut album Ready To Die, while The Game drops a new 16-
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Eminem) – Dead Wrong
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A posthumous Biggie song about rape, murder, and pedophilia—perfect for an Eminem feature, which he discussed in his autobiography The Way I Am:
I rapped on a remix of The
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Lil' Kim) – Another
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The 15th track on Notorious B.I.G.’s album Life After Death, “Another” tells the story about Biggie and Lil' Kim who each have a situation where their lover was unfaithful. People
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Respect
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Biggie runs down his life story, including a whole verse on his birth. If you don’t feel like watching Notorious, just check this out
The beat was produced by Poke and P. Diddy
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Things Done Changed
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“Things Done Changed” refers to how the street game has evolved, along with Biggie’s own game. He compares fashion and lifestyle revolution through the decades and the differences
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Friend of Mine
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Off Biggie’s classic 1994 debut Ready To Die
Biggie demonstrates why he is so often disrespectful towards women: he got his feelings hurt! Aww. After some bad experiences with
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DamnJonah – The Notorious B.I.G & 2Pac - Redbone (Mashup)
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[Verse 1: The Notorious B.I.G] / To all the ladies in the place with style and grace / Allow me to lace these lyrical douches in your bushes / Who rock grooves and make moves with
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Machine Gun Funk
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Biggie compares a life of crime to a life of rhyme; as he said in an interview this was his favorite song.
Samples: the guitar part is from "Something Extra" by Black Heat, and
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Bob Marley) – Hold Ya Head
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This is the second single (together with Spit Your Game) from Duets: The Final Chapter, a remix album released in 2005
The original song is Suicidal Thoughts, from Ready to Die
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Microphone Murderer
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This beat is a loop of the beggining of Blind Alley by the Emotions.
First used by Big Daddy Kane in Ain’t No Half Stepping in 88'.
It is also used in Big L’s Rock N. Wills
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Matoma & The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Ja Rule & Ralph Tresvant) – Old Thing Back
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“Old Thing Back” was released by Matoma in 2013, and hit 13 million views on Youtube in 2014.
It’s a remix of “One More Chance” from The Notorious B.I.G.’s debut album, Ready To
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Big Poppa
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“Big Poppa” was released as the second single from Ready To Die following the commercial success of the album’s lead single “Juicy.” Both of Biggie’s first two singles topped
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Faith Evans) – Where The Party At
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“Where The Party At” is a pop-flared remix of Biggie’s 1993 solo debut “Party & Bullshit”, featuring new vocals from his widow Faith Evans. It was created for Biggie’s posthumous
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. 112) – Miss U
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In this song, Biggie pays a tribute to a close friend of his who was murdered. Most hip-hop fans (song came out in ‘97) took it as Biggie paying tribute to 2Pac, who used to be his
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Akon, Big Gee & Scarface) – Hustler's Story
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“Hustler’s Story” places Biggie with Big Gee, Houston legend Scarface, and then-bubbling singer Akon over a smooth beat filled with chimes and horns. Biggie’s verse is lifted from
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Playa Hater
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“Playa Hater” is the 6th song on Disc 2 of Life After Death. It features samples from “Hey! Love” by The Delfonics and “Basketball Jones” by Cheech and Chong.
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Macs and Dons
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“Macs and Dons” is a unreleased reference track that Biggie recorded for fellow Brooklyn rapper Shelton-D (who’s name is reversed in the first verse) in 1994, at Gordy Groove
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Suicidal Thoughts
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In this final track off of The Notorious B.I.G.’s classic debut album, Ready to Die, Biggie calls up Puff Daddy in the middle of the night to explain that he’s about to commit
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Gimme the Loot
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One of the most popular Notorious B.I.G songs, “Gimme the Loot” is about Biggie and his right-hand man being stick-up kids in the streets committing various robberies with little
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Niggas Bleed
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The eleventh track on the first CD of Life After Death, “Niggas Bleed” is a track about a drug between Big, Ron, and the guys in the “Range.” The hook of this song is Big saying
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Cash Money Millionaires) – Hope You Niggas Sleep
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[Intro: Puff Daddy] / Yeah / Bad Boy / Cash Money / 2000, baby! / [Verse 1: The Notorious B.I.G.] / Check the pain I inflict, like a convict, the Fulton digger / Jump in the Acura
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Korn) – Wake Up
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“Wake Up” is a dark, guitar-ridden posthumous collaboration between Biggie and funk-rock band Korn. Another Biggie and Korn track, “Nobody”, was also produced for Duets: The Final
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. K-Ci & JoJo & Nas) – I Really Want to Show You
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The last track off Notorious B.I.G’s album “Born again”. This is a remix of Everyday struggle
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Diddy, Harve 'Joe Hooker' Pierre & Mobb Deep) – Tonight
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[Intro: Notorious B.I.G. (Puff Daddy)] / (Yo, check this out, yeah motherfuckers) / (Come on motherfuckers, B.I.G. motherfuckers) / Too much smoke in here man / Open a fucking
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Bobby V, Cheri Dennis, Faith Evans, Ludacris & Snoop Dogg) – Living the Life
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Feel Good Anthem of The Notrious B.I.G.’s final posthumous album, Duets: The Final Chapter
Faith Evans, Ludacris, Cheri Denis (Although Uncredited for her vocal harmonization
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Write this down
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Relax and take notes / While I take tokes of the Marijuana smoke / Throw you in a choke / Gun smoke guns smoke / Biggie smalls for mayor / The rap slayer / The hooker layer
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Born Again (Intro)
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[Spoken: The Notorious B.I.G. & Puff Daddy] / What about ten years from now? / Ten years from now, where do I want to be? / I wanna be... just livin', man / Just living comfortably
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Faith Evans & The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Jadakiss) – NYC
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[Refrain: The Notorious B.I.G.] / And we've waded through the suffering and pain / The bitches ride the dick like the A-train / That's why I flip / Keep a burner to my hip / Take a
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Party and Bullshit
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Biggie’s solo debut track
The “Party and Bullshit” line is a reference to a song called “When the Revolution Comes” by The Last Poets
Biggie turned the original – which was meant
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Warning
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“Warning” was released along with “Big Poppa” as the second single from Ready To Die as a double A-side with “Who Shot Ya?” on the B-side. Similar to “Gimme the Loot,” Biggie raps
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Whatchu Want
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This song was a relatively late cut for the Ready To Die album. It was deemed as too ‘hardcore’ for the album, so it was kept as a possible release for some other project or
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Ja Rule & Ralph Tresvant) – Want That Old Thing Back
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Included as previously unreleased material in the 2007 posthumous compilation album Greatest Hits, this track mixes Biggie’s verses from One More Chance with a new verse by Ja Rule
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready To Die
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Title track of Ready To Die, it talks about his experiences in life and how he’s ready to die.
Main intention, taken from an annotation:
B.I.G. also says later that “Ready To Die
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The Notorious B.I.G. – Pepsi Freestyle
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The good news is that Biggie was such a Rap Genius that he can even make a marketing freestyle turn out tight as fuck
The bad news is that Pepsi and other sugary sodas are the #1
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