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Genre Shift: 'Playa Hater' features Biggie singing a parody of The Delfonics' 'Hey Love'.Gangsta Rap: A mix of Commercial, Hardcore and Mafioso.As if the title wasn't Harsher in Hindsight enough. Face on the Cover: Biggie standing next to a hearse.Epic Rocking: The 6:08 'Notorious Thugs'.Deliberately Monochrome: The black-and-white noir-ish cover image, with the only splashes of color being Biggie's name and the title.A strong word called 'consignment', strictly for live men, not for freshmen. If you ain't gettin' bagged, stay the fuck from police.ġ0. Keep your family and business completely separated.ĩ. Never let no one know how much dough you hold.ĥ. It debuted a while after the death of Biggie's main rival Tupac Shakur, but retains a few sly references to the beef (such as the line 'My so-called beef with You-Know-Who' on 'Notorious Thugs'), as well as a few subliminal disses thrown at several other rappers Biggie was beefing with, such as Nas and Raekwon and Ghostface Killah.ġ.

The album was also released at the tail-end of the infamous East Coast/West Coast hip-hop feud of the '90s. Like Ready to Die, three of its tracks - 'Hypnotize', 'Mo Money Mo Problems', and 'Sky's the Limit' - became singles.

It even picks up immediately where that album's final track, 'Suicidal Thoughts', left off. This technically makes it a posthumous album, though it was completed before he was killed.Ī double album, Life After Death goes in a glossier, more mafioso-themed direction than its predecessor Ready to Die, but retains that album's mixture of hardcore songs and lighter party jams. Life After Death is the second album ( of two) by The Notorious B.I.G., released Majust 16 days after Biggie was murdered in Los Angeles.

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