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Here are the Notorious B.I.G.’s best 25 songs. By Brian Josephs Hip-hop has transformed dozens of times in the decades since the ‘90s, and will change dozens of more times in the years to come ...
The Notorious B.I.G.’s song ‘Juicy’ Biggie burst onto the scene in 1993 with his debut single “Party & Bulls—.” But it was the lead single from his 1994 debut album Ready to Die that ...
You gotta shed a tear for the '90s babies out there. What hip-hop legends do they have? We have so many to count, beginning with perhaps the greatest of all, the Notorious B.I.G. Exactly 15 years ...
There's really not much else you can say about the Notorious B.I.G. or his debut album, 'Ready to Die,' that hasn't been detailed or written at this point. Being that his magnum opus of a debut ...
The 50 best Biggie songs, ranked by 'Rolling Stone'. There’s a scene in the 2009 biopic Notorious where a producer, after hours of bar-crammed takes, tells Biggie’s character, “That’s fire ...
I am also tired. But, here is the situation in a nutshell. There was a rapper with the name Notorious Big1 and he had a reported song called “Big Daddy” that did zero damage. He was from ...
The Notorious B.I.G. was only 22 when he released Ready to Die. This is perhaps the most stunning fact about his brilliant debut: the fact that Biggie, at such a young age, constructed an album ...
The Notorious B.I.G.’s estate has sold a significant share of the rapper’s catalogue to Primary Wave, a music publishing company which already owns the rights to many significant acts ...
The music, name and likeness of Notorious B.I.G. will soon have a new home as the late rapper’s estate is close to signing a deal with Primary Wave, The Hollywood Reporter has learned ...
The Notorious B.I.G.‘s publishing and publicity rights are reportedly close to being sold for the asking price of $100 ...
Voletta Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G.‘s mother who kept his legacy alive in the decades following his passing, has died. Wallace was in hospice care at her residence in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania ...
The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut opus Ready to Die turns 30 this year. To celebrate, we take a look at the album and rank all 17 songs.