The Rise & Rise of Notorious B.I.G.

Ten years ago, the Notorious B.I.G. was living, perpetually, in death’s shadow. His life had stopped being a life; it was a distant story already in motion. Tupac Shakur, a former friend, commercial and critical rival, had been dead barely six months, shot to death after a Mike Tyson match on the Las Vegas strip. He would walk with a cane for the rest of his life, the largest scar from a car crash in 1996, as he recorded the follow up to his debut, rap’s finest bildungsroman, 1994’s Ready To Die.

On wax he was already hibernating in a space between life and death. Ready To Die’s coda, “Suicidal Thoughts” had our protagonist shoot himself in a wave of paranoia and guilt, rapping out final verses to his best friend and business partner over the phone. Withered dope fiends, machine pistols and his mother’s voice coat the inside of his dreams. Biggie shoots himself not out of nihilism, but out of an insurrection of conscience; he deems himself guilty. What has he done to get to where he is?

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