EDITORS’ NOTES How to top a debut that single-handedly reinvigorated East Coast gangsta rap? Pick up right where it left off, but make everything way bigger. Christopher Wallace’s sprawling second album ramps up the drama and the pop sheen: 'Mo Money Mo Problems' turns a sparkling Diana Ross sample into a 'triple beam lyrical dream,' and the smooth, rolling 'Hypnotize' is as spellbinding as its title promises. Still, Big never sacrificed any of the narrative grit—look no further than “Ten Crack Commandments” or his much-imitated, never-duplicated flow. EDITORS’ NOTES How to top a debut that single-handedly reinvigorated East Coast gangsta rap?
Pick up right where it left off, but make everything way bigger. Christopher Wallace’s sprawling second album ramps up the drama and the pop sheen: 'Mo Money Mo Problems' turns a sparkling Diana Ross sample into a 'triple beam lyrical dream,' and the smooth, rolling 'Hypnotize' is as spellbinding as its title promises. Still, Big never sacrificed any of the narrative grit—look no further than “Ten Crack Commandments” or his much-imitated, never-duplicated flow.
It may have taken the Notorious B.I.G. A few years to follow up his milestone debut, Ready to Die (1994), with another album, but when he did return with Life After Death in 1997, he did so in a huge way. The ambitious album, intended as somewhat of a sequel to Ready to Die, picking up where its predecessor left off, sprawled across the span of two discs, each filled with music, 24 songs in all. You'd expect any album this sprawling to include some lackluster filler. That's not really the case with Life After Death, however. Sears kenmore serial number lookup.