Or else it’s a thing where Biggie’s ghost comes back and kills the killer. (I’m assuming it’ll be carried out by proxy.
Biggie’s rapping about how if he dies, then the person who kills him has to die, too. This is one of those eye-for-an-eye situations. “If I go, you got to go.” - Biggie, “Somebody’s Gotta Die” “I’m a criminal way before the rap shit.” - Biggie, “Somebody’s Gotta Die” These are the 27 most important, useful, informative, transformative pieces of advice: Truly, the only thing you need (or anyone needs) to live a strong and happy and fulfilling life is tucked within the songs. The project was (and is) stuffed fat with wisdom and cultural understanding. What’s more, in addition to accidentally proving himself sadly prophetic, he was also wildly insightful. It was a somber but lively but terrifying but occasionally funny piece of work, which is a combination of things only a handful of rappers have ever been able to pull off at the same time. Over Life After Death’s 24 songs, Biggie, same as he’d done on his debut album, showed himself to be a profoundly gifted songwriter and mood-setter.
Is that the baseline? Is it a minimum of two? Or can you get away with having only one? What if Nas had released only Illmatic and nothing else afterward? Would he still be included? I don’t see how you’d be able to keep him out, but I also don’t see how you’d be able to get him in. Quick aside: How many albums does somebody need to release before they can rightfully enter into the Greatest Rappers Of All-Time discussion? Biggie has only two proper studio albums to his credit, and he is definitely in that conversation. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death, the second full-length studio album of his career, and one that he never even got to see exist in the world because he was slain two weeks prior to its release.
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