24 Songs, 1 Hour 49 Minutes
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.
Life After Death (Remastered Edition) The Notorious B.I.G.
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4.7, 59 Ratings - $14.99
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.
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Life After Death (Intro) [2014 Remastered Version]
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Somebody's Gotta Die (2014 Remastered Version)
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Hypnotize (2014 Remastered Version)
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Kick In the Door (2014 Remastered Version)
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#!*@ You Tonight (feat. R. Kelly) [2014 Remastered Version]
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Last Day (feat. The Lox) [2014 Remastered Version]
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I Love the Dough (feat. Jay-Z & Angela Winbush) [2014 Remastered Version]
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What's Beef (2014 Remastered Version)
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B.I.G. (Interlude) [2014 Remastered Version]
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Mo Money Mo Problems (feat. Mase & Puff Daddy) [2014 Remastered Version]
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N****s Bleed (2014 Remastered Version)
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I Got a Story To Tell (2014 Remastered Version)
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Notorious Thugs (2014 Remastered Version)
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Miss U (2014 Remastered Version)
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Another (feat. Lil' Kim) [2014 Remastered Version]
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Going Back To Cali (2014 Remastered Version)
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Ten Crack Commandments (2014 Remastered Version)
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Playa Hater (2014 Remastered Version)
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Nasty Boy (2014 Remastered Version)
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Sky's the Limit (feat. 112) [2014 Remastered Version]
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The World Is Filled... (feat. Too Short & Puff Daddy) [2014 Remastered Version]
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My Downfall (feat. DMC) [2014 Remastered Version]
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Long Kiss Goodnight (2014 Remastered Version)
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You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You) [2014 Remastered Version]
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Ratings and Reviews
Perfect
Buy this entire album. You won't regret it. Every song on here is necessary. Huge album amazing songs
#1
If you don’t own this.... if you don’t know this.... you need this.... this is the NOTORIOUS BIG!!!!!
A HipHop Classic
If there was anything worthwhile about the fabricated east coast/west coast wars, Biggie and TuPac delivered two of the greatest albums in "Life After Death" and "All Eyez on Me".
I am hardly a hip hop head. Those two albums were great in any genre.
The day I heard both of these albums, their brilliance brought me to tears. The fact at two young black talented men were killed senselessly broke my heart.
I took Kirk Burrowes, former General Mgr. of Bad Boy to see Diana Ross at Radio City. He was so blown away, the next thing he tells me that he turned Puffy on Diana's classics.
Puffy began sampling Diana emphatically. Puffy sampled, of all things, one of her more classical adult contemporary #1s, "Theme from "Mahogany" ("Do You Know Where You're Going To?") on his first album. Then on "Life After Death", Biggie replicates her smash 4 week #1, "Missing You" on "Miss U". And then, of course, Diana's "I'm Coming Out" as the soundbed of the iconic "Mo Money, Mo Problems". Initially, Diana refused to accept credit on the single due to the "west coast/east coast wars". It effectively became her 21st #1 Hot 100 smash despite Mariah Carey incorrectly took credit because of 18/#1s. Diana's "Upside Down" was sampled on "Cold Rock the Party" co-produced by Puffy. Her trying
ñ"Telephone" hit was also transformed into another hip hop hit.
"Life After Death" is impressive in many ways due to widespread sampling like Rene and Angela for the descriptive "I Love the Dough". Another highlight is his impressive collaboration with Bones, Thugs & Harmony. And, of course, you cannot forget his anti-diss anthem "Goin' Back to Cali".
Not as cinematic as "Ready to Die", but, "Life After Death" is a classic as saddens settles in to know that we will never get to experience all that his future promised.
