Apart from this, the rapper had numerous troubles with the law. However, the slaying of Tupac shortly afterwards raised the flux of speculations on Wallace’s involvement into this affair. restrained himself from the direct reply. Tupac Shakur, a leading performer from the other coast, released an outrageous song defiling the image of his new competitor from New York. Unwillingly, he became the main figure in the war between the two rap schools of the States. was excellent at combining gangster tales with romantic ballads. Along with his unrivaled skill to rhyme the words rapidly, B.I.G. His songs, soaked in his vicious memories of the wrongful past, appeared a sincere revelation of the criminal life that found a huge response all over the USA. The new rap star from New York became the person who could finally bring the fame back to the East Coast hip-hop from the leading West Coast. Two weeks later, the record ran double platinum, exploding a bomb in the American hip-hop society. He made the young rapper quit it and commit himself solely to music. kept selling drugs, which went contrary to Combs’s rules. Trying to support his little daughter, B.I.G. and decided to turn the young man’s talent into a big rapping act. He gave Chris his stage name Notorious B.I.G. Spread widely throughout New York clubs, this record eventually caught the eye of Sean Combs (widely known as Puff Daddy), a celebrated producer. As the friends kept telling him how good he was at freestyles, Chris gave it a try and made a demo.
At that time, rapping was no more than just a hobby for the young man. As Chris made friends with the other guys outside he named himself B.I.G. Christopher’s mother worked hard day and night to support her son and protect him from the mean streets, but this was not enough. He studied together with Busta Rhymes and Jay-Z. The father left the family when Chris was just eighteen months and this fact made him never think anything good about the old man. Ready to Die is a milestone album, for sure, but it's nowhere near as extravagant or epic as Life After Death.Christopher Wallace was born on May 21, 1972, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the course of only two albums, he achieved every success imaginable, perhaps none greater than this unabashedly over-reaching success. In hindsight, Biggie couldn't have ended his career with a more fitting album than Life After Death. There's still plenty of the gangsta tales on Life After Death that won Biggie so much admiration on the streets, but it's the pop-laced songs that stand out as highlights. It's perhaps Puffy himself to thank for this album's biggest hits: "Mo Money Mo Problems," "Hypnotize," "Sky's the Limit," three songs that definitely owe much to his pop touch. Kelly, Angela Winbush, 112 - and, of course, Puff Daddy, who is much more omnipresent here than on Ready to Die, where he mostly remained on the sidelines. Plus, Biggie similarly brought in various guest rappers - Jay-Z, Lil' Kim, Bone Thugs, Too $hort, L.O.X., Mase - a few vocalists - R. Like 2Pac's All Eyez on Me from a year before, an obvious influence, Biggie's album made extensive use of various producers - DJ Premier, Easy Mo Bee, Clark Kent, RZA, and more of New York's finest - resulting in a diverse, eclectic array of songs. That's not really the case with Life After Death, however. You'd expect any album this sprawling to include some lackluster filler. 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. 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.