The Notorious B.I.G. was only 22 when he released Ready to Die. This is perhaps the most stunning fact about his brilliant debut: the fact that Biggie, at such a young age, constructed an album that ...

There was something special going on in 1994. It was a year of numerous noteworthy debut album releases and mainstream breakthrough records for several acts. Country icon Johnny Cash revived his ...

For all his legendary status, The Notorious B.I.G.only dropped one solo album while he was actually alive. It just so happens that that album is one of the five or so greatest projects in rap history.

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As sad and painfully poetic as it is, Ready to Die (1994) was the only full-length album Notorious B.I.G. released while he was alive. Slain just two weeks before his sophomore record in ’97, B.I.G.