The Notorious B.I.G. released Ready To Die twenty years ago today (September 13).
The album has become one of the genre’s most celebrated projects, one that helped introduce Biggie to listeners. Through singles like “Juicy,” The Notorious B.I.G. earned praise for his commercial success and his craft as an emcee. The Source gave the album a 4.5 out of 5 rating when it was released. Several publications, including HipHopDX have called it a perfect album.
Puff Daddy, who helped produce and release Ready To Die, recently spoke about its 20-year anniversary on Twitter.
Ready To Die’s cover art, tracklist and stream are below.
1. Intro
2. Things Done Changed
3. Gimme the Loot
4. Machine Gun Funk
5. Warning
6. Ready To Die
7. One More Chance feat. Faith Evans & Mary J. Blige
8. Fuck Me (Interlude)
9. The What
10. Juicy
11. Everyday Struggle
12. Me & My Bitch feat. Sybil Pennix
13. Big Poppa
14. Respect feat. Diana King
15. Friend Of Mine
16. Unbelievable
17. Suicidal Thoughts feat. Puff Daddy
The digitally remastered version of the album is below, which includes additional cuts “Who Shot Ya?” and “Just Playing (Dreams).”
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what a dumb post if u haven’t heard ready to die go on youtube n fix ya hip hop game. I would say go buy it but fuck putting money in puff’s pocket
fck u
Thanks for this awesome post hiphopdx. I have never seen this cover art before. So glad u guys can keep me up on all the hot shit. Otherwise I would’ve never know the track list of ready to die
word. it’s not like we’ve lsitened to this classic album for the last 20 years
Dumbest post ever! You should be embarassed.
So Tupac died on September 13th also..interestly coincidental.
speak on it Conspiracy Brother
pac is the most overrated rapper ever.
Great report, guys. Only one thing though, your tracklist features all these people on it, EXCEPT FOR THE ONLY MOTHERFUCKER WHO IS ON THE ALBUM. It’s not that hard, there was one feature and that was Method Man on the track “The What?”, everbody else wasn’t an official feature.
Is this a joke or something???
No child, if anything it’s a test to see if y’all are really about listening and knowing about HipHop or just a bunch of groupies.
Did you listen?
Only scrubs care about this shitty culture.
Do more like this HHDX, the world don’t revolve around these selfish punks.
NICE
traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaash
this shit is going to flop something terrible
no promo no marketing no ads on hhdx and only one feature!? gtfohhhhhh
OFFICIAL FAIL
NO MENTION OF METHOD MAN ? THE ALBUM DOESNT EVEN HAVE ANY OF THOSE OTHER NAMES ON IT, ONLY GUST JOINT IS WITH MR MEF, PUFFY NOW TRYING TO GET HIS NAME AS A GUEST SPOT ON IT, FOH DICKHEAD