Pusha T has declared The Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death the “best double album ever.”
King Push showered praise on the Brooklyn rap legend in the trailer for Warner Music Group’s new visual podcast series Iconic Records, the first season of which dives into Biggie’s second and final project.
Hosted by Angie Martinez, the eight-part podcast will explore how the album was created, the impact it made upon its 1997 release and the legacy it has left behind by speaking with rap luminaries such as Lil Cease, Fat Joe, DJ Premier and Too $hort and Mobb Deep’s Havoc, in addition to Pusha T.
In the trailer, which debuted on Wednesday (April 19), the Clipse MC had nothing but good things to say about Biggie’s sophomore effort. “[Life After Death] is by far the best double album ever created — ever,” he said via Zoom.
Rick Ross, another admirer of the late Bad Boy hitmaker, also chimed in, saying: “He had the attention of not just the rap game, but the entire world! … There will never be another B.I.G.”
Iconic Records will premiere exclusively on the WMX Hip-Hop channel on The Roku Channel on April 29 and be available to stream elsewhere starting on May 1.
This isn’t the first time Pusha T has praised The Notorious B.I.G. Back in 2015, the Virginia native penned an op-ed for Rolling Stone detailing his love of the late legend, who he crowned “the greatest rapper who’s ever lived.”
“I believe the Notorious B.I.G. was the greatest rapper who’s ever lived,” he wrote. “His personality was all confidence. This guy’s 300-plus pounds with a fucking lazy eye — and what woman did not love Biggie Smalls? You have to be damn near magical to do that.”
He also revealed that he “wrote all of [the Clipse’s 2006 album] Hell Hath No Fury trying to be Big. The whole thing, every line, every fluctuation in my voice, I was trying to sound like Big. On ‘Keys Open Doors,’ when I say, ‘Make your skin crawl/ Press one button, let the wind fall /Who gon’ stop us?/ Fuck the coppers, the mind of a kilo shopper’ — that’s all Big.”
Iconic Records, meanwhile, commemorates not only the 25th anniversary of Life After Death, which fell last March, but the 50th birthday of both Christopher Wallace and Hip Hop as a whole.
“It’s an honor to host the first-ever season of Iconic Records,” Angie Martinez said in a statement. “Biggie was, and still is, one of the most important artists of our lifetime and Life After Death is a masterpiece!
“To collaborate with WMX on this series has been an incredible experience. It’s especially meaningful as we also pay homage to 50 years of hip hop and how it’s changed the course of history.”
Revisit Life After Death below:
It’s a great album. All Eyez on Me is better tho, hardly any filler tracks on that.
Im gonna go with All Eyez on Me. No Biggy hate tho.
That’s hard to compare really…. All eyez on me were more like a Documentary with Knowledge and Wisdom…. Life after Death were more like a Movie with Storytelling and excitement!!! Both super classics Tho!!!
Life After, All Eyez, Wu Forever top 3. Nothing else is even remotely close to these 3.
I’ll give the number 4 slot to Bone Thugs Art of War. Not a classic, but they definitely mastered their style on that one.
Tru 2 da game and da last don are better than life after death.. But all eyez on me is the best ever
I don’t think so. Best Double Rap Album maybe but “Best Double Album Ever” – Pink Floyd, “The Wall” has to be it! With the Beatles’ “White Album” a close second.
Obviously he was only talking rap albums not every other music genre.
YO “LIFE AFTER DEATH” Is CLEARLY THE GREATEST DOUBLE ALBUM EVER!! ANY STYLE OF MUSIC!! And “Read To Die” is one of the top 5 BEST EVER hip hop albums up the with ” SOUTHERNAYALISTICADILLACMUZIK”, ” Reasonable Doubt”, “Fear of a Black Planet”, and “Illmatic”. That is that.
You’re definitely on the glass dick 4real cuz All Eyez On Me was way better in every way. Big only decided to do a double album cuz gay ass Diddy wanted to smite Tupac one more time.
Imagine if DMXs two albums he released the same year were instead a double album. I’d tie that with Pac n Bigs double albums hands down. It’s dark and hell is hot, flesh of my flesh blood of my blood… Xs two best albums, and arguably some of the top 50 albums in hiphop all together.
Nah, Hell is Hot and Flesh/Blood are completely different vibes. Wouldn’t have worked.
This doc was 100% my idea lol
This doc was 100% my idea lol
All Eyez on me is better, no skips for me. Life After Death, I skip around a few times. It’s a very good album.
How Do You Want It and What’s Your Phone # are the epitome of skippable songs. The same can be said for Another and Playa Hater though.
Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life”…which is considered THE greatest double LP ever made, and also one of the GOAT albums overall, regardless of genre.
Give me all eyes on me
LAD is the only correct answer followed up by Wu Tang Forever. AOEM is a second rate Doggystyle and has too many duds.
Give me all eyes on meP
Life after is a classic, A.E.O.M is a street documetary ,WU-4Ever is a generation defining masterpiece, now DMX dropped 2 albums in one year Flesh of my Flesh and its Dark, if we can call that a double album, then thats it ,DMX has the best ever rap album of all time.
LOVE BIGGIE, LOVE PAC ,RESPECT WU, R.I.P DMX.
TRU – True to The Game
Dipset – diplomatic immunity
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s He’s the DJ ,I’m the rapper is the best double album.
ha!
8Ball “Lost” double album was and still one of the hardest double albums of all time.
…$hid…”SpeakerBoxxx/Love Below” & “All Eyez On Me” are the greatest double albums of all time.
$hid…”SpeakerBoxxx/Love Below” & “All Eyez On Me” are the greatest double albums of all time.
Speakerboxxx/Love Below ain’t it. Speakerboxxx was OutKast without 3000 and Love Below was some of the worst Prince impersonations I ever heard.
of course it is, no other HH double LP even comes close. All Eyez On Me is good but woulda been better off trimmed down to a single LP. Same with Wu Forever. And dont even mention BONE, a double LP of them is just too much. Only joint I sometimes skip on BIG’s is Mo Money Mo Probs, just cause its been so overplayed. Other than that its a no-skip listen.
I disagree, Life After Death would’ve been better off without Nasty Boy, Another, The World Is Filled, and Playa Hater. Add to the mix Diddy’s annoying ad libs throughout the album which we all could’ve done without also. Ready To Die was waaay better than LAD.
Playa Hater I understand, its a spoof. I still dig it though, even though BIG’s singing is bad on purpose. Its funny and I dig the sample. World is Filled aint my fav but I still like it, Short Dawg’s cameo and the Carl Thomas hook. But Another and Nasty Boy are 2 of my favs, great uptempo tracks with the 80s feel to em. Could definitely do without Puff’s ad libs, but I just tune em out. R2D is probably better sure, but I place both BIG LPs in my top 5 HH LPs (I’m biased, he’s my personal fav rapper), and I still say this is by FAR the best HH double LP.
I respect that, especially after you admitted he’s your personal favorite rapper. A lot of people on here wouldn’t admit their bias openly. Salute!
Has nothing to do with which rapper we like we are talking about albums and no one is dissing Big SMH I knew someone would find a way to make it out of that
@ Urheinuss, mind your business. Stupid ignoramus SMH.
All Eyes on Me and it’s not even close yes Big can go word for word with Pac but not on this give me some of what Pusha was on for my 420
As far as double albums go it’s
1. All eyez on me
2. tru 2 da game by tru
3. Da las don by master p
4. Life after death