In The Source magazine’s October 1994 issue, Ready to Die was given a rating of 4½ mics out of five. The record was certified gold by the RIAA two months after its release, and went double platinum in 1995. The album also made Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, landing at #133. “Big Poppa” was nominated for “Best Rap Solo Performance” at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, losing out to LL Cool J’s “Hey Lover”-but it earned a Billboard Music Award later that year. Write reviews, rate albums, and compile lists in musics fastest. According to several sources, he recorded the latter half by freestyling from memory. Keep track of all the music you listen to and grow your passion for music with friends. Ready to Die comes in newly mastered multi. Biggie resumed production the following year under the auspices of the newly-founded Bad Boy Records. Ready To Die has become a classic so canonized that all praise cant help but feel empty. After Puffy was fired from Uptown Records in 1993, the project was only half finished. Production of the album took place in two waves. Today it's recognized as one of the greatest hardcore rap albums ever recorded, and that's mostly due to Biggie's skill as a storyteller. a star, and vaulted Sean 'Puffy' Combs ' Bad Boy label into the spotlight as well. The project is Biggie’s only album to be released during his lifetime his sophomore project, Life After Death, dropped just days after his murder in March 1997. The album that reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age, Ready to Die made the Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls), released on September 13,1994.

It was also Bad Boy Records' first release, produced by founder Sean “Puffy” Combs. Background/Description: Ready to Die is the debut album by Brooklyn, New York rapper The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die, The Notorious B.I.G.’s debut studio album, was released on September 13, 1994.

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