


#NOTORIOUS BIG READY TO DIE COVER BABY FREE#
Want to create your own show combining music from Spotify and talk segments by you? It’s easy and free with Spotify’s podcasting platform, Anchor. Hosts: Brandon “Jinx” Jenkins and Shea SerranoĪdditional Production Supervision: Tunde St. Ready to Die, The Notorious B.I.G.’s debut studio album, was released on September 13, 1994.It was also Bad Boy Records first release, produced by founder Sean Puffy Combs. as one of the most recognizable, everlasting, and iconic people in all of music and pop culture. Image via Complex Original If you've been wondering who the baby on the cover of Biggie's 1994 debut album Ready to Die was, we finally have the answer (and no it was not B.I.G).

Then they discuss why the cover art, foreshadowing, origin stories, and a crazy imagination of the album solidify the Notorious B.I.G. Later, they explore key lines that now effortlessly float in the realm of hip-hop while giving shine to the guest features like Puff, Method Man, and Big’s alternative characters. Dropping out of high school at the age of seventeen, Biggie became a crack dealer, which he proclaimed was his only source of income. He was raised in the poor Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant as the son of a preschool teacher. They discuss the magnitude of his impact and the depth of duality in his storytelling on tracks like “Warning,” “Big Poppa,” “Gimme the Loot,” and “Juicy.” Biggie Smalls, was born in Brooklyn, New York, May 21, 1972. On the final episode of Volume 2, Jinx and Shea cover the stand-alone debut album, Ready to Die, by arguably the greatest emcee of all time, the Notorious B.I.G.
