Junior Mafia – Get Money (feat the Notorious BIG) (1996)
Note the original lyrical twists – no how’s-your-father until Biggie has had his dinner! – and period detail: a pre-Auto-Tune, wildly off-key vocal on the hook. Craig Mack’s debut album was duly eclipsed by the release of Ready to Die a week beforehand.īy most accounts, the making of Biggie’s debut album was a struggle between the rapper’s street instincts and Sean “Puffy” Combs’s commerciality. Craig Mack – Flava in Ya Ear (remix feat Notorious BIG, LL Cool J, Rampage & Busta Rhymes) (1994)īoth an incredible single and an object lesson in the perils of getting Biggie Smalls to guest on your track despite the stellar company, his verse turns the song into his show. Posthumously, it sounded like a self-penned eulogy, complete with epitaph: “Live the phrase ‘Sky’s the limit’”. One of several tracks that took on a different hue after Biggie’s death in 1997, aged 24, Sky’s the Limit was initially Life After Death’s equivalent of his breakthrough hit Juicy, an alternately wistful and dark account of his rise. The rapper elects to lie in wait: needless to say, it doesn’t end well for his would-be assailants. The album has been certified Platinum by both the BPI and RIAA and has sold over 1,003,000 copies in the US to date.A beautifully concise bit of storytelling, complete with an impressively naturalistic conversational interlude during which Biggie, in character as a friend, informs himself that someone has taken a hit out on him. The album sold 178,702 units in four weeks. It is B.I.G's 3rd US #1 on the Billboard 200. As of 2019, it is the last greatest hits album to debut at the number one position on the Billboard 200. Billboard 200 at number one in the issue dated March 14, 2007, with 100,000 copies sold in its first week of release. released in his lifetime and the inferior quality of his posthumously-published work. It was also criticized as an unnecessary release, given the limited amount of material which the Notorious B.I.G. The album was criticized for not containing many of the Notorious B.I.G.'s biggest hits, including: "Mo Money Mo Problems", "Going Back to Cali", "Player's Anthem" and "Sky's the Limit". The album was released on Maby Bad Boy Records and Atlantic Records, three days before the 10th anniversary of his death. Greatest Hits is a compilation album by The Notorious B.I.G.
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