Platinum certification in the US, selling over 3.5 million copies, and has achieved platinum status in the UK as well.
The album has cemented its place in hip-hop history and has since gone on to achieve 6x Other critics praising it for its brutally honest depiction of gang violence and conflict as opposed to the often-glorified portrayal in the genre and the wider media. Upon release, the album was met with widespread critical acclaim, with Pitchfork giving it a 10/10 rating along with various “Big Poppa” is the hit sex jam, “Juicy” made you laugh as you danced, and on “Things Done Changed” and “Everyday Struggle,” he relates gangsta tales in a voice as thick as his waistline.Originally released on 13 th September 1994, Ready To Die is the debut studio album from hip-hop legend, The Notorious B.I.G. Biggie Smalls) took the gritty life experience of his hard-knock Brooklyn youth and crammed it into Ready to Die, hip-hop’s greatest debut. Ready To Die is one of the highest rated hip hop albums on Rolling Stone’s list of the ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time’: “B.I.G. A cinematic storyteller with an effortless flow, the authenticity of Biggie’s rhymes were in the details and a foreboding sense of doom which was all too real. Ready To Die was the only album issued during Biggie’s lifetime as he was murdered days before the 1997 release of his second and final full-length, Life After Death.įeaturing the classic tracks “Juicy,” “Big Poppa,” and “One More Chance,” Ready To Die single-handedly revitalized the East Coast hip hop scene after longstanding commercial dominance by the West Coast and has gone onto 6x Platinum sales and counting. The Notorious B.I.G. took the music world by storm with his 1994 Bad Boy Records debut album Ready To Die, which has gone on to become one of the most beloved and enduring hip-hop albums of all time.
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