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But since the 21 years of his death on March 9th, 1997, Biggies legacy has rested on Life After Death, the two-disc opus that shined a light on his talent as a rapper.And we can never forget the drug dealerstreet anthem Ten Crack Commandments, in which Biggie spoke on the rules of the drug game as if he was a veteran human on earth.I Got a Story To Tell spoke to the players who moved so savagely they almost got caught.
Mo Money, Mo Problems could be seen as Biggies catchiest track, while Fkin You Tonight is one of the few rap tracks that can be put on a slow jam playlist. As Stereogum pointed out here, he put the lyrics (I put hoes in NY onto DKNY. Miami, D.C. prefer Versace) and (squeeze first, ask questions last,) each into a record that would be his first No. No rapper at the time could successfully blend street tales with catchy songwriting. But tragically, we watched Biggie master it on Life After Death. Kanye West Defender and The Neptunes are the GOATs, no arguments. The Imperial March provides a spot-on backing for Biggies posthumously-released Dead Wrong, while the Binary Sunset theme (you know, that soaring one that plays when Luke is looking all folorn at Tatooines twin suns) sits happily underneath the business advice of Ten Crack Commandments. After all, the Mos Eisley Cantina is a well-know hive of scum and villainy, so more than a few of its patrons will relate to lyrics like: I was a terror since the public school era.
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