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Reacting to 'Ready to Die' (Patreon)

Published:
2022-02-18 16:01:03
Imported:
2022-02

Content

A little early this week as I'll be pretty busy over the holiday weekend 🤘


0:03:15 - Intro

0:06:30 - Things Done Changed

0:12:35 - Gimme the Loot

0:21:10 - Machine Gun Funk

0:27:25 - Warning

0:33:25 - Ready to Die

0:41:50 - One More Chance

0:48:50 - Fuck Me (Interlude)

0:50:40 - The What

0:56:50 - Juicy

1:06:30 - Everyday Struggle

1:17:20 - Me and My Bitch

1:24:20 - Big Poppa

1:30:20 - Respect

1:38:15 - Friend of Mine

1:43:20 - Unbelievable

1:48:25 - Suicidal Thoughts

1:53:00 - Who Shot Ya?

1:59:50 - Just Playing (Dreams)

2:03:10 - Closing Thoughts

Files

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Comments

Anonymous

https://youtu.be/TbSm6HsX_ek - Warning https://youtu.be/0Ogs_NsXh58 - One More Chance https://youtu.be/_JZom_gVfuw - Juicy https://youtu.be/phaJXp_zMYM - Big Poppa here are all of the official music videos!! :)

FuzzyDunlop

A song that always reminds me of this era, that you might wanna check out, "Flava in your ear" by Craig Mack. Same label and had a lot of hype around him, but outside of this, not a lot going on. Remix with Biggie (plus LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes) is a must listen: https://youtu.be/PMbELEUfmIA

Anonymous

Justin Hunte - The Breakdown https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BpTnj5f_iE4 This is a series by Justin Hunte on hiphopdx. He looks at artists often called the greatest of all time. He reflects on why and gives some critical comments too. They're like mini-docs about what makes an artist special. Dead End Hip Hop - Classic Review https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=esvjpJ-cx9Y These are not so much reviews but more album discussions between friends. They're all long-time hip hop fans and have good chemistry on camera.

Anonymous

are you going to be releasing a mp3 version?

Anonymous

By the way, the version of One More Chance you heard is the original more uncut version. The remixed version is the more well known, with it being played with an entire different beat as you’d see in the music video. Also if you wanna check out some other hiphop classics from the 80-90s here are some I enjoy a lot - Enter the Wutang: 36 Chambers by Wutang Clan - Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy - De la Soul is Dead by De la Soul - Outkast’s “ATLiens” “Aquemini” and “Stankonia” (all 3 classics imo) - Straight Outta Compton by NWA - Liquid Swords by GZA - The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest - 2001 by Dr Dre (The Chronic also valid) -Black on Both Sides by Mos Def (also Black Star which is a collab between Mos Def and Talib Kweli) Theres obviously a lot more

CRASH

Haven’t heard this album since I was a kid. Hearing Gimme the Loot again bummed me out cuz it made me think of XXXtentacion :( Bob has he been recommended to you before? Any interest?

Joshua Brice

I think part of the reason it's easier for you to enjoy this music is because you have found some mental common ground.

Anonymous

Great reaction! Hopefully it wont be long until you react to his second album, Life After Death. Imo the greatest double-disc rap album of all time.

Anonymous

In both of biggie’s albums he probably overdid it with amount of songs, but in hindsight he only got to release two albums before dying so it is more of a good thing. You are right though it’s a lot to take in at once Insane he is still considered one of the greatest with only two albums

Anonymous

The only problem with the re-release is the absence of the Parliament sample in Machine Gun Funk. Makes it a better track. I guess they didn't clear the sample.

Anonymous

There's a line from KRS-One, "Manhattan keeps on making it, Brooklyn keeps on taking it..." BIG is from Brooklyn. Well known for robbing.

Anonymous

The way they flipped the nastiest song on that album (One More Chance) into a pop hit is simply amazing

Anonymous

Ya don't stop is a common Hip-Hop MC freestyle in the tradition of the original MCs from the 70's and 80's. Not a diss.

Anonymous

If you want the counter to the spending and name brand rap you might go check out the videos for The Roots, "How We Do" and De La Soul, "Stakes is High"

Xavvi

I'm at the point when you first talk about Puffy (in Big Poppa). I should point out that the story of Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, aka Puffy, aka PoppaDiddyPop, aka P Diddy, aka Diddy, aka Brother Love, aka Puffy again, is actually pretty interesting. Diddy's mom was a teacher's assistant and one time model, but his dad (who was in the military) was connected to Frank Lucas, a famous drug trafficker/mobster that was played by Denzel famously in the movie American Gangster. Daddy Diddy (Melvin Combs) was murdered in New York when Sean was 2. He grew up and ended up interning at Uptown Records, famously he was the one that found and brought Mary J Blige and a few other acts to prominence and rising to VP. The rumor is that he got too big for his britches, realizing that he found and promoted multiple stars and started to cultivate a particular new sound. Sure enough, they fired him from Uptown and Puff was forced to make a play for himself. He convinced Arista Records to let him develop his own label under them, Bad Boy Records, and brought a few people along with him...most notably the overweight braggadocious drug dealer with bravado named Notorious BIG. He created an in-house production team (the Hitmen) and together they cranked out hits for a relative slew of hip-hop and R&B acts. The man was on top of the world. He might jump on a record and give na adlib or two, or maaaaaaybe super rarely even get on a verse, but he was never a rapper and had no aspirations to be one. Then at age 24, Christopher Wallace was murdered in the streets of LA, and that life was so intrinsically tied to the success of Bad Boy Records that Puffy felt he had basically no choice. He had already been making a sort of Bad Boy Records All Stars type of record, something where all his artists could shine at once, but with Biggie gone he decided to take on the mantle and try to be the star Bad Boy needed despite not being a very good rapper, despite not having great ghost-writers in house to help him and really despite having a lot of people that already thought he was a joke. He dropped Puff Daddy & The Family : No Way Out in July of 97 and it went on to sell 7 million copies and cement him as a star. The man has gone on to have successful ventures in clothing, restaurants, alcohol, fragrance, broadcast television, competitive gaming and more. The reluctant rapper can be accused of a lot of things but he's a shrewd businessman and as he said himself, "Don't worry if I write rhymes - I write checks" (I figured everyone else would give you all you need to know about Biggie and his impact so I figured I'd give you some info on something else)

Anonymous

How the production of Unbelievable came together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evj8RnVAB04

Anonymous

Puffy ad-libs are a source or argument lol! "If you want a place where your producer isn't all up in the videos, all on the records, then come to Death Row"

Anonymous

Great timing to do this before Pinata. When you listen to Pinata you should be able to reference this. A lot of similarities between the two albums that came out 20 years apart.

Anonymous

I am born in the year 2001 and this album is my favorite rap album ever but I don't get sum of the references that you like for example laugh with, would some some inside scoop of how you see the album in that way in your additional thoughts video

Tyler Scott

Juicy is just timeless and one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time.

Anonymous

Lmao Vimeo's got Bob feeling ready to die

Anonymous

I'll probably be commenting as I'm listening on, but two immediate things 1) speaking of Biggie's mic presence vs the beats, I'll say you're dead on. It's his biggest strength to me as well and some tracks actually work surprisingly well as acappellas (they're pretty available if you look places). 2) Please appreciate the thought of pre-show DJ's playing Biggie loud in the club before smaller hip hop concerts nowadays as you order a beer or something, I haven't been to a show in 2 years but remember that feeling as almost even better than the shows themselves

Anonymous

Aww man. I've got to mention that one of my most awkward listens ever was that fucking "Fuck Me (Interlude)" with my mom apparently outside my room, the first time I had bought Ready To Die listening to it. She had just knocked on my door interrupting something at around "One More Chance", and then when this god damn interlude played I saw her shadows underneath the door and it didn't feel great as the interlude continued and continued :'D

Anonymous

For the "The What" track it's funny you reacted to the "You don't stop" as parody, because that's exactly the expression people used to make fun of Bad Boy Records of the 90's era for. Puff Daddy "Can't stop, won't stop" will forever be associed with Bad Boy, also I believe Eminem even referenced it somewhere on The Slim Shady LP.... Anyway, it probably wasn't ripe for parody yet when Biggie and Method recorded this though, and maybe it's even where Puffy got the idea from? Anyway, interesting.

Anonymous

Great reaction as usual Bob. My first comment. While Who Shot Ya is a must listen, it would be nearly better to hear the album without it here and stop at Suicidal Thoughts to get the 'Ready to Die' aspect. Totally get the fatigue you talk about but if you follow the arc of the album, he's ready to die in a fearless way at the start. This larger than life character, afraid of nothing. Ready to die. He has to be in order to survive and prosper. As the album wears on, he becomes ready to die in a more inward way. Sick of having to be that character, sick of the stress, sick of the responsibility. No longer ready to die in a fearless way, ready to die in a fearful way

Anonymous

“I don’t wanna see no crying at my funeral” he’s saying that I’m letting it be well known that I was ready to die and that I had it coming, hence when people go to his funeral they shouldn’t cry because it’s justified all things considered

Anonymous

Your first inclination to bring up 2pac when talking about Who Shot Ya?, is not far off actually. It’s widely debated to whether or not it’s about him, even after Biggie said in an interview it wasn’t about him. Whether it was or not, didn’t stop Pac from assuming it was about him. He proceeded to make an all time diss track/music video in response. Hit’em Up is about as direct as it comes when it comes to dissing another rapper. It’s like the the peak of east coast/west coast rap beef. That along with the source awards where suge knight calls out P. Diddy and tells biggie to join death row. You should be able to find that clip on youtube.

I once saw Sweeney do 50 slow handstand push-ups

It’s an awesome feeling when you realize your old personal biases about what rap music is have changed. You realize this music isn’t actually that harmful and is actually a work of art. I’m so glad I got out of the “rap isn’t real music” phase. Also I had the same experience when you start seeing how rhyme schemes and how flows work it’s really cool to listen how these masters of the English language like Biggie, MF DOOM, and tons of others push the boundaries on what they can do with their words

Anonymous

Since you heard Who Shot Ya, which was essentially a Tupac diss track, you should check out Hit Em Up by Tupac for this week's content. You will not regret it.

Jakob Roloff

This album was the blueprint for a long time in terms of how a modern rap album was structured in terms of singles for the radio, street songs and the overall sequencing. One of the greatest albums of all time.

LULW

now that you appreciate the rhyme schemes and how the bars are structured more i think it's time to do a reacting to the marshall mathers lp

LULW

just keep doing you when it comes to commeting during these videos, if it's a long commentery or a short one it honestly doesn't matter i've never felt like in any of your reviews you were talking for too long and but i also never felt like that you should really say something 'cus youve been quiet for too long, i guess what i want to say is that you are doing fine lmao

Tribecalledjoe

If you go looking at lists “Juicy” is almost always looked at as the greatest hip-hop song of all time 👌🏼

Anonymous

"We've come a long way in music because we wouldn't use the word bitch like this anymore." This had me laughing because when you listen to more hip hop from the last ten years you'll see how not true that is. That song is a lot more three-dimensional than a lot of stuff nowadays. Not that what we have now is bad. It is what it is. And it depends on the artist. A lot of modern music revels in it: repeating an ignorant line again and again. "I fucked your bitch! I fucked your bitch! I fucked your bitch!" You can get away with more in hip hop than a lot of other places. The rules just don't apply the same way. That is the appeal for a lot of young men. Everywhere else you're controlled. Don't say this don't say that. In hip hop you can say it. Over and over.

Josh

DUDE U HAVE TO REACT TO DOOM!! theres so much old stuff that I'd drop my uni course for you to hear, ok not really, but Nas - Illmatic and MOST IMPORTANTLY Victor Vaughn (MF DOOM) - Vaudeville Villan