Ninja-Parents Blog

Quick Verdict Ready to Die arrived on September 13, 1994, five months after Illmatic, and immediately established that 1994 was the greatest year for rap debuts in the genre’s history. The Notorious B.I.G.’s debut album is the most complete and emotionally comprehensive debut statement in East Coast rap — a 17-track record that moves from party anthems to murder narratives to vulnerable confessions to operatic street tragedy, all delivered in Biggie’s baritone with the laco