2/17/2023 0 Comments Ready to die![]() ![]() The story is well-known: Big Daddy Kane’s DJ Mister Cee heard Biggie on a tape and invited the burgeoning rapper to a showcase for The Source. ![]() And as he began to build a name torching would-be rhymers around Brooklyn and popping up on mixtapes with his DJ 50 Grand, when the right ears heard him, it was only a matter of time before a career was sparked. The way that it changed hip-hop has reverberated for 25 years.īiggie’s youth as a fledgling drug dealer in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn wasn’t all that different from most of his peers: single-parent households, poverty, and the crack epidemic were hallmarks of his generation. The man born Christopher Wallace was a peerless emcee, and his debut is one of the most fully-formed in music history. The rise of the Notorious B.I.G. brought a significant shift in hip-hop’s mid-'90s landscape, setting the stage for so much of how the world would see the genre going forward. ![]()
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