The album that reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age, Ready to Die made the Notorious B.I.G. A star, and vaulted Sean 'Puffy' Combs' Bad Boy label into the spotlight as well. Today it's recognized as one of the greatest hardcore rap albums ever recorded.

Ready to Die is the debut album of American rapper The Notorious B.I.G., released September 13, 1994 on Bad Boy Records. The first release on the label, it features production by record producer and Bad Boy founder Sean 'Puffy' Combs, Easy Mo Bee, Chucky Thompson, DJ Premier, and Lord Finesse, among others. Recording sessions for the album took place during 1993 to 1994 at The Hit Factory and D&D Studios in New York City. The partly autobiographical album Tracklist Track number Play Loved Track name Buy Options Duration Listeners 1.

If you were sitting and moping in your room because no one had mashed up Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die with Lana del Rey’s Born to Die yet, get ready to wipe up your tears – it’s finally happened. Big thanks to producer Terry Urban for, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Biggie’s death, curating this mash up of Lana’s canned-strings instrumentals and some of her creepily pitch-shifted vocals with the legend's classy gritty verses. The whole thing’s worth a listen, but we’re partial to “Juicy Lolita,” which somehow sounds like a spy-movie theme, and “Money is the Anthem,” which makes great hay out of one of Lana’s more capitalistic sing-talked assertions.

If you think Born Ready to Die is blasphemy or genius depends on your taste, but you’ll definitely want to hear it either way. Check it out.

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