THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - Life After Death (2022 Repress) - 3LP - Silver Vinyl

3LP - Limited RSD Exclusive Silver Vinyl Edition.

Biggie's second long-player was a huge slab of hip hop featuring a whole range of guests and a whole load of hits. The ambitious album, intended as somewhat of a sequel to Ready to Die, picking up where its predecessor left off, sprawled across the span of two discs, each filled with music, 24 songs in all. You'd expect any album this sprawling to include some lackluster filler. That's not really the case with Life After Death, however. Like 2Pac's All Eyez on Me from a year before, an obvious influence, Biggie's album made extensive use of various producers - DJ Premier, Easy Mo Bee, Clark Kent, RZA, and more of New York's finest - resulting in a diverse, eclectic array of songs. Plus, Biggie similarly brought in various guest rappers - Jay-Z, Lil' Kim, Bone Thugs, Too $hort, L.O.X., Mase - a few vocalists - R. Kelly, Angela Winbush, 112 - and, of course, Puff Daddy, who is much more omnipresent here than on Ready to Die, where he mostly remained on the sidelines. It's perhaps Puffy himself to thank for this album's biggest hits: Mo Money Mo Problems, Hypnotize, Sky's the Limit, three songs that definitely owe much to his pop touch. There's still plenty of the gangsta tales on Life After Death that won Biggie so much admiration on the streets, but it's the pop-laced songs that stand out as highlights.
 

Tracklist:

A1. Life After Death Intro
A2. Somebody's Gotta Die
A3. Hypnotize
A4. Kick In The Door

B1. Fuck You Tonight
B2. Last Day
B3. I Love The Dough
B4. What's Beef?

C1. B.I.G. Interlude
C2. Mo Money Mo Problems
C3. Niggas Bleed
C4. I Gotta Story To Tell

D1. Notorious Thugs
D2. Miss U
D3. Another
D4. Going Back To Cali

E1. Ten Crack Commandments
E2. Playa Hater
E3. Nasty Boy
E4. Sky's The Limit

F1. The World Is Filled...
F2. My Downfall
F3. Long Kiss Goodnight
F4. You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)