![]() He touches on eating sardines in a one room shack, hating your birthday, getting dissed by women you were too broke for, then shows us the video game systems, Queens real estate and marijuana stockpiles. Then he shifts into the perks and luxury that come with fame, the label money and the stardom. ![]() He references his impoverished upbringing and the struggles that accompanied it. The song does scarcely more than elaborate on the transformation from ashy to classy, but through the specificity of his detail, Biggie turns the conceit into one of the greatest songs ever made-all emotional weight and defiant, elated energy. More importantly, it stresses the relief of no longer needing to concern oneself with money. It’s about the joy of success, escaping poverty and attaining wealth. We conjure visions of Biggie as a child leafing through rap magazines, his ear pressed to a transistor radio at night.īut “Juicy” isn’t really about the culture. It’s a fairly novel approach, as ’94 was one of the first moments when hip hop was old enough for a kid to have grown up with. Biggie starts the narrative with his first interactions with hip hop. “Juicy” defies repetition - for many of us, it will never get old. In a different context, it’s strangely appropriate for the passion that bleeds through Biggie’s interpretation. The sample, James Mtume’s “Juicy Fruit” is a song about ecstatic, sexual pleasure. The songs are obvious bedfellows, with Biggie first relating his joy at making it off the corner, then reminding his audience what he had to go through to get there and the scars the struggle left. And one wants to imagine that “Everyday Struggle” following “Juicy” (a song that he didn’t think had as great commercial potential as “Machine Gun Funk”) was Biggie’s hard fought victory over Puff. It’s no coincidence that those songs are grouped together practically dead center on the album. Nothing prior to Ready to Die can match the autobiographic heft and dizzying highs and lows of “Juicy” and “Everyday Struggle.” ![]() BIGGIE SMALLS JUICY FREE DOWNLOAD CRACKIf it wasn’t for Biggie, crack rap might have remained in the Depalma-esque, cliché-ridden realm of Kool G Rap-ish mafiosos eating steak and lobster with Cubans. ![]() Ghost and Rae may have chided him for using subject matter with a similarly mob mentality (and for biting Nas’ album cover), but they missed the point. See Ready to Die, where the introduction starts with his birth and early childhood years, and ends with his death.Ģpac added to the chorus a year later with his claustrophobic masterpiece Me Against the World, but no one ever related a big picture narrative quite like Biggie on Ready to Die. Biggie defied the tradition by putting himself front and center - he became the story. Prior to 1994, rappers had largely been entrenched reporters relating facts on the ground. He lost a hard drive with nearly half the articles, and it took him this long to extract them.īiggie’s most important stories were his own. Abe Beame apologizes to those who have been enjoying this series. ![]()
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