Life After Death

Life After Death
Studio album by The Notorious B.I.G.
Released March 25, 1997
Recorded September 1995 – January 1997
Genre Gangsta rap, mafioso rap, hardcore hip hop, dirty rap
Length 109:12 (Approx. 59 min. on 1-disc edited version)
Label Bad Boy
Producer Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Carlos "6 July" Broady, Buckwild, Clark Kent, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Stevie J, DJ Enuff, DJ Premier, Easy Mo Bee, Havoc, Jiv Poss, Daron Jones, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence, Kay Gee, Nashiem Myrick, Notorious B.I.G., Paragon, Chucky Thompson, RZA
The Notorious B.I.G. chronology
Ready to Die
(1994)		 Life After Death
(1997)		 Born Again
(1999)
Singles from Life After Death
  1. "Hypnotize"
    Released: March 1, 1997
  2. "Mo Money Mo Problems"
    Released: July 15, 1997
  3. "Sky's the Limit"
    Released: November 25, 1997

Life After Death is the second studio album by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G., released March 25, 1997 on Bad Boy Records. A double album, it was released posthumously following his death on March 9, 1997. It features collaborations with guest artists such as 112, Jay-Z, Lil' Kim, Mase, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Too $hort, Angela Winbush, D.M.C. of Run-D.M.C., R. Kelly, The LOX, and Puff Daddy. Life After Death exhibits The Notorious B.I.G. further delving into the mafioso rap subgenre. The album acts as a sequel to his debut Ready to Die and picks up where the last song "Suicidal Thoughts" ends.

The album was nominated for three Grammy Awards in 1998, including Best Rap Album, Best Rap Solo Performance for its first single "Hypnotize", and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for its second single "Mo Money Mo Problems".

Life After Death has been considered by music writers as one of the seminal mafioso rap albums, along with Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… (1995), AZ's Doe Or Die (1995), Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt (1996), and Nas' It Was Written (1996), as well as a landmark in hip hop music. In 2003, the album was ranked number 476 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Background

Two and a half years prior to the album's release, The Notorious B.I.G. who had married Faith Evans, became East Coast's icon in the East Coast vs. West Coast rivalry and made guest appearances on albums by Jay-Z and Luther Campbell amongst others. The album was supposedly to be released on Halloween of 1996, but was pushed back to 1997. Two weeks prior to the album's release, The Notorious B.I.G. was shot four times in a drive-by shooting on March 9 and pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Feud references and subliminal disses

Conflict with other rappers is a major theme shown throughout the album. Numerous songs contain subliminal (and some obvious) references to B.I.G.'s rivals.

"Kick in the Door"

The track "Kick in the Door" is directed at Nas, Jeru the Damaja, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah and even the track's producer DJ Premier. The subliminal messages had been speculated by listeners and confirmed by artists on several occasions, including XXL Magazine's April 2003 edition "The Making of: Life After Death".

In "The Making of: Life After Death" Nashiem Myrick reveals that the second verse has lines directed at Jeru the Damaja & DJ Premier:[1] "Nas said that record was for him, but when Big said, “Son, I’m surprised you run with them/I think they got cum in them, ’cause they nothin’ but dicks,” he was talking about Jeru the Damaja to Premo ’cause Jeru was going at Big and Puff and all them [with the Premier-produced “One Day” in Jeru's album Wrath of the Math]."

The line "Fuck that, why try, throw bleach in your eye" is a reference to Raekwon's jab on the track "Ice Water" from Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... where Raekwon raps

That's life, to top it all off, beef with White
pullin bleach out tryin to throw it in my eyesight

The lines on the final verse are directed at Nas as a reference to Nas challenging The Notorious B.I.G. for the title of "King of New York"[2] in the song "The Message" from the album It Was Written in which Nas raps:

Yo let me let y'all niggaz know one thing
There's one life, one love, so there can only be one King

Biggie struck back with the lines:

Ain't no other kings in this rap thing
They siblings, nothing but my chil'ren
One shot, they disappearin'
It's ill when MC's used to be on cruddy shit
Took home Ready to Die, listened, studied shit
Now they on some money shit, successful out the blue

In "The Making of: Life After Death" article Lil’ Cease explains: "Big talked about Nas a little bit in that shit. It was the King of New York part, the last verse: “This goes out for those that chose to use disrespectful views on the King of NY.” That’s when Nas had that freestyle out, where he was like, “I’ll take the crown off the so-called King and lock it down.” That’s when Big had the cover of The Source, and it said, “The King of New York.”[1]

Nas has touched on the track on his album God's Son. Here Nas states:

Y'all don't know about my Biggie wars
Who you thought "Kick in the Door" was for?

And finally commenting on the whole situation with Ghostface and Raekwon:

BIG was ahead of his time, him and Raekwon my niggaz
But dig it, they couldn't get along
That's when Ghostface said it on the Purple Tape
Bad Boy biting Nas album cover, wait??
BIG told me Rae was stealing my slang
And Rae told me out in Shaolin BIG would do the same thing

"Long Kiss Goodnight"

It was speculated by many listeners that the song "Long Kiss Goodnight" contains cryptic insults towards 2Pac and Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, although at the time it was never confirmed due to the sensitive nature of both rappers' recent deaths.

However, Lil' Cease, Biggie's cousin and a member of Junior M.A.F.I.A. claimed the following in XXL Magazine's April 2003 issue about Long Kiss Goodnight: "That was about ’Pac. He had some shit at the beginning of that though, nobody heard it, on the reel. We had to change it. It was a little too much. I can’t remember what Big said about him, but it was terrible. It couldn’t make it. He didn’t want to do it. He had some fire. But he didn’t want to make it too much. He just wanted to address it and to let nigga know, “I know what’s going on, and I could get wreck if I want to.” Like, “If I really wanted to get on ya niggas, I could.”

Sean Combs, however, denies these claims stating: "Naw, it was just some emcee lyrics. I know people wanna have their imagination, but it was just lyrics. You're hearing it from the horse's mouth. I would tell the truth."[1]

In the first verse, the lyric "Laugh Now, Cry Later" is allegedly a reference to two tattoos on 2Pac’s back.[3] A line in the first verse is supposedly aimed at Shakur:

When my men bust you just move with such stamina
Slugs missed ya, I Ain't Mad at Cha (We Ain't Mad at Cha)

The last 2 verses in particular seem to be directed towards Tupac:

I'm flaming gats, aimin' at these fuckin' maniacs
Put my name in raps, what part the game is that?
Like they hustle backwards
I smoke Backwoods and Dutchies, ya can't touch me
Try to rush me, slugs go touchy-touchy
You're bleeding lovely with your spirit above me or beneath me
Your whole life you live sneaky
Now you rest eternally, sleepy, you burn when you creep me
Rest where the worms and the weak be

Slugs hit your chest, tap your spine, flat line
Heard through the grapevine, you got fucked fo' times
Damn that three to nine, fucked you up for real though
Slugs still slow, as for remorse, we feel no

The lines seem to be making reference to Tupac frequently mentioning Biggie by name in his raps, and allegations spread by Wendy Williams that he had been raped during his prison term at Rikers Island.[3] Although some fans have interpreted these lines as references to Shakur's murder, XXL Magazine wrote that the song was most likely recorded before 2Pac's death.[4]

Other references

In "Going Back to Cali" the second verse opens up with Biggie's thoughts on the inter-coastal war and his relationship with the West Coast:

If I got to choose a coast I got to choose the East
I live out there, so don't go there
But that don't mean a nigga can't rest in the West
See some nice breasts in the West
Smoke some nice sess in the West, y'all niggas is a mess
Thinkin' I'm gon' stop, givin' L.A. props
All I got is beef with those that violate me
I shall annihilate thee
Case closed

In the song "Notorious Thugs", B.I.G. clearly refers to longtime nemesis 2Pac in the line "so called beef with you-know-who", calling the feud between him and Shakur 'bullshit', while Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (who featured 2Pac on one of their songs the same year) throw jabs at Three 6 Mafia, Twista, Crucial Conflict and Do or Die.

The tracks "What's Beef" and "My Downfall", both of which deal with the subject of feuding, as well as "Last Day" and "You're Nobody (Till Somebody Kills You)" are also said to contain apparent jabs aimed at his rivals (including Shakur), even though Biggie stated in a Spin Magazine interview that the song "You're Nobody (Till Somebody Kills You)" was not directed at Shakur, who at the time had recently been shot.[5]

Reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Christgau's Consumer GuideA[7]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[8]
Los Angeles Times[9]
NME8/10[10]
Rolling Stone[11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[12]
The Source5/5[13]
USA Today[14]

Life After Death received widespread critical acclaim from many critics upon release. Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the album as "flaunting affluence with a leisurely swagger, midtempo grooves and calmly arrogant raps".[15] Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone magazine called it a "conscious continuation of Ready to Die", and stated "Life After Death captures crime's undeniable glamour but doesn't stint on the fear, desperation and irretrievable loss that the streets inevitably exact".[11] Cheo Hodari Coker from Los Angeles Times wrote that "Life After Death reflects both the dark and the heartfelt sides of the rapper's Gemini personality. It's not only a complex testament to who he was in his private life, but also a demonstration of his amazing rhyming ability. In key moments, B.I.G. does a marvelous job of surfing between accessible music fare tailored for the radio, and more challenging material that will be savored by hard-core rap fans who have long admired B.I.G.'s microphone skills. Rarely has a rapper attempted to please so many different audiences and done it so brilliantly".[9] Although David Browne of Entertainment Weekly was unfavorable of the album’s long length, and some of its violent and materialistic content, he commended Notorious B.I.G.’s "bicoastal respect" by working with other hip-hop styles and artists from other regions of the United States.[8]

Retrospect

Since its release, Life After Death has received retrospective acclaim from critics. Rob Sheffield, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), called it "a filler-free two-disc rush of musical bravado" and commented that the Notorious B.I.G.'s voice and lyrics were "deeper" than before.[12] AllMusic’s Jason Birchmeier stated "It may have taken the Notorious B.I.G. a few years to follow up his milestone debut, Ready to Die, with another album, but when he did return with Life After Death, he did so in a huge way. The ambitious album, intended as somewhat of a sequel to Ready to Die, picked up where its predecessor left off".[6] Birchmeier further stated "Over the course of only two albums, he achieved every success imaginable, perhaps none greater than this unabashedly over-reaching success".[6] Evan McGarvey of Stylus Magazine wrote in his review "Life After Death is a grand exercise in personal mythology, narrative sweep, and truly diverse, universal pop excellence. As a double album it is the very definition of cinematic; it essentially perfected the concept and standard in hip-hop ... Sequenced as an unpacking of sorts, the album’s progression from song to song is an essay itself".[16] In 2013, VIBE named Life After Death the greatest Hip-Hop/R&B album since 1993.[17]

Accolades

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
About.com United States 100 Greatest Hip Hop Albums[19] 2008 40
About.com United States Best Rap Albums of 1997[20] 2008 1
Addicted to Noise United States Albums of the Year 1997 7
Blender United States The 100 Greatest American Albums of All time 2002 25
ego trip United States Hip Hop's 25 Greatest Albums by Year 1980-98 1999 1
Face United Kingdom Albums of the Year 1997 20
Fnac France The 1000 Best Albums of All Time 2008 858
Hip Hop Connection United Kingdom The 100 Greatest Rap Albums 1995-2005 2005 14
Tom Moon United States 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die 2008 *
The New Nation United Kingdom Top 100 Albums by Black Artists 2005 60
OOR Moordlijst Netherlands Albums of the Year 1997 87
Pure Pop Mexico Albums of the Year 1997 18
Q United Kingdom Albums of the Year 1997 *
Rolling Stone United States The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 2003 483
Rolling Stone United States 100 Best Albums of the Nineties[21] 2011 66
Rolling Stone United States The Essential Recordings of the 90s 1999 *
The Source United States The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time[22] 2005 8
The Source United States The Critics Top 100 Black Music Albums of All Time[23] 2005 60
Spex Germany Albums of the Year 1997 19
Spin United States Albums of the Year 1997 7
(various writers) United States 50 Years of Great Recordings 2005 *
Vibe United States 51 Albums representing a Generation, a Sound and a Movement 2004 *
Vibe United States 150 Albums That Define the Vibe Era (1992-2007) 2007 *
Village Voice United States Albums of the Year 1997 12

Commercial success

Life After Death was released to a significant amount of critical praise and commercial success. The album sold 690,000 copies its first week.[24] In 2000, the album was certified diamond in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),[25] and it has been credited as one of the best-selling rap albums of all time. It also made the largest jump to number one on the Billboard 200 chart in history, jumping from number 176 to number one in one week. Also, it spent four weeks at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and topped the Billboard Year-End chart as a Billboard 200 for 1997.[26]

Legacy and influence

Though released in the wake of B.I.G.'s fatal shooting, Life After Death signaled a stylistic change in gangsta rap as it crossed over to the commercial mainstream. After the release of Life After Death, Puff Daddy’s Bad Boy Records continued to bring pop and gangsta rap closer together: the references to violence and drug dealing remained, as did the entire "gangsta" rhetoric, but the overall production style changed from the previously darker sound to a cleaner, sample-heavy, more upbeat sound that was directly fashioned for the mainstream pop charts, as seen in the single "Mo Money Mo Problems". The Notorious B.I.G. is often credited with initiating this transition, as he was among the first mainstream rappers to produce albums with a calculated attempt to include both gritty and realistic gangsta narratives as well as more radio-friendly productions. The majority of the album was produced by Steven "Stevie J" Jordan, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Carlos "July Six" Broady, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence, and Nashiem Myrick. However, other notable hip-hop producers such as Easy Mo Bee, Havoc from Mobb Deep, DJ Premier and RZA from Wu-Tang Clan contributed beats to the album as well.

Various artists were specifically influenced by several songs on Life After Death. Evidence's "Down in New York City" is essentially "Going Back to Cali" from the perspective of a West Coast artist. Jay-Z borrows four bars from "The World Is Filled..." in his song "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)", as well as the chorus from his song "Squeeze 1st" from "Hypnotize", a line in "The Ruler's Back" from "Kick in the Door" and "You're Nobody ('Til Somebody Kills You)" on "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)". Ice Cube borrows the chorus from "Kick in the Door" for his song "Child Support". As with B.I.G.'s "I Love The Dough" Monica's 2010 song "Everything to Me" samples "I Love You More" by René & Angela. The official remix includes a verse from B.I.G. that originally appeared on "I Love The Dough". On their RCA album, Release Some Tension, R&B trio SWV sampled the song "Ten Crack Commandments" for the opening track, "Someone", which features B.I.G.'s friend Combs, which was released five months after his death. French rapper Rohff named his album "La Vie Avant La Mort" (Life Before Death) (2001) as a tribute to BIG, the album has sold 350,000 copies.

Track listing

Disc one
No. TitleWriter(s)Producer(s) Length
1. "Life After Death Intro"  
 1:39
2. "Somebody's Gotta Die"  
  • Myrick
  • Carlos "July Six" Broady
  • Combs
 4:26
3. "Hypnotize"  
  • Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie
  • Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence
  • Combs
 3:50
4. "Kick In the Door"  
DJ Premier 4:47
5. "Fuck You Tonight" (featuring R. Kelly)
  • Jones
  • Combs
 5:45
6. "Last Day" (featuring The LOX)
 4:19
7. "I Love the Dough" (featuring Jay-Z and Angela Winbush)
Easy Mo Bee 5:11
8. "What's Beef?"  
  • Wallace
  • Myrick
  • Broady
  • Broady
  • Myrick
  • Paragon[a]
 5:15
9. "B.I.G. Interlude"  
  • Wallace
  • Angelettie
  • B.I.G.
  • Angelettie
 0:48
10. "Mo Money Mo Problems" (featuring Ma$e and Puff Daddy)
  • Stevie J.
  • Combs
 4:17
11. "Niggas Bleed"  
  • Wallace
  • Myrick
  • Combs
  • Jordan
  • Myrick
  • Broady
  • Combs
  • Stevie J.
 4:51
12. "I Got a Story to Tell"  
 4:42
Total length:
 49:55
Disc two
No. TitleWriter(s)Producer(s) Length
1. "Notorious Thugs" (featuring Bone Thugs-n-Harmony)
  • Stevie J.
  • Combs
 6:07
2. "Miss U"  
Kay-Gee 4:58
3. "Another" (featuring Lil' Kim)
  • Combs
  • Stevie J.
 4:15
4. "Going Back to Cali"  
Easy Mo Bee 5:07
5. "Ten Crack Commandments"  
  • Wallace
  • Martin
DJ Premier 3:24
6. "Playa Hater"  
  • Combs
  • Stevie J.
 3:57
7. "Nasty Boy"  
  • Wallace
  • Combs
  • Jordan
  • Combs
  • Stevie J.
 5:26
8. "Sky's the Limit" (featuring 112)
Kent 5:29
9. "The World Is Filled..." (featuring Too $hort and Puff Daddy)
  • Wallace
  • Angelettie
  • Combs
  • Kit Walker
  • Todd Shaw
  • Angelettie
  • Combs
 4:54
10. "My Downfall" (featuring D.M.C.)
  • Broady
  • Myrick
  • Combs
 5:26
11. "Long Kiss Goodnight"  
RZA 5:18
12. "You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)"  
 4:52
Total length:
 59:29

(co.) denotes co-producer

Disc one notes


Disc two notes

Personnel

Performers

  • R. Kelly - featured vocals
  • DMC - featured vocals
  • Angela Winbush - featured vocals
  • Kelly Price - vocals
  • Pamela Long - additional vocals
  • Carl Thomas - additional vocals
  • Faith Evans - background vocals
  • Karen Anderson - background vocals
  • Keanna Henson - background vocals
  • Deborah Neeley Rolle - background vocals
  • Ron Grant - background vocals
  • Michael Ciro - guitar
  • Butch Ingram - Writer- publisher

Production

  • Charles "Prince Charles" Alexander - engineer, mixing
  • Lane Craven - engineer, mixing
  • Manny Marroquin - engineer
  • Camilo Argumedes - engineer
  • Stephen Dent - engineer
  • Ben Garrison - engineer
  • Rasheed Goodlowe - engineer
  • Steve Jones - engineer
  • Rich July - engineer
  • John Meredith - engineer
  • Lynn Montrose - engineer
  • Axel Niehaus - engineer
  • Diana Pedraza - engineer
  • Doug Wilson - engineer
  • Tony Maserati - mixing
  • Paul Logus - mixing
  • Eddie Sancho - mixing
  • Richard Travali - mixing
  • Herb Powers - mastering

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (1997) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[28] 59
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[29] 30
Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[30] 3
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 63
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[32] 16
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[33] 28
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[34] 30
UK Albums (OCC)[35] 20
US Billboard 200[36] 1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[37] 1

Decade-end charts

Chart (1990–1999) Position
US Billboard 200[38] 96

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Canada (CRIA) 2× Platinum 200,000^
United States (RIAA)[39] 10× Platinum 5,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[40] Platinum 300,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
Nine Lives by Aerosmith		 Billboard 200 number-one album
April 12 - May 9, 1997 		Succeeded by
Share My World by Mary J. Blige

See also

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