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The Notorious B.I.G.

Ready To Die: The Instrumentals (RSD 24)

Record Store Day 2024 - LP - £29.99
The album that reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age, Ready to Die made the Notorious BIG a household name.
Ready To Die (2021 reissue)

not-silver

  1. Intro
  2. Things Done Changed
  3. Gimme The Loot
  4. Machine Gun Funk
  5. Warning
  6. Ready To Die
  7. One More Chance
  8. Fuck Me (Interlude)
  9. The What
  10. Juicy
  11. Everyday Struggle
  12. Me & My B*tch
  13. Big Poppa
  14. Respect
  15. Friend Of Mine
  16. Unbelievable
  17. Suicidal Thoughts
  18. Who Shot Ya
  19. Just Playing (Dreams)

The Notorious B.I.G.

Ready To Die (2021 reissue)

Bad Boy
  • 140g 2lp

    Released: 8th Oct 2021

    £26.99
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This reissue featuring the iconic artwork of an infant bearing a resemblance to the rapper has been out of the marketplace for over a decade and also features all 19 tracks from the Ready to Die Sessions.

The album cover is often cited as one of the greatest of all time, with Billboard magazine placing it no.4 on its list of “The 50 Greatest Album Covers of All Time” stating that juxtaposition of the music with the “innocence of a child” on the cover illustrates how “a cruel world imprints on unmoulded minds”. NME has also placed it no.12 on its list of “Timeless Hip Hop Album Covers” and Complex Magazine have placed it at no.16 on its list of “Greatest Album Covers”.