In ”Miss U,” an innocent victim is killed after a gunman ”squeezed all six shots in the passenger door.” (Smalls, 24, died after several shots were fired into the passenger side of a car.) ”Your destiny is something you can never figure out,” goes a line in ”Last Day,” yet throughout the album, Biggie either taunts fate or seems resigned to it. in ”Going Back to Cali,” he sings, ”That don’t mean a nigger can’t rest in the West.” L.A., of course, is where the Brooklyn-based Biggie was killed, and such disturbing ironies abound. ”You wanna see me locked up, shot up/Moms cracked up over the casket screaming,” Biggie tells his enemies in ”My Downfall.” Visiting L.A. on the set of 'Hypnotize', in what would be his very last interview ever. Biggie, whose leg had been seriously injured in a car accident several months before, had a slight hobble to him as he navigated the scenery with a cane. ’s Life After Death, the last album released by Biggie Smalls two weeks after his untimely passing. In this rare clip, Rap Citys Joe Clair spoke with The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls), Life After Death is the eeriest disc yet in the unfortunately booming subgenre of posthumous rap records. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Notorious B.I.G. Completed just weeks before the March 9 drive-by shooting death of Christopher Wallace (otherwise known as the Notorious B.I.G. Of course, the album isn’t standard gangsta fare, either.
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