Review Summary: *Favorite line in this album* and when I rock her and drop her, I'm taking her doorknockers
And if she's resistant: blakka, blakka, blakka
I wasn't a fan of gangsta rap, to be honest. To me, it's just the same thing over and over again (especially how mainstream rap at the time was oversaturated with gangsta rap music in the West Coast hip hop scene) and even 2pac doesn't work for me either despite his lyrics not always gangsta related but that's a whole different story.
So when a Biggie album was voted the most even though it's tied with strangely enough a Beastie Boys album (here's a twist. I'm Starlord 467) I have to spin a coin and it landed on heads so it's Biggie that technically won. I was skeptical about this album. maybe, it wouldn't work for me despite Biggie being from the East Coast so I listened from beginning to end and I'm in love with it immediately from the very first listen. I thought the beats were cleverly done by the majority of a producer named Easy Mo Bee (with the few exceptions in other songs like Unbelievable being produced by DJ Premier and Suicidal Thought being produced by Lord Finesse for examples) and all of the songs have a strong variety in terms of what Biggie was talking about in his lyrics such as Warning which contains a very smooth sounding beat mixed with biggie talking about how his friend Puff Daddy warns him about a bunch of people he actually knew before he was rich trying to plot some scheme against him which leads to the end where he kills them all of course or Suicidal Thoughts with a disturbing beat mixed with an extremely original idea of how tired of his life and how regretful he is of his actions throughout his entire gangsta life and how every woman he dates just treat him badly and he just did it back to them like what is revealed previously in songs like One More Chance or Friend of Mine for example which just gives more depth into the character that he's portraying in this entire album and so, in the end, he decides to kill himself which leads to Puff Daddy tryig to stop him while they're on the phone and its too late. He already killed himself which ends with Puff Daddy screaming his name on the phone and a heartbeat just slowly fades away slowly and quietly until it stopped.
So to sum it up this album, in my opinion, is gangsta rap done right. It has great bars, great beats and great concepts done awesomely throughout a lot of these songs. my only gripe with this album is, of course, a sex skit that is just plain garbage and is just filler for some dumb reason and another one is more of a nitpick than really an actual flaw cause none of these three songs ill mention are bad its just that like what I said previously of course songs like One More Chance, Me and my Bitch and Friend of Mine are all have some sort of misogynistic feel which is why if I read the lyrics in the song I'll still be impressed about the lyricism cause of how he made up his rhymes but what he's actually saying either comes as really comical like in one more chance where its just plain dirty rap (which I hate) or just plain uncomfortable like Friend of Mine or Me and my Bitch despite them coming from an understandable place but regardless of that the songs are not bad they're still great but if I have to pay attention to what they're actually saying ill be a little bit uncomfortable about it biut its still all fine and good and one more thing is how uncomfortable the intro song is in the middle part and end part but im ok with it being a part of it is cause well if you think that's just a harsh life that Biggie grew up in at the time so it has its place and im ok with it. it makes the album that much interesting.
so in overall ill give it a 4.5/5! Amazing album but close to being perfect but I still consider you checking it out if you're an old-school hip hop 90's fan
