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Murder Ballads: The Notorious B.I.G.: Life After Death (Bad Boy)

Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, 1 May 1997

IN A FRIGHTENING WAY, the current hip-hop scene recalls the end of Goodfellas: The major players are turning up dead, heading off to prison or lying low, waiting for the smoke to clear.

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