Notorious B.I.G.: Life After Death... Till Death Do Us Part (Bad Boy/Arista) (five mics)

HOLDING BACK the tears, you can't help but think back to three years ago when the poetic masterblaster known as the Notorious B.I.G. dropped his groundbreaking debut, Ready to Die, on the unsuspecting ears of the hip-hop nation. Although we had already boogied to the Brooklyn bounce of 'Party and Bullshit' and shared his fantasies of seducing Janet Jackson on the mixtape favorite 'Dreams', no one could have predicted how this record would forever change the landscape of current day hip-hop culture.