It's such a dismal way for Biggie to kick off his career. story gets darker and sadder by the moment. The track was like watching an episode of the original Twilight Zonewith each bar B.I.G. were able to do on the closing track of the legendary rapper debut album is still to this day mind-blowing. The religious undertones are present, where killing himself is still murder so he'd go to hell for it. Suicidal Thoughts (Ready To Die,1994) What Puffy and B.I.G.
Most heads can recite Dead Wrong without breaking a sweat, even if they have trouble remembering the rest of the songs on the album that spawned it. Some of that has to do with Eminem 's larva-red verse. "I swear to God I just wanna slit my wrists and end this bulls-," he threatens. In the land of blind posthumous Biggie songs, 'Dead Wrong' is the one-eyed king. Biggie then discusses why hell is so much better anyway - he prefers to dress in black (not white), he likes sex, he commits crime. "When I die, f- it, I wanna go to hell / 'Cause I'm a piece of s-, it ain't hard to f-in' tell," he says on the phone to Puff on the track. This sng is dark, self-deprecating and overbearingly cynical. Even further, he didn't have aspirations of entering the golden gates of heaven. Whether thinking someone was going to kill him or that he would someday take his own life, it was almost cryptic how Biggie predicted an early departure from the planet. Too bad he never got to do it.įrom the onset of Biggie's debut album Ready to Die, the late rapper was obsessed with his own demise. Twenty five is not old, and the child of Voletta Wallace still had work to do. It's ironic, because Biggie was a child when he died. It's Biggie telling you his story before he bids you farewell, leaving you with the best advice a rapper's ever given: "Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart's in it / And live the phrase 'sky's the limit.'" The video has children impersonating everyone from Biggie to Busta Rhymes. Considering the circumstances that happened prior to its release as a single, the song becomes a goodbye letter. He travels through his journey from poverty to opulence, or as he puts it "ashy to classy." If Big were alive when the song was released, he would see it as the halfway mark in his career as he embarked on a Chapter 2 of sorts. "A n- never been as broke as me / I like that," he says at the opening of his bars. Foolish by Ashanti (2002) see 39 more connections. Stay With Me by DeBarge (1983) Im Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby by Barry White (1973) was sampled in. The song recalls Big's earliest days filled with struggle. One More Chance / Stay With Me (Remix) (1994) by The Notorious B.I.G. lived to the time when "Sky's the Limit" was released as a single, it would've been perceived completely differently in his career.
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