He makes a demo tape that winds up in the hands of one Sean “Puffy” Combs, producer, rapper, executive, narcissist visionary, dancer all up in the videos. He battles a few guys and annihilates them basically by standing next to them: He’s 6-foot-plus and weighs 300-plus. You could live, forever, like royalty, in that one word, when he says it. But young Christopher is the only one who makes you feel every glorious atom of every syllable of the world Rolexes. How many rappers in history do you suppose have rhymed Rolexes with Lexus. Like if Brooklyn, in all its glory and atrocity, could be distilled into one person. Deep, booming, warm, menacing, awe-inspiring voice. Also, he soon discovers that he might be the greatest rapper in history. His mother tried to keep him out of trouble-tried to protect him from the seedy allure of Fulton Street in the ’80s especially-to the point of virtually forbidding young Christopher from leaving the house, or the stoop. Born in Brooklyn in 1972 raised by his single mother, Voletta, in Bed Stuy. How in-depth a Biggie Smalls primer do you even require at this point? How fast can I do this? Christopher George Latore Wallace. with help from New York Times pop music critic Jon Caramanica. Below is an excerpt from Episode 19, which explores the music and life of the Notorious B.I.G.
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Follow and listen for free exclusively on Spotify. But what does it say about the era-and why does it still matter? On our new show, 60 Songs That Explain the ’90s, Ringer music writer and ’90s survivor Rob Harvilla embarks on a quest to answer those questions, one track at a time. “Wonderwall.” The music of the ’90s was as exciting as it was diverse.
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