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Quick, name a rap album besides this one that was pure of the streets yet still great commercially?
It's impossible to do it
Biggie's first album was one of a darker context, one that delved into hard issues such as his birth and his drug struggles. However, between September of 1994, and the beginning of 1997, everything for him changed. As a result of his newly found fame, his struggles with money had more than elapsed. Second, after the release of "Who Shot Ya", his past friend 2Pac started a coastal war with him. Finally, he had kids and multiple affairs with women such as Lil Kim, leaving his wife Faith Evans awfully estranged
For Life After d**h, Biggie went in a whole new direction. Building off the fact that he committed suicide to end Ready to Die (Suicidal Thoughts, he seemingly comes back and starts bragging about his mafioso return and how he's the best. Disc 1 is a shove-it-in-your-mouth bragging about wealth (Hypnotize, I Love the Dough, Mo Money Mo Problems), his ability to k** at will (Somebody's Gotta Die, Kick in the Door, What's Beef), and his s**ual prowess (F*** You Tonight, I Got a Story to Tell). After the 49:55 of hearing of all this, we get into a wider scope of music with disc 2. The second part begins with Notorious bragging about Notorious Thugs, continuing the first disc's thought process. However, Biggie seems to begin a love affair with something, with 3 consecutive songs of attraction to either a girl or the west coast. To finish off, Biggie raps about how great his life is and talks about all the haters again
Usually considered by critics and amateur a Ready to Die sequel that isn't quite as good or an album that's completely unrelated and incomparable. However, the album has more than it's own mystique. The fact that Notorious was able to deal d** and then evolve to a multimillionaire rapper essentially embodies the American dream, and most people can relate to that completely in his music.The Notorious B.I.G died 16 days before this album was released, raising demand from the public. Furthermore, this was the first rap album that truly moved hip hop from more of an underground sensation to a mainstream fixture. While albums like Doggystyle and Illmatic did well, they didn't explode commercially by any means. After starting off at 176 on Billboard for technical reasons, Biggie's magnum opus shot up to the number one slot, and his first two singles off the album, Hypnotize and Mo Money Mo Problems, were both #1 hits in the month they were released. Overall, this Biggie cla**ic is considered a top 10 of all time album, a landmark for today's commercial rap scene, and the greatest mafioso rap album ever recorded and released