The song's got a great bounce and really demonstrates just what the rap world lost upon Biggie's death. The Notorious B.I.G.'s villainous persona is on full display, but he's the kind of super villain one would want to work for and hang with. Personal favorite moments include the internal rhyme of 'escargot' and 'my car go,' the use of 'bulletproof glass tints' to suggest sex even before Biggie delivers the punchline, and the defiant 'face it not guilty, that's how I stay filthy' line. The last song released before his death in a drive-by shooting a week later, it was the fifth song by a credited artist to hit number one posthumously, and the first since '(Just Like) Starting Over' by John Lennon in. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. featuring vocals by Pamela Long, released as the first single from his album Life After Death on March 4, 1997. plays every trick to make the song witty and fun. 'Hypnotize' is a single by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. The subject may be the mere extolling of material, but the Notorious B.I.G. Biggie's mastery of flow is unquestionable, but the main allure of this track is his wordplay. Puff Daddy successfully re-works Herb Alpert's 'Rise' into a menacing groove designed to illustrate the lyrical and material prowess of Biggie.

'Hypnotize' is not one of the Notorious B.I.G.'s most complicated or subversive tracks, but it does illuminate New York's finest at the peak of his powers. The West Coast-East Coast rap war was a musical tragedy that defined the listening of thousands of Americans, and it's largely responsible for Puff Daddy's massive success throughout 1997: perhaps people bought his music en masse as a form of repentance for the loss of Biggie Smalls. There had been musical feuds before - the Beatles vs the Rolling Stones, Madonna vs Cyndi Lauper, Liszt vs Brahms - but never had those feuds resulted in the artists' deaths at the hands of the others' crews. tore apart the popular music world would be an understatement.

To say the deaths of 2pac and the Notorious B.I.G.

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