Give me your reaction when you first heard Ready To Die

[The Ruler 09]

I thought it was exceptional, still do.

 

[The Ruler 09]

The story about when Kool Moe Dee heard it was pretty dope.

 

[OG Talk]

The story about when Kool Moe Dee heard it was pretty dope.

You sure you're not talking about Kwame?

 

[The Ruler 09]

You sure you're not talking about Kwame?

Certain. It's in his book. He was skeptical of Big and thought he was all hype, was with some Brooklyn brothers that were hyping the album too as one had heard it prior. Found it hard to get a copy, eventually got it, Moe was saying how Big had a great voice but he didn't really hear any true rhyme acumen, then... Gimmie The Loot came on, he tried hard not to rock but when the track finished he just said play that again... and they were all going crazy over the album. Moe listened to the album everyday for months after, inspired him to want to come back to the game, and he wanted to see if he could do more rhythmically after that. I think he sees the album as one of the best in Hip Hop's history.

 

[patscorpio]

juicy was ok to me back then and big poppa was the shyt; but when i heard unbelievable on the radio it made me go find the bmg catalog so I can get that cassette

 

[vaudevillevillain]

I felt like I was listening to a movie... Awesome album and Biggie's only true classic...

so...

Notorious Thugs
Hypnotize
Going Back To Cali
Kick In The Door
Ten Crack Commandments
Playa Hater
What's Beef
nikkas Bleed
I Got A Story To Tell
B.I.G Interlude
Sky's The Limit
fukking You Tonight
Nasty Boy

all on one album and you don't consider it a classic

 

[Bolzmark]

It kinda went something like...

 

[Nomad1]

Machine Gun Funk
Warning
Big Poppa
Gimme the Loot
Everyday Struggle

Whole album was piff. Easily top 5 album ever made.

 

[DaveyDave]

didn't like it the first time, i was a HUGE Death Row stan. but one of my boys had the cd and i did like some songs like Warning and Gimmie The Loot etc. eventually i got over the stannage and recognised it's classic status and still play it a lot to this day.

 

[Non Sequitur]

what surprised you??

I wasn't expecting much, because he had always seemed like kind of a cornball to me. I always associated him with those cheesy videos like Mo Money, Mo Problems, Hypnotize, and the whole lame Bad Boy image...because I was a kid at the time, and that's all I knew of him.

Going back and listening to RTD as an adult, I kinda realized what all the fuss was about