Ready to Die vs Life After Death
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CashmereThoughts
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LAD was mind blowing how versatile it was. plus BIG made leaps lyrically. i take nothing away from RTD because its a classic but LAD just blows me away and evokes so many diff moods and feelings.
And then you got and early feature from the LOX, the chemistry w/ Jay Z on i love the dough, the MONSTER join with bone and a light hearted yet sharply written story track with "i got a story to tell".
LAD is lyrically, sonically, conceptually an evolution from RTD. its better to me
And then you got and early feature from the LOX, the chemistry w/ Jay Z on i love the dough, the MONSTER join with bone and a light hearted yet sharply written story track with "i got a story to tell".
LAD is lyrically, sonically, conceptually an evolution from RTD. its better to me
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Big Mel
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fukk! i accidentally voted LAD!!! Ready To Die by a landslide.
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Young Bishop
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Ready to Die haves my vote.
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RTD was synced better , LAD could have been a classic single disc, but since it was cliche to drop double disc at the time, they did it, and disc 2 of it seemed like a bunch of filler, Imo, Notorious Thugs, Skys the Limit, My Downfall, Longkiss good night, Youre nobody , should be on disc 1, Disc 2 couldve been dropped at a later time.
RTD was synced better , LAD could have been a classic single disc, but since it was cliche to drop double disc at the time, they did it, and disc 2 of it seemed like a bunch of filler, Imo, Notorious Thugs, Skys the Limit, My Downfall, Longkiss good night, Youre nobody , should be on disc 1, Disc 2 couldve been dropped at a later time.
they both work hand in hand to essentially tell the same narrative to an extent..Big is the same person on both albums, just richer on one than the other
Ready to Die is just so much more cohesive and complete to me though and it's not that close when we talk album
LAD is impeccable lyrically but sonically it just has the feel of a gauntlet...I don't even know how to say this without someone catching feelings, but it almost feels like a supremely good mixtape..like the theme was "lets toss Big random beats and see how he kills it"...too many frivolous songs, the production is too varied. Puff tried to OD on the mass appeal angle, if it was a single album centered around death and paranoia it would be just as cohesive as RTD
Ready to Die is just so much more cohesive and complete to me though and it's not that close when we talk album
LAD is impeccable lyrically but sonically it just has the feel of a gauntlet...I don't even know how to say this without someone catching feelings, but it almost feels like a supremely good mixtape..like the theme was "lets toss Big random beats and see how he kills it"...too many frivolous songs, the production is too varied. Puff tried to OD on the mass appeal angle, if it was a single album centered around death and paranoia it would be just as cohesive as RTD
Life After Death. There's too many classic songs on it for it not to be a classic album. It has filler, but even Disc 2 with it's flaws is quite remarkable. Two discs worth of quality music >>>>> one disc of quality music. Ready To Die is a classic and the rawness made that much more better, but Life After Death is just all around better.