Your reaction when you first heard Biggie's Hypnotize?

[Long Live The Kane]

I was waiting for Herb Alpert to come on with the trumpet like this......



.......then I was like.......​

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@3:10 is

Video might be the waviest cac shyt of all time

 

[DontEemTry]

I ain't even gonna lie to you, I didn't like that joint. Still don't. Never saw anything special about it and while I mostly play this album all the way through, I always skip this track.

It's always gonna be some joints that everybody loves that you just can't see the appeal of.

 

[DontEemTry]

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@3:10 is

Herp hit the smooth lean back.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

.......................

 

[Mowgli]

As a kid

Commercial

 

[Big Mark]

Always wondered why Big ain’t get no flack for Hypnotize but Nas got flack for If I Ruled The World. If I Ruled the World was 100X better. Proof that Nas catalog always get fukked over.

 

[MikeStamina]

Weak

 

[JustCKing]

Always wondered why Big ain’t get no flack for Hypnotize but Nas got flack for If I Ruled The World. If I Ruled the World was 100X better. Proof that Nas catalog always get fukked over.

Big's first album had "Juicy" and "Big Poppa". Nobody was calling Biggie a rap or Hip Hop messiah. So he could make a "Hypnotize" and get away with it. Nas made Illmatic and to many fans and critics, he was the antithesis of what Bad Boy was doing. So when he expanded his sound with It Was Written, those that praised him as a Hip Hop messiah felt betrayed and felt like he was conforming.

 

[zayk35]

in a good way. That slinky baseline is nasty. Plus overall I was happy for him to bounce back in a big way after the Pac shyt.

 

[Knicksman20]

Big's first album had "Juicy" and "Big Poppa". Nobody was calling Biggie a rap or Hip Hop messiah. So he could make a "Hypnotize" and get away with it. Nas made Illmatic and to many fans and critics, he was the antithesis of what Bad Boy was doing. So when he expanded his sound with It Was Written, those that praised him as a Hip Hop messiah felt betrayed and felt like he was conforming.

Nas was supposed to the the second coming to Rakim, so him doing a commercial record was looked down on. And I'm not saying that was right or fair either lol. After RTD dropped, Big was looked at as a ill rapper that could do street & commercial records, but not compromise himself as an artist. But the backpackers weren't happy with that either

 

[L $ C]

massive hit

 

[Jean Jacket]

Beat was trash.

Big had to adjust his flow just to barely make it listenable.

Stupid ass wind thing and gay bass.

Tempo was stupid.

Background music at a bar or something.
Not a banger.

 

[Menna]

bangin

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

I was 7 so I thought it was just another banger for Bad Boy.

Me and my cousins thought Big and Puff were the coolest dudes around

 

[wizworld]

That sample bores me. A lot of people love it though so overall it was a smart choice.