Rhino, in partnership with, honors this groundbreaking album with a new limited-edition boxed set that features every album track – plus two bonus tracks – on nine 7” colored-vinyl singles (black, white and red vinyl). Today, the album has been certified platinum six times and is regarded as not only one of the best hip-hop albums ever made, but also one of the best albums of all time. helped reinvent and revitalize East Coast hip-hop 25 years ago with his 1994 debut, Ready to Die. In The Source magazine’s October 1994 issue, Ready to Die was given a rating of 4½ mics out of five.Limited Edition, Individually Numbered Boxed Set Celebrates The Multi-Platinum Album With Colored 7-inch 45 Rpm Vinyl That Features Every Song From Ready to Die, Plus Two Bonus TracksĪvailable On In Partnership With Rhino On September 13 The record was certified gold by the RIAA two months after its release, and went double platinum in 1995. The album also made Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, landing at #133.
“Big Poppa” was nominated for “Best Rap Solo Performance” at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, losing out to LL Cool J’s “Hey Lover”-but it earned a Billboard Music Award later that year.
According to several sources, he recorded the latter half by freestyling from memory. Biggie resumed production the following year under the auspices of the newly-founded Bad Boy Records. After Puffy was fired from Uptown Records in 1993, the project was only half finished. Production of the album took place in two waves. The project is Biggie’s only album to be released during his lifetime his sophomore project, Life After Death, dropped just days after his murder in March 1997. It was also Bad Boy Records' first release, produced by founder Sean “Puffy” Combs. Ready to Die, The Notorious B.I.G.’s debut studio album, was released on September 13, 1994.
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