In ”Miss U,” an innocent victim is killed after a gunman ”squeezed all six shots in the passenger door.” (Smalls, 24, died after several shots were fired into the passenger side of a car.) ”Your destiny is something you can never figure out,” goes a line in ”Last Day,” yet throughout the album, Biggie either taunts fate or seems resigned to it.

in ”Going Back to Cali,” he sings, ”That don’t mean a nigger can’t rest in the West.” L.A., of course, is where the Brooklyn-based Biggie was killed, and such disturbing ironies abound. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. ”You wanna see me locked up, shot up/Moms cracked up over the casket screaming,” Biggie tells his enemies in ”My Downfall.” Visiting L.A. or Biggie Smalls), Life After Death is the eeriest disc yet in the unfortunately booming subgenre of posthumous rap records. Completed just weeks before the March 9 drive-by shooting death of Christopher Wallace (otherwise known as the Notorious B.I.G. Of course, the album isn’t standard gangsta fare, either.

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