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The last song released before his death in a drive-by shooting a week later, it was the fifth song by a credited artist to peak the Billboard Hot 100 posthumously, and the first since "(Just Like) Starting Over" by John Lennon in 1980. [5] Rolling Stone ranked the song as number 30 on their list of the "100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time". [1]
Life After Death exhibits the Notorious B.I.G. further delving into the mafioso rap subgenre. The album is a sequel to his first album, Ready to Die, and picks up where the last song, "Suicidal Thoughts", ends. Life After Death sold 690,000 copies in its first week, peaking at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Christopher George Latore Wallace [6] was born at the Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on May 21, 1972. [7] Wallace was the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents; [8] [9] his mother, Voletta Wallace, was a preschool teacher, [10] [11] while his father, Selwyn George Latore, was a welder and politician.
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"Sky's the Limit" is the third and final single from The Notorious B.I.G.'s second album Life After Death. It features vocals from R&B group 112 and somber production from Clark Kent . It is a remake of the r&b group Portrait - Heartstrings and It contains a sample from the songs "My Flame" by Bobby Caldwell and " Keep On " by D. Train .
Christopher Wallace traveled to Los Angeles, California, in February 1997 to promote his upcoming second studio album, Life After Death, and to film a music video for its lead single "Hypnotize". On March 5, he gave a radio interview to The Dog House on San Francisco 's KYLD in which he stated that he had hired security because he feared for ...
The music video was released in July 1997. MuchMoreMusic ranked "Mo Money Mo Problems" number 31 on Listed ' s "40 Most Memorable Videos Pt. 1 & 2" for its flashy wardrobe, and use of syncing old footage with the lyrics. VH1 ranked the song number 63 as one of the "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s". [citation needed]
The song features vocals from rappers such as the late Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes. It features heavy use of mafioso -style lyrics, as was popular at the time. The song also heavily sampled the Bill Conti song "Going the Distance", which featured on the soundtrack to the movie Rocky making it a darker start to a rap album that featured ...