★★

1. Intro: 🤷‍♂️
2. Things Done Changed: 🤷‍♂️
3. Gimme the Loot: 👎🏻
4. Machine Gun Funk: 🤷‍♂️
5. Warning: 👍🏻
6. Ready to Die: 👍🏻
7. One More Chance: 🤷‍♂️
8. Fuck Me (Interlude): 👎🏻
9. The What: 🤷‍♂️
10. Juicy: 👍🏻
11. Everyday Struggle: 👍🏻
12. Me & My Bitch: 👎🏻
13. Big Poppa: 🤷‍♂️
14. Respect: 👍🏻
15. Friend of Mine: 🤷‍♂️
16. Unbelievable: 🤷‍♂️
17. Suicidal Thoughts: 👎🏻
18. Who Shot Ya?: 🤷‍♂️
19. Just Playing (Dreams): 🤷‍♂️

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Biggie Smalls’ murder, and as soon as I saw #RIPBIG trending on Twitter, I decided that this is what’d I’d listen to. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to listen to it before my parents lost internet at their house at 4:30 yesterday afternoon. I also don’t get cell service there, so I never got a chance to listen to anything yesterday. I had to listen to the album today in a coffee shop where I had to go in order to clock in to work.

I wanted to like this album, but I really didn’t. I find Gangsta Rap boring. It’s rampant with false bravado, immaturity, and sexism which makes it completely uninteresting to me. This album is a perfect example of that. I think the track I liked most was Respect, until the end when it degraded into a sketch of make-out noises that was extremely unpleasant. But at least it was better than Fuck Me (Interlude) which was basically porn without video. I will say, though, that while I found the sketches and lyrics unpalatable, I was really impressed with the music. I liked it a lot more than I was expecting.