Singles: “Dead Wrong”, “Notorious B.I.G.”īig’s posthumous Born Again, released a couple years after his death, was a sudden drop in quality we were so used to for the rapper. The Grammy-nominated hit single was Big’s first Top 10 and sold a million units within a few months of its release.īy the time 1995 rolled in, Bad Boy dropped the “One More Chance / Stay with Me” remix and this sealed the deal – it was Biggie season. It wasn’t until when “Big Poppa” dropped that Big finally had his lock on the radio and the streets. They don’t remember that Ready to Die was a slow burner when it was released towards the end of ’94, it only moved 57,000 copies in its first week album sales. When they think of Biggie’s first album, they imagine platinum plaques, champagne bottles, Limousine rides and a lot of green. Singles: “Juicy”, “Big Poppa / Warning”, “One More Chance” And unlike 2Pac, whose unstoppable work ethic ensured a ton of posthumous material, Big, or rather, Puff didn’t have stashes full of the Brooklyn rapper’s unreleased recordings.įrom the masterpiece debut, Ready to Die, to the culture-changing Life After Death to 1999’s Born Again, we rank Biggie’s first week album sales. As one of the greatest rappers to ever touch the mic, Biggie had accomplished more in his time than other rappers in their entire career almost singlehandedly shifting hip-hop’s attention from the West Coast back to New York with his masterful 1994 debut Ready to Die.īig’s untimely death on Mameant that he only dropped a limited amount of material.

The notorious big ready to die album