Let it be known that I LOVE the Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls aka Biggie aka Big Poppa aka Chris Wallace. In 1997 when his double disc album Life After Death came out, I played that shit non-stop. Still to this day, it is one of my all time favs. My alarm clock was my 3-disc CD player and every morning I woke up to what has been described as his “thick, jaunty grumble.” I wonder how different the the rap game would be if he was still around? If you don’t know, Biggie was murdered in a LA drive by shooting 2 weeks before his album dropped. I have missed Big for over a decade. Nobody will ever compare to him and I can’t wait to see this new movie.
Reminising about Life After Death takes me back to high school. Every song reminds me of a party or special time that I spent with my best freinds. There was this one night after a birthday party at Wild Rivers where the whole group got epic sunburns, even the Black guy! Well, we were kids and wanted to continue the summer party all night, so everybody ended up at the birthday boy’s backyard. I can’t remember if we were drinking or not, but I do recall going into the garage with my friend O (the sunburned Black guy) and M.F. and literally out of nowhere grabbed brushes and tools and put on a dance concert and rapped out all the songs on the CD. It was like a trance. The music was blasting, we were spittin’ game, passing the mic, acting a fool! Oh my goooooodness! Once we came to some interlude (there are many on that album) we all kinda looked at each other like, “Uhhh what just happened? I hope nobody ever finds out we were just doing this.” Wow I am laughing so hard even thinking about this right now. 
I am just too happy for words right now. Just like whenever this song has played over the past 10 years. R.I.P. Big Poppa!
