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The lilt in the voice of the 21-year-old Notorious B.I.G.
Hed been inThe Source, the bible of 20th-century hip-hop, in 1992 thanks to his impressive demo tape.
He didnt have a hit record yet or any certainty that rap would be a lucrative career decision.
He was calling his shot, though.
Really, Juicy is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
He rapped with chilling candor about suicidal ideations and threats against his life.
I Got a Story to Tellis something of a social history of the Notorious B.I.G.
or the buddy selling blue tops in Jay-Zs Brooklyns Finest or the bodyguard to M.A.F.I.A.
But he still feels like a ghost in the machine.
His reign was short.
To know them is to wonder what they could have become.
It achieves something notably slicker than your average Biggie murder story.
You come away wishing B.I.G.
