#THE NOTORIOUS BIG ALBUM COVERS ARCHIVE#

#THE NOTORIOUS BIG ALBUM COVERS ARCHIVE#

Biggie Smalls picked a baby resembling himself to star on the cover of his debut Ready to Die. Clarence Davis/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images The album’s big sales surge is owed to how the title was sale priced for only 4.99 in the. is helmed by a different producer, many feature a guest, and most make some sort of pop-crossover concession. The 30 best album covers - ranked 29) The Notorious BIG Ready to Die. Also included are covers from De La Soul, Notorious B.I.G., Ol Dirty Bastard, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu Tang Clan and Eric B & Rakim. Notorious B.I.G, Ready To Die Another album cover featuring a baby picture of the rapper who made it, Notorious. As on those albums, nearly every track on Notorious K.I.M. Puff Daddy fills Biggie's large shoes and unfortunately gives the album the same sort of gaudiness that had marred his recent round of releases on Bad Boy Records, namely his own Forever and Mase's Double Up. Also, the Queen Bitch invites along a host of collaborators to fill the gap left behind by her departed former executive producer. Biggie had played a large role in the success of Hard Core, and his absence here is gaping. The sad passing heavily informs this glitzy yet ultimately somber album, not only the title but many of the lyrics too.

For one, her close friend and collaborator the Notorious B.I.G. A long four years after making her big, salacious splash on Hard Core, Lil' Kim returned as a very different rapper on The Notorious K.I.M., and not necessarily for the better.

The notorious big album covers