Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, Public Enemy and Arrested Development, nearly all the most acclaimed albums this year have come from newcomers: Nas, Method Man and Keith Murray.īiggie Smalls is not the best vocalist of the group, but he stands out because his lyrics mix autobiographical details about crime and violence with emotional honesty, telling how he felt while making a living as a drug dealer. In a realm where the demand for newness is a constant, it's little surprise that despite releases by veterans like Dr. and to his mother as Chris Wallace, is the rapper of the moment. With both his debut album, "Ready to Die," and the single "Juicy" having gone gold, the 20-year-old rapper, who is known professionally as the Notorious B.I.G. Such a moment isn't an unlikely occurrence in Harlem or any place where hip-hop fans are in abundance. As the rapper surveyed the scene, he found himself being inadvertently saluted by his own song "Big Papa." At the corner, he relaxed in the middle of a circle of friends but soon heard his own voice booming back at him from the radios of cars as they stopped at or cruised slowly through the intersection. Moments before, he had finished the third of three sold-out concerts at the Apollo Theater and, wearing the same brown leather Army jacket and pants and beige Kangol cap he had worn on stage, he then slipped out the back door of the theater. one recent Sunday, the 6-foot-3, 280-pound rapper Biggie Smalls appeared not so much large but larger than life. STANDING ON THE CORNER OF 125th Street and Eighth Avenue in Harlem at 3 A.M.
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