The album is also sprinkled with reflections on the soul-draining bleakness of the streets - 'Things Done Changed,' 'Ready to Die,' and 'Everyday Struggle' are powerfully affecting in their confusion and despair. A sense of doom pervades his most involved stories: fierce bandits ('Gimme the Loot'), a hustler's beloved girlfriend ('Me & My Bitch'), and robbers out for Biggie's newfound riches ('Warning') all die in hails of gunfire. Yet, no matter how much he heightens things for effect, it's always easy to see elements of Biggie in his narrators and of his own experience in the details everything is firmly rooted in reality, but plays like scenes from a movie. He's blessed with a flair for the dramatic, and slips in and out of different contradictory characters with ease. His raps are easy to understand, but his skills are hardly lacking - he has a loose, easy flow and a talent for piling multiple rhymes on top of one another in quick succession. Today it's recognized as one of the greatest hardcore rap albums ever recorded, and that's mostly due to Biggie's skill as a storyteller. a star, and vaulted Sean 'Puffy' Combs' Bad Boy label into the spotlight as well. 'Now, of course, it's a big deal to me.' He added that it was a n honor to be on the album.The album that reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age, Ready to Die made the Notorious B.I.G. Yearwood also told the News that it wasn’t a huge concern to him until he was eight-years old. Bad Boy Records, Diddy’s label that released the album, couldn’t verify whether it is really Yearwood on the album cover it did say that the baby came courtesy of a modeling agency. Those associated with album-including the graphic designer–wasn’t sure who the kid was.

In the 'Ready to Die' cover photo, the baby is wearing a diaper and sporting a large afro. Yearwood’s mom found agency papers to corrobarate’s the teen’s assertion. 'The truth is finally coming out.'Īpparently, Yearwood earned $150 from the photo shoot through a child modeling agency, Chicky’s Kids, that has since gone defunct. 'I just want people to know that's me,' Yearwood, 18, said. The high school senior from the Bronx told the Daily News that he is the baby on the cover of late rapper Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 multimillion-selling album “Ready to Die.”

New York teenager Keithroy Yearwood could be linked to a landmark hip-hop album.

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