Without Life After Death, Biggie’s oeuvre would have leaned on just one album. Rarely has an artist done so much in a discography so compact. The way things played out makes Life After Death a chilling work of dark prophecy. Had its creator lived to see its release, the album would still have been a cutting meditation on mortality, akin to Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal. Yet, flowing through its platinum outline is the dark specter of death. It’s a blockbuster rap record - all fulsome beats, commanding verses, unchecked experimentation, sharp pop instincts, and mammoth singles. Hamilton is currently streaming on Disney Plus.The legend of Big was crystallized on his double-disc sophomore opus, Life After Death, released just 16 days after his death. “It depends on the taste of the composer, and sometimes whether you’re jumping the shark and making something a little too on the nose,” added Lacamoire. And Lin said, ‘I want it to be a little further apart in that respect’,” he said. “I did try to replicate some of the sounds of that ‘Ten Crack Commandments’ track. If you like this musical, you owe it to yourself to listen to the hip-hop that you maybe weren’t listening to because that’s the reason this exists, is my love for hip-hop,” he continued.Īlex Lacamoire, the arranger, music director, conductor, and orchestrator for Hamilton, explained how it was important to Miranda to create something unique with his inspiration in an interview in Slate.

I want the kids who just only know musical theater when they pick up their liner notes, they see, ‘Contains a sample from ‘Ten Crack Commandments’ by Notorious B.I.G. That’s why such a love letter to hip hop. Miranda sampled Biggie’s the “Ten Crack Commandments” for his track “Ten Duel Commandments.” The original form of the musical drug-dealing manual appears on Biggie’s debut album Life After Death.

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