Even though Khalifa’s reference is small, it serves as a great example of the impact that Biggie has had on modern music. The context of both tracks are widely different, with Wiz’s single memorialising the death of the Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker, while Biggie’s track was a direct diss at West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur.
In the opening bars of his first verse, he raps, “Damn, who knew?/All the planes we flew/Good thing we been through,” interpolating a lyric from Biggie’s 1997 track Long Kiss Goodnight: “Move from BK to New Jeruz/Thinkin’ ’bout all the planes we flew, bitches, we ran through.” tributes, but Wiz Khalifa includes a subtle nod to Biggie in one of the lyrics on this 2015 track. It might be a surprise to see this song featured on our list of Notorious B.I.G. Charlie Puth): See You Again (references Long Kiss Goodnight) tributes that 21st-century rappers have paid to the iconic MC. To show the impact that Biggie has had on modern hip-hop, we’ve compiled ten of the best, most creative Notorious B.I.G. In the years following his death he has been referenced, sampled, interpolated and rapped about countless times in hip-hop. He became a figurehead of the East Coast hip-hop scene in the 90s, after the release of his debut album, Ready To Die, before being tragically killed in 1997.
song ‘Ten Crack Commandments’.Christopher Wallace, known as Biggie, Biggie Smalls or, most famously, The Notorious B.I.G., is widely regarded as one of the – if not the – best rapper of all time. Biggie’s widow Faith Evans produced her own version of the song titled ‘Ten Wife Commandments’ while Lin-Manuel Miranda also paid homage to the song in his hit Broadway show Hamilton! with his ‘Ten Duel Commandments’. It has seen some memorable makeovers too. The song will go down in history as one of the seminal tracks of the 1990s. He helped hip hop break away from its formulaic recipe and bring the genre to fresh, uncharted territory. There’s no chorus on the track, and neither does Biggie abide by the 16-bar verse rule. What’s most interesting about the track isn’t the beats or the lyrics but how far Biggie Smalls experiments with precisely what a rap song can be. The article was enough fuel to throw on Biggie’s fire, and the rapper ran with the idea. The article was published in 1994 under the title ‘On the Rocks: From 1984 to 1994, Ten Years of Crack’ and included a note which provided ‘A Crack Dealer’s Ten Crack Commandments’, delivering a see of rules for all dealers to live by. After reading a survival guide to survive as a crack dealer in The Source magazine, Smalls decided to re-interpret that article and ‘Ten Crack Commandments’ was the splendid result. New York was in the midst of a crack epidemic, and it had swirled into a new decade to grab a new generation b the scruff of the neck and to drown them in addiction.
In truth, this track is an example of Biggie’s prowess at telling stories from a human perspective, even if the protagonist is questionable. Not because it made light of the epidemic of crack that had swept through America in the 1980s to such devastating results, but because it showcased the life Big had been forced to lead. One of the final tracks Big recorded for Life After Death the song has gone down in history as one of his greats. One such track is the brutal yet brilliant ‘Ten Crack Commandments’.
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