![]() ![]() here.Ī taster of that album’s forthcoming success, Hypnotize is a brashly echoing, ground-hugging cut – a tribute to Biggie Smalls’ own “sicker than your average” lyrical skills, with the rapper unapologetically spinning a lyrical web in which he hypes every part of his lifestyle, whether it be his footwear (“Timbs for my hooligans in Brooklyn”) or “the Lexus, LX, four and a half/Bulletproof glass, tints if I want some ass”. Listen to the best of The Notorious B.I.G. However, just less than a week after the song’s release, Biggie was dead, and Life After Death hit the shelves as if it were some eerily belated prophecy. songs in a career most assumed would last for years to come. Picked as the album’s explosive first single, Hypnotize, issued just weeks earlier, on 4 March, also scored a Grammy nomination, went platinum, and was immediately hailed as one of the best Notorious B.I.G. ![]() released his expansive sophomore album, the Grammy-nominated, diamond-selling double-disc Life After Death in late March 1997. You can watch the music video for ‘Hypnotize’ in the video below.The Brooklyn, New York City-born hip-hop legend The Notorious B.I.G. ![]() ‘Hypnotize’ was the lead single for the album and has been certified platinum in the US and two times platinum in the UK making it one of Biggie’s most successful singles. The album was recorded during what was a media frenzy surrounding the East Coast versus West Coast beef, centred around Biggie and California rapper Tupac Shakur. The majority of Life After Death including its lead single ‘Hypnotize’ was recorded in New York. The song also samples Slick Rick’s song ‘La Di Da Di’, the sample only appears partially during the chorus.įor the chorus, Biggie specifically recruited Pam Long from the group Total. Now, if that isn’t something that needs to be freed from the old school archives, then I don’t know what is. Furthermore, still has the cassette demo. The original demo featured Biggie behind the mic singing the female’s part. Surprisingly, many don’t know that Biggie wrote the entire song, even the female part. Alpert continued in an interview proceeded to say that “Over the years was approached by Ice Cube, Easy E, Vanilla Ice, and maybe another 4-5 artists to use the song and never said yes until heard rough version of Biggie’s recording.” According to Randy Alpert, Diddy chose to use the bass riff of ‘Rise’ because, along with Chic’s track ‘Good Times’, it was an extremely popular song that the kids of New York City were rollerskating to. The track was written by Andy Armer and Herb Alpert’s nephew Randy “Badazz” Alpert. ‘Hypnotize’ was produced by P Diddy and samples the 1979 song ‘Rise’ by Herb Alpert. In this article, we’ll be looking Behind the Mic to discover the story behind The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1997 hit ‘Hypnotize’ and bring you facts no one else knows about on how this classic was made. For fans, it is fascinating to see how artists we admire and producers we love piece small things together like a jigsaw puzzle and before they know it, something unimaginable is coming through the speakers. Sometimes we need to dig even deeper to find those hidden gems. ![]()
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