The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize (Official Audio)
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Official Audio for The Notorious B.I.G. - "Hypnotize" Join The Christopher Wallace Estate and Bad Boy / Atlantic / Rhino Records in celebrating 25 years of Life After Death and 50 Years of Christopher Wallace. The Super Deluxe 8-LP Box Set of The Notorious B.I.G.'s opus Life After Death is available worldwide now. Learn more about what’s in the release and order yours now at https://Big.lnk.to/LADSDlx Subscribe to the channel https://Rhino.lnk.to/YTBiggieSubID From 'Life After Death' (1997) Listen to the album here https://Rhino.lnk.to/lifeafterdeathstrm Follow The Notorious B.I.G. on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NotoriousBIG/ More Videos and Playlists Juicy ▶️ https://Rhino.lnk.to/YTJuicyID Big Poppa ▶️ https://Rhino.lnk.to/YTBigPoppaID Hypnotize ▶️ https://Rhino.lnk.to/YTHypnotizeID Official Videography ▶️ https://Rhino.lnk.to/YTBiggieVideographyID Stream more B.I.G. here https://Rhino.lnk.to/thenotoriousbigstrm The Notorious B.I.G. channel is the official YouTube home of The Notorious B.I.G. featuring his catalog of official music videos. The Notorious B.I.G. is widely recognized as one of the world’s most influential rappers and has sold more than 17 million albums in the U.S. alone. Before his murder in 1997, Christopher Wallace recorded two classic albums as The Notorious B.I.G. His debut Ready to Die arrived in 1994 and helped revitalize the East Coast rap scene with massive hits like “Big Poppa” and “Juicy.” Life After Death was released in March 1997 just weeks after he was shot and killed in Los Angeles. The record topped the U.S. album charts and featured the hits “Hypnotize” and “Mo Money Mo Problems.” It remains one of the few hip-hop albums to ever achieve Diamond certification from the RIAA.

Diddy (known then as Puff Daddy) produced “Hypnotize” and sampled Herb Alpert’s 1979 hit “Rise” which was written by Andy Armer and Herb’s nephew, Randy “Badazz” Alpert.[5] Randy recalled, “I asked Puffy, in 1996 when he first called me concerning using ‘Rise’ for ‘Hypnotize,’ why he chose the ‘Rise’ groove. He told me that in the summer of 1979 when he was I think 10 years old the song was a huge hit everywhere in New York and ‘Rise’ along with Chic’s ‘Good Times’ were ‘the songs’ that all the kids were dancing and roller skating to that summer. He had always remembered that summer and that song. When he first played the loop for Biggie, (he said that) Biggie smiled and hugged him.”[6]

Randy continued, "Over the years I was approached by Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Vanilla Ice, and maybe another 4–5 artists to use the song and I never said ‘yes’ until I heard a rough version of Biggie’s recording produced by Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs, D-Dot, and Ron Lawrence. I was sent a cassette from Puffy and when I cranked it up I not only immediately loved it but my gut thought that this could be a number one record once again. …

The melody and phrasing of the chorus is interpolated from a lyrical section of Slick Rick’s song “La Di Da Di”, and it is also from these lyrics that the title “Hypnotize” is derived. Often misattributed to Lil’ Kim, Pamela Long from the group Total sang this part.[5]

In 2013, asked about the lyrics, “Escargot, my car go…”, Lil’ Cease of Junior M.A.F.I.A. stated, “That’s the shit that made B.I.G dope B.I.G used to talk about all the cars but, nigga didn’t even know how to drive. He wouldn’t dare get in the driver seat.”[8] …

Kris Ex of Pitchfork wrote “Big was a master of flow, sounding unforced and unlabored over a bevy of pristine, hi-fidelity maximalist beats that seemed to always bow to his intent.”[9]

50 Cent told NME that the song was the one he would want played at his funeral: “I’d just want everyone to have as much of a party as possible.”[10]

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