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CDs You Must Own Before You Die: Hip-Hop". Blender. Vol.2, no.3. New York: Dennis Publishing Ltd. April 2003. p.90. ISSN 1534-0554. Best Hip-Hop Albums of All Time". ThoughtCo. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015 . Retrieved July 11, 2017. Jenkins, Sacha; Wilson, Elliott; Mao, Jeff "Chairman"; Alvarez, Gabriel; Rollins, Brent (1999). "Hip Hop's Greatest Albums by Year: 1994". Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists. St. Martin's Press. p.335. ISBN 0-312-24298-0. The album was released with a cover depicting an infant resembling the artist, though sporting an afro, which pertains to the album's concept of the artist's life from birth to his death. It has been listed as among the best album covers in hip hop. [6] Lawsuits and sample removal [ edit ] Caramanica, Jon (July 2005). "100 Greatest Albums". Spin. New York. p.80 . Retrieved October 20, 2023– via Google Books.

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a b Kameka, Andrew (March 7, 2007). "The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready To Die". HipHopDX. Archived from the original on May 21, 2015 . Retrieved October 20, 2023. Jenkins, Sacha (1999). Ego trip's book of rap lists (1sted.). New York City: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-312-24298-5. Originally released on 13th September 1994, Ready To Die is the debut studio album from hip-hop legend, The Notorious B.I.G. Upon release, the album was met with widespread critical acclaim, with Pitchfork giving it a 10/10 rating along with various other critics praising it for its brutally honest depiction of gang violence and conflict as opposed to the often-glorified portrayal in the genre and the wider media. The album has cemented its place in hip-hop history and has since gone on to achieve 6x platinum certification in the US, selling over 3.5 million copies, and has achieved platinum status in the UK as well. Irvin, Jim, ed. (2009). "The 1990s". The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion (4thed.). London: Canongate Books. ISBN 978-1-84767-643-6. British album certifications – Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved January 22, 2020. Select albums in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type Ready to Die in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.Goldstein, Hartley. "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on June 8, 2017 . Retrieved October 20, 2023. Although a fair use issue, Combs and Bad Boy never raised the legal concept of the fair use doctrine in their defense. [9] This decision was questioned by some legal experts: Anthony Falzone of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School criticized Combs and Bad Boy for not defending the legality of sampling and suggested that they might have refused to raise such a defense because they feared it could later imperil their control over their own music. [12]

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