
Just listen to those opening Uh! Uh!s. It’s the easily greatest line in hip hop because it's the realest. I’d maintain that it’s the Puffy beat that makes this, though: I mean, it’s the perfect match for Big’s voice – intelligent, humidly precocious, hilarious. It’s genius is its languid flash, paid and absolutely unstoppable, and I think that’s down to how wobbly it sounds: the way that its kicks and hooks spring around the beat rather hitting it dead on: disobedient, proud and languorous like everything that’s late and everything that is wonderful about hip hop. I mean, there's technically better Biggie songs out there but God... This is just so fucking beautiful.
Hypnotize by The Notorious B.I.G
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