![]() ![]() These two bring us into a nihilistic mind state that we won’t stray far from throughout Ready to Die. While “Things Done Changed” hovered above the action, “Gimme the Loot” takes us into into the mind of an anti hero, a stick up kid and his friend, who amp each other’s adrenaline levels with increasingly outlandish shit talk. We hear the sentence and estimated release date and immediately know the story takes place between 19. ![]() Cee, we hear a snippet from from Guru’s cautionary “Just to Get a Rep.” The lyrics opens with a bit of bad luck for Biggie’s boy Inf, who caught a charge and left his guns in Big’s hands as he heads up north. The lush harp strums of “Things Done Changed” part for Easy Mo Bee’s marching snare and the menacing bass rumble of “Gimme the Loot.” There’s a sharp weather-marked horn riff lifted from James Brown’s “Cold Blooded.” Deftly scratched by Mr. Keying in on the most extreme and bleak aspects of Brooklyn, while reminiscing on a simpler time, Biggie observes without lapsing into cliché, an easy pitfall when angling for a “simpler time.” Ironically, Big references the late 70s-early 80s, a moment when the hood was still in shambles from the Vietnam War and crack was about to tighten its hold. There’s narration, scene-setting, a time and a place, where the actor plays out his drama. Bed Stuy is a hell of internecine violence. There’s “Things Done Changed,” a sweeping, chaotic reflection on the environment around Chris Wallace. After all, the crime caper is our true introduction to the architecture of Ready to Die.īut before the loot, we have to find out why he’s robbing. Intimate and intentionally taboo-breaking, “Gimme the Loot” feels out of step with the earlier track. ![]() You can’t just tear into track 3 - “Gimme the Loot” - without first breaking down why it follows “Things Done Changed.” Puffy and Biggie brought the big picture, a cinematic vision, one present in every pocket, from its landmark skits to the snippet transitions. You can’t discuss a single song without assessing it in the context of the album itself. It was game changing in the purest sense of that played out term. ![]()
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