Career posthumous Life After Death, Biggie’s second album, debuted at 1 on the charts. The album was released two weeks after his death. The first single was “Hypnotize” also was the last music video in which he participated. The album sold 18 million copies worldwide and became the biggest selling rap album of all time. The biggest hit was “Mo Money, Mo Problems” with Sean Combs (now under the alias “Puff Daddy”) and Mase. The subject was a sample from “I’m Coming Out” by Diana Ross. The video is notable for beginning the era “Shiny Suit” (something like “Shiny Suit”) in hip hop. The latest single from Life After Death was “Sky’s the Limit” with 112. The video for the song, directed by Spike Jonze, children appear to portray Biggie and his contemporaries, including Combs, Lil ‘Kim and Busta Rhymes. This technique has been recently used in the video for “Poppin ‘My Collar” by Three 6 Mafia.During the summer of 1997, Combs released his debut album No Way Out, in which Biggie appears in many songs, among them in the chorus of the single “Been Around the World” on a sample from David Bowie ( “Let’s Dance”). However, the single that took most of the hit was “I’ll Be Missing You”, dedicated to the memory of Wallace. In the song, which successfully sampling “Every Breath You Take” by The Police, collaborate Biggie’s widow Faith Evans and the group 112. At the MTV Video Music Awards 1997, all these artists sang the song along with Sting, former lead singer of The Police. In 1999, Combs released the third album by Notorious BIG, Born Again. He had two singles: “Notorious,” with Puff Daddy and Lil ‘Kim and “Dead Wrong” a single that later was remixed with a verse from Eminem. In the video for “Notorious” also appear Fat Joe and 98 Degrees. In the same year Bone Thugs-N-Harmony did a song with Notorious BIG “Notorious Thugz” which was a great success.In 2001, one of the raps of Wallace appeared on “Unbreakable” by Michael Jackson, which included in its multi-platinum album Invincible. Biggie and previously worked with Jackson on “This Time Around” from his album HIStory autiobiogr fico. In 2002, Biggie’s friend and producer, Irv Gotti, sampling his hit “One More Chance” for the promising artist Ashanti. The song called “Foolish” was one of the successes of 2002 and the line of “F ckin ‘U Tonite” (from Life After Death) was included in the remix. Also in 2002, Combs gave the rights to 50 Cent’s verse sample of Wallace’s song “Niggaz” (from the album Born Again) for a song called “The Realest Niggaz,” which was a hit with radio stations in New York. Many have attributed that song as the first great success of 50 Cent, now a star in hip hop. The song was later included in the soundtrack of the movie Bad Boys 2 with Martin Lawrence and .In 2003, Eminem remixed collaboration between 2Pac and Biggie “Runnin ‘” and added a sample of “Dying to Live” by Edgar Winter. Titled “Runnin ‘(Dying To Live)”, the song was released as single from the soundtrack to Tupac: Resurrection. In 2004, remixed DJ Green Laterna Biggie’s classic “Everyday Struggle” with a popular song for the singer Akon. The song was called “Ghetto”, which also appear 2Pac, Jadakiss and Styles P.
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