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This “boo” of his is Faith Evans. She actually married him before he was shot.
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Chico Del Vec, a member of Biggie’s group Junior M.A.F.I.A.
He appeared on “Realms of Junior M.A.F.I.A." and “Murder Onze” from the group’s 1995 debut album Conspiracy.
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Title track of Ready To Die, it talks about his experiences in life and how he’s ready to die.
Main intention, taken from an annotation:
B.I.G. also says later that “Ready To Die” means put his old life behind him … and that “Life After Death” means his new life of success after his life of struggle.
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24 inch rims on the car.
Still can’t compare to Chingy’s 26’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENM5pxbgVt4
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A struggle between Heaven and Hell.
That holy feeling all gone
Slowly feeling all wrong; Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Diddy) – Angels (Remix)
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She used to whisper sweet nothings in his ear but now she’s tryin to do him like Tyson did Holyfield. That’s cold.
Could also refer to how women bite on ears if they are feisty, also referencing how she is a demon in disguise.
a) ‘Used to whisper in my ear’ e.g could refer to how he used to listen to the artist through his headphones, also relates to how in Islam, muslims believe that the devil whispers bad thoughts into our mind. ‘Vander mine’ is the same link written above about how they are trying to bite him and bring him down.
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Originally used by doctors, mobile pagers—also known as “beepers"—became extremely popular with the general public in the early 1990s, when they were seen as a cutting-edge technology.
In the time before cell phones, beepers fell into two categories: numeric pagers (which allowed you to send someone a phone number to call you at, sometimes with a short code) and alphanumeric pagers (which also allowed you to send a short text message).
Beeping someone “MEET ME AT 12” would require an alphanumeric pager, like the Motorola Wordline FLX model, which was introduced in 1995:
“Two-way” pagers, which allowed users to respond to text messages, weren’t introduced until 1996.
Biggie also raps about pagers on “Warning,” “Goin' Back To Cali,” “Another,” “Me & My Bitch,” “The Wickedest,” and “Why You Trying To Play Me,.
Ready to Die came out in 1994 so alphanumeric pager was doubtful. Big’s girl probably used ‘pager code’ for ‘meet me at 12’ which would be 177337-1773-47-1200 followed by the her ‘code number’ eg 069 so he would know who beeped him.