Now Available: The Notorious B.I.G., READY TO DIE: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION BOXED SET

In 1994, Christopher Wallace – known to his fans as The Notorious B.I.G. – helped define East Coast hip-hop for a new generation with his debut album, READY TO DIE. To commemorate its anniversary, Rhino has teamed with the website GetOnDown.com to release a new limited-edition box set which offers the entire album plus two bonus tracks - across nine 7” colored-vinyl singles.

As noted, this is a limited-edition set – there’ll only be 3,500 copies pressed – and it looks like it: the singles are housed in a cigar-style box with gloss and metallic accents, and it features a booklet which offers liner notes from writer Kathy Iandoli, stories from Easy Mo Bee and Chucky Thompson, who helped to produce the album, and heretofore-unpublished photos from the time period.

Here’s the full track listing for the set, so you’ll know on which sides your favorite songs appear:

READY TO DIE: 25TH ANNIVERSARY SINGLES BOXED SET

Disc One
1.     Intro
2.     “Things Done Changed”

Disc Two
1.     “Gimme The Loot”
2.     “Machine Gun Funk”

Disc Three
1.     “Warning”
2.     “Ready To Die”

Disc Four
1.     “One More Chance”
2.     “#!*@ Me” (Interlude)
3.     “The What”

Disc Five
1.     “Juicy”
2.     “Everyday Struggle”

Disc Six
1.     “Me & My Bitch”
2.     “Big Poppa”

Disc Seven
1.     “Respect”
2.     “Friend Of Mine”

Disc Eight
1.     “Unbelievable”
2.     “Suicidal Thoughts”

Disc Nine
1.     “Who Shot Ya?”
2.     “Just Playing (Dreams)”