Ready to Die: Just "Cinematic" or a Concept Album?

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So the lore says Diddy was nuts about making Ready to Die a "movie on wax." Lotsa rap albums are cinematic, &c. But could you read the record as a concept album? Shit literally goes from dude's birth, to his petty crime, to his high-class phase, to his death.

― hoo got it for steen, vol. 2 (hoosteen), Sunday, 17 December 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

spoilers? x-post

― hoo got it for steen, vol. 2 (hoosteen), Sunday, 17 December 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

the cut ending where biggie turns out to be bruce willis is on slsk somewhere

― latebloomer's mayan name is tapir ballz (clonefeed), Sunday, 17 December 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I've also heard Diddy say they wanted it to be a concept album "like 'The Chronic'." So that's Diddy's concept of a concept album.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Monday, 18 December 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

bookend skits with thematic continuity /= 'concept album'

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Press Play = Diddy's Tarkus

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

ready to die = diddy's yankee foxtrot hotel

― amon (amon), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link

bookend skits with thematic continuity /= 'concept album'

why not? what else do you need?

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Monday, 18 December 2006 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Explicatory liner notes in the form of a fairy tale courtesy of Jon Anderson.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 December 2006 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link

bookend skits with thematic continuity /= 'concept album'
-- Al (hoteloper...), December 18th, 2006.

But it's not just the skits that have thematic continuity. The songs themselves trek the rise and paranoid end in the first person.

― hoo got it for steen, vol. 2 (hoosteen), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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