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NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - Duets: The Final Chapter
| StylusMagazine | | Afeni Shakur apparently thinks nothing of plundering her late son’s legacy whenever she wants a little spending money: “Mama needs a new Jag, baby, I’m’a call Suge and tell him to put out another record.” There have now been more 2Pac albums released posthumously than there were during his all-too-short, blazing supernova of a life....full text |
| | RollingStone | | Unlike the bottomless well of posthumous 2Pac vocals, there obviously wasn't much left in Biggie's vault when he died at age twenty-four in 1997. A dispiriting step down from 1999's already-a-little-ghoulish Born Again, the mistitled Duets (where's the Frank Sinatra joint?) relies on recasting verses from the albums released in B.I.G.'s lifetime onto new beats smothered with high-gloss guests....full text |
| | Popmatters | | It is a truly heinous tribute that forces the critic into the position of negatively reevaluating the talent of its posthumous subject. I've always regarded the ongoing debate over the "greatest MC of all time" to be a singularly specious pastime, an unfortunate side-effect of the masculine competitive spirit that has animated hip-hop since its earliest beginnings, not to mention a reductive dismissal of the actual artistry involved....full text |
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