I can’t feel this one OP. Ready to Die is basically perfect front to back. Life After Death has some incredible songs and some well executed experiments but i really don’t think it has half as consistent a tracklist or honestly half the number of insane highs on Ready to Die either and has some real duds tbh.

I suppose its a matter of preference, if you prefer the dirty dusty darker sound of RTD vs. the more glossy 90's Bad Boy production on LAD.

The final version of Life After Death would be even better, I remember seeing an interview where Biggie said he's gonna get a Method Man feature and some other dope ideas

Wym final version?

I thought LAD was finished 100%, considering the album was released only 2 weeks after he died.

This dude was gonna follow up with a triple album too lmao he was crazy

I just saw one of his last interviews and he said he's gonna finish the album soon and mentioned stuff he wants to get done that weren't on the album

So I assume if he didn't die we'd get a slightly different version

I feel it, but if he was still working on it up until he died, why did it end up getting released only 2 weeks after he died? Cuz this was the 90's and s*** like making and distributing CD's took time. Plus they had to have mixed and mastered the majority of the album if it released so soon after. They wouldn't have done a rush job on the follow up to such a well received debut. IDK man just spitballing here. We can only speculate.

i prefer Ready To Die but both albums are top tier.

I agree with OP. Ready to Die was like a sniper rifle. Life After Death was like a shotgun.

Life After Death is more refined and modern compared to RTD. RTD has something to prove while LAD is just boss,tight s*** you wanna come back to.

It does have bangers but ready to die is way more solid, not a single skip.

I feel like this the popular opinion tbh

I still prefer Ready to Die

😂😂😂😂😂😂

You listening to Biggie and Lil Kim f***ing?

My preference changes regularly

I'm not mad at whatever album people put first

Kings Disease>>Both Those Albums

I love Kings Disease but

he wylin wylin

life after death got better songs but as a whole ready to die is a better journey and more cinematic to me

r u even a real.hiphop fan if u dont get a boner listening to this

one of my fav songs ever

Easily for me

LAD gets way more play from me

LAD >

Double album filled with heat. Everybody kills their features.

it's literally the opposite for me. life after death feels like a motion picture but ready to die has a better collection of songs