Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
ReviewsRanked #7 on Spin's List of the "Top 20 Albums of the Year.", Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...a worthy and more mature, if less uniformly spectacular, successor to his 1994 debut....there's considerable pleasure and fun to be had when an artist feels free to stretch out and try anything, and those pleasures are available in abundance on LIFE AFTER DEATH...", Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997.", 5 Mics (out of 5) - "...Big documented the illmatic mean streets of his Bedford Stuyvesant stomping grounds....LIFE AFTER DEATH's finest moments are the instantly catchy, future-radio-favorites....Big's potent verses of violent death became a self-prophecy indeed.", Ranked #13 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., "...LIFE AFTER DEATH truly rises, though, when Biggie is full control; he tells tales like a true alum of those hard-to-creep Brooklyn streets....LIFE AFTER DEATH is an olive branch to his divided kingdom....Long live the king!"