Song Anaylsis Two Essay : "Juicy" by Notorious B.I.G.

Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, was born in Brooklyn, New York, May 21, 1972. He was raised in the poor Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant as the son of a preschool teacher. Dropping out of high school at the age of seventeen, Biggie became a crack dealer, which he proclaimed was his only source of income. Hustlin' one's way was a common life for a young Black man trying to make a living in the ghetto. His career choices involved certain risks. However, a trip to North Carolina for a routine drug exchange ended being the soon-to-be MC a nine-month stay behind bars. Once released, Biggie borrowed a friend's four-track tape recorder and laid down some hip-hop tracks in a basement. The tapes were then passed around and played at local radio station in New York.     

Biggie Smalls wasn’t your average Brooklyn rapper, he had dreams, ambitions and hopes for himself when no one else did. Biggie didn’t speak about sex, drugs, and hustlin’ people for money. He spoke his life, from the beginning to end, good and bad, happy and sad; no matter what he was faced with, he understood his life. Throughout his powerful song “Juicy”, Biggie speaks about how his life was before he got famous and how it differs now that he was.

Nothing came easy to Biggie, not money, not happiness, not love. He had to make his was through life on his own. His mom was always gone at work, and he got involved with the wrong people and became a part of the wrong things; not helping his situation. Biggies’ song “Juicy” gives vivid examples of the things he was faces throughout his life and career. “Born filla, the opposite of a winner. Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner”, here is a perfect example of his awareness of his poor life. Knowing he had no luck, and using sardines as a symbol of the nothingness he had.

Knowing he was the best looking guy, Biggie Smalls recognized the women interested in him, and the women interested in his money. “Girls used to diss me, now they write letters ‘cause they miss me”,  Biggie understood why women started to take interest in him after he got his first major record deal.  Never knowing what it was like to have money and be able to support his family,  Biggie wasn’t interested in all the women throwing themselves at him. He was happy just to have fulfilled his dream.