Hypnotically Notorious Music
This is the Youtube link to a popular Rap song by the late Notorious B.I.G and it is his hit song, Hypnotize, that I’m writing about today.
My sister and I were once driving not far from Brick Lane, London’s famous curry capital. The best bagels in London can be bought at Brick Lane. This was last year, and the kind of hot summer day when one drives
with the car windows down. As we waited at the traffic lights to join Shoreditch High Street, the car in the next lane was an open top jeep and the occupant, looking moody and sexy behind impenetrable sun glasses.
It wasn’t his looks that made both my sister and I break the protocol of aloofness between strangers, make eye contact, such as one can behind impenetrable sun glasses, and bob our heads in a synchronised dance. It was the unmistakable brooding base line of Hypnotize by Biggie that altered our states of consciousness. He bobbed his head in time to the beat too.
The stranger in the next car, allowed a smile to crack his face and acknowledged our shared passion for this fallen legend of R and B music. The uninitiated cannot understand such a moment. It’s what unites Biggie fans as we momentarily stop what we’re doing and unite for the duration of this song. My sister and I were also quite impressed to see a white man that actually gets black music. The kind of person one would like to bump into at a barbecue and have really gritty conversation with. Rhythm is something one is either born with, or not.
Biggie Smalls was no aesthetic oil painting either. He was overweight, and certainly not handsome. But he was a top performer. I wish I could have seen him live. But the sad truth is that I only discovered him just weeks before his “assassination”.
Listen to the lyrics ” … can’t you see, sometimes your words just hypnotise me …”. Is that true?
The video is quite humorous too, typical of the extravagance of most R and B rap videos. I still get transfixed any time I hear the base line of this song. In a way, Biggie gets to hypnotise me from the beyond the grave any time I hear it.
Another favourite song of mine by Biggie is called Nasty Girl and was released post-humously through a collaboration of his fellow artistes. Combine my Nasty Girl qualities with my words that hypnotise you, and no one can blame you when you succumb, now, isn’t that right?
Here’s a Wikipedia entry on Biggie Smalls a.k.a Christopher Wallace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggie_Smalls. Some would like us to assume that he was murdered in a gang-land shooting. That’s a load of bull. Next they’ll want me to believe that Tupac was also murdered by rival gangs. Yeah, right!
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