Gnarls Biggie

Biggie Smalls is was arguably the greatest rapper of all time. My beef with much of his catalogue, however, is that his beats were often lackluster (“Juicy” especially; regardless of Big Poppa’ familiarity with Word Up! magazine). Luckily, Baltimore-via-Brooklyn DJ’s Sound Advice has mashed together some of Biggie’s best raps with the music of another big fat black dude (and his nerdy white associate), Gnarls Barkley, in the creatively named album, Gnarls Biggie. The album appears to have come out sometime during the summer of 2007, and also seems to have been the subject of a hunt-down-and-kill campaign, as it was nearly impossible to track down a full copy online and the record’s free download site, Gnotorious.com, is offline. For those of us who have nearly unlimited time to spend hunting down rare music albums on the internet, however, it can be done. This site has it, although you need to create an account first, which takes roughly 1 second but is still a pain in the ass. Enjoy!