![]() ![]() Founding Bad Boy in 1993, and taking Biggie with him, “Puffy”, as he then went by, had confidently assumed the roles of svengali, producer and hypeman, and with No Way Out he staked his claim to being a frontman, too, ably assisted by a host of 90s rap’s finest, plus his in-house production team, The Hitmen. While a year’s worth of recording sessions had resulted in much of the album’s material, the impact of Biggie’s death could be felt in later additions to the tracklist, plus in a letter from Puffy to Biggie included as part of the album’s artwork. Across the record as a whole, Puffy’s lyrical concerns continued Biggie’s mixture of (justified) paranoia, gunplay and aspiration. No Way Out opens with a choral intro overlaid with a helicopter sample that makes the piece reminiscent of the classical sequence from Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War movie Platoon. ![]() ![]() It then bursts into the tense horn fanfares of the single Victory, featuring New York City legend Busta Rhymes, who strides forward alongside Biggie (“The heaters in the two-seaters/With two midas/Señoritas/Kiss rings when you meet us”). ![]()
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