Suicidal Thoughts Lyrics
[Intro: Puff Daddy]
[Verse: The Notorious B.I.G. (Puff Daddy)]
(Nigga talk to me please, man)
(Ayo where your girl at, man?)
I reach my peak, I can't speak (Ayo, you listening to me motherfucker?)
(Ayo c'mon nigga)
(Heartbeat slowing)
Please hang up, and try your call again
Please hang up--is a recording
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About “Suicidal Thoughts”
In this final track off of Biggie’s classic debut album Ready to Die, Biggie calls up Puff Daddy in the middle of the night to explain to him that he’s about to commit suicide.
In one long verse B.I.G. explains that he feels unloved and expresses guilt for all the crimes he’s committed, while Puff tries to talk him out of killing himself in the song’s ad-libs.
The telephone vocal effect used on Puffy’s mic, plus other key sound effects (gunshots, the phone and Big’s body falling to the floor) make the track cinematic and haunting.
Despite Puff’s pleas Big pulls the trigger and kills himself at the end of the track. Biggie’s fictional death at the end of the song, directly ties into his follow-up album .
The conceptual track became even more significant after The Notorious B.I.G. was murdered on March 9, 1997.
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