

Nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 1998 Grammy Awards, it lost to " Men in Black" by Will Smith. It also gave back-to-back number-one hits to Combs' Bad Boy Records label. the fifth artist in Hot 100 history to have a posthumous chart-topper ( see List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones).

When "Hypnotize" reached number one two weeks later, it made The Notorious B.I.G. On its release, "Hypnotize" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number two, right behind labelmate and co-writer and co-producer Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs (" Can't Nobody Hold Me Down").
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used to talk about all the cars but, nigga didn't even know how to drive. In 2013, when asked about the lyrics, "Escargot, my car go.", Lil' Cease of Junior M.A.F.I.A. Often misattributed to Lil Kim, Pamela Long from the group Total sang this part. The original 'Rise' record climbed the chart all summer and became number one around the end of October Biggie's version was released and charted its first week at number two and went to number one the second week." Īs for the chorus, or "hook", the melody and phrasing is interpolated from a lyrical section of Slick Rick's song " La Di Da Di", and it is also from these lyrics that the title "Hypnotize" is derived. I was sent a cassette from Puffy and when I cranked it up I not only immediately loved it but my gut thought that this could be a number one record once again. Randy continued, "Over the years I was approached by Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Vanilla Ice, and maybe another 4–5 artists to use the song and I never said 'yes' until I heard a rough version of Biggie's recording produced by Sean 'Puffy' Combs, D-Dot, and Ron Lawrence. When he first played the loop for Biggie, (he said that) Biggie smiled and hugged him." He had always remembered that summer and that song. He told me that in the summer of 1979 when he was I think 10 years old the song was a huge hit everywhere in New York and 'Rise' along with Chic's ' Good Times' were 'the songs' that all the kids were dancing and roller skating to that summer. Randy recalled, "I asked Puffy, in 1996 when he first called me concerning using 'Rise' for 'Hypnotize,' why he chose the 'Rise' groove. Diddy (known then as Puff Daddy) produced "Hypnotize" and sampled Herb Alpert's 1979 hit " Rise" which was written by Andy Armer and Herb's nephew, Randy "Badazz" Alpert. Rolling Stone ranked the song as number 30 on their list of the "100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time".

The last song released before his death in a drive-by shooting a week later, it was the fifth song by a credited artist to hit number one posthumously, and the first since " (Just Like) Starting Over" by John Lennon in 1980. featuring vocals by Pamela Long, released as the first single from his album Life After Death on March 4, 1997. " Hypnotize" is a single by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G.
