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"Hypnotize" Is A Single By American Rapper The Notorious B.I.G. Featuring Vocals By Pamela Long Released As The First Single From His Album Life After Death On April 1 1997. 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 Since " Just Like Starting Over" By John Lennon And Yoko Ono In 1980. Rolling Stone Ranked The Song As Number 30 On Their List Of 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs Of All Time. P. Diddy Known Then As Puff Daddy Produced "Hypnotize" And Sampled The Beat From Herb Alpert's 1979 Hit "Rise" Which Was Written By Andy Armer And Herb's Nephew Randy "Badazz" Alpert. Randy Recalled "I Asked Puffy In 1996 When He First Called Me Concerning Using 'Rise' For 'Hypnotize ' Why He Chose The 'Rise' Groove. 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. He Had Always Remembered That Summer And That Song. When He First Played The Loop For Biggie He Said That Biggie Smiled And Hugged Him. 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. 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. 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.
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"Hypnotize" is a single by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. featuring vocals by Pamela Long, released as the first single from his album Life After Death on April 1, 1997. 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 since "(Just Like) Starting Over" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980. Rolling Stone ranked the song as number 30 on their list of 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time.
P. Diddy (known then as Puff Daddy) produced "Hypnotize" and sampled the beat from Herb Alpert's 1979 hit "Rise" which was written by Andy Armer and Herb's nephew, Randy "Badazz" Alpert. Randy recalled, "I asked Puffy, in 1996 when he first called me concerning using 'Rise' for 'Hypnotize,' why he chose the 'Rise' groove. 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. He had always remembered that summer and that song. When he first played the loop for Biggie, (he said that) Biggie smiled and hugged him.
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. 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. 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.