If modern artists are akin to famous visual artist Bob Ross - delicately laying their feelings on a canvas while subtly imploring society to draw along with them - then a project like The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 debut Ready To Die is a paintball shotgun fired at that easel, warning everyone to get the hell out of the way. It’s awesome” like Kanye West did on the cover of Ye. I t’s not taboo to sing “Push me to the edge, all my friends are dead” like Lil Uzi Vert did on “XO Tour Llif3.” Or, say things like “I hate being bipolar.
