Stereogum

The Number Ones: The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize”

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. There is dark ...
Bustle

Here's How The Hypnosis In 'Hypnotize Me' Works, For All Those Skeptics Out There

The premise of the CW's Hypnotize Me, based on the UK series You're Back In The Room, is both simple and hard to believe. Each episode, hypnotist Keith Barry puts four contestants into a hypnotic ...
Billboard

Chart Rewind: In 1997, The Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Hypnotize’ Hit No. 1

Following the East Coast rapper's 1997 murder, three songs tied to him dominated the Billboard Hot 100's top spot for months. By Trevor Anderson The Notorious B.I.G. had been dead eight weeks when he ...
New York Post

How the Notorious B.I.G.’s biggest hit almost didn’t happen

When Notorious B.I.G.’s funeral procession rolled through his native Bed-Stuy in 1997, mourners began blasting his track “Hypnotize,” and it subsequently turned the rapper’s wake into a party. Just ...
Billboard

Randy ‘Badazz’ Alpert Remembers ‘Rise,’ Sampled in The Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Hypnotize’

Randy Alpert tells Billboard about his memories of composing and recording "Rise," why "Hypnotize" was the first sample request that he actually cleared, and how Biggie's song has helped his own song… ...
Uproxx

Diddy Said He And Biggie First Tried Ecstasy During The ‘Hypnotize’ Video Shoot

On what would’ve been The Notorious B.I.G.’s 50th birthday, his friend and collaborator Diddy took to Twitter Spaces alongside Jay-Z and Fat Joe (per HipHopDX) and shared stories about the late rapper ...