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7 Best Guest Verses on ‘Life After Death,’ Ranked

Biggie’s sophomore album had no shortage of standout features — who came best?

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7. Styles P (“Last Day”)

Styles offers something for the gangsters and the spoken-word set alike (“The flow like water, get deep and you drown”). Gun claps and finger snaps!

6. Bizzy Bone (“Notorious Thugs”)

All these years later, we still don’t know what the fuck he’s saying, but it sounds fire.

5. Puff Daddy (“Long Kiss Goodnight”)

All these years later, we know exactly what the fuck he’s saying (and who he’s talking about), and it sounds fire. Not a verse per se, but this is a top-two, screaming Puff rant—and it’s not #2.

4. Mase (“Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems”)

“Now, who’s hot, who not?” The answer to the most rhetorical question of 1997 is obvious by the end of this excellent rap verse (and karaoke favorite) by the same ol’ pimp: Mason Betha.