
The video was a bittersweet achievement for Hunter as well. Of course, Biggie wouldn’t live to see the style’s ubiquity nor the release of Life After Death, a triumphant-turned-tragic piece of the hip-hop canon that still stings 20 years later. Centered around a Big Poppa removed from Ready to Die’s Bed-Stuy grit and now indulging mafioso excess, the high-octane, big budget visuals of “Hypnotize” were a step into the glitzy aesthetic Bad Boy Records trademarked at the close of the millennium. The song became one of Biggie’s most popular tracks not just because of his mastery of mellifluous rhyming, but also because of the Paul Hunter-directed video. introduced the world to the grandeur of his double album Life After Death with the lead single “Hypnotize,” released on the first day of March 1997. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.The Notorious B.I.G. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy.

Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system.


In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
