Title: Another reason to avoid the remaster!
Product review: The album itself is classic, 5 stars, hands down. But, don't buy the remaster!A previous reviewer already noted that the MP3 version is edited; I can't comment on that. What I can tell you is that, due to legal wrangling, some integral samples have been removed from this version, specifically from "Machine Gun Funk" and "Ready to Die." This definitely makes the remaster inferior. Go find the original version at a used CD store.[Edit: Amazon removed my links to examples, but you can find the original and remastered versions of those tracks on YouTube and compare.]It's really too bad that whoever owns these tracks won't do the right thing! It's not like Biggie's profiting from any of this anyway.
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