The vibe of this song is something that simply cant be recreated. This is a piece of 90's American culture. Raw, unapologetic, urban music that shifted the western culture. True Hip-Hop classic, timeless music.
This is the title track from one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time - which was made by one of the all time legends of American music. It's hardly fucking underrated. Lmao
lol i instantly turn from some white dude in scotland into a well built black rapper, its impossible not to get the head moving, there will only ever be one B.I.G
I was poor as a teen, but i studied and now got it made. Sometimes i get tired with all the BS at work and listen to this to remind myself i was ready to die when i was poor. It motivates me to keep fighting.
Dude you were ready to die for being broke? That's nothing. I have it much worse and I wanna live at least until I'm 45. I don't want to get old I'll tell you that. 45-50 my limits than I'll prob snap it.
"Biggie smalls on a higher plane. Niggas say I'm strange deranged because I put the 12 guage to your brain. Make your shit splatter, mix the blood like batter then my pocket gets fatter after the hit!"
This was a gritty and grimy time in NYC, at this time folks use to go from train cart to train cart robbing people at gun point. This song represents how gritty and dangerous the 90s were on NY. Kids these days would have gotten hot back then.
Not as good since they were forced to swap out the sample on the hook. Find the original 1994 version & compare it. I guess if you never heard the original you can tolerate it, but if you did the hook is completely flat without the original sample in it.
If Aliens would ask "can you explain Biggie Smalls to us?" Answer: Biggie Smalls on a higher plane Niggas say I'm strange, deranged because I put the 12 gauge to your brain Make your shit splatter - mix the blood like batter then my pocket gets fatter After the hit - leave you on the street with your neck slit Down your backbone to where your motherfucking'shit drip The shit I kick - ripping through the vest Biggie Smalls passing any test Biggie saw himself first and foremost as a "Hardcore Rapper", my favorite songs gotta be, "Dead Wrong", "Cunt Renaissance" "Ready To Die", "Who Shot Ya?", "Respect". Really really hardcore stuff but those song were not made for radio like "Juicy" or "Big Poppa" lol.
The whole album is timeless but I don’t think people really know how hard this track is. The beat, the flow, the lyrics…one of the best rap songs of all time and I’m not even cappin 🙏🏿
This song is easily Biggie’s best on the album, hell, to me, this is his best song ever. I feel every word he spits on this track. So much passion. Makes me tear up every single time I listen. The worst part about all of this is that he’s gone...😞 RIP Legend
Biggie's lyricism is dark but it is a movie and shows how black folks (whether you are in the hood, in the suburbs, or rich) live.....it feels like a pressure cooker. Biggie is one of the GOATS of hip hop.
@@some88 Shit I'm white, facing my my fourth drug case... Live in the south born and raised, the only thing is is rich and poor there ain't no between and I really don't care what color you are I'm tired of hearing that mess... Been listening to this guy since I was a teenager back in the 90s and it is true today as it ever was, being born poor is like a disease passed from generation to generation.. ain't got nothing to do with color, people of color for some reason think of somebody looks at them funny that something is up it ain't because of that it's always because people with money look at your ass like you poor whether you black or white and if you are poor white you worse than a poor black in their eyes because you were supposed to be somebody no matter where you came from like me in a raggedy-ass trailer park down here in the south.. one of these days you're going to understand it ain't about color it's always been about money and it's always going to be about money and that's just the way it.. they don't care what color you are if you selling drugs you selling drugs and somebody telling on you then you facing the same s*** as me prison and I'm on that same public defender shit too.. broke is broke you got to be broke to understand broke...
Honestly feel like a lot of people aren't aware of this funnily enough. People think "Juicy" or the other feel good hits. But he was always on that dread rap type shit. It's music to my ears.
I interpret this song beyond the raw, unapologetic and violent lyrics. I interpret it as he's still struggling to let the final things go before passing on. He's using violence, anger and power to keep him going, but he also seems to recognize that his time on earth is complete. He's ready for his body to die, and for his spirit to pass on. It's poetic.
I miss Biggie too bro But I found somebody who could give me that type of vibes thgat Biggie gave you can search gomunkul 6 maybe he could be your medicine too
I try to process all I feel, as I watch this video... But the pain is too great, too big, too overwhelming. smothering: I am breathless. I am drowning, suffocating. Dying of loneliness and longing. I can't bear it. I just can't. Please, please pray for me, friends. May the prayer(s) you say for me, bless you, as well...
It's forever Quality over Quantity. Big will forever live. His music will stand the test of time. The greatest lyricist ever. He got the flow. He riding the beat. Great storyteller.
This man only had two albums and is UNIVERSALLY rated as a top 10 Rapper to ever LIVE most have him too 3 and some even have him #1 …he was ahead of his time and went too early rip BIG I’m going on 17 years listening to the master of flow and will never stop.
You swung a left, you swung a right, you fell to the concrete Your face, my feet, they meet with stompin' I'm rippin' MCs from Tallahassee to Compton This flow and word play is some of his nastiest, and that's saying a lot.
I listen to metal too, lately mostly thrash. I love Biggie, he was a phantastic storyteller. Check Biggie's "Dead wrong Sinatra remix"! I can highly recommend Immortal Technique too, he is brutal, crazy stories.
This album was released in 1994.... That's 30 years ago, and Biggie was only 21 at the time! I don't know why, but this is all very hard for me to comprehend!
This song is one of those rap songs that you really believe and buy the conviction in what the artist is saying. Biggie sounded genuinely pissed off and in a dark headspace when recording this and Suicidal Thoughts. Gives me chills till this day
this is one of the rawest hip hop songs ever, dark, evil. Long live biggie smalls. 30 years ago he was already ready to die. This is the east coast at its best, timeless song. hip hop forever
i can hardly put into words how amazing this song is lyrically and biggie’s flow is untouched i have yet to hear anybody with as strong a flow and voice ever
So iconic how Easy Mo Bee produced this song and songs for other East Coast artist, all whilst also producing for 2Pac at the same time when the beef was still going down. A legend if I have ever seen one.
"Biggie Smalls passing any test" Dont lean on your own understanding✔️ Stop judging people and harassing them✔️ Respect and peace should be apart of your day everyday✔️ Biggie was fed up..Keep god first yall 🇺🇲 BIG🕊
"Kickin niggas down the steps just for rep" one of my favorite one liners on this masterpiece. Shout out to Easy Mo Bee for this beat too shits tough as nails.
I know every single word to every song on ready to die. I played this every single day with my blunt before and after school at 15. I’m now 31 and still know every word 😂
At 21 he was spent no time to reminisce most life started at 21 his shit he seen 100 or older at 21 he can reflect imagine having nothing envious of the person beside you at 7 because he is eating and your not god bless america
I have not experienced anything this song speaks about. But it speaks to the level of art, talent, and soul that Biggie had because he makes me feel as if I have experienced this. All of this. Rest in paradise Biggie. Thank you for the expression and education.
They can say what they want about Puffy(I call him Puff I'm grew up inna 90s-00s but he know and how to find talent.We got thank him for finding Biggy🕊️
The vibe of this song is something that simply cant be recreated. This is a piece of 90's American culture. Raw, unapologetic, urban music that shifted the western culture. True Hip-Hop classic, timeless music.
Kev tgghhhjiui
Preach🙏🏾
To this day the crown of hip hop remains without a new king
Respect. This is the truth.
Yes ir is
Don't forget this whole album was made at age 21.
He sounds like he's 35 wtf
Crazy shit
@@djnotorious8900Alright then I see you everywhere let's see it
And if you don't know, now you know.
@Ahmed Makaveli so was his health
"My shit is deep, deeper than my grave, G" I felt it!
My life is played out like a jerry curl
I'm ready to die and nobody can save me.
im feeling this son G im ready too
That's a 2pac bar he bit 😂💯
This beat is untouchable. Could listen to it all day long.
I've been doing that for the last 4 years
It feels like near death.
this lyrics are untouchable i could listem to them forever
Easy Mo Bee is a legend
The beat reminds me of death. I think of cemetery listen to this beat.
My Shit Is Deep, Deeper Than My Grave G 😢😢😢😢😢
He was not fat !!!
He just was full of lyrics
He was fat
@@bahatitx IM DEADDD
Wow youre so original
The most original comment ever
Might not be an original comment, but you ain't wrong..
There will quite literally never be a rapper to replace this man. Can’t be done. He was incredible.
High key? He's the GOAT. The total package. Flow, lyricism, delivery, wordplay, vibe, smooth as silk.
No one can replace something this great and timelessly great
Replace? Never. But J.Cole is doing big things.
@@Elmntsktr j.cole in my opinion i think he should be up there rn been listening to him sinse 2013 hes getting there
Griselda definitely picked up the torch!!
Most underrated song ever! This flow and this voice... can not be recreated - just impossible...
Agreed
Yeah unless it's made by someone who is a rap genius and also ready to die...
This is the title track from one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time - which was made by one of the all time legends of American music.
It's hardly fucking underrated. Lmao
lol i instantly turn from some white dude in scotland into a well built black rapper, its impossible not to get the head moving, there will only ever be one B.I.G
Underrated by whom?
I was poor as a teen, but i studied and now got it made. Sometimes i get tired with all the BS at work and listen to this to remind myself i was ready to die when i was poor. It motivates me to keep fighting.
Dude you were ready to die for being broke? That's nothing. I have it much worse and I wanna live at least until I'm 45. I don't want to get old I'll tell you that. 45-50 my limits than I'll prob snap it.
@@FunkyPhunkwtf how can you judge when youve basically said the same thing this guy said. Wow
Big poppa great b
I feel you bro
White boy problems
30 years later and this album has not aged, ready to die is revolutionary
My generation
Unfortunately he was too early ready to die ...
RIP Biggie, Always in our hearts
Pac and him were exploited,it was so unfortunate and undeserved.
The Rap King for life.
yeah one and only the man🎃🎃🎧🎧😁😁😎😎🎎🎆🎆🎆🎤🎤🎤
@@raymondmathurin4958 please stop with the emojis
@@fergusyeomans9025 you don't tell me 😎😎😎😎🎃🎃🎤🎤🎤
The last verse on this is insane, “your face, my feet, they meet, we stompin, I’m rippin emcees from Tallahassee to Compton”
Dope
Sick lyrics here man
🥶
"Biggie smalls on a higher plane. Niggas say I'm strange deranged because I put the 12 guage to your brain. Make your shit splatter, mix the blood like batter then my pocket gets fatter after the hit!"
@OFWGKT A yes sir it is
Anyone in 2024 ?
Stop the calender shit and enjoy to this Classic.
2025 here 🙋♂️
First song of the day
Yes bro 😎
Nah
This was a gritty and grimy time in NYC, at this time folks use to go from train cart to train cart robbing people at gun point. This song represents how gritty and dangerous the 90s were on NY. Kids these days would have gotten hot back then.
This is his greatest song ever. The lyrics, the production, his flow. It's like the most beautiful sounds you've heard with a biggie smalls flavor.
I agree
Not as good since they were forced to swap out the sample on the hook. Find the original 1994 version & compare it. I guess if you never heard the original you can tolerate it, but if you did the hook is completely flat without the original sample in it.
@@steveknick1978 tbh this is facts
I thought I was tripping thinking the same thing bro ✊🏿
Yet to hear a flow better in the year of our lord. Nigga flowing like a Greek god on this.
This is probably my favorite biggie song... the delivery was just flat out ridiculous on each bar
Word!
Facts mine too! You can feel his pain in each verse his energy was everything on this album by far my favorite song
If Aliens would ask "can you explain Biggie Smalls to us?"
Answer:
Biggie Smalls on a higher plane
Niggas say I'm strange, deranged because I put the 12 gauge to your brain
Make your shit splatter - mix the blood like batter then my pocket gets fatter
After the hit - leave you on the street with your neck slit
Down your backbone to where your motherfucking'shit drip
The shit I kick - ripping through the vest Biggie Smalls passing any test
Biggie saw himself first and foremost as a "Hardcore Rapper", my favorite songs gotta be, "Dead Wrong", "Cunt Renaissance" "Ready To Die", "Who Shot Ya?", "Respect". Really really hardcore stuff but those song were not made for radio like "Juicy" or "Big Poppa" lol.
rap back in these days, and music in general really, had this quality to it like it was fate for it to be recorded exactly as it is
this song and album got me thru my depression ready to die is a dark masterpiece
Same. God bless you Bro
When I die, fuck it I want to go to hell
@@bayareanewman1566 eyo big! Chill!
Ont
This and life after death the best álbum Of All time
I think we all feel suicidal at times. Biggie was just the first to put it out there. This is a legendary track and is one of his realist.
2pac did it first
👂
... 👂
The whole album is timeless but I don’t think people really know how hard this track is. The beat, the flow, the lyrics…one of the best rap songs of all time and I’m not even cappin 🙏🏿
💯
U right 💯 bro
One of the hardest hitting truth tellers ever to grace the genre that is Gangsta Rap. RIP Biggie, you have inspired me beyond words.
Raw lyricism, flawless flow. Biggie is timeless. King 👑
1 & only
@@LasArmas_ g.o.a.t🔥🔥
Ahead of his prime that's who he is
Shit is real, and hungry's how I feel
I rob and steal because the money's got that Whip appeal
I don't give a fuck about what anyone says. There's no modern rap or 'hip hop' that even comes close to this today.
I can't get over how TALENTED this man was at the age of just 21 years old!!!
He had to grow up fast
Exactly 💯
Aged only 21 is amazing, his lyrics are genius
Unbelievable! That he could articulate his raps like this at a young age! Way ahead of his time!
This song is easily Biggie’s best on the album, hell, to me, this is his best song ever.
I feel every word he spits on this track.
So much passion. Makes me tear up every single time I listen.
The worst part about all of this is that he’s gone...😞
RIP Legend
Ready to Die is unskippable, every song is great tbh
Biggie's lyricism is dark but it is a movie and shows how black folks (whether you are in the hood, in the suburbs, or rich) live.....it feels like a pressure cooker. Biggie is one of the GOATS of hip hop.
You're so right!
Personally speaking, he's my GOAT. As you said, Big revolutionized music when he released "Ready to Die".
Born rich black folk def cant relate
@@some88 Shit I'm white, facing my my fourth drug case... Live in the south born and raised, the only thing is is rich and poor there ain't no between and I really don't care what color you are I'm tired of hearing that mess... Been listening to this guy since I was a teenager back in the 90s and it is true today as it ever was, being born poor is like a disease passed from generation to generation.. ain't got nothing to do with color, people of color for some reason think of somebody looks at them funny that something is up it ain't because of that it's always because people with money look at your ass like you poor whether you black or white and if you are poor white you worse than a poor black in their eyes because you were supposed to be somebody no matter where you came from like me in a raggedy-ass trailer park down here in the south.. one of these days you're going to understand it ain't about color it's always been about money and it's always going to be about money and that's just the way it.. they don't care what color you are if you selling drugs you selling drugs and somebody telling on you then you facing the same s*** as me prison and I'm on that same public defender shit too.. broke is broke you got to be broke to understand broke...
Honestly feel like a lot of people aren't aware of this funnily enough. People think "Juicy" or the other feel good hits. But he was always on that dread rap type shit. It's music to my ears.
“F the world, F my Mom’s and my girl!” Even if he didn’t literally mean those words, Big had to be in a very dark place to record that
Crazy I heard those lyrics as I read your comment.
@Nubian Queen 😩🥵🤤 I sure hope not
He's ready to pass on and doesn't need those worldly "possessions" anymore. He's going to a higher plane
@Samaria 😩🥵🤤 find your purpose work for your happiness it is a journey in this world
@Samaria 😩🥵🤤 stay strong 🙏❤️
"I drop lyrics off and on like a light switch" The Notorious B.I.G. dropping them on my brain.
I interpret this song beyond the raw, unapologetic and violent lyrics. I interpret it as he's still struggling to let the final things go before passing on. He's using violence, anger and power to keep him going, but he also seems to recognize that his time on earth is complete. He's ready for his body to die, and for his spirit to pass on. It's poetic.
Such a savage flow... We're almost 2020 and my ears are still bleeding
@erock755 ikr
Give ya goosebumps
it's 2020. Never needed it more.
@@garyjohnston6921 agreed
Spoiler alert... 2020 is TERRIBLE
Rest In Peace Biggie Smalls.
1972 - 1997 🕊️🕊️🕊️
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I miss Biggie too bro But I found somebody who could give me that type of vibes thgat Biggie gave you can search gomunkul 6 maybe he could be your medicine too
30 years ago tonight #RIPBIG 👑🗽
I try to process all I feel,
as I watch this video...
But the pain is too great,
too big, too overwhelming.
smothering: I am breathless.
I am drowning, suffocating.
Dying of loneliness and longing.
I can't bear it. I just can't.
Please, please pray for me, friends.
May the prayer(s) you say for me, bless you, as well...
The sound of east coast rap at its finest!
I dont give a fck what people say. BIGGIE AND 2PAC WERE AND WILL BE THE GREATEST RAPPERS EVER EXISTED.
plays fortnite XD
(prolly 12)
ROFL
not even an argument
Biggie the 🐐 no doubt. But Wayne, Big L, Mobb Deep, Immortal Technique, Diabolic, Em, etc. are better than Pac.
@@HC-sb5ck wayne? Are u saying lil wayne lol???
It's forever Quality over Quantity.
Big will forever live. His music will stand the test of time.
The greatest lyricist ever.
He got the flow. He riding the beat. Great storyteller.
“shit is real and hungry is how I feel”
This man only had two albums and is UNIVERSALLY rated as a top 10 Rapper to ever LIVE most have him too 3 and some even have him #1 …he was ahead of his time and went too early rip BIG I’m going on 17 years listening to the master of flow and will never stop.
"when i wreck it, respect is collected, so check it" BIGGIE BEEN BIGGIE ASF
Legends never die. Biggy smalls music will live on for eons
Biggie’s delivery is relentless.
You swung a left, you swung a right, you fell to the concrete
Your face, my feet, they meet with stompin'
I'm rippin' MCs from Tallahassee to Compton
This flow and word play is some of his nastiest, and that's saying a lot.
That verse there killed every MC alive back in 94
You can tell Notorious BIG had a talent from god. Great MC, storytelling skills unbelivable. He is literally flowing on the beat.
Great storytelling
This song is proof that OG legends NEVER DIE!! 🔥🔥😍😍
this song alone shows just how lyrically skilled this man was
RIP Biggie 24 years ago and we have not seen nothing like you since. One of the greatest story tellers.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
You can feel the anger in his voice, this is no gimmick he is really ready to die! A masterpiece! Can wait to have the vinyl at home
At least he was ready.
Damn this is a good track.
Untouchable, and unbelievable
He was So Fire .. I Swear he was the Greatest to do it Period
who tf listening Biggie in 2023? All school ganstas on Gomunkul 6 now #
I listen to metal and rock, but I can get down to this right here. Smooth af.
Same
I listen to metal too, lately mostly thrash. I love Biggie, he was a phantastic storyteller. Check Biggie's "Dead wrong Sinatra remix"!
I can highly recommend Immortal Technique too, he is brutal, crazy stories.
@@toro5280 will do. I'm on a gojira and meshugga kick now
We love good music 🍻
This album was released in 1994.... That's 30 years ago, and Biggie was only 21 at the time! I don't know why, but this is all very hard for me to comprehend!
The king 🤴🏿 HELLA BARS‼️
Biggie is still one of the most influential lyricist to come out brooklyn brooklyn we go hard
one of the cleanest songs ive heard so far from bigie
So far? You know he's been dead for 22 years, right?
really do you not know this album?
@@TheInvisibleMan420 yes ik he's dead🤦 but I meant his other songs I listened to
@@scolopendra2567 only listened about 5 songs from ready to die album
bigie best rapper
I heard this song a few weeks ago for the first time and every time i listen to it my mind is blown, top notch music
This song is one of those rap songs that you really believe and buy the conviction in what the artist is saying. Biggie sounded genuinely pissed off and in a dark headspace when recording this and Suicidal Thoughts. Gives me chills till this day
Awesome. Almost every rap album from 1993- 1995 was flawless
Most definitely
💩 is real!
u can extend that to 97
@@KwaIified and push it back a year or two
@@JM-io2uv true
one of the best rap albums
I recognize this track as the hardest on the album bruh this shit is deep af as the 👑 said..word up
Hillary Titos facts best song on the tape! “Fuck the world fuck my moms and my girl I’m ready to die”
The hardest is who shot ya the deepest is suicidal thoughts
THIS ALBUM 30 YEARS OLD 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Rip 2PAC and RIP BIG
Most underrated track
Shout out to the new Netflix documentary. Brought me back here
well congratulations your ears ain't virgin anymore
I need to watch it.
@@mooeww143 HAHA
2021 hello
Left us 26 years ago. We love you forever, Biggie! ❤❤🕊️🕊️ 03/09/2023
this is one of the rawest hip hop songs ever, dark, evil. Long live biggie smalls. 30 years ago he was already ready to die. This is the east coast at its best, timeless song. hip hop forever
i know u his fan but my idol prince SIXMYFACE mucnh better
Here it is 2022 and Biggie is still the best to ever do it mainstream. Simply a lyrical and cadence beast.
Biggie is not dead!! He is forever alive
Andr3as Kopf nah bro he dead
Nah famm he ain’t dead, just press the replay button
Will live on.
Life after Death
My neighbour
i can hardly put into words how amazing this song is lyrically and biggie’s flow is untouched i have yet to hear anybody with as strong a flow and voice ever
Even though Biggie Smalls is forever gone, his rap music still lives on.
The king, the absolute MC who no one can compare
rip, still helping me through tough times
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
One of my favorite songs of all time will never get old 🔥 RIP BIG we miss you
Diddy doesn’t deserve to be in this with biggie
Biggie smalls the only guy who could scare away corona
damn right
So iconic how Easy Mo Bee produced this song and songs for other East Coast artist, all whilst also producing for 2Pac at the same time when the beef was still going down. A legend if I have ever seen one.
"Biggie Smalls passing any test"
Dont lean on your own understanding✔️
Stop judging people and harassing them✔️
Respect and peace should be apart of your day everyday✔️
Biggie was fed up..Keep god first yall 🇺🇲
BIG🕊
I swear This song is the real "Get rich or die trying"
Facts
The whole album was
New york king ❣️
Biggie snapped on this
Rest in peace bro....
This is a real masterpiece
if u listening to this in 2023, u def on the right track
2024 and still bumping this mervelous shit.
"The shit I kick, ripping through the vest, Biggie Smalls passing any test, I'm ready to die!" Lyrical genius at its finest.
"Kickin niggas down the steps just for rep" one of my favorite one liners on this masterpiece. Shout out to Easy Mo Bee for this beat too shits tough as nails.
I'm from the 90's.
My man's song is the illest best song he sang yet.
Happy 49th Birthday to Bip Poppa in Heaven
Rest in Peace
you are my favorit rapper
This track just feels unapologetic, god damn. It's easily my fave Biggie track.
I know every single word to every song on ready to die. I played this every single day with my blunt before and after school at 15. I’m now 31 and still know every word 😂
I'm 32 and I feel that in my soul! 😀
that's fucking badass dude
@@wadewilson1105 must be all the dabs- keep me going strong 🧐🤭😉💕
U a real og im 16 always playing biggie
@@Notorious-AP Me too ✊
happy 30th anniversary of this album and rip to Biggie
At 21 he was spent no time to reminisce most life started at 21 his shit he seen 100 or older at 21 he can reflect imagine having nothing envious of the person beside you at 7 because he is eating and your not god bless america
HAPPY 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THIS LEGENDARY ALBUM OF 94🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏾🕊️
THE KING OF HIP-HOP
I have not experienced anything this song speaks about. But it speaks to the level of art, talent, and soul that Biggie had because he makes me feel as if I have experienced this. All of this. Rest in paradise Biggie. Thank you for the expression and education.
As a teenager I didn't listen to Biggie on principle. Today I know that his flow was galactic.
If only we got one more album out of biggie …. This is one of the greatest albums of all time
claifm what they name. real future is the one and only Six. GOMUNKUL 6
They can say what they want about Puffy(I call him Puff I'm grew up inna 90s-00s but he know and how to find talent.We got thank him for finding Biggy🕊️
Is bro defending a raping sex trafficker. I like biggie but still shits strange with all the diddy stuff
He didn't 'find' him. Someone introduced B.I.G to him
Paradoxically, this is one of the things that keeps me alive.
If you know what I mean.
To me, still the greatest hip hop album ever.
Same
Diddy feeling very ready to die now