11" x 11" image (12" x 12" finished print) on artist's archival canvas and coated with a UV protective varnish. Larger sizes (24" square and 30" square - mounted on 3/4" wood stretchers, with hand-painted sides) available on special order.
Open edition, with each digital print featuring embellishments in acrylic paint hand-applied by the artist, Howie Green, making each one a unique work-of-art. Signed on verso by the artist, Howie Green.
Unframed/unmatted - ready-to-mount or frame - Comes with Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist.
Cleveland-based DJ/producer Mick Boogie sourced the title for this tribute record from "Unbelievable", a track from Biggie's 1994 release titled "Ready To Die". Ready to Die was a hugely-influential hardcore rap recording, as it established the Notorious B.I.G., his record label (Bad Boy) and label impresario Sean (Puffy/P.Diddy) Combs as the ones to beat on the East Coast.
According to Howie Green - "I came across some photos of the Notorious B.I.G. when I was researching possible images for a mural project I was working on - a 30' x 15' wall of my album cover paintings. The mural, now located in Jacksonville, FL, needed to have a wide cross section of musical styles represented and I was looking for recording artists that were well known to most people. I found two vintage black and white promotional images of Biggie that reminded me of the kind of old school look that the jazz cats of the 1950s and the Blues guys of the 1930 used to have - "Cool" as they could possibly be.
I did paintings of both the photos I found and proposed them for the mural but for various reasons they were not used and I put them in my online gallery for folks to see. About 6 months later I got contacted by a fellow named Mick Boogie who told me he was producing an album of Biggie's tracks and wanted to know if I would allow them to use one of my Biggie portraits as the cover artwork for the CD versions. I was happy that my art would finally get some use so I agreed and the album, by LCMG Productions, came out in early April to great acclaim and is making a lot of noise among the hip hop community."
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