Amazon Music released The Birth of Biggie: 25 Years of Ready to Die, an exclusive mini-documentary in celebration of this Friday’s 25th anniversary of The Notorious B.I.G.’s landmark debut album, Ready To Die. The minidoc includes rarely heard interview audio with Biggie by biographer Cheo Hodari Coker, as well as conversations with Ready to Die producers Easy Mo Bee and DJ Mister Cee, Coker, and former SVP of Promotions for Arista/Bad Boy, Rob Stone. The mini-doc also features archival photos from Stone, Colin Hawkins and Chi Modu.

The Birth of Biggie follows Notorious B.I.G. at the crucial moment when he was transitioning from “unsigned hype” to the rap superstar he’d become. Friends and collaborators alike recount what it was like to work with the famed rapper during this time period, exploring the meaning behind some of the iconic lines from the album and explaining what Biggie really meant when he said he was “ready to die.”

Accompanying the video is a companion long form audio documentary of the same name that can only be heard on Amazon Music. The audio documentary is a deep dive featuring longer interviews with Easy Mo Bee, DJ Mister Cee, Coker, and Stone. Any Prime member in the US can hear the audio documentary on Amazon Music here; Amazon Music customers can also hear the audio doc by asking, “Alexa, play The Birth of Biggie on Amazon Music,” on all enabled devices and in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android.