Easy Mo Bee, who was a producer on both “Ready To Die” and “Life After Death,” had already heard Biggie’s demo before he met with the rapper to work on “Party & Bulls – – t” for the 1993 “Who’s the Man?” soundtrack.
That’s an astonishing thing.”īorn Christopher Wallace in Brooklyn, the Notorious BIG had buzz in the underground New York hip-hop scene before he was signed to Sean “Puffy” Combs’ Bad Boy Records. “And the fact that 25 years after he’s gone, almost any conversation about the greatest MCs of all time, he’s still right at the top. ,, always is kind of both eyes forward,” said Light. “The thing that’s so remarkable to me is, hip-hop moves really fast. The Notorious BIG only made two studio albums in his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame career. And anytime “Juicy,” “Hypnotize,” “One More Chance” or “Mo Money Mo Problems” comes on, Big Poppa still rocks the party. In fact, he became only the second solo rapper inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020. ,, I just didn’t even necessarily feel like he should have been in LA.”īut after making just two studio albums in his career - with only one, his classic 1994 debut “Ready To Die,” released in his lifetime - the legacy of the Notorious BIG still lives large a quarter century later. I’m like, ‘What the f – – k?’ Because in my mind, I was like, ‘Dog, stay out the way.’ I wanted him to stay out the way because, to me, the tension was there. And then I go to the party, and he’s there. “I didn’t know he was gonna come to the party.
“We were together earlier at the hotel talking about things,” said Kent. And Kent still can’t shake the feeling that Biggie should have never gone to that party - six months after the murder of Tupac Shakur had escalated the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry.
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