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  • QuestLove expounds on 2Pac’s Biggie diss ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ criticism, says he has no issues with late rapper

    QuestLove expounds on 2Pac’s Biggie diss ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ criticism, says he has no issues with late rapper

    QuestLove had issues with interpolation used on the record

    QuestLove makes his position clear when he criticized 2Pac’s Biggie diss “Hit ‘Em Up.” The rapper hopped on social media to explain that he had problems with the interpolation of Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett’s 1984 song “Don’t Look Any Further” and that he wasn’t targeting neither ‘Pac nor Dennis.

    “So we are clear: I never said I liked the INTERPOLATION (when musicians replay a sample) of ‘Don’t Look Any Further’ on ‘Hit ‘Em Up,’” Quest said. “I said nothing disparaging about Dennis Edwards or Pac. Y’all turning this into a weird game of telephone.”

  • Dame Dash says Biggie & Diddy were biting his & JAY-Z’s style

    Dame Dash says Biggie & Diddy were biting his & JAY-Z’s style

    Dame says Big & Diddy admired their lifestyle

    Dame Dash believes that during his upcoming days with Jay-Z, Biggie and Diddy admired and copied their moves. The Roc-A-Fella co-founder explained the early relationship between their camp and Bad Boy Records during an interview on PDB Podcast.

    “Big was the only person I used to smoke with. I didn’t smoke before at all; we used to drink. Supposedly, Jay and Big went to school together but Jay didn’t know him,” Dame recalled.

    “Because we were getting the money and popping the bottles and all that, in that moment, we had always felt that Biggie and Puffy were copying us. They’d see us in the club and it seemed like the next day, a record would be made.”

    He went on, “We was really getting money. No disrespect to Biggie but it was a different hustle. We weren’t on the streets pitching work. We were [about] connects, connects, connects.

    “But that lifestyle of [a] hustler, that was us. That was them copying us, for sure. So we kinda had problems. I was run up [on] sometimes. I was confrontational with Biggie and them at first, but we finally got cool.”

  • Layzie Bone recalls Biggie helping prevent a fight between Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Wu-Tang Clan

    Layzie Bone recalls Biggie helping prevent a fight between Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Wu-Tang Clan

    Biggie helped Bone Thugs avoid a brawl with Wu-Tang

    Layzie Bone recently sat for an interview on The Art of Dialogue where he recounted a 1996 incident where Bone Thugs-N-Harmony almost got into a brawl with Wu-Tang Clan at Russell Simon’s Christmas Party but Biggie stepped in.

    “Something happened,” Layzie began. “Wu-Tang came in, one member or another member had some — it had nothing to do with the main characters; it was our up-and-coming artists and people that were around, our entourage.

    “So pushing and shoving started, bottles get to throwing, a fight broke out. When [Bone Thugs’ “Everyday Thang 2” came on at the party] all hell broke loose. And then we had to get up out of there.

    He continued, “Thank God, rest in peace to Chris Lighty and his brother Dave Lighty got us out the party. Coming out the party, we was finna get rushed. Now, we just went to breakfast with Method Man that morning so we didn’t understand the confusion.

    “So Meth was like, ‘Ya’ll gonna get up outta here.’ But it was n-ggas coming with them thangs, though. It was finna go there and that’s when Biggie showed up. He kinda cleared the path for us to get outta there. That’s a long story short. Way more shit happened than that.”

  • Layzie Bone addresses Fat Joe’s claim Bone Thugs-n-Harmony ditched Biggie’s collab over 2Pac beef

    Layzie Bone addresses Fat Joe’s claim Bone Thugs-n-Harmony ditched Biggie’s collab over 2Pac beef

    Layzie denies Bone Thugs rejected Biggie’s collab request

    Layzie Bone refutes rumors started by Fat Joe that Bone Thugs-n-Harmony once turned down Biggie’s collab because of his feud with 2Pac.

    “Steve Lobel called me,” Layzie recently recalled on The Art of Dialogue podcast. “He said he talked to Puffy, and Biggie wanted to do a song with us.

    “And we was like, hell, yeah. Right off the gate…Let me clear up that one rumor that said we turned down Biggie Smalls. Man, we had never turned down Biggie Smalls.”

    Layzie added, “Fat Joe? He had a relationship with all of us, individually. That never happened on my watch, you know what I’m saying? No disrespect to Joe. I love Joe. When we first got into the game, Bone Thugs and Terror Squad and Big Pun ran so tight.”

  • Ed Lover believes Rakim musically birthed Jay-Z, Biggie, Nas

    Ed Lover believes Rakim musically birthed Jay-Z, Biggie, Nas

    Ed calls Rakim ‘game changer’ of rap

    Legendary media personality Ed Lover sat down with Carl Banks and Rakim for the New York Giant where he praised the latter for changing rap. He explained that the rapper influenced heavyweights such as Jay-Z, Biggie and Nas.

    “People don’t understand Rakim changed Hip Hop — he’s a game-changer,” Ed said, before putting Rakim in the same category as the likes of Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC and LL COOL J. He also credited him for making rap “less aggressive.”

    https://twitter.com/HipHopDX/status/1732877765135966538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1732877765135966538%7Ctwgr%5E3a7673ae561fa43211840850115ffab371936f84%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhiphopdx.com%2Fnews%2Fed-lover-no-jay-z-nas-biggie-without-rakim

    “He quieted it down and made us listen as well as enjoy the music, but you listened to what Rakim said, right?” he added. “If you would do a family tree of Hip Hop and people that came directly from other people, there is no JAY-Z, there’s no Biggie, there’s no Nas. That smoothed-out style of rhyming came from Rakim.”


  • Biggie reportedly once offered ‘broke’ Mase ghostwriting deal for Lil Cease to help with his financial woes

    Biggie reportedly once offered ‘broke’ Mase ghostwriting deal for Lil Cease to help with his financial woes

    Biggie allegedly came for Mase’s aid

    Biggie allegedly once offered Mase, who was “broke” at the time, a deal to write Lil Cease’s “Crush on You” so that he could settle his financial problems. Lance “Un” Rivera, who was Biggie’s business partner at the time, recently sat down with VladTV where he made the revelation.

    “Puff signed Ma$e so can ya imagine what kind of contract Ma$e got? Because B.I.G. just came off that same contract,” Un explained. “The LOX all of them came off the same contracts. So B.I.G. rapping with Ma$e on the 112 [‘Only You’] remix, Ma$e is broke.

    “So B.I.G. says, ‘Un, give Ma$e a check and he’s gonna write for Cease.’ Ma$e comes back with a record called ‘Crush On You’ for Lil Cease’s album…I think we paid him $7,500 a record and he made six records. He comes back with ‘Crush On You’ and there’s three verses with Lil Cease on there.”

    He added: “The original album that we shipped Kim wasn’t even on ‘Crush On You.’ It was all Cease for three verses and B.I.G. is doing the chorus. A million albums without Kim and then Kim rapped on the record. She wrote her own verses and B.I.G. said, ‘Come up with an idea for the video.’”


  • Styles P talks why Biggie is his greatest rapper of all time

    Styles P talks why Biggie is his greatest rapper of all time

    Styles P admires Biggie’s skill and charisma

    Styles P believes Biggie is the greatest rapper of all time. During a recent sit-down with the Creators Club along with his The Lox partner Jadakiss, Styles explained that he thinks Big was the best because he was great “in all categories.”

    “I think most people understand him as the greatest MC to ever live. What makes him the greatest, he was really great in all aspects of rhyming,” Styles explained. “Most people are good in two categories, maybe three, if you’re pushing it. Big was really, really nice in all categories.”

    He added, “But what really topped it off was he was a charismatic individual, but he was very fucking classy and a G at the same time.”



  • NYPD is reportedly in possession of footage culprit who damaged Biggie’s mural in New York

    NYPD is reportedly in possession of footage culprit who damaged Biggie’s mural in New York

    The mural is located at where Biggie grew up

    NYPD reportedly has footage of the person who messed with Biggie’s mural on St. James Place and Fulton Street in Clinton Hill on August 26.

    According to NBC New York, he footage shows a suspect carrying a white bag approaching the iconic artwork by Vincent Ballentine. The person then sprays red paint across Biggie’s face before writing the words “East Coast” at the bottom.

    Ballentine shared a video of the vandalized mural on social media while condemning the disrespectful act.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/Chud85og530/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link


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