![]() ![]() Over 20 years later, Action Bronson drops what’s purported to be the first leak off Blue Chips 7000. You might dislike Bam Bam’s crassness and lack of conventional decor, but you can’t deny that he knows exactly what he’s doing. Bad Boy didn’t invent the remix, but they certainly were the first to fully harness its promotional power. This marked the actual first Biggie and Mary J collaboration, a few months before the “ Real Love” remix. He was just 21, already a prodigy making Puffy look like the jiggiest prophet. ![]() He only gets a few bars, but the cadence, timing, thunder god voice, and syllable placement is already perfect. He calls himself the “lyrical lyricist pulling lyrics out his larynx” in case you doubted this was 1993. That said, the hook for “Big Poppa” starts here. So for his first verse, it was a natural fit for him to rhyme over the beat first popularized by Supercat, the dancehall legend recently signed to Sony, and seeing slight American vogue for his remix to Kris Kross’ “Jump,” and his hook on “ Alright” (still the most unsung cut in the catalogue of the Mack Daddy and the Daddy Mack.) Fresh out of the unsigned hype column, Biggie was still very much in his first incarnation as the super-raw Bed-Stuyvesant livest one. Mary’s Hospital in BK, but his mom hailed from Trelawny on the Caribbean island once called the land of wood and water. Chris Wallace might have been born at St. That somewhere was the Extended Bad Boy remix for Supercat’s “Dolly My Baby.” The early 90s was the apex of the hip-hop and reggae collaboration, an obvious nexus based on the West Indian roots of many rappers. “16yrs Christopher George Latore Wallace / Biggie Smalls / Notorious B.I.G Peace! #biggie #notorious #big #rip” by Takeshi Life Goes On is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0īefore he became Notorious, Biggie Smalls had to start somewhere. ![]()
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