I only met Big once in my life. He stood in front of a record store (Upstairs Records) in Sheepshead Bay in 94. He was larger than life then. He was and still is my favorite rapper. Love him or hate, he had a huge impact on the industry.

August 1994: Biggie topped the Billboard Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart for a week with “Juicy.”

September 1994: Biggie’s debut release, Ready To Die, was released and established Biggie as a rapping force in the industry. The Notorious B.I.G. hit the Top 40 with “Juicy / Unbelievable.”

November 1994: The single “Juicy / Unbelievable” was certified gold and Ready To Die was certified gold. Tupac Shakur (2pac) is shot 4 times during a robbery in New York City: he loses $40K of jewelry, and he says Biggie is involved someway in the shooting.

January 1995: Biggie hit the Top 40 with “Big Poppa.” The Notorious B.I.G. topped the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart for 9 weeks with “Big Poppa/Warning.”

February 1995: The Notorious B.I.G. topped the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart for a week with “Big Poppa/Warning.” The single “Big Poppa” was certified gold.

March 1995: Biggie hit the Top 10 with “Big Poppa.” Ready To Die was certified platinum.

April 1995: The Notorious B.I.G. helped out Total with the Top 40 track “Can’t You See.”

May 1995: The single “Big Poppa” was certified platinum.

June 1995: The Notorious B.I.G. topped the Billboard Singles Sales chart for 5 weeks, the R&B Singles chart for 9 weeks, the R&B Singles Sales chart for 9 weeks, and the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart for 5 weeks with “One More Chance/The What.” After a few modest hits on the radio, the Notorious B.I.G. crossed over all music platforms in 1995 with his Top 10 song “Big Poppa.” The song became Biggie’s signature song and was followed up with another Top 10 hit, “One More Chance” (hitting the Top 40 in June). Ready To Die sold over 4 million copies in the U.S. and established Biggie as a premiere hip-hop artist representing the East Coast sound of rap music. Biggie also contributed his rap vocals to hits by many other artists including Total, the Junior M.A.F.I.A., 112, Da Brat, and Lil’ Kim. As Biggie’s East Coast rap sounds grew in popularity, so did the rivalry between East and West Coast rappers, especially with 2Pac. The Notorious B.I.G. won 2 Billboard Music Awards for Rap Artist of the Year and Rap Single of the Year (“One More Chance”).

July 1995: The single “One More Chance” was certified platinum.

August 1995: The Notorious B.I.G. hit the Top 10 with “”One More Chance.”

December 1995: The Notorious B.I.G. topped the Billboard Year-End Chart-Toppers as the Top Pop Artist – Male (singles & albums), Top Hot 100 Singles Artist – Male, Top R&B Artist – Male (singles & albums), Top Hot R&B Singles Artist – Male, Top Hot R&B Singles Sales (“One More Chance / Stay With Me”), Top Hot Rap Artist, Top Hot Rap Single (“One More Chance / Stay With Me”), Top Hot Rap Artist – Male, and Top Hot Dance Maxi-Singles Sales Artist. Ready To Die was certified 2x platinum.

Mid 1996: Tupac releases ‘Hit Em Up’ a scathing diss track aimed at Biggie and the Bad Boy Roster in which he states he slepped with Biggie’s wife, Faith Evans.

February 1996: The Notorious B.I.G. helped out the Junior M.A.F.I.A. with “Get Money” and hit the Top 40. The Notorious B.I.G. was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance (“Big Poppa”).

June 1996: The Notorious B.I.G. hit the Top 40 helping out 112 with “Only You.” When 2Pac was murdered there was much speculation that the Notorious B.I.G.’s camp was involved in some manner. There was often talk that Biggie and Combs may have been involved with a robbery and shooting of 2Pac in 1994.

June 1996: Biggies bitter rival, and ex-friend, Tupac Shakur (2pac) is shot in a drive-by shooting, Las Vegas NV. He dies in hosptial five days later.

January 1997: An arrest warrant was issued for the Notorious B.I.G. in New Jersey after he did not show up to answer assault charges in court. A civil court later ordered Biggie to pay over $40,000 in damages to the man while the criminal charges were pending. The charges stem from a May, 1995 incident with a concert promoter. Additional charges Biggie was facing included charges from 1996 alleged drug and weapons violations and an additional assault charge stemming from a New York City nightclub incident.

9 March 1997: On March 9th, after a party for the Soul Train Awards in Los Angeles, the Notorious B.I.G. was shot and murdered at the age of 24. No one has been arrested for the murder, but some have speculated it might somehow be a retaliation for 2Pac’s death. Biggie is survived by his estranged wife, Faith Evans, and 2 children.

18 March 1997: His body is flown to La Guardia Airport, where it travels by limousine motorcade to lie in state (open casket) at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home. And then off to eventual cremation in New Jersey.

March 1997: Three weeks after his death, his second LP was released, ironically titled Life After Death. The LP debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums and R&B Albums charts (where it stayed for 4 weeks).

April 1997: “Hypnotize” topped the Billboard R&B Singles chart for 3 weeks, the Billboard R&B Singles Sales chart for 3 weeks, and the Billboard Rap Singles chart for 7 weeks.

May 1997: The Notorious B.I.G. hit the Top 40 with “Hypnotize.” “Hypnotize” topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart for 3 weeks and the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart for 3 weeks. A few weeks later, a tribute to Biggie by his estranged wife, Faith Evans, and producer, Puff Daddy, “I’ll Be Missing You,” went to #1.

June 1997: “Hypnotize” went Top 10. The single “Hypnotize” was certified platinum.

July 1997: Biggie hit the Top 40 with “Mo Money Mo Problems” with the help of Mase and Puff Daddy.

August 1997: “Mo Money Mo Problems” topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart for 2 weeks, the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart for 4 weeks, the Billboard R&B Singles Airplay chart for 2 weeks, the Billboard Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart for 2 weeks, and the Billboard Rap Singles chart for 4 weeks and hit the Top 10. Life After Death was certified 6x platinum.

September 1997: “Mo Money Mo Problems” (featuring Mase and Puff Daddy) went to #1 for a week and helped Life After Death sell over 10 million copies in the U.S. The Notorious B.I.G. won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video (“Hypnotize”). The single Mo Money Mo Problems” was certified platinum.

December 1997: Spin magazine deemed The Notorious B.I.G. “Artist Of The Year” for 1997. The editor of the magazine described B.I.G. as a “genuinely fascinating artist, hard and complicated.” The slain rapper was also described as “…like Marvin Gaye or Kurt Cobain, one of those artists who music was suffused with depression and death, but still vibrated in the key of life” by the magazine’s senior editor. SoundScan proclaimed The Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death the sixth best-selling LP of 1997 – selling over 3.2 million copies in the U.S. The single “Sky’s The Limit” was certified gold. The Notorious B.I.G. topped the Billboard Year-End Charts with the Top R&B Album (Life After Death), and as the Top R&B Album Artist and Top R&B Album Artist – Male.

January 1998: Life After Death was certified 7x platinum.

February 1998: Biggie was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Solo Performance (“Hypnotize”), Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (“Mo Money Mo Problems” (with Mase and Puff Daddy)), and Best Rap Album (Life After Death). The Notorious B.I.G. won a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album, Male (Life After Death) and nominated for Best R&B/Soul Album and Best R&B/Soul or Rap Music Video for “Mo Money Mo Problems” (with Mase and Puff Daddy).

August 1998: Ready To Die was certified 3x platinum.

September 1998: The Notorious B.I.G. was nominated for a MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video (“Mo Money Mo Problems” (with Mase and Puff Daddy).

November 1998: Life After Death was certified 8x platinum.

October 1999: Ready To Die was certified 4x platinum.

December 1999: A collection of previously unreleased material by the Notorious B.I.G., Born Again, was released and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album chart (where it stayed for 1 week) and Billboard R&B Album chart (for a week). Life After Death was certified 9x platinum. MTV: 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made includes “Mo Money, Mo Problems” at # 23.

January 2000: Born Again was certified 2x platinum and Life After Death was certified 10x platinum.

September 2002: A controversial report from the Los Angeles Times reported that the Notorious B.I.G. was directly linked to the murder of 2Pac, including paying for the hit and supply the weapon. The report states the shooter was paid $1 million and given Biggie’s own gun for the hit. Faith Evans responded to the story: “…I remember Big calling me and crying. I know for a fact he was in Jersey. He called me crying because he was in shock. I think it’s fair to say he was probably afraid, given everything that was going on at that time and all the hype that was put on this so-called beef that he didn’t really have in his heart against anyone.”

April 2003: VH1: 50 Greatest Hip Hop Artists includes the Notorious B.I.G. at # 4.

June 2003: VH1: 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years includes “Mo Money Mo Problems” at # 58.

July 2003: The Notorious B.I.G. will be heard on the Bad Boys 2 soundtrack with the track “Realest Niggaz.”

November 2003: Biggie was featured on the Resurrection soundtrack on the track “Runnin’ (Dying To Live)” with 2Pac.

December 2003: Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: # 133: Ready To Die, # 483: Life After Death.

2004: # 198 on the Top Pop Artists of the Past 25 Years chart.

December 2005: Another Notorious B.I.G. LP was released – Duets: The Final Chapter, and featured many duets and collaborations.

January 2006: Duets: The Final Chapter topped the Billboard Top Rap Albums chart and Top Digital Albums chart. The Notorious B.I.G. topped the UK singles chart with “Nasty Girl.”

February 2006: The Notorious B.I.G. hit the Top 40 with “Nasty Girl.” Duets: The Final Chapter was certified platinum.

My favorite Big Song?
Ten Crack Commandments

My favorite Big CD?
Life After Death

My favorite Big memory?
The Source Awards “We did it Brooklyn, we did it”

My favorite Big quotable
Like 2 niggaz no bitch, find yourself in serious sh..

Amy twitted this to Questlove of the Roots. Could she be ready to come to the states and record with the Roots? We’re reaching, but we are hopeful. We would love to see the collab.

There is also some mutterings about Amy researching Scientology. If it keeps her clean and in the studio then I have at it. You know those Scientologist will make you work for that money.

Want an ass like Kim K, or Lola Monroe? Well be careful who you have round out your bottom. A bogus doctor in NJ has given several women a botched Ass enhancement job. Six women have been hospitalized so far. The doctor injected the women with household caulk, petroleum jelly, and silocone.

After botched efforts to plump their rear ends like naturally well-endowed celebs such as Kim Kardashian, the victim’s derrieres resembled “moonscapes” filled with lumps and craters, said a hospital source. – NY Post

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Producer Boi-1da had this to say about the upcoming CD

“Let me just say that the album is coming sooner than anyone can expect, when it’s just going to drop. It’s coming very soon, and it’s going to be very close to now. That’s all I’m going to say. And this isn’t it. I mean this ‘Over,’ joint is dope but Thank Me Later as a whole, is probably…and I’m not being biased cause I worked on it…but from what I’ve heard it’s one of the greatest albums I’ve ever heard. I haven’t heard some songs, just because Drake’s been on the road and he’s still doing some recording. It’s just an album of Epic-ness.”

We are waiting homie!

Caution Video is Very Explicit No Children Allowed, and definitely not work safe!!! Now with that said this is hilarious. Its a parody of Inside The Actors Studio. Pinky talks about her background and how she got into the business. Click Here

This morning (March 5), Solar released a statement reacting the Wednesday posting of a YouTube video testimony from Guru’s nephew Justin. “I have nothing but the deepest love and respect for The Elam family. But I have not stopped anybody from seeing him! Guru’s brother, sister and niece has visited with him and his brother was here for three days. I am in touch with them on a daily basis. Guru’s family dynamic and who he wants to look out for his interests is Guru’s business and best left to Guru to discuss. I will state that Guru wanted this matter to be kept private to protect his loved ones and fans from this ordeal, and from it becoming a circus, which it is becoming. Guru has made clear he does not want anything to do with certain people from his past, and for them too be making false statements about his health is unacceptable.” The producer continued, “Guru’s well being and need to heal is what I am concerned with,and that Guru’s wishes in this matter be observed.”

Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. has introduced legislation to put Ronald Reagan on a 50 dollar bill. Okay his name is on Government Buildings, Airports, Libraries, and countless other facilities. Now every time I receive a 50 dollar bill I have to be reminded of the man who said to my school generation that Ketchup count’s as a vegetable for school lunch.

              He is also the man known for Reaganonmics which included the Trickle Down Theory. “Trickle-down economics” and “trickle-down theory” are terms of political rhetoric that refer to the policy of providing tax cuts or other benefits to businesses in the belief that this will indirectly benefit the broad population.- Wikipedia. The trickledown theory, where money is distributed down from the rich and eventually will make its way down to the poor. We are still waiting on that trickle to hit us.

               Everyone has a hero, but for most black Americans who grew up in the 80’s like me, Reagan is not the one. The Crack Era began under Reagan. Ghettos felt the effects in ways that are still in existence till this day. How long is money going to represent the white male elite? With Obama in office, Judge Sotomayer in the Supreme Court, and many other ethnicities making head way, isn’t time to change the face of our heroes to reflect more of what America looks like today? What’s next George Bush quarters? Beat it!

With so much drama in the place Haiti, its hards being the kid from the group Fugee, LOL. Wyclef’’s wife is apparently hot (not in a good way) over a pic she found on the singers cell. Tiger, Clef, and you too dummy – Delete, Delete, Delete. I am gonna hold a class called Souvenirs Gets Ur Ass Caught. Hit the ass and move on. Anyway Clef and his manager have since parted ways, apparently about two weeks ago.

The NY Daily News had this to say about the matter

“Claudinette flew into a jealous rage. She jumped to the conclusion that something may be up between Wyclef and Lisa. She told Lisa to stay away from her husband. To embarrass Lisa, she also e-mailed the nude picture to a number of people in the music business.”

Shorty Butt Ass (Lisa Ellis) had this to say in response

“Photographer Mark Baptiste took a portrait of me in December 2008 for an art book,” she said. “It was tastefully done. Someone leaked the photo. I don’t know who did it but the photo had nothing to do with my resignation as Wyclef Jean’s manager.” A source close to Ellis claimed that she parted ways with Wyclef because the former Fugees frontman was not taking her advice on work related matters.

Sure he wasn’t. LOL

Source

http://www.atribecalledquestmovie.com is the website with the info. No release date has been set as of yet.

Ducks the question about Kay Slay. “Oh Kay Slay, big homie he might smack the shit of me  oh yeah he go hard”

Even though he lost the battle to Kanye, 50 Cent’s Curtis  CD moved over 600,000 copies in the first week. His first two CD’s were platinum out the gate. The last G-Unit cd T.O.S. went certified copper (oh well). Well now 50’s Before I Self Destruct is coming in this week at 150,000 copies according to the first weeks sales. I am sure he will blame it on the leak. But the Blueprint 3 was leaked and Jay still pushed over 400,000 copies. He will have all sorts of excuses I am sure. I heard the CD. Its not bad. There is at least 5 or 6 good records on there. I just think the heat is low on the once chart dominating rapper. He is looking to debut somewhere behind John Mayer. 2,3, or 4 is what is being predicted. He needs a little less beef and a little more heat. Ja Rule is sitting somewhere laughing right now.

I miss the old Sig. This beefing Jay, Beans is sounding like a upset son missing his Pops. Jay-Z just scored his first official number record in the country. I wonder what means more to him. LOL!!!

“No beef with Beans, not a beef with Fab,” Joe raps. “Just f*gs that think I’m searching for a beef to grab/I’m too talented to reach for that/It’ll take more than just some Tweets…And the streets are so concerned about me and Somaya Reece, they ain’t got the whole puzzle, all they do is try to piece…Me and her gonna end up whatever we decide to be/Can you hear me, I’m tired of n*ggas asking about Tahiry/She can do what she want as long as she ain’t do it near me…Everything ain’t what it appear to be/Leaking pictures of Fif feeling on your a**/But if you seen it like me, then you’d be feeling like an a**/So I’m thinkin’ I’m fool by watching you act a fool/Seeming desperate for attention, baby, take this as a jewel/Since we no longer, you and Cotto get the same advice, need to fire everybody in your corner/N*ggas ain’t worth my time, I won’t respond to ya…”

“If you would have asked me two weeks ago [about the status], I would have told you I was 30 percent, man, [now it's] 70,” Cole revealed in an interview. “Like 75, like, this is how many songs, I hit a little streak and now I got some stuff that’s impressing me. Like, ‘Man, did I just do this song?’ I got in with [producer] No I.D. and now, you gotta understand, I’ve been doing music, myself, my own beats, since I was making my own songs, so it’s hard to allow somebody to come in but now the way that we make music, it isn’t just ‘Oh yeah, I got this beat for you, rap on this beat,’ he’s in there, I’m in there, there’s a guitar player, key player, it feels like you’re making an album.”

via – allhiphop.com - 50 Cent’s Cheetah Vision Films company has inked a deal with a Georgia production company Action Jackson Films, to produce and finance 3-5 major films per year.

Variety reports that Cheetah Vision’s first project under a new deal with investor Richard Jackson is titled The Gun, which was written by 50 Cent himself.

50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson, will star opposite Val Kilmer in The Gun, which will begin shooting next month in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with Jesse Terro sitting in the director’s chair.

The Gun revolves around friends who are involved in the underground world of gun dealing.

The movie is the first of three features that 50 Cent has already penned.

“When you write a song, you need to say it in three minutes or it is overkill, but I like creating stories and going in depth with characters,” 50 Cent told Variety.