The Notorious B.I.G

“The Greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th”
Canibus

It took me a long time to recover from the news on that Sunday morning … the news that Biggie had been shot. For a minute the game tasted mad sour to me, I was jaded and angry that Big had decided to go back to Cali.

The usual, sloppy attention was paid to young black death but I knew the world had changed. Right then, 1997 and even though Puff said they wouldn’t stop … I did and did so for a good minute. It was just too hard, too vague, too many fake rappers that wouldn’t get half a mic minute if Big was still here … Too many unanswered questions, too many names not yet named, Big never got that third album … the one that explained what we could only pick up in word play bread crumbs.

Ten plus years later and the movie is almost here. We’re trying to get an interview concerning the movie over at Beyond Race but this is more than another story for me, this is Biggie … B-I-G Forever baby!

Enjoy the clip …

M



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y9dLZoZ1O0