March 9th R.i.P B.i.G!!!

Everyone tip your hat, moment of silence for one of the greatest to ever do it.  Now pick a Biggie song for you Mp3 player...

Sample of the Week - NOTORIOUS

In mental preparation for the NOTORIOUS movie 'COMING OUT' today. Here's a sample for you from Biggie. I'll go see the movie tomorrow likely. With very modest expectations.

Writer: Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out


Biter: Notorious BIG - Mo Money Mo Problems


Also found another cool sample site. http://www.whosampled.com/. I'll probably start contributing there when I'm bored because they ain' got sheyiit although I just checked and they did have this sample. So I guess theres a few good ones.

Hollywood Divorce - Notorious Trailer

Hmmm... looks worthy of another look. Not sure they should have made this shit still but still to be determined whether it will get my money. Either way I'll see it though. They're being hella sly about not showing any of the real acting or the main character. Very creative and well done trailer for that purpose. Assholes. I'm onto your shit.

Sample of the Week! (Big Poppa)

BLING BLING WHOOSSS DAT WITH SUPA CAT?

No no no Homeboy. This ain't no cheesy between the sheets week. Everybody knows that.

I bet you don't even REMEMBER this jam let alone realize the line was a SAMPLE. Man. If Puff went back to rapping like that, I'd actually pick up his record. This song is the shit. Fuck it. I'm going to go buy Download that Supercat album right now. lol.

Supercat - Dolly My Baby REMIX

Supercat, third eye, p. daddy & biggie - dolly my baby
Uploaded by dougpark17

And the gunshot holes in the video? HAHAHAH!

Notorious B.I.G. - Big Poppa

WYWS: (B.I.G.) Poppa Was a Rolling Stone Mixtape

Selfish Insanity presents this massive collabo between Crazy Chris, Greedy Beatz, DJ Osk, Dub Floyd and OJ Loopz.





1. INTRO
2. SYMPATHY FOR THE PARTY (CC BLEND/OSK BEAT)
3. TEN BEAST COMMANDMENTS (CC BLEND/GREEDY BEAT)
4. JUMPING JACK FLAVA (FT. CRAIG MACK) (CC BLEND/GREEDY BEAT)
5. FOOL TO SEE (CC BLEND/OJ LOOPZ BEAT)
6. MACHINE GUN FUNK IS STRONG (CC BLEND/OSK BEAT)
7. CALI RESCUE (CC BLEND/GREEDY BEAT)
8. MO STONES MO PROBLEMS (MEDLEY)(CC BLEND/GREEDY BEATS)
9. MISS GETTING WIT U (CC BEAT & BLEND)
10. ANOTHER STREET FIGHTIN’ MAN (CC BLEND/GREEDY BEAT)
11. NIGGAS PAINT IT BLACK (DUB FLOYD SCREAMIXXX)(PROD BY DJAY CAS)
12. TIME FOR THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (CC BLEND/GREEDY BEAT)
13. NOBODY TIL THE LIGHT SHINES (CC BEAT & BLEND)
14. ANGIES SUICIDAL THOUGHTS (CC BLEND/GREEDY BEAT)
15. THINK BIG (ANGIE REPRISE) (CC BLEND/GREEDY BEAT)
16. YOU CANT ALWAYS DIE WHEN U WANT (CC BEAT & BLEND)
17. YOUNG G’S FINGERPRINTS (CC BLEND/OJ LOOPZ BEAT)
18. DREAMS OF LADY JANE (CC BLEND/GREEDY BEAT)
19. OUT OF WARNINGS (CC BLEND/OSK BEAT)
20. WILD POPPA’S (CC BLEND/GREEDY BEAT)
21. EVERYDAY STRUGGLE vs MONKEY MAN (CC BEAT & BLEND)
22. I NEED THE FUNK (CC BLEND/OJ LOOPZ BEAT)
23. WAITING ON A FRIEND OF MINE (CC BLEND/ GREEDY BEAT)
24. SHES A JUICY RAINBOW (CC BEAT &BLEND)
25. DANGEROUS RAINBOWS (REPRISE) (CC BLEND/OSK BEAT)
26. RUBY’S STORY (CC BEAT & BLEND)
27. OUTRO

Download BIG x Rolling Stones Mixtape



1. INTRO
2. NASTY CLASSICS MEDLEY (CC BLEND/OSK BEATS)
3. HONEST ABOUT THE BENJAMINS (CC BEAT & BLEND)
4. COME ON AND HEAR ME KNOCKIN (CC BLEND/OSK BEAT)
5. LEMME GET SATISFACTION (CC BEAT & BLEND)
6. YA GAME IS COLD (CC BLEND/OJ LOOPZ BEAT)
7. HOT STUFF CHANGED (CC BEAT & BLEND)
8. PRODIGAL SON IS HYPNOTIZED (CC BEAT & BLEND)
9. ANYBODY SEEN MY NUT (CC BEAT & BLEND)
10. THE LAST CHANCE (CC BEAT & BLEND)
11. RAIN FELL ON THE LAST DAY (CC BEAT & BLEND)
12. OUTRO
Download Bonus Disc

Sample of the Week! (Isaac Hayes)

Wow. Not even gonna lie. Totally stumbled upon this one. I love the internet. Shout out to Internet Radio Station PANDORA
for popping on Smokey Robinson's cover of Walk On By through my phones. Which made me wonder who else covered Dionne Warwick's #77 best song of all time according to Rolling Stone. This is where Wikipedia comes in. Isaac Hayes has a version. Off to imeem to listen. POW! 2 Samples hit my ears from the first 30 seconds. That drum break to start is obvious by the time you reach the climax, and immediately afterwards Biggie pulled through. Both are obvious if you pay attention in the first 2 seconds of the song. But I have a slow memory. It takes about 30 seconds to be like What's that from? and go down a list of sounds in my head. After a minute or two I hear something else, but can't make it out. Hop over to The Breaks Sample List Ah HAH! My favorite Pac album of all time. Now I'm going to email my homie at The Resurgence of the Soul Sample and tell him to check out our SOTW and link so he can send some of his viewers over, so THEY can be up on game. :D

Writer: Isaac Hayes - Walk On By


Biter: Ludacris - Southern Fried Intro


Biter: Notorious BIG- Warning


Biter: Tupac - Me Against The World

Sample of the Week!

I'm Back! Sort of. I didn't really feel like thinking, or searching for a good one, and felt our friend at the Soul Sample Blogspot needed another shout out. So I used one of his for this week. Next week's will be my own original and creative sample.

Writer: Hey Love by The Delfonics


Biter: Playa Hater by Notorious B.I.G.


Shout out to the Soul Sample Blogspot for making my job easier this week.

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Oasis singer blames rap for festival’s low sales

Gallagher, whose band headlined the festival in 1995 and 2004, said rap was to blame. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," Gallagher said in an interview, an audio of which was posted to the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Web site Monday. "If you break it, people ain't gonna go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? ... No chance." He explained that the inclusion of a hip-hop act went against the festival's tradition of guitar music, adding: "I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. No way. No. It's wrong."

Glastonbury Festival co-organizer Emily Eavis said the 38-year-old festival had a long history of attracting rap acts, including Cypress Hill and The Roots. She said the media stir over Gallagher's comments revealed an "innate conservatism" in some sectors of British society.

Anyway, your friend and mine The Notorious B.I.G. has something to say to Mr. Gallagher.



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Biggie Smalls: Rap Phenomenon Documentary

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Sample Of The Day!

Writer: Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrel - You're All I Need To Get By


Writer #2: Notorious BIG - Me & My Bitch


Biter: Method Man & Mary J. Blige - You're All I Need To Get By


(It should be noted that the version of this particular biter song i combined from 2 songs from Mary and Meth, and remixed by Puffy.)

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Let The Truth Be Told! 2pac Story Bogus.

"In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job," Philips said in a statement Wednesday. "I'm sorry."

In his statement, Duvoisin added: "We should not have let ourselves be fooled. That we were is as much my fault as Chuck's. I deeply regret that we let our readers down."

Go to the LA TIMES for more info.

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Diddy Didn't

While we're on Diddy. It appears that the whole LA Times 2pac shooting story that connects Biggie and Puffy to the assualt on Pac, is bunk.

The Smoking Gun

Decided to do it's own investigation. Turns out (according to TSG) that half the FBI documents and eyewitness secret testimony was made up by some kid who needed attention.

Some parts I thought were interesting:

The con man, James Sabatino, 31, has long sought to insinuate himself, after the fact, in a series of important hip-hop events, from Shakur's shooting to the murder of The Notorious B.I.G.. In fact, however, Sabatino was little more than a rap devotee, a wildly impulsive, overweight white kid from Florida whose own father once described him in a letter to a federal judge as "a disturbed young man who needed attention like a drug." Sabatino is pictured in the above mug shot.

And then there's the small matter of Sabatino's whereabouts on March 9, 1997, when Wallace was gunned down while seated in a GMC Suburban outside the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. While he enjoys repeating the "theory" that he mysteriously bailed on a planned meeting with the rapper that fateful night, Sabatino was actually 2400 miles away from the crime scene. He was imprisoned in Miami's Federal Detention Center, where he still had six months to serve on a two-year sentence for separate felony convictions.

Sabatino has frequently claimed to have managed a number of leading hip-hop acts, including Notorious B.I.G., Lords of the Underground, and Heavy D and the Boyz. Du Kelly, a member of Lords of the Underground, described Sabatino as a "scam artist" who briefly tried to befriend the group's manager. Kelly said that he recalled Sabatino as a "short, Caucasian, little chubby fat guy" whose "father was supposed to be Mafia or something." Sabatino was "just a con artist who tried to get close to artists, but he was a nobody," said Kelly. He added that Sabatino also tried to get near the Wu-Tang Clan, "but I heard they beat him up."

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P.S. While we're talking about dead rappers: Aspiring Rapper "Cavlar" got shot & killed at a fish store in Brooklyn. He was in Papoose's crew and had beef with Uncle Murda. This might turn into a big situation. Considering Uncle was just shot in the head something like 2-3 weeks ago. Retaliation? Read about it here.

LA Times Article on the Studio Shooting in NY

www.latimes.com/tupac

I'm not sure what to make of it, or who I believe anymore. However, Diddy and Henchmen have this to say:

Says Puff:

"This story is beyond ridiculous and is completely false.Neither Biggie nor I had any knowledge of any attack before, during, or after it happened. It is a complete lie to suggest that there was any involvement by Biggie or myself. I am shocked that the Los Angeles Times would be so irresponsible as to publish such a baseless and completely untrue story."

Says Henchmen:

“In the past 14 years, I have not even been questioned by law enforcement with regard to the assault of Tupac Shakur, let alone brought up on charges. Chuck Phillips, the writer who in the past has falsely claimed that the Notorious Biggie Smalls was in Las Vegas when Tupac was murdered and that Biggie supplied the gun that killed Tupac — only to be proven wrong as Biggie was in New Jersey recuperating from a car accident, has reached a new low by employing fourth-hand information from desperate jailhouse informants along with ancient FBI reports to create this fabrication. I simply ask for all Rap fans and fans of Tupac to analyze this fiction for what it is along with Phillips’ motives behind it. I am baffled as to why the LA Times would print this on its website when a simple and fair investigation would reveal that the allegations are false. I am currently consulting with my attorneys about my legal rights regarding this libelous piece of garbage.”

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Sample Of The Day!

Sorry for missing yesterday. Today, I'm gonna double you up, and drop some knowledge.

Biter: Juicy - Notorious B.I.G.


Produced by Puffy for BIG. However, PETE ROCK swears on his life that Puffy jacked it from him. Here's the story from Wax Poetics:

I did the original version, didn't get credit for it. They came to my house, heard the beat going on the drum machine, it's the same story. You come downstairs at my crib, you hear music. He heard that **** and the next thing you know it comes out. They had me do a remix, but I tell people, and I will fight it to the end, that I did the original version of that. I'm not mad at anybody, I just want the correct credit.

But he also tells the same story for Tribe's "All That Jazz" too, So either dude is bitter about lot's of stuff, or just needs to stop playin records when people come over. We'll never know for sure.

Writer: Juicy Fruit - Mtume


Okay, now here's where I double it up and give you the lesser known biter:

Biter #2: The Ave- Dre Dog


There's only a 30 second clip available on Imeem, however, on youtube they have the full video, so check that if you wanna take a trip down memory lane.



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Sample Of The Day!

Biter: UGK - Something Good



Writer: Rufus & Chaka Khan- Tell Me Something Good


**Top Billin**

*note. I'm running sorta slim on TOP Billin samples, and it's getting time consuming to keep up with it every day. So I'm switching it to once a week. So here in memory of Notorious BIG who passed away yesterday 11 years ago, is your Top Billin SOTD:


Biter: Ready to Die Intro- Notorious BIG



Writer: Top Billin- Audio Two


Peace&Love

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Notorious B.I.G. Tribute Song

Featuring ... Curtis, Chingy, Bizzy Bone, Bobby Valentino, Maino, Chris Notez, and Hav Boy.


........ I like ... the... beat, and whoever did the first verse.

Monte plans to release behind-the-scenes video footage from the recording of "Can I Speak to Biggie." He will also continue Biggie tribute songs each year but with different artists.

Monte hopes that the song will be linked to the upcoming Fox Searchlight biopic on the Notorious B.I.G., whose cast was coincidentally also released today.

"Can I Speak to Biggie" is being released nationwide to radio stations both today and tomorrow. Source.

I swear to god, if this gets played on my local Hip-Hop station (KUBE 93.3) 700 times a day. I'm going in there with a gun. lol. There's always next year, I guess.

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Gravy to Play B.I.G. in Biopic

Biggie is coming to the big screen. Fox Searchlight has hired Jamal Woolard, a Brooklyn-based rapper, to play late rap icon Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., in its upcoming biopic "Notorious."

Voletta Wallace cited "Jamal's charming personality, warm spirit, wonderful sense of humor and beautiful smile" as reasons for the casting. "He is a talented and charismatic actor, and I am excited that he will bring Christopher's character to life," she said.

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