verse, I’m only biggin’ up my brother / Biggin’ up my borough / I’m big enough to do it / I’m that thorough / Plus I know my own flow is foolish.
But Hov expertly and famously addressed that on “What More Can I Say”: “I’m not a biter, I’m a writer for myself and others / I say a B.I.G. Biggie's unsolved murder remains a topic fans take pains to discuss. He was 24 years old and father of a young daughter and son when he died. Jay Z will be the first rapper ever to enter the Songwriters Hall of Fame, but he’s been criticized for using his late friend The Notorious B.I.G.’s lyrics on songs like “Big Pimpin’,” “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It to Me),” and “Squeeze 1st,” just to name a few. Shortly after the midnight of March 9, 1997, Biggie was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California. songs on an homage track titled “No Biggie.” Over Biggie’s “Kick in the Door” instrumental with a scratch sample from “Juicy,” Logic launched into his punchline-heavy freestyle. “Calling me at 12:47 in the night.” As part of the same project, Nicki also rapped over Biggie’s “Mo Money Mo Problems” instrumental for “I’m Cumin” and “Just Playing (Dreams)” for her own aforementioned take on “Dreams.”Īs Logic was trying to make a name for himself with 2012’s Young Sinatra: Undeniable, the young wordsmith borrowed from two Notorious B.I.G. “Who the hell is this?” she rapped on the track, quoting Big directly, before making it her own. So the most conspicuous aspect of Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I. Before joining Young Money, back when she was still on Dirty Money, Nicki Minaj used Notorious’ Ready to Die “Warning” to share her own storytelling skills. They became martyrs, and also as the years passed and their killers were never brought to justice symbols of a kind of institutional neglect, failed originally by the genre they loved and, in death, by the police.