- This guy's flow is like second to none.
- (singing along) ♪ I love it when you call me Big Poppa ♪
♪ Throw your hands in the air if you's a true player ♪
- I wasn't even alive in the '90s when Biggie was big.
There's some sort of nostalgic feeling you get
even though you weren't from this era.
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- ♪ It was all a dream ♪
♪ I used to read Work Up! magazine ♪
♪ Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine ♪
- Biggie Smalls?
- My boy Biggie!
- Biggie! Okay! I see y'all.
- ♪ Remember Rappin' Duke? ♪ - (singing along) ♪ Duh-ha, duh-ha ♪
♪ You never thought that hip hop would take it this far ♪
- ♪ Now I'm in the limelight, 'cause I rhyme tight ♪
♪ Time to get paid ♪ - This is like old school. It's perfect.
- My mom is super into Biggie. That's why I'm super familiar.
- ♪ Peace to Ron G, Brucey B, Kid Capri ♪
♪ Funkmaster Flex, Lovebug Starski ♪
- Man, he just never ran out of breath.
You never hear him stop one time.
- ♪ I'm blowin' up like you thought I would ♪
♪ Call the crib, same number, same hood ♪
♪ It's all good ♪
- King of flow.
- What a banger, a classic banger.
- (backup singers) ♪ You know very well ♪
♪ Who you are ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Don't let 'em hold you down ♪
♪ Reach for the stars ♪
- (backup singers) ♪ You had a goal ♪
- It's such a good song right there.
- Old school. - That was classic.
- '90s rap was so good.
- If you like rap, how do you not like Biggie Smalls?
Him and Pac were like the epitome of rap.
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- Oh, this one's a classic.
- This is probably my favorite one that he's done.
- (sighs) [Bleep] love Biggie.
- Everyone knows this song.
- (singing along) ♪ To all the ladies in the place ♪
♪ With style and grace ♪
♪ Allow me to lace these lyrical douches in your bushes ♪
- Aw, I wish I knew all the lyrics to this.
Then it'd be so fun to rap with.
- ♪ The back of the club, sippin' Moët is where you'll find me ♪
♪ No need to be greedy, I got... ♪
- That's an insane amount of money
that they were waving around. - (snickers)
- ♪ Jump in the Rover and come over ♪
♪ Tell your friends jump in the GS3 ♪
♪ I got the chronic by the tree ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I love it when you call me Big Poppa ♪
♪ Throw your hands in the air if you's a true player ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I like it when you call me Big Poppa ♪
- ♪ To the honies getting... ♪ - Oh my god, I love this song.
- (singing along) ♪ I love it when you call me Big Poppa ♪
- ♪ ...you got a gun up in your waist ♪
♪ Please don't shoot up the place (Why?) ♪
♪ 'Cause I see some ladies tonight ♪
♪ That should be having my baby ♪
♪ Baby ♪
- It's a fun one. It's a really fun one.
- Let's just play that one over and over again.
- I love that song. That one's a classic.
I think there's no one in the world that doesn't know that song.
- ♪ First things first: I, Poppa, freaks all the honeys ♪
♪ Dummies, Playboy... ♪ - You're just pulling in
all the good ones, aren't you? (laughing)
- This is all on my playlist.
- ♪ ...smells like sanitation ♪
- I don't think I've ever heard this song.
- ♪ ...like doorknobs ♪
- Damn, I need to listen to Biggie's albums again.
- ♪ As I lay down laws like Island Carpet ♪
- ♪ Stop it, if you think they gonna make a... ♪
- Had a little wink there. He's like, (clicks). (laughs)
- ♪ ...my guns, get it? ♪
♪ Now tell your friends Poppa hit it, then split it ♪
♪ First I talk about how I dress in this ♪
- Why can't rap like this still be privalent today?
- It's so weird how different, like, gangster rap is
from this to nowadays.
- ♪ ...can't make ♪
♪ Call him, tell him you'll be home real late ♪
♪ And sing the break ♪
- ♪ Baby ♪
♪ Here I am ♪ - ♪ I got that good love, girl ♪
- I want a throne.
- I love how bougie he is with his chains
and his throne that he's sitting on.
- ♪ One more chance ♪
♪ I can help you find yourself ♪ - ♪ I got that good love, girl ♪
- I like it. Like, I like his music.
- This is good.
I haven't heard this one before, but I like this a lot.
- ♪ She's sick of that song on how it's so long ♪
♪ Thought he worked his until I handled my biz ♪
- Dang. This is just--
Like, I wasn't even alive in the '90s when Biggie was big.
But, like, there's some sort of nostalgic feeling you get
even though you weren't from this era.
- ♪ Girls walk to us, wanna do us, screw us ♪
- "Hypnotize."
-"Hypnotize."
- ♪ Close like Starsky and Hutch, stick to clutch ♪
♪ Dare I squeeze three at your... ♪
- Oh, I love this so much.
- Oh, it's so catchy.
- ♪ Cubans with the Jesus piece, keep my peace ♪
♪ Packing, asking who want it, you got it ♪
- This guy's flow is like second to none.
- (singing along) ♪ Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see? ♪
♪ Sometimes your words just hypnotize me ♪
- (singing along) ♪ And I just love your flashy ways ♪
♪ Guess that's why they broke, and you're so paid ♪
- ♪ Biggie, Biggie, Biggie ♪ - (singing along) ♪ Can't you see? ♪
♪ Sometimes your words just hypnotize me ♪
- ♪ Frank White push the six ♪
♪ Or the... ♪
- I love this man's style. It's just so dope.
- Music videos were so different back then.
They're so simple.
- For rap, he's very chill about it, you know?
He's not really hardcore.
- That one and "Big Poppa"
are like the two that I remember the most,
'cause those are the classic Biggie songs.
- ♪ Me lose my touch? Never that ♪
♪ If I did, ain't no problem ♪ - Classic, classic.
- ♪ ...players at? Throw your Rolies in the sky ♪
- This is interesting.
- This is a fun one.
- ♪ While I give your girl the eye, player please ♪
♪ Lyrically ... see B.I.G. be flossin' ♪
- The clothes back then were so funny.
- I like their costumes for sure.
- ♪ Your man ain't got to know ♪
♪ I got the dough, got the flow down pizat ♪
♪ Platinum plus like... ♪
- Is P. Diddy even saying anything in these songs?
I feel like he's just there.
- (backup singers) ♪ I don't know what ♪
- (singing along) ♪ They want from me ♪
♪ It's like the more money we come across ♪
♪ The more problems we see ♪
(silence)
"Mo Money Mo Problems." It's the anthem.
- I'm gonna like every single one you play through.
- Is there more?
- ♪ All the time, Big Poppa kick the war rhymes ♪
- Oh, this is like what started it for me.
I used to listen to this with my dad when I was like three.
- ♪ Notorious! ♪
♪ No, no, no ♪ - They really like showing parties.
- Oh, he's actually rapping in this one.
- ♪ Truck, necklace, igloo ring and things ♪
♪ For the ... who see them rims spin and grin ♪
- I like to see the outfits. (chuckles)
- (singing along) ♪ Notorious! ♪
- ♪ ...keep her glass filled to the rim? ♪
♪ The Notorious K-I to the M ♪ - Oh dang.
- (singing along) ♪ No, No, No, Notorious ♪
- Their parties look like so much fun. Ohh.
- Oh, is this after he died?
Is this like a tribute song?
- Rest in peace.
I love Biggie. (chuckles) One of the GOATs.
- You gotta love Notorious B.I.G.
- It's just cool to see how there's artists like that
who are so influential.
Even though they're not here, they still have that impact.
They're still huge, and it's just like that legend.
- I grew up listen to his music.
He was a lyrical genius.
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- (FBE) So we're covering Biggie today
because this year marks the 20th anniversary of his murder
back in 1997. - (sighs) Rest in peace.
- That's what I heard. I saw an appreciation post about him.
- He was so young, and he was at the prime of his career.
And it just kinda sucks, 'cause he could've done so much more.
- (FBE) So do you find that,
despite being gone for 20 years now,
that Biggie's still considered an influential music artist today?
- Oh yeah, of course.
If you watch any rapper's interview today,
they'll say their influences were Biggie and Tupac.
- A lot of people respect him,
and a lot of artists grew up with him.
A lot of artists that are still alive to this day
worked with him.
- The musicians that we're listening to now grew up on them.
So we're pretty much listening to what they were inspired by.
- You talk to people that really respect lyricism
like Kendrick Lamar, like J. Cole, like Schoolboy Q.
One of the first people that they'll always bring up is
Pac, Nas, and Biggie.
- They were playing on the radio just all of his music,
and I totally was singing along to all of it.
And I was like, "I'm not 20. I'm 17."
I was never around for him at all, and I know all that.
That's what a legend is.
- (FBE) So the West Coast-East Coast rivalry was linked
to the murder of West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur
a few months before Biggie's murder.
Although neither of these cases were ever solved,
so no one can really say for sure.
What do you think about how a rivalry inside of music
escalated to the point where some people consider it
responsible for the murders of these artists?
- It does seem a bit extreme.
They're like 3,000 miles apart from each other.
- It's reputations, and it's like,
"Oh, he's shitting on my name."
But overall, it's music. They were both super successful.
And there was no reason to attack each other over it.
- Just because they want something
and they couldn't achieve what that person achieved,
there's a lot of jealousy. So you could see why.
I mean, it's sad to say it,
but see why someone's trying to go after them just over music.
But I mean, killing that person, it's not gonna make you famous.
- When the money gets involved and the fame, success,
and then you start needing to call people out
over different things and you're both at each other's throats
publicly and everyone knows about it, it's-- I don't know.
It's kinda sad to me, how that can create
such a big division in two people.
- (FBE) Finally, with this being 20 years since his death,
do you think that we'll still be talking about
Biggie and his music 20 years from now? - Honestly, no.
- It will still be talked about, just perhaps not as much.
- He'll never be forgotten.
But I feel like he won't be
held in such high regard as he is now.
- I definitely think we could, 'cause 20 years is a long time.
- Oh yeah. He's always gonna be an influence on hip hop forever.
- All I can say is that I hope we're talking about him
in the same light that we are now
and we don't forget what an impact he had on music.
- We still talk about the Beatles and Queen,
and they were from '60s and '70s.
And of course we're still gonna be talking about '90s rap
and Biggie especially. He was a big part of that whole era.
And so it's sort of like, how could you stop talking about him?
- He was an icon.
It was rhythmic poetry, rhythmic rhyming poetry to music.
It was done so beautifully that he can still be used
as a prime example of what should be done in music today.
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- Hey, what's up, everybody? It's Dallen here from FBE.
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