Dre Dog) employed the sample for “The Ave,” a track that fuses street raps with buoyant funk. Months before the release of “Big Daddy,” San Francisco rapper Andre Nickatina (f.k.a. So it shouldn’t be all that surprising that multiple people would gravitate toward the glossy “Juicy Fruit” sample. It’s to be expected that others would try to emulate it. Spurred by the release of Dre’s debut album, The Chronic, and Snoop Dogg’s 1993 opus, Doggystyle, gangsta funk became the dominant sound of hip-hop. Dre was the face of g-funk, the rap subgenre that repurposed old soul records into West Coast bops designed for low-riding, barbecues, and gang activities. It’s a constellation that leads the topic to be a recurrent one.īefore you get hypnotized by an alarming take, let’s look back at the 1990s. With B1’s claims and the known facts in mind, you get to the center of the argument, which hinges on the notion of cross-country accessibility, rap trends, and the idea of coincidence. “I'm not fat anymore and a lot has changed,” he continued, “but before I leave this b*tch I want everybody to know the truth. Notorious B1 added that he dropped his gripe after Biggie’s death, but the passage of time may have made him more willing to share his perspective.
Just my surprise when people started calling me saying they've just seen my video.” We was on the radio first… We sent packages to all the major labels shopping for distribution. “I know it might be hard to believe but it is 100% the truth. "I had the name and song first,” he wrote. 7sZulUzo8y- THREESOME 3 OUT NOW! July 24, 2022 While “Big Daddy” might have been confined to the past and a select group of locals familiar with the track in the early ‘90s, B1 provided some context-and some hefty allegations-in a caption he included with the single when he uploaded it to Datpiff in 2012. This controversy begun recirculating last week, lighting up message boards like Boxden and Reddit, making its way around the Twitterverse, and being covered on music sites like AllHipHop and DJ Vlad. The basis of B1’s claim comes down to the beat-both songs sample Mtume’s 1983 hit “Juicy Fruit”-and the similarities between their names. Yikes!Īn artist by the name of Notorious B1 claims Biggie’s “Juicy” was heavily inspired by his own track “Big Daddy,” which debuted in 1993-one year before the Bad Boy rapper’s debut album. Specifically, that one of the late rapper’s most beloved tracks was the result of biting. committed a cardinal hip-hop sin of his era: unoriginality.
A Mississippi rapper has insinuated that The Notorious B.I.G.
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