He has an image as a celebrity/artist, but he’s never hid that he’s about getting his ends (though is an artist at his core), and at this point it’s fact that Biggie (who I’m a fan of) was a middle class dude who at most sold nickels and dimes, while Jay Z not only sold nickels and dimes but moved serious above street level weight and got out of the game before he was arrested, though he almost took the charge for drug “kingpin” Calvin Klein which we’ll get back later (yes this supposed “snake” almost sacrificed his freedom for his employer). This is why Jay-Z uses Biggie’s lyrics (which to all you irrational haters, has no bearing on his quality of his raps and is less than 1% of the songs he wrote so stop bring this shitty argument up every time you want to trash Jay’s skills a rapper, you can do better than that, this is also funny because they’re blatant homages and some of them are clever lyrically, and if you want to argue we can go bar for bar and song for song and see the ORIGINAL quality Jay Z has put out), because they were best friends and Biggie was an inspiration to him.Īnd let me adress the rest of the bullshit in this thread.ĭid Jay-Z fill the void Biggie had left after he died? Yes, but does it make sense for you all to whine about real hip hop and how if Big and Tupac were alive Jay wouldn’t have made it? No, because Jay Z is an amazing businessman and artist so it was his work that put him where he was and even if Biggie was alive Jay would be with him.Īnd since we’re on the topic of Biggie and Tupac, let’s talk about the way people like you all idolize them and prop Tupac up as jesus while making Jay Z to be a low skilled hip hop devil.įirst things first, I don’t care about whether rappers are “real or not”, but people seem to care about this and constantly use it to try and knock Jay Z so let’s get this straight, Jay Z is “real”. That’s all I’m going to put for this, but if you have the desire to do any more research you’ll find an even larger amount of evidence displaying how close they were and what Biggie thought of Jay as an artist. Jay was also one of the last people he called. It touches on just how close they were, and how much he liked Jay Z’s music, after hearing Dead Presidents for the first time Biggie said that Jay was up next.
Jay Z was essentially an honorary Bad Boy member.īiggie got in his videos such as the Dead Presidents video when he wasn’t even a big rapper because he like Jay so much.Īnd it’s a well known fact that Biggie was planning to do a collab album with Jay-Z called The Commision.Īnd listen to this interview from 6:35-8:05 & 8:50-9:20: They collabed on Life After Death and went toe to toe while celebrating life and the future they had planned for themselves and the career they had together. That meeting was also where they found out that both of them didn’t write lyrics:īiggie considered Jay to be his best friend as this quote display’s "Ask my man Jigga, My ace boon !!!!", ace boon !!!! is slang for best friend/#1 friend.Īnd at 19:05 in this interview you can hear Biggie shouting out his son, daughter, Junior Mafia, and “playboy” Jay Z, following Jay-Z with “that’s it”:
You can read the rest of it at this link: īut the gist of the story is that Biggie wanted the beat, had respect for Jay Z’s skill, and through that decided that he would collaborate with him, starting a rivalry/friendly competition that has been talked about by many people close to them, you can google that and find a ton of quotes on it. And he comes out of the booth and goes to B.I.G., ‘Are you ready?’ And B.I.G.’s like, ‘What? No, I’m not ready. Imagine him going in there going, ‘This is where I’m going to stop, and this is where I’ll pick it up.’ And B.I.G. Some new, some different, but he left the spaces. “Jay goes in the booth and does all of his verses differently. What happened from there is that Biggie came, requested to be on the song after listening to work Jay Z had already done and deciding that he was the type of guy he’d rhyme with, and then they proceeded to hash it out, ending with this: But I’m going to make this work somehow.” knew I was going to the Jay-Z session after the Mad Skillz session, so I’m like, ‘Just come to the studio and wait downstairs.’ He wanted to be on it, and I wanted him on it, but they’re not friends yet. What do you want me to do? You’re not my artist, you’re Puff’s artist.”
He was like, ‘Nah Clark, I want that record, that beat is for me! You give everything to this !!!!!!’ That was his favorite words.
wanted the beat, but I said it was Jay’s. I'm gonna tell you right now, this and your earlier comment is complete and utter bullshit that could be dispelled with a simple google search, there's not even anything online that point's to Biggie having to be "talked" into doing a song with Jay.