Inside a Biggie Smalls Studio Session at the Height of the Tupac Beef | ALL THE SMOKE

obviously getting a chance to uh meet or you know become fans with biggie early uh give us one of your favorite biggie stories one of my favorite biggie stories one day there was a accountant by the name of Bert padell Bert Pell was like the dude that everybody used to have to go and pull up to to get their bread from when it came to like labels and [ __ ] he was like the the top shelf accountant for all the like the big Executives at the time I've had to go to get some of my bread from features that I've done from bur Pell it one day biggie was over there getting a feature when not getting a feature getting a check from bur Pell and we was riding back to Brooklyn and I ended up going to bur Pell I saw biggy I asked biggy where he was going he said he was going to Brooklyn I said you need a ride he said yeah so he came in the whip with me we jet back we go to Brooklyn I go to his crib when we get to his crib now he let me heit a Ready to Die album the [ __ ] crazy [ __ ] is while we there he told one of his [ __ ] to let everybody know that he got the Ready to Die album done and he he about to give it to everybody in the street so [ __ ] you know he already popping with the [ __ ] kicking the door record and all of these [ __ ] just playing as like the singles to build a momentum or whatever and biggy feature game was crazy CU Diddy had him on 112 [ __ ] and total [ __ ] and everybody else [ __ ] so it was in like extremely intriguing and strange to me at the time because this is during the time where you you would beat the [ __ ] Bootlegger up for selling your [ __ ] for $5 biggie had the hood lined up in front of his building like a crack spot but he was giving it to [ __ ] for free free he wasn't even selling it and I I couldn't understand bro what are you doing [ __ ] say yo bus I'mma make sure that the [ __ ] that don't got my album look like he the hater yo I was the illst way of thinking at the time because it was brilliant marketing M you already get promo [ __ ] to give to DJs and certain [ __ ] for free anyway cuz you need them to play it to advertise that your [ __ ] is out and that is hot right he took it to a whole another place he had the double cassette JVC box in the crib and he was dubbing his own [ __ ] tape and just giving the [ __ ] away for free free promotion free promotion it was most one of the most brilliant marketing schemes I've ever seen and that was one of the that was one of those incredible moments one other incredible moment and I never told a story not on the record oh the smoke so there's a song in the middle of the biggie and a Tupac beef and he recorded the verse in my studio session the studio was called soundtracks Studio was located Broadway between 21st and 22nd Street at the time I thought it would be brilliant to have these three MC's on a Jay Diller beat as I mentioned he's one of my favorite prod producers to ever exist first studio session it was at a studio called unique studios around the block from quad where Tupac got shot this was a studio that easy moob another one of my favorite producers he produced Flavor in Your Hair and many other Classics did most are ready to die he used to work in the studio a lot so I ended up booking the session and the song was supposed to have n Method Man Biggie and Buster RS on the same record Jay Diller be I got a $10,000 check in my pocket for big I think big just got into the car accident was seized so his leg was [ __ ] up and the elevator wasn't working big come to the studio he downstairs yo I'm here boss I said all right well the elevator just stop working so you you got to come up the stairs I said mean here he was like oh what tell the Bros I said what up but you ain't gonna see me tonight my [ __ ] [ __ ] I look like climbing up them stairs my size and my foot [ __ ] up I said my [ __ ] I got your bread [ __ ] I don't give a [ __ ] if you had a trillion dollars upstairs I ain't coming upstairs tonight bus said [ __ ] you and [ __ ] that and Biggie bounced we had another session we're in the same Studio no big interestingly I don't know if anybody wrote their Rhyme or even a piece of it but nobody laid their [ __ ] cuz [ __ ] wanted to see what biggie was going to do never got the nmf verse I go to soundtracks the third day elevator fine big and se's come they pull up methan and Nas came two days in a row now no biggie so they was not coming on the third day we in the [ __ ] sto at the time Branson is selling the most incredible bud in the hood and he would sell them in these jars that look like [ __ ] pickle jars mason jars mason jars C would roll the Blunts and Biggie would come with the Branson jars and he rolling weed blunt after blunt after blunt and biggie just sitting in this one of the studio chairs got the wheels on it that roll around he's sitting in that [ __ ] just doing this while a beat was playing one hour two hours he just smoking he ain't writing nothing about three hours in I'm just like my [ __ ] you ain't going you a GNA do this verse my [ __ ] the [ __ ] said I'm ready what [ __ ] ready you ain't right [ __ ] I'm Ready Bus [ __ ] going the boo he does the verse damage on my neck Chrome drop top n on see pound and green o we you see the ugliest money hungriest Brooklyn Lochness 9 mm West Comfort test and that and the winner is not that thinner kid bandanas tattoos my skin never bruis L still Cruise Frank White so you know what he doing yeah you know who he going at he shooting yeah and that's your guy though that's my guy yeah and he goes in this other part he goes he goes K actor needs chiropractor for crack jaw yes I rocked your chatter box dangerous you're not I gets down twist your body round and round upside down I said big I ain't putting this out I Ain putting this out bab because Pac was my friend too right Pac choked the sound man out for me at College show when we was leaders of the new school because we got there late the [ __ ] turned the equipment off and wouldn't let us get a sound check this [ __ ] P ran up on this man and just choked him we only got one album out he calling us Legend he's still dancing for [ __ ] Digital Underground we ain't Legends yet but in PAC eyes we was the Legends I love these [ __ ] man I got to be the mediator I can't add fuel to this fire I ain't put it out so when big pass Pac pass did he working on the Born Again album and if you listen to the Born Again album biggie was Diddy was looking for verses that might have been laying around that was never released commercially that big had recorded and I told Diddy that I had this verse for a long time so when Diddy wanted div verse I said said you got to give me back the money that I paid big you can have a verse because I already know that number one I wasn't putting it out with the the back and forth and I also knew that once biggie passed whatever was going to happen with big big moms needed to sanction it she needed to bless it she needed to be okay with it I knew puff had to clear it so I wasn't going to be able to put it out anyway even if I did do it the way that I ended up doing it on the Born Again album because if you listen to the Born Again album there's a song called danger ISM se's and I told Diddy if I give you this verse I need to control This Record creatively so I went and got one of my favorite producers not the ruler from VA he gave me one of the craziest beats Snoop Mark Curry myself and Biggie is on the song but in the lines where biggie might have said something to pop I muted those lines and I put bars there to cover up those disses so it sound like me and big going back and forth you know what I'm saying and um that's one of the gems that the world finally got to hear about word that's dope so yall getting that story from the [ __ ] y getting the real smoke now for

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Length: 10min 37sec (637 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 12 2024