Contestants were made to recite the song’s bars out loud in order to prove their musical chops. However, Diddy helped bolster the mythology of Juicy with the next generation by making it a key plot device on 2002’s reality show Making The Band. Biggie’s life and career were cut tragically short in 1997. It’s become such a staple that every hip-hop head is expected to know the first verse by heart – at least. Juicy is synonymous with hip-hop’s ambitious ethos. Mtume’s No 1 R&B hit Juicy Fruit adds an addictive melody and gives Biggie’s hard rhymes an upbeat, feel-good vibe. Diddy (or Pete Rock, depending on which version of the story you believe) tapped into a winning formula of flipping classic ’80s samples for the succulent beat. In that vein, Sean “Diddy” Combs served as Biggie’s sonic steward and godfather. That rise – from when “birthdays was the worst days” to champagne-sipping glory – is the quintessential rap Cinderella tale. A self-fulfilling prophecy: a new rap king in the East was crowned Juicy was heralded as a classic pretty much out of the gate, and it catapulted the 22-year-old into the upper echelons of rap. “Stereotypes of a black male misunderstood/And it's still all good.” “Girls used to diss me/Now they write letters ’cause they miss me,” he admits. Sure, he’s flexing his braggadocio, but there’s also touching vulnerability amid the machismo. “Born sinner, the opposite of a winner/Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner?” he asks. It was really sweet.Tapping into his natural storytelling ability, Biggie vividly shares the story of the struggle, of being broke and overlooked. “After that, every day when I got off the train, he would walk me up the block to my house. “I came out of the subway from work and I stopped to use the phone and he approached, ‘I always see you getting off the train, you always so serious - why don’t you smile?'” she continued. “He came in the telephone booth with me, and I’m like, ‘Can you please leave? I don’t know you!'”īiggie didn’t give up, and Jackson was soon flattered by his gestures. “I met him right at that phone. We grew up a block apart in Bed-Stuy, but we never met until January of 1990.” “There’s a part in the ‘Juicy” video where he’s talking on the phone and his friend is doing push-ups,” she recalled. She even mentioned how he included a subtle nod to her in the music video for “Juicy.” In 2004, she spoke with XXL magazine about her relationship with Biggie. Jackson has remained largely out of the spotlight over the past three decades, and has only given a handful of interviews. | Chris Walter/WireImage The Notorious B.I.G.’s baby mother Jan Jackson was alluded to in the ‘Juicy’ video His relationship with his longtime girlfriend and the mother of his child, Jan Jackson, was over by the time T’yanna was born. According to his friend Sean “Diddy” Combs, Biggie continued to sell drugs to support his daughter even after his career took off with his debut single “Party & Bulls-” the year prior. “This album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I’d never amount to nothin’, to all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustlin’ in front of called the police on me when I was just tryin’ to make some money to feed my daughter,” Biggie said in the opening lines of the iconic song.Īt the time of “Juicy”‘s release, Biggie was a new father with a one-year-old daughter, T’yanna Wallace. The song was the lead single off his smash debut album Ready to Die. His 1994 hit single “Juicy” sampled Mtume’s 1983 song “Juicy Fruit,” and contained some of the original song’s vocals. In much of his music, Biggie was known for sampling other songs that he loved. | Larry Busacca/WireImage The Notorious B.I.G.’s song ‘Juicy’ was personal
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