While chatting with DJ Mustard on the Blurred Culture channel, Bone thugs-n-harmony manager Steve Lobel describes the recording process for the “Notorious Thugs” collaboration with The Notorious B.I.G.
“I was at a Ramada Inn on Santa Monica Boulevard,” Steve Lobel says in the video. “Biggie just passed 18 years, so the song is 18 or 19 years. Fat Joe calls me and says ‘[Puff Daddy] is gonna call you. I think Puff had called Fat Joe because he knew I used to work with Fat Joe and we were really tight. I worked with Fat Joe, also Big Pun. Puff called and said, ‘Big’s at the Record Plant he want to do a song with Bone.’ I said ‘Ok, let me round these guys up.’ This is when they were poppin’, young and wild. Wish Bone, who was Biggie’s man, wasn’t here He was in Cleveland. So I just called everybody, started rounding them up and one by one they all started arriving at the Record Plant. Big had cases of Cristal, cases of Hennessy, pounds of weed, I’m like, ‘Nothing’s gonna get done.’”
The track, which was produced by Stevie J and Puff Daddy, appeared on disc two of Biggie’s Life After Death.
“That song was done in not even an hour and half by Bone,” Steve Lobel says. “They went in there and laid there verses and left. I stayed thinking Big was gonna lay his verse and I’m like sitting there wanting to be the report card. He didn’t do his verse. I left the Record Plant and Big passed. The song came out and I was like, ‘Wooahh Big killed it.’ I ran into Puff and he said, ‘It took Big a while to do that. He mastered that and really studied it.’ He just helped Bone on the East Coast…the East Coast was really fickle…. Bone and Biggie killed it and that was one of the biggest songs in Hip Hop, I feel.”
Bone thugs-n-harmony’s upcoming album, E. 1999 Legends, is set to be auctioned off later this year with the starting bid set at $1 million.
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FOH, Thug Luv is better than this piece of shit song. WESTSIDE!!!
You’re an idiot
Pac woulda laid it wit a quick, just sayin….
Yep, just as expected here are the insecure (just like their hero) pac stans. Mad that no one puts thug luv over notorious thugs, except maybe on the internet and message boards. Notorious thugs > thug luv always and forever
Lol, you wish that garbage was better. Notorious thugs shits on thug luv
Notorious thugs does shit on thug love and the west coast crooks. Biggie I’ll be missed forever.
All you pac fan are idiots,he was a shit rapper that had shit lyrics,he was no match for biggie ever,recorded sales prove that and and biggie was more famous,pussy pac was so jealous of biggie that he tried to make him an enemy just for sales and fame which didn’t work,pax was no match for biggie and all you pussy pac fans get a life and let it go,biggie was the tap king and packed was a raping prickly doing anything to be on the rap scene
Man. I’m tired of hearing 2pac fans comparing tracks. Thug luv isn’t shit. Most of Tupacs songs were just plain songs.
It’s a fact that PAC worked fast and he was not a perfectionist.
Tupac even has footage of him saying so… we ain’t got time to sit and mix the song. Let the rapper lay vocals and after, switch to the next track and spit. Than get to the next one!
Biggie Smalls had more hit records than Tupac and that’s a fact. Big had the best when it comes to production. Hand picked, arranged, mix and mastered to perfection.
PAC is a great artist but he could have been the clear cut number 1 if he had the proper mentor and willing to listen.
laid THEIR verse
IT’S MITCHELL DUMBFELD…HE’S ALLERGIC TO PROPER GRAMMAR AND IS A LIFETIME SHORT BUS RIDER
That song is a classic & it’s dope hearing how it came together…..If you don’t like B.I.G or that song you’re opinion on Hip-Hop is irrelevant
Your opinion on proper language is irrelevant.
Lyrics were hot and loved how Biggie went in like Bone. But the beat got old and I got tired of it.
90 percent those Stevie and Hitmen beats are played out. that’s when happens when you sell out to radio. Now the Premier, Buckwild, Lord Finesse etc joints are classics and will never sound dated.