During an appearance on the Bossip Presents: Don’t Be Scared podcast, Jacob York spoke in-depth about his friendship with the late Notorious B.I.G.
Among the topics discussed during York’s appearance on the podcast was Biggie’s lack of post-mortem records. According to York, unlike artists today, the Brooklyn lyricist didn’t have to record five songs just to create one track.
He then went on to explain that any Biggie record released after his death was likely first featured on a mixtape or was a feature on someone else’s song.
“The reason why he’s never had any post-mortem stuff is everything he rapped, people kept,” Jacob York said. “He didn’t rap five songs to make one. When he rapped it, they kept it. So, a lot of the post-mortem stuff was mixtape stuff or it would be on somebody else’s record that they took off and put on a Biggie’s Greatest Hits or something…He just came off the top of his head. I don’t know how he did it. He’d be in the studio—like we’ll get to the studio at nine, ten o’clock. Four o’clock in the morning, he’ll rap for 45 minutes and that’d be ‘Hypnotize’ done. And then walk out the studio.”
York also shared the details of a diss record Biggie allegedly wrote, which took aim at fellow rapper, Raekwon. He revealed that Biggie ultimately told him to erase the record before it was ever released.
“Method Man was on [Biggie’s] album [Ready To Die] so we were all sitting there like, ‘Huh,’” York said, according to AllHipHop.com. “When [Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…] album dropped and we heard the [‘Shark Niggas (Biters)’] interlude… We heard that and we were like, ‘What the hell was that about?’ No one saw it coming. It came out of left field. It got squashed that fast…You ever notice that [Biggie] never put out a diss record against him? He rapped it. He got it off his chest. He just told me to erase it.”
Southern rap duo OutKast were also a topic of conversation during York’s interview. According to the friend of Big, the rapper listened to Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik while he was recording Ready To Die.
“Big listened to OutKast’s Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik while he was making Ready To Die,” he said. “And a lot of people felt like he got that Southern twang on the Pac side, but he didn’t. He got it from listening to OutKast. A lot of people don’t know Diddy directed OutKast’s ‘Player’s Ball’ video. And so Big knew a lot about that. And he listened to ‘Git Up, Git Out.’ He was a lover of Hip Hop everywhere.”
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good article. next time may want to mention who the fuck jacob york is
dr york son…..son of doctor malachi z york… I think he rapped as ‘un’…not sure.
gucci manager…a rap manager
Fuck Him for setting up his father the great Malachi Z York
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Raekwon ain’t about shit and Biggie knew that lmao I got fam in Stapleton Staten Island, be out there all the time, don’t get me wrong I got love for the borough but I know for a fact this nigga Raekwon is pussy, he just watched the hood from a window, kinda like Nas and them
Don’t come here with some bullshit stories, Raekwon is from Park Hill not Stapleton. Nice try though, guess jealous one’s still envy… Raekwon was in the game back in the early 90’s, ask ANYBODY who knows in Park Hill… Who da fuck you think fronted ALL the studio time money for the first Wu-Tang records?! Must be a fucking genius to have 20K extra cash from just sitting behind a window…
Or he was lazy. It took him 3 years to make Life After Death, and it was a disappointment to me when it came out. So not buying this “they kept everything he made.” All the greats got songs in the vault from Prince to the Beatles, but Biggie don’t because all his shit was dope? GTFOH.
Totally agree… I remember getting Life After Death the day it came out and throwing it away the next day. I tried listening to it 2 weeks ago to see if I missed something. No, it was as terrible as I remember it being. The beats, his flow, the lyrics… everything was bad about that album. Ready To Die is a straight up classic though and I still listen to that.
Yep. I remember me and my older brother being excited for that album, and then it came out and was some bubble gum pop shit to the fullest, the opposite of how edgy Ready to Die was. My brother called me up and was like, “It took him 3 years to do that shit?”
Big evolved plain and simple. his shit was still hard it but he started to understand song structure and record making more on life after death.one of the greatest albums ever made and the BEST rap double album known to man
Disappointment? I don’t see how that album could be a disappointment when almost every track off of both discs are amazing.
Daniel, Silent Partner, you guys are nuts. Life After Death is one of the best.