JAY-Z came through with rare a verse on Pusha T’s new single “Neck & Wrist” on Wednesday (April 6). Featuring vocals and production from Pharrell, the track finds Hov referencing Biggie’s death and The Commission — their supergroup that never materialized.
“They like, ‘If BIG was alive, Hov wouldn’t be in his position,'” JAY-Z raps on the song. “If BIG had survived, y’all would have got The Commission/Hov was gon’ always be Hov/It ’twas the universe will ’cause Allah said so, and now I’m here.”
Biggie referenced The Commission’s members, Lance “Un” Rivera, Diddy, Lil’ Cease, Charli Baltimore and JAY-Z, on 1997’s Life After Death track “What’s Beef.”
He says on the intro, “The Commission… Uncle Paulie, P. Diddy, Cease-A-Leo Degenaro, Charli Baltimore, Iceberg Slim, the most shady, Frankie Baby.”
In 2017, Dame Dash claimed Biggie intended to sign to Roc-A-Fella Records and get things moving with The Commission.
“Biggie’s plan was to give Puff and them like three more albums because that’s what his deal is, then come sign with us, and we was gon’ do The Commission,” he told Hip Hop Motivation. “We were looking for like a Charli Baltimore, it ended up being her, that wasn’t our choice that was his. But, you know, that was what was gonna happen, or at least that’s what was talked about very seriously.
“I think that’s why he did a double album. Then he was gonna do a triple album, and he was gonna be out his contract, and then he was gonna come fuck with us. I tried to sign The Firm but then Steve Stoute snaked us for that.”
JAY-Z’s Past Beef With 2Pac Stemmed From Song With Biggie Irv Gotti Says
JAY-Z previously opened up about speaking to Biggie the night he was shot and killed in Los Angeles, California in 1997.
“He was in great spirits,” he said during a Power 106 interview in 2013. “He was like, ‘Yo, playboy! Why you not out here, playboy? I was doing something in New York and yeah, yeah, I was supposed to land before. Actually Irv Gotti was at the party and called me and put him on the phone.”
He added, “I take him everywhere I go. I’ve taken him on every step, every accomplishment. He’ll be there in some sort of way, whether that be live in concert or on record, or some acknowledgement.”
Jay zs verse was dope as hell. Push snapped as well but now hr know how ye felt on Diamonds remix.
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Drug Dealers Anonymous makes this new collab sound like a throwaway song.
In all of the nostalgia of a passing mention that people have spun into that this would have been an actual group, does anyone ever mention that most of the group members are wack and/or fuck boys? Even sith Jay-Z and Biggie, they didn’t particularly have great chemistry on wax to me either similar to Jay and Nas. Just didn’t complement each other to me.
BIG & Jay didnt have great chemistry? sounds like someone has never heard “Brooklyn’s Finest”
It’s not a good song. The only reason people reference it is for the Pac diss. The song otherwise was underwhelming just like Love the Doe which took an Angela Winbush sample verbatim like all of Puff’s shit around that era.
Man, you must be bullshotting right?
Dude, Brooklyn Finest and Young G’s sounded to me.
Yeah, let me listen again to change an opinion I’ve had for 26 years because you said so, lol. It’s a wack song.
Yeah you got no taste in real rap/hip hop. Jay and Big got 2 classics together, and Jay and Nas got like 4-5 classic joints. Vanilla Ice or Young Mc might be more your flavor… Try lil Pump… ???
Clueless is what you are on about Jay and Big didn’t have chemistry lmao fuck outta here Brooklyn finest one of the hardest Jay Big features Young G’S I love the dough classics.
No Chemistry… What about Young G’s on Puffys album. That was a small taste of what him and Jay-Z could have done. That song along is one of the best 16 bars Big ever dropped.
Unfortunately ur not really hiphop ur obviously delusional and don’t listen to music u just skim through it my top two favorite rappers and not because I’m from BROOKLYN but nobody can talk that like them too rap gods sorry that ur favorite rapper sucks Brooklyn stand the fuck up
If you didn’t think they had great chemistry that’s your opinion. That doesn’t make it a fact. The fact that they both had to come hard or the other one would out shine the other made it a hit. You might need to relisten to them bars. That 2pac dis was wack. It was more of a Faith dis.
IT WASNT A DISS PERIOD. JUST BIG HAVING FUN.
I love big but I thaught that shit was kind of corny
Most people did. It was a wack song. Dudes going to swear up and down though that it was dope because it was Biggie and Jay on a track together though. Nowhere outside of NY was anybody bumping that shit.
respectfully, tons of cats were bumping it here on the West Coast. whatever that’s worth to cats who say we don’t have taste over here, just remember we got legends and GOATs up north and in SoCal. and yea, we could DEF appreciate the trajectory.
Whats wit all the demon ad libs and chords. Its just average. I didnt cry. Laugh. I felt nothing from this
This is the 3rd article in a row about this guy and his mediocre verse. Yes, we dig, you do like radio pop, so what. It won’t be better if you post the same thing 45364256 times.
Brooklyns Finest and I Love The Dough remind me of Jay Z and Lil Wayne collabs…Both Good songs but Hello Brooklyn and Mr. Carter almost sounds just as Automatic and nearly same sign of the times. By 1997 BIG was Arguably The Best and Jay Z was just Starting To Flirt With The Top Spot…2008 comes and Jay Z was Arguably Best All Time but Lil Wayne had Grabbed Best Rapper Alive Title on Mr. Carter Hov subliminally passes the torch To Weezy
Man all I want is a jigga album. He sounds like he’s in rare form right now, spitting at his finest.
That’s not rare, but with the last 2 or 3 albums he’s dropped, his flow today eats up all of those albums. Last good solid one for me was American Gangster. Blueprint 3 was okay but it wasn’t solid
Jay really need to get out the past and start talkin bout his new hip-hop supergroup BK Kings with King Tekashi.
Haasaaa!!!