The Notorious B.I.G. introduced a new collective to the Hip Hop scene named Junior M.A.F.I.A. in 1995, around the same time he was hitting his stride as an elite rapper. Biggie intended to mold the young rappers and have them become superstars, which he did. One of those rappers, Lil Kim, became a breakout star and legend in her own right thanks to Biggie’s tutelage.
The group unleashed two classic Hip Hop anthems in “Get Money” and “Player’s Anthem,” and their first album Conspiracy debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200. Many Hip Hop fans wondered how much involvement Biggie had with the crew over the years, especially with the lyrics. Biggie is credited as the lead songwriter on Conspiracy, and it seems like he did more than just that, according to Lil Cease.
The Brooklyn native recently sat with VladTV, where he spoke about his relationship with Biggie and how involved the late rapper was in his career.
“I started rapping after Biggie passed when I had to write my album,” Lil Cease revealed. “In them times before that, Biggie was writing the raps for me. Everybody else was writing their rhymes though.”
He continued, “Most of the artists from Junior M.A.F.I.A rapped I just wasn’t a rapper. It was an idea he had just for me performing with him that whole year before we got our record deal. His album came out in 94, we came out in 95, so it was like a business move for him, something he wanted to try out.”
Cease-a-Leo explained that Biggie saw something in him that needed to be brought out to the people. Unfortunately, Cease was too intimidated by Biggie’s skills that he couldn’t see the potential in himself.
“He used to see me rocking with him, and he was like ‘You got it, you just don’t rap.’ He used to try to get me to rap, I was just intimidated because this n-gga was so nice, so dope, I can’t write nothing nowhere near close to what the fuck this n-gga was doing,” Lil Cease added. “He used to always tell me, ‘Don’t worry about what you say, it’s how you say it.’ He was just like ‘Yo, I’m going to write you a bunch of raps, and you going to deliver them.'”
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The Notorious B.I.G. was the visionary behind the group. He came up with their group name as he referred to the collective several times in various freestyles and wrote a lot of their records. The late rapper also shows up on four out of the 15 tracks on Conspiracy and even contributes to the production.
Stream Junior M.A.F.I.A’s ‘Conspiracy’ below.
And Diddy owns all the publishing and copyright credits to it so basically he doesn’t get hardly a dime.
We know. Trust us. We hear it and we definitely know. As Biggie Once Said “Don’t be mad, UPS is hiring”…Good Thing that Lil Cease ceases to rap anymore cuz it was clear that he was just a hype man.
Everyone knows that one Lil Cease album Cease-A-Leo was a classic. Serious tribute to Biggie and that whole era. Everybody put in on that one to make it great. Clowns on here talking bs have no idea. Shout out Junior Mafia
Man, STFU and slap yourself cuz that was some straight up BS cuz I’m from Marcy and trust me, ain’t nobody bumping his music or respecting his legacy. It’s exactly as I said. Big wrote and did everything and Puff took all the money. Even when he did start writing his own rhymes look at how many of his own fellow MC actually clowned him including Lil Kim at one point. So miss me with that classic garbage. Without Biggie, the Mafia was Dead In The Water. Why you think Lil Kim didn’t stick around? Cease was a sub-par rapper at best. I give Tony Yayo more props than him cuz at least even though he sucks as a rapper we know his wack rhymes were all written by him and he didn’t need 50 cent to ghostwrite for him (even though he did pop up in most the songs tho).
Cute, you liked your own comment three times lol. Can you name one Lil Cease song that anyone can say they seriously bumped or remember playing from either that album or his entire career besides that crappy “Play Around” song which *hahahaha peaked 52 on billboards lol and was mostly written with the help the Lil Kim. Even the album cover for “The Wonderful World of Cease A Leo” was hella SuS. He was clowned by of Brooklyn after that album tanked. He never released another album since then because of that.
LMFAO, That album cover was pretty suspect though to be completely honest. I was wondering if something was going on with Cease after Big died. But then again, a lot of NYC MCs were dying back to back around that time Stretch,B.I.G, Big L,Big Pun, Freaky Tah, and ODB so yeah I guess he had his reasons to be paranoid. Still not as bad as being a rapper in today’s generation where all you got to do is post,say,do, or even look at someone funny and they’re pretty much dead in a couple seconds from a gunshot wound cuz no everyone else is so sensitive and can’t handle critiques, struggles,fades,or competition.
Finally one of BIG’s friends admits that Biggie didn’t write any raps after he died, shutting down the conspiracy theory that BIG was downloaded into a google AI program for the sole purpose of writing lyrics for his surviving friends.
So many clowns out here think their dumb negative troll opinion matters. So what about your trash rap Olympics in your mind. It never was a rap competition. Lil cease voice had the right bounce to it that why biggie wanted it on his record. Either way only losers have some critique at this point.
Only losers comment about other people’s opinions because their so sensitive.
Obviously, you were bullied in school because that sounded like something a dork would say. Think those atomic wedgies may have damaged your brain. Might be time to seek assistance for that now.
This was years before Tekashi took over as King of New York. Long may he reign.