Filed under: Notorious B.I.G.

CLASSIC VIDEO: Bad Boy Records (Puff Daddy, Notorious B.I.G., Total & Lil Kim) Live @ 1995 Source Awards

 Man I miss the Puff Daddy Dance lol.  This was at the same awards show that Suge Knight made his infamous "Come to Death Row" speech.  One of my favorite hip-hop memories is seeing Big perform One More Chance while they hold up the plaques to represent that New York was back.  Remember the West Coast had dominated with gangsta rap.  And Big was the one who made all these rappers start claiming to be King. And Lil Kim's Hardcore is the only female rap album that I can actually bump like a dude's album.

CLASSIC VIDEO: Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear (Remix) feat The Notorious B.I.G., Rampage, LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes (1994)

"Don't be bad, UPS is hiring"

This is up there with Luniz's "I Got 5 On It" as the best posse remix of the 90s.  Seems like every remix video since has copied the white screen and has failed to match either because the artists don't have near the personality displayed here.  I'm not even gonna try to name all the cameos.  Big came in and rocked it so hard that they could have hummed the rest and it still woulda been a classic. 

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CLASSIC CUT: Notorious B.I.G, Coolio, Redman, Busta Rhymes, Bone Thugs & More - The Points

This is the definition of a dope posse cut and what Drake, Wayne, Kanye & Eminem's "Forever" should have been like. They had top rappers from every region and they all DESTROYED Easy Mo Bee's boom bap beat! By the time Bone comes in its a wrap. Imagine what it was like to be present during this session and everyone competing to come up with the dopest verse.

The original version of this is 9 minutes and also features Doodlebug (From the digable planets, Rock (from Heltah Skeltah/Boot camp clik), 5th ward and Jamal (Def Squad). One of the top 5 posse songs ever unquestionably.