Sprite’s “Obey Your Thirst” campaign is reaching new heights. We’ve already seen their collectable cans featuring powerful lyrics from Drake, Nas, and Rakim. Now the soft drink along with The FADER is ready to roll our their upcoming documentary featuring Nasir Jones. Catch the official trailer for the mini-doc after the jump!
(Photo) Biggie’s Signed Bad Boy Contract Set To Be Auctioned Off
If you live Hip-Hop and have your coins in order you just might be able to be the proud new owner of the Notorious B.I.G’s signed Bad Boy Contract. The site Paddle8, who is known for auctioning off rare documents and music collectibles will be offering up what could be called one of the most important pieces of paper in the history of hip-hop and it doesn’t stop there. Hit the jump for more.
(Video) Faith Evans Recalls Crazy Biggie Memory & Talks Lil Kim With Nessa
To celebrate the life of one of the greatest rappers to ever do it, Hot 97’s Nessa sat down with his former wife Faith Evans on the 18th anniversary of Biggie’s passing yesterday. Faith discussed squashing the beef with Kim and the photo she posted of them together last month at Hot 97’s All-Star Weekend concert, a collaborative album that could have been, a crazy story of having sex with Big on a roller coaster in Busch Gardens and more. Check it out below!
(Video) Cipher Between Tupac, Grand Puba and Treach? Flashback Friday
Cipher Between Tupac, Grand Puba and Treach? Happy Flashback Friday! “It’s time to go back, way back, back into time” We have dug up a video from 1992 of three legendary rappers Tupac, Grand Puba and Treach. The video shows the sport of Hip Hop before it turned into a East Coast West Coast “thing” More details after the jump.
(Video) #FlashbackFriday: Nas & Biggie Freestyle Together On Stage In 1995!
In this super dope and rare video I found online, it shows legendary Queensbridge emcee Nas and the late great Biggie Smalls freestyling together on stage circa 1995 at Miss Jones’ birthday party. Nas was spitting a verse that would eventually become the second verse off “Suspect” from his It Was Written album and Biggie’s rhymes were eventually the second verse from “Oh My Lord” off Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s Conspiracy. Check out the classic vid below in honor of Flashback Friday!
Funk Flex Teams With Simon & Schuster and Karen Hunter To Release Book About The Notorious B.I.G.
Legendary DJ Funk Flex has teamed with publishing giant Simon & Schuster and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Hunter to release a book of untold stories about the late Notorious B.I.G. An instrumental part of Biggie’s early success, Funk Flex actually gave Biggie his very first major interview on Hot 97 back in June of 1994, which you can listen to here. “The song “Who Shot Ya” was originally an intro for Mary J. Blige’s album,” Flex reveals in an excerpt from the book. “Uptown/MCA said it was too hard. The song in its original form had a verse from Big, Keith Murray and LL Cool J, though LL never did his verse. The song still exists!” In another excerpt, Flex reveals how Biggie and Nas met, per Lil Cease:
