American music producer and rapper, Diddy has shared a true-life story about how the late rapper Christopher Wallace who is better known as Biggie Smalls or ‘The Notorious B.I.G’ recorded one of his greatest hits ‘Hypnotize’.
Diddy who was celebrating the anniversary of Biggie Smalls, shared a throwback photo of the two of them in what looks like they were in a studio session before Biggie passed out on a couch. He used the photo to describe how talented the rapper was, calling him the ‘perfect artist’.
“Big was the perfect artist! This candid moment when BIG was having writers block. This only happened to him once. He was talking about retiring. And I basically just tell him to stop talking crazy and that he was the greatest of all time,” Diddy captioned the photo.
Diddy continued with this shocking revelation, “Then he went in and made hypnotize! 🔥🔥🔥🔥True story 🖤 #badboysforlife WE WILL NEVER STOP!!!!! #wemissyouBIG”
Diddy produced “Hypnotize” and sampled the beat from Herb Alpert’s 1979 hit “Rise” which was written by Andy Armer and Herb’s nephew, Randy “Badazz” Alpert.
On March 9, 1997, Biggie Smalls was shot and killed after leaving an industry event in Los Angeles
According to reports, on March 8, BIG presented an award to Toni Braxton at the 11th Annual Soul Train Awards in LA and there was some booing in the crowd. At the time, there was a huge beef between East Coast and West Coast rapper’s including BIG and Tupac
Biggie attended a ‘Vibe’ after-party for the event at the Peterson Automotive Museum, where the guest list included various members of the Bloods and Crips street gangs.
In the early morning, around 12:45 a.m, BIG made his exit from the party in a SUV. The truck came to a stop only 50 yards away from the location at a red light, when a Black Chevy Impala pulled up alongside it, and shots rang out
Four bullets struck Biggie, and he was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where doctors attempted to save the rapper’s life. He has pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. He was 24 years old.
According to his autopsy, the fatal shot entered through his right hip and struck his colon, liver, heart, and left lung before stopping in his left shoulder.