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On March 9, 1997, hip hop music lost arguably the greatest rapper
of all time – Biggie Smalls a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.
Nine years later on March 9, 2006, fans and DJ’s continue to
celebrate the life and music of Christopher Wallace. DJ Mister Cee,
a close friend of B.I.G., who was instrumental in helping launch
his career, payed tribute to Biggie’s lyrical legacy aptly
through the night on New York City’s famed Hot 97 radio station
with Funk Master Flex.
As history tells it, Cee passed a tape of Biggie’s rhymes to
The Source Magazine, which gave him a positive review in its Unsigned
Hype section. The Source’s review caught the attention of P.
Diddy, who cleverly signed B.I.G. and allowed him to showcase his
talents and become not only the hottest rapper on his Brooklyn block,
but perhaps the hottest in the world.
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Known for his classic “Uh, Uh” intro to a track, off-the-block
hard street lyrics, sheer command and presence, - plus his charming
ways with the ladies - Biggie’s presona still impacts MCs today,
nine years since his tragic death.
“B.I.G.’s style still exists in everybody today and will
forever,” says up and coming MC G. Luger, who hails from Bedford
Stuyvesant, the same Brooklyn, New York neighborhood that B.I.G.
grew up in. “We couldn't touch him when he was here and the
way he went out was so deep. Everyone is still going to take parts
of his style and add it to their own.”
Biggie’s Duets: The Final Chapter, an album which features
a plethora of today’s hip hop and R&B artists rhyming and
singing alongside Biggie’s rhymes, has attained certified platinum
status.
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Flavor
of Love Draws Record Viewership
The finale of VH1's "Flavor of Love" drew a record 5.88
million total viewers in the 10-11:30 p.m. Sunday time period.
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More proof there is no accounting for taste. While Tony Soprano
was cable's biggest star last weekend on premium HBO, Flavor Flav
was the king among ad-supported cable networks.
The unscripted series -- the third for the love-seeking Public
Enemy hypeman -- was a surprise hit for VH1, and Sunday's episode
ranks as the most-watched program in the network's history. It
scored a 3.5 rating and 3.67 million viewers in the 18-49 age
demographic.
The show had the amorous New Yorker, 47, wending his way through
would-be lovers in their twenties, elimination style.
When all was said and done, it got down to two -- dare we say
tacky and tawdry women named New York and Hoopz? And Hoopz is
a Detroiter. (To protect the guilty, the show won't release real
names.)
In the final show, Flav was so enamored with her booty that she
gave him an ashtray with the shape of two buns right in the middle.
And it was happily ever for the duo -- at least until the reunion
show, which will air in two weeks.