The Cheat Sheet

The Notorious B.I.G. and Diddy Were High on Ecstasy in the ‘Hypnotize’ Music Video

Diddy and The Notorious B.I.G.’s friendship dates back to the early 1990s. Biggie was at a crossroads in his personal life, having to choose between selling drugs on the streets of Brooklyn or ...
Uproxx

Diddy Said He And Biggie First Tried Ecstasy During The ‘Hypnotize’ Video Shoot

On what would’ve been The Notorious B.I.G.’s 50th birthday, his friend and collaborator Diddy took to Twitter Spaces alongside Jay-Z and Fat Joe (per HipHopDX) and shared stories about the late rapper ...
Spin

“He Never Got To See the Final Product”: Director Paul Hunter Talks Making Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize” Video 20 Years Later

The Notorious B.I.G. introduced the world to the grandeur of his double album Life After Death with the lead single “Hypnotize,” released on the first day of March 1997. The song became one of ...
New York Post

How the Notorious B.I.G.’s biggest hit almost didn’t happen

When Notorious B.I.G.’s funeral procession rolled through his native Bed-Stuy in 1997, mourners began blasting his track “Hypnotize,” and it subsequently turned the rapper’s wake into a party. Just ...
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Today in Hip-Hop: The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize” Reaches No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

1997: The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize" reached No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 chart on May 3, 1997. Although the single was originally released in December 1996, Biggie's first single off his final ...
TooFab

7 Best Biggie Rhymes in Rememberance of the Rapper 20 Years Later (Video)

The Notorious B.I.G. would have turned 44 this year - it's been 20 years since the rapper's death. He was shot Mar. 9, 1997 shooting, and the world is still devoid of Biggie-style rhymes that set the ...
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Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Hypnotize’ Gets Synced With the TV Show ‘Dinosaurs’

Hip-hop has always been about appropriation. Not necessarily cultural, but at least formal--it's a genre built on samples, riffs and reinterpretations, making collage out of found parts. In this ...
New York Post

Nets celebrate Biggie Night and Hypnotize with Juicy win

The Nets came up big on Biggie Night. Brooklyn honored one of the borough’s favored sons, and Billboard’s greatest rapper of all time, when the Nets celebrated the late Notorious B.I.G. throughout the ...
Yahoo

Watch Megan Thee Stallion's Fantastic Freestyle Over Biggie Smalls' 'Hypnotize'

Her name is Megan Thee Stallion but maybe she should change her name to Megan Thee GOAT because her latest freestyle may have impressed Biggie Smalls himself if he was around today. The 24-year-old ...
The Source Magazine

Megan Thee Stallion Drops Bars Over Biggie’s “Hypnotize”

Megan Thee Stallion is making sure that you know she can rap. Shortly after getting bars off in her AMAs gown, the Houston native is back with another one, hopping on The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize ...
Bustle

This Notorious B.I.G. Song Is Timeless

I probably don't have to remind everyone that Biggie Smalls is still, in fact, "the illest" 20 years after his untimely death on March 9, 1997. Despite the passing of two decades, there are actually ...