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The annual “Icon Issue” of The Fader honors an individual who has had an incalculable effect on music culture. The Fader has honored legends like Nina Simone and Jerry Garcia as well as New York revolutionary David Byrne.
This year, for their annual "Icon" issue, FADER turns its focus to a very worthy subject: The late great Notorious B.I.G., who forever changed the game of hip hop on both sides of the country. As part of the package, the magazine got Diddy to sit down and open up about his pal. And while the Q&A is not yet online (and the issue not out until May 3), FADER was nice enough to let us check it out early.
Diddy does address the impact of Biggie's murder, and his relationship with his onetime protégé's music today. But our favorite bits are when he explains what Big was like day-to-day. For example:
What was he like around women?
Around women he was a charmer. He didn’t really make the first move, and a lot of times it just happened from, “Pleased to meet you.” He would get introduced to people and when he said “pleased to meet you” to a girl it rang a different way. I guess they was caught off guard by how much of a gentleman he was, how smooth he was and also how he didn’t try to continue on the conversation. That made her feel comfortable. They’d lay in the cut, something else would happen, and then they’d start laughing. They’d see the humor and it was a wrap.
What is your most vivid memory of Biggie?
When I think of him I think of him sitting in a room by himself, rocking back and forth, smoking a blunt down almost to the roach of it, doing that for hours in deep thought while writing. His mouth is not moving, he’s not mimicking what he’s going to do in the booth. It was him in deep, spiritual rap meditation.
I don’t know where he got that stuff from ... I don’t really understand how he knew all that stuff. I never saw him reading a lot of magazines, reading a lot of books, watching a lot of TV, watching a lot of movies. I think he was just put on the earth this way.
To celebrate the release of the “Icon Issue,” The Fader will be posting videos of Biggie Smalls throughout the course of the month. Today Fader TV unearthed a rare clip of The Notorious B.I.G. performing “Warning” off the hit album Ready to Die at the KMEL Summer Jam concert in 1995. You can watch it here. Keep an eye on Fader TV this month for more rare videos of the long past hip hop prodigy. In addition to the visuals, there is also an essay by Andrew Noz that maps his legacy. Check out the “Icon Issue” of Fader when it hits shelves on May 3.
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