While speaking with Vlad TV, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony rapper Bizzy Bone spoke on working with the late great Notorious B.I.G. in the recording studio. The Cleveland, Ohio rapper was first asked how the group's “Notorious Thugs” collaboration with Biggie came about.

According to Bizzy, both Puff Daddy and Steve Lobel helped in putting the collab together. The rapper also revealed that it took Biggie “a minute” to get the style of “Notorious Thugs” down since he and those in Bone Thugs-n-Harmony were from varying regions of the country.

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For anyone who grew up listening to '90s hip-hop, Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ready To Die" was a must-have for your tape deck when it came out in 1994. Twenty years later -- and nearly 18 years after the rapper's tragic death -- we could be hearing some new Biggie in the near future.

Faith Evans, Biggie's wife and a R&B star in her own right, said in a HuffPost Live interview Monday that she has full permission to make a duet album with her late husband (real name Christopher Wallace), titled "The King And I." "I've been thinking that it would be something great to do for a long time," Evans told host Marc Lamont Hill. "And I told Mrs. Wallace [Biggie's mother] several years ago that one day I want to do this. So we have her blessing on it."

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After years of The Notorious B.I.G. supporting The Roots, Questlove says he and the band were regrettably not on good terms before his sudden death in 1997. The Roots' drummer spilled the story on the Juan Epstein podcast Tuesday alongside Chris Rock, saying in the time before the Brooklyn rapper's Life After Death album was released "not all was good between The Roots and Biggie."
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Hot 97 morning show members Pete Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds have a side project called the Juan Epstein podcast and it is a must listen for hip hop fans. On a recent episode they had the legendary DJ Clark Kent who shared some interesting stories.

The conversation started with Kent talking about his early career and how he got started working for record labels and making remixes. Then the conversation gets to how DJ Clark Kent used to remix all the label’s tracks and how he used to add Jay Z to a bunch of tracks.
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An attorney is charging that the Los Angeles Police Department is responsible for the violent shooting that rocked singer Chris Brown’s pre-VMAs party on Sunday.

Although Brown wasn’t hurt in the melee at the nightclub 1OAK, famed rap producer Suge Knight wound up injured with multiple gunshot wounds and is recovering from surgery at Cedars ...

To commemorate the 20 year anniversary of Bad Boy records. Diddy posted on his twitter account a new remastered version of Notorious B.I.G.'s "Life After Death (...Til Death Do Us Part") will be released. The album will be available ...