Listen below to a hip hop legend, Biggie Smalls song ‘Hypnotize’.Hah, sicka than your average Poppa Twist cabbage off instinct niggaz don't think shit stink pink gators, my Detroit players Timbs for my hooligans in Brooklyn Dead right, if they head right, Biggie there every night Poppa been smooth since days of Underroos Never lose, never choose to, bruise crews who do something to us, talk go through us Girls walk to us, wanna do us, screw us Who us? Yeah, Poppa and Puff (ehehehe) Close like Starsky and Hutch, stick the clutch Dare I squeeze three at your cherry M-3 (Take that, take that, take that, haha!) Bang every MC easily, busily Recently niggaz frontin ain't sayin nuttin (nope) So I just speak my piece, (c'mon) keep my piece Cubans with the Jesus piece (thank you God), with my peeps Packin, askin who want it, you got it nigga flaunt it That Brooklyn bullshit, we on itīiggie Biggie Biggie can't you see Sometimes your words just hypnotize me And I just love your flashy ways Guess that's why they broke, and you're so paid (uh)īiggie Biggie Biggie (uh-huh) can't you see (uh) Sometimes your words just hypnotize me (hip to) And I just love your flashy ways (uh-huh) Guess that's why they broke, and you're so paid (hah) Rather than be insulted, those within the procession began dancing and rejoicing to the track, turning it into a celebration of Biggie’s imperious life. Hypnotize biggie smalls full#As the funeral procession for the hip hop legend made its way through the streets of his native Brooklyn, a nightclub blasted ‘Hypnotize’ through its speakers at full volume. The song will go down as a crucial part of Biggie’s legacy for another reason too. I still have that cassette demo, and it’s definitely a classic piece of rap history.” The nephew of Alpert also revealed that Biggie wrote the raps for all of the parts of the song, including the female leads: “When I first met Biggie before they recorded ‘Hypnotize’, he played me a demo version with him doing the girl’s part. Biggie’s version was released and charted its first week at number two and went to number one the second week.” The original ‘Rise’ record climbed the chart all summer and became number one around the end of October. I was sent a cassette from Puffy, and when I cranked it up, I not only immediately loved it, but my gut thought that this could be a number one record once again. When he first played the loop for Biggie, Biggie smiled and hugged him.”īadazz later confirmed that it wasn’t only Biggie who wanted to use the beat: “Over the years I was approached by Ice Cube, Easy E, Vanilla Ice, and maybe another 4-5 artists to use the song and I never said yes until I heard a rough version of Biggie’s recording. He had always remembered that summer and that song. He told me that in the summer of 1979, when he was, I think ten years old, the song was a huge hit everywhere in New York and ‘Rise’ along with Chic’s ‘Good Times’ were ‘The Songs’ that all the kids were dancing and roller skating to that summer. Its tireless beat and enviable flow encapsulate everything about his larger than life character in one song.ĭiddy sampled the music from Herb Alpert’s 1979 hit ‘Rise’, which was written by Andy Armer and Herb’s nephew, Randy Badazz Alpert, later recalled: “I asked Puffy, in 1996 when he first called me concerning using ‘Rise’ for ‘Hypnotize,’ why he chose the ‘Rise’ groove. The track is a magical effort that is unarguably one of the classic Biggie Smalls songs. ‘Hypnotize’ became just the fifth track to reach number one in the charts posthumously following the tragic murder of Biggie, aka Christopher Wallace.
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