In an interview with American music magazine “Wax Poetics” in 2012, Rock explained the situation with the production of the track: Diddy stole his idea for the song’s original beat after he heard during a visit. There was, however, controversy in regards to the production of the track, with producer Pete Rock claiming that P. The song seems to be Biggie’s message to all those who doubted him, and urges listeners that “you know very well / who you are”, which is sung in the chorus by an uncredited female singer. Biggie opens up the track with these lines: “Yeah, this album is dedicated / To all the teachers that told me I’d never amount to nothin’ / To all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustlin’ in front of”. The track consists of Biggie’s rise to fame, detailing his impoverished childhood and his lifelong dream of making it in the music industry as a rapper. It was written by a multitude of writers, one being Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who is known by his rap name “Puff Daddy” or “P. Available on the rapper’s debut studio album: “Ready to Die”, which was released in September 1994 by Bad Boy Records and Artista Records. These songs are “ Big Poppa” and “One More Chance”.“Juicy” is one of iconic American rapper “The Notorious B.I.G.”’s (real name Christopher Wallace) most famous tracks. In addition to “Juicy”, two other songs were released as official singles from Biggie’s debut album. Moreover in 2011, Rolling Stone placed this track on its universally-regarded “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list.Īnother fact that is interesting to point out is that Biggie Small’s mother, Voletta Wallace, later stated that Notorious did not grow up as poor as this song depicts. Rather she attributes him coming off as such as being “part of an alter ego”, i.e. For instance, as recently as 2019 the BBC itself ranked “Juicy” as ‘The Greatest Hip-Hop Song of All Time’. And it has been held in comparable regards by the likes of VH1, The Source and many others. However, even those impressive showings don’t properly do the song’s legacy justice. The track also went on to be certified Platinum in the United Kingdom. “Juicy” topped Billboard’s US Hot Rap Singles chart and also appeared on the Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart, as well as numerous other important charts. Diddy stole the original instrumental from him. Renowned old school hip-hop producer Pete Rock did an official remix of this jam.

This is actually a reference to the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, which left behind minimal damage as opposed to 9/11 itself. In this song, Biggie drops the line “ time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade”. Diddy. And they sampled Mtume’s classic slow jam “Juicy Fruit” (1983) into the instrumental.Īs such James Mtume, who wrote that song, is credited as a co-writer of “Juicy”, as are Poke, P.

The track was produced by Poke alongside P. “Juicy” holds the distinction of being the lead single from The Notorious B.I.G.’s famous maiden album, “Ready to Die”. And it was released as such, via the collaborative efforts of Bad Boy Entertainment and Arista Records, on 9 August 1994. (And interesting to note is that Biggie had just married Faith Evans a few days prior.)

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