And that was the impact of the billion dollar crack industry," she says. One of the things that Biggie described in 'Things Done Changed' is the seismic shift that was happening in the black family, in the black community. "There was a lot of depression in this album. To the more factually painful "Things Done Changed": "'Gimme the Loot' is a perfect example of that, of him basically internalizing people's ideas about who he is in the world." But he was seen in the world through this lens of anti-blackness, as a predator," says hampton. I mean, at his core he was a kind, funny, generous, sensitive person. It was this visceral response that people had to him as a physical person in the world that informed a lot of how he turned around and acted towards them. Biggie kind of had to grab me up from the car and almost saved my life.
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I remember one cab driver seeing him approach the cab, and he took off! With my legs dragging. And I'd go out in the street to get the cab, and Biggie would wait in the shadows. I went to almost all of the sessions for Ready to Die. This was late at night after studio sessions. It was that, 'People expect me to be a certain way, so sometimes I just give that person to them.' We were trying to catch a cab once - I used to have to go out to get the cab. "He shared something with me early on, and it really made me sad. Her relationship with the musician gives her an inside perspective on the stories he tells in those songs, from the theatrically violent "Gimme the Loot": Hampton was present while Biggie was writing and recording his debut album, Ready to Die, which was released on Sept.
It was a little cartoonish at times, his misogyny - as was so much of the music at the time. I would have hoped that he would have outgrown some of that. I absolutely challenged him, in the studio and in our friendship, on some of the sexism. So I had that literary, kind of love of books in common with Biggie," she says. Because his mom was an English teacher, he really liked to read - things like Charles Dickens. "I remember reading Ntozake Shange with Biggie. They became friends, him reading her work and sometimes going to class with her. Their paths crossed shortly after hampton voted for the rapper to be included in The Source magazine's Unsigned Hype column, then the launching pad for some of hip-hop's greatest musicians. (his first choice for nom de plume - Biggie Smalls - had already been taken by another rapper, but his friends and fans continue to call him Biggie). Christopher Wallace was shopping a demo tape that he'd made under the name The Notorious B.I.G. In the early '90s, dream hampton was a student at NYU and a writer.
Saturday marks two decades since Bad Boy Records released Ready to Die, the album that introduced the charismatic, exceptionally talented, gone too soon rapper Biggie Smalls to the world, and made him a star.
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