The afroed baby who appeared on the cover of Biggie Smalls’ debut Ready to Die album turned 18 and decided to reveal his identity, how much he was paid to pose ($150) and the iconic image’s significance for him/hip hop.
Born Again! Mama Wallace is gonna be so proud of her murdered son when she sees this ad scanned from last week’s People. Forget that bad biopic, The Notorious B.I.G. has become a fucking big ad pun (sorry Big Pun, RIP)! Kidding aside, this has got to be a fairly cut and dry cease & desist libel case, right? The amazingly crass ad is apparently part of a new seriously misguided Edy’s campaign targeting fans of hip-hop and R&B (there’s also a Kool & The Gang version). Edy’s US offices are in Oakland, CA, so maybe this is a disguised salvo in the ongoing East coast-West coast rapper feud?
When it comes to the city’s tabloids, product placement and films, the New York Post always appears to get all the love. But in Notorious, the Biggie Smalls movie that opens today, the Daily News finally gets some coverage even if it’s spelled funny.
On Fulton Street in Brooklyn, the cameras are rolling on “Notorious,” the biopic about legendary rapper Biggie Smalls. They must be shooting his adolescence since they broke out the old school yellow and blue New York license plates for the later model cars lining the block, including this red 3-series BMW sporting a “Money” vanity plate. According to a swift moving PA who really didn’t have time to chit-chat, this is Puffy’s whip in the movie—in real life Sean “Puffy” Combs is executive producing the film. More cars and a bonus shot of a very sleepy Jamal “Gravy” Woolard—who’s playing B.I.G. after the jump.
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