I think Big would of eventually worked with Tim because Aaliyah was on the Junior Mafia Album and she was in Lil' Kim "Crush on You Video" and Missy was messing with Bad Boy. What's crazy is Biggie died in March 97 and in Summer 97 Timbaland worked with Lil' Kim and Junior Mafia on the "Money Talks" Soundtrack. Lil Kim even shouted out Biggie and the Commission. It's crazy Biggie missed out on Timbaland and Neptunes beats.
Ppl could say what they want, about that whole, shiny-suit
(Bad-Boy) era, but Puff had shyt poppin,
POPPIN.
I was in early junior high, but I can just imagine, how the clubs and the bars were lookin back then, for the adults.
Classic, after
classic was being dropped. Every one was in tune, or everyone that was hot/upcoming was fukkin with each other. I remember I couldn't distinguish whether Missy was w/ Bad Boy or not, cuz it was nothing, to see her in a video, or see her w/ Kim, who was an extension of Puff/Big.
Everybody was fukkin w/ each other, which made everyone, THAT much stronger
(sort've like how, ATL moves today, piggy-backing each other's movements). I remember thinkin Kim was on Bad Boy too the whole time.
All those cats were like extended family, and all those surprise cameos, always made the videos hot. shyt might cut to a scene in a Missy video, and you see Aaliyah, or Puff in the cut like..
Mary J. Blige in the cut like...

or Busta, LL, etc. Shyt was always a movie back then.
