Biggy Smallz
Biggy Smallz (197? - 1994) was a Los Angeles rapper and songwriter known for the few collaborations he had with famed hip-hop producer Johnny J. He is the subject of Tupac Shakur's controversial tribute song “God Bless the Dead”. This person should not be confused with The Notorious B.I.G., who went by a similar name: Biggie Smalls.
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Confusing the Biggie Smalls situation even further, Tupac occasionally referred to one of his producers, Deon Evans aka Big D The Impossible, as "Biggie Smalls." You can see Pac introduce Deon as Biggie Smalls in this footage from The Box. Of the many men who took on the name Biggie Smalls, Deon is the only one still alive. He recently did an interview with Thavaults.com that's worth checking out.
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Finally, there was one more Biggie Smalls, a man named Drik who grew up in Queensbridge with Stretch and The Live Squad and was a part of Tupac's Thug Life/Thugadon movement. There are virtually no details to be found on Drik (though I'm hoping Majesty will clear some of it up in our upcoming interview...stay tuned), beyond the fact that he died at some point before Tupac, B.I.G. or Biggy Smallz. After Drik's death, Tupac dedicated God Bless The Dead to his "motherfukkin' Biggie Smalls," dropping the line, "the other day I thought I seen my homeboy Biggie saying 'shyt don't stop!'" Though Pac recorded the song a couple of years before Notorious B.I.G.'s murder (and obviously before Pac's own death!), it wasn't released until the late 90's. Predictably, conspiracy theorists argued that this was indeed a reference to Christopher Wallace, not Drik, using the line to further the argument that Tupac had faked his own death. Shock G of Digital Underground, who was a close friend of Tupac's, and the two surviving members of Live Squad have all stated that this was not some sort of prediction of B.I.G.'s murder, but rather a shoutout to Drik.
thought that up until about 2003 when the 7 years past.
