He describes flow this way: "Flow is like water. Rapper AZ met Biggie when Big was rapping on street corners. They choose a rhythmic pattern to match each beat. That's how rappers pace the voicing of their lyrics. But what he had more than anything else was flow. With the wit and presence evident on that song, Biggie put other rappers on notice.
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By 1993, he had a song in the movie Who's The Man? called "Party and Bulls-t." Puff Daddy heard it and eventually signed Big to a deal. At least one person shot video of him free-styling on the street in Brooklyn when he was 17.Ī local DJ named 50 Grand made a mixtape for Big that ended up in the Source magazine's Unsigned Hype column. He reportedly began selling drugs, but he kept practicing. "What are you gonna do? Go out to the corner every day and bring him in the house by his ear? It's not gonna happen."īig dropped out of high school after his freshman year. So him and his mom had a big fallout because he basically stepped off the path." Hubert says there wasn't much Big's mom, a teacher, could do about his choice. "But the pull of the streets - it grabbed him, and he went that route. "He was on course to just be a brilliant student, college grad, possible doctor, lawyer," he says. Hubert says even after all that hard work and despite his obvious talent, Big lost focus for a while. So all of these things were part of Chris' early development, when he was MC CWest, and it was like he was on a quest to become the greatest of all time." "Things kind of seemed to come easy to him, but that was from a lot of really being focused on getting as good as you could. People don't know that he really did take it serious at a young age," Hubert says. "We tried to go to the studio at the age, I believe, of 13. Hubert met Biggie in day care, and he became Big's DJ.
Biggie started rapping with his friends Sam Hubert and Mike Bynum when they were 10 or 11 years old.
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