Biggie

Wendy’s is starting a new drone delivery program in Christiansburg, Virginia on Thursday, where residents will be able to choose airflight as an option on DoorDash. Autonomous drones from Wing will fly 65 mph while holding Bacanotors, Frosties, and other items before gently dropping them onto the front lawn of a customer. The Fujifilm X100VI is the Most Fun I’ve Had With a Camera in YearsThe roughly 21,000 residents of Christiansburg will be the first town in America to have Wendy’s flown to their doorstep. A DoorDash…

Lance “Un” Rivera, whose early career is closely interwoven with that of the Notorious B.I.G.’s, recently sat down for an extended interview during which he reflected on key moments in the late artist’s history.Among them, as seen below, was the first time Biggie heard 2Pac’s diss record “Hit ‘Em Up.” In the track’s opening lines, as fans will note, 2Pac claimed to have had sexual relations with Biggie’s wife at the time, Faith Evans. Looking back on his and Biggie’s first time hearing the track, Rivera explained to DJ…

Styles P has revealed the late Notorious B.I.G. wanted to squash the beef between The LOX and Diddy before he was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1997. During his interview with The Art of Dialogue, Styles reflected on the night Biggie was killed in Los Angeles, California, and how badly he wanted the two parties to bury their hatchet. According to the Yonkers native, Big was guiding the trio on how to handle the situation with Diddy that eventually spilled over in the early 2000s. “We literally had just left — we was…

In a post shared on social media, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs shared a tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G. on the 26th anniversary of his death.“There will NEVER be another,” wrote Diddy, who released Biggie’s debut album Ready to Die on his Bad Boy Records imprint in 1994. "The GREATEST RAPPER OF ALL TIME. Today we celebrate and honor you king. Love and miss you!!" Following Biggie’s murder by drive-by shooting in 1997, the late rapper’s ex Faith Evans and Diddy teamed up for the tribute track, “I’ll Be Missing You.”Biggie was…

Diddy’s former bodyguard claims the story surrounding Biggie Smalls’ death was a flat-out lie.While speaking to the Art of Dialogue, Gene Deal was pressed about his involvement in one of music’s most notorious unsolved murders. Deal, who worked as Diddy’s security in the 1990s, insisted Biggie wasn’t killed in a drive-by, as many were made to believe. How does he claim to know? Because he witnessed the attack with his own eyes.“Before we left Andre Harrell’s house, Puff told me I didn’t have to go,” Deal said. “Now, I…

The team created a database of “micro-expression reference materials,” analyzed “pore-level resolution imagery,” and tracked the elasticity of sub-skin layers to understand how Smalls’s facial skin moved, Scott explains. Those minute changes in facial expression were crucial to creating as real an avatar as possible.  All that research paid off. “I have seen the avatar throughout the process of building … and it looks very real to me. I see my son’s characteristics in the detailing,” his mother, Voletta Wallace, said…

In an appearance on Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion podcast, TDE president Punch broke down his interpretation of Kendrick Lamar’s iconic verse on Big Sean’s 2013 track “Control.”From his perspective, Punch said that he and Kendrick spoke about the general atmosphere in the hip-hop community at the time. They came to the conclusion that everyone was “friendly” with one another, which is ultimately what inspired Kendrick to deliver such a hard-hitting verse. “He told me he wanted to give Sean another verse, but Sean was…

At this year’s BET awards, the honor for lifetime achievement went to Sean “Diddy” Combs – and why not? He signed the Notorious BIG and takes credit for “inventing” the remix. He changed what it means to be called a hip-hop super producer while becoming a multi-platinum-selling rapper himself. Really, he’s not that much different from Pete Rock.Rock (real name Peter O Philips) is the other kind of super-producer, the one who actually does the grunt work of trawling for rare records and cutting and stitching them into…

As part of a Twitter Spaces hosted to celebrate what would’ve been the Notorious B.I.G.’s 50th birthday, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs told Jay-Z he “filled” the shoes of Biggie and 2Pac after their deaths.Hov and Diddy were in attendance at the TIDAL-hosted event, when Jay said the death of Biggie and Pac left a “void” in the rap world.“As far as Big and ‘Pac and pushing forward, that’s just me being a student of the game and loving the game and loving the culture and wanting to push the culture forward," said Jay, as heard in the…