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“I didn’t know he was coming to the party. “We were at the hotel earlier and we were talking about things,” Kent said. “It’s becoming more mythical that it’s not solved, that we don’t know ’ said Alan Light, who was the editor-in-chief of Vibe at the time.Īnd Kent can’t shake the feeling that Biggie should never have gone to that party - six months later the murder of Tupac Shakur the East Coast/West Coast rap rivalry had escalated.
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The Notorious BIG at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards. 25 years after his assassination on March 9, 1997, the case remains an unsolved mystery. Unfortunately, the two never made that journey: after leaving the party at Petersen Automobile Museumthe Notorious BIG, also known as Biggie Smalls, was killed at the age of 24 in a seated drive-by shoot in his GMC Suburban. “And I said, ‘Man, you know I have a job.’ But he said, ‘I’m going to London and you’re coming with me.’ ” We’re going to London for this new album,'” Kent – who was senior vice president of A&R at Motown Records at the time – told The Post. “He said, ‘Yo, you have to go on tour with me. And while bottles were popping at Vibe magazine’s Post-Soul Train Awards party in Los Angeles, he tried to convince DJ Clark Kent to be his spinning pal across the pond. Two weeks before the March 1997 release “Life after death” – his second and final studio album – the rapper planned to mesmerize London in support of the ambitious double LP. “It was all a dream/I read Word Up! Magazine,” the Notorious BIG rapped on his 1994 breakout hit “Juicy.” And three years later, he was living the dream before it all came to a tragic end.