According to Lil Cease, Heavy D and the Notorious B.I.G. discussed working on a joint album before their untimely deaths.
“There was an immediate bond,” Lil Cease tells XXL. “Hev was
instrumental in getting Puff his first job so they had that connection
through Diddy. But Hev always saluted [Big] like, ‘Yo, you that next
one. That next big man.’”
“Him and Big was doing the records, they was trying to do a whole
project together,” Cease continued. “Eventually, they was trying to work
on a project together.”
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According to Lil Cease, Heavy D and the Notorious B.I.G. discussed working on a joint album before their untimely deaths.
“There was an immediate bond,” Lil Cease tells XXL. “Hev was
instrumental in getting Puff his first job so they had that connection
through Diddy. But Hev always saluted [Big] like, ‘Yo, you that next
one. That next big man.’”
“Him and Big was doing the records, they was trying to do a whole
project together,” Cease continued. “Eventually, they was trying to work
on a project together.”
But things didn’t pan out, timing-wise, because Biggie’s career took off in an unexpected way.
“After Big took off, it was hard for them to set up the schedules,”
Lil Cease said. “But, Big always had the idea in his head like, ‘Yo, you
know what? Me and Hev doing something together.’ The relationship was
there being around the whole Uptown situation. It was a unit, everybody
was a family up there; Mary [J.] Blige, Jodeci, Christopher Williams —
it was that bond. Him and Big was gonna try to put something together.
That’s why they were doing all those records together [and trying to
get] a vibe off each other.”
Hev and Big made three official songs together in the early and mid
’90s, “Jam Session,” “A Buncha Niggas” and “Let’s Get it On,” the latter
notably featuring Grand Puba and Tupac Shakur.
Cease says Big was a big fan of Heavy D and that he and the
“Overweight Lover” became fast friends. In fact, Hev encouraged Big to
be confident about his plus-size and his appeal to the ladies.
“Hev was that mentor [to Big],” Cease explained. “Hev would give him
lessons on the type of records to make. ‘Don’t be afraid to go out your
comfort zone. I know you’re known for the ‘Gimme the Loots’ and ‘Ready
to Dies,’ but don’t be afraid to make those other type of records, too.’
He was letting him know, ‘The ladies tend to like us big guys if we
talking the right shit.’
“So you hear those influences in ‘One More Chance,’” he said. “You
hear it in the remix, ‘Fuck You Tonight,’ all those girls records. Of
course Big got some of that from him. Even with the style part, the
dress codes. They both was big guys, so they couldn’t find shit to fit
them. So Hev would come out with that custom made leather shit. Big, he
was getting those 5001 Flavors leathers made of his own shit with the
‘B’ on it. He just took that pipeline from Hev because Hev is the one
that opened the door for the big guys to be lovable , to be fly.”
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