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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTH'he Charlotte Post
Thursday, March 13, 1997
Murder ends life of rap star
Continued from 10A
buzzing on the East Coast
before 7 a.m.
“Snoop’s (Doggy Dogg) man
ager called me from the hospi
tal to tell me about B.I.G.’s
death,” said Jay Howell, CEO
of C&J Concert Promotions in
Charlotte. Howell is the
national tour director for The
East-West Fresh Fest Tour
which stars Snoop (real name
Calvin Broadus). The tour was
to stop in Charlotte March 22,
but has been rescheduled until
sometime in April.
“The tour is such a big tour. A
lot of people on the tour were
friends of Biggie, especially
LIT Kim,” Howell said. “It’s
going to take a minute for
everyone to get their thoughts
together. Kim was a close, per
sonal fnend of Biggie.”
According to some sources.
Snoop was not. Snoop, Dr. Dre,
Ice Cube, Too Short and the
late Tupac Shakur - gunned
down in a similar fashion six
months ago — are West Coast
rappers. B.I.G., Jay-Z,
Redman and Wu Tang (llan
are East Coast rappers. An
alleged feud between the
groups has been linked to the
deaths of Shakur and B.I.G.
Howell thinks the feud is
more mind game than reality.
“The whole thing has been
blown out of proportion,”
Howell said. “The guy that
shot Biggie may not have even
known him. I don’t think it
was planned.
“For people to tie the rivalry
into this is wrong,” he said.
“This is not a rivalry. It’s
between the people who listen
to the music. 'There is no rival
ry between the artists. Tupac
and Biggie had a personal
thing. It was not an East Coast
- West Coast thing.”
B.I.G. paid Uttle attention to
the feud. Nor did he respond to
a vicious attack Shakur
released called “Hit ‘Em Up.”
“Me addressing it would just
leave the door open for some
body to say something else,”
B.I.G. said. “And I felt that if I
can do a whole double albirni —
22 songs - and say nothing
about that, that was gonna
show people that B.I.G doesn’t
care about nonsense. Tm
stronger than that.”
B.I.G. was born in the
Bedford-Stuyvesarit section of
Brooklyn. He grew up in the
streets, giving' in to them by
becoming a crack dealer.
“Everything happened on the
strip I came up on,” he said.
“And it didn’t matter where
you went - it was all in your
face,” he said “We were seeing
people get shot all the time.”
B.I.G. pulled himself from
the environment when tapes
he made of himself rapping
over scratched back beats got
in the hans of an editor of The
Source” magazine. That editor
passed the tapes on to Combs.
B.I.G. made several guest
appearances on other artists’
works - Mary J. BUge and
Supercat - before releasing
Ready To Die, an album chron
icling his rise from drug dealer
‘Love Jones’ has lots of good stuff
Continued from 10A
The soundtrack runs the
gamut of the musical spec
trum. How else could you
explain the inclusion of
Cassandra Wilson’s wonderful
ly moody “You Move Me” or
Duke Ellington and John
Coltrane’s “In A Sentimental
Mood.” That’s how good this
soundtrack is before you get to
the folks that are suppose to be
pop and r&b stars.
There’s plenty of other good
stuff. Farris’ “Hopeless” is a
splendid mix of r&b and alter
native. Hill’s “The Sweetest
Thing” rambles somewhat, but
its further proof she’s got a set
of pipes that need to he fea
tured on a complete CD of
music. Maxwell offers a sensu
al mix of his “Sumthin’
Sumthin’” jam from his mon
ster Maxwell’s Urban Hang
Suite CD.
If the movie is anywhere
near as satisfying as the
soundtrack it should be a mon
ster hit.
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