Tue 12 Jul 2011
Notorious B.I.G. Performing on Jon Stewart’s Short-Lived 90′s Talk Show (Video)
Posted by Miss Info under about miss info , good for hip hop , headcrack , old music , things I love , videos[10] Comments
Wow. Totally completely wow. Watch this vintage TV clip from the mid-90′s of the late great Notorious B.I.G. performing “Big Poppa” with a live band, back-up singers, Puff Daddy and Lil’ Cease…on MTV’s The Jon Stewart Show. Can you imagine? 1994-1995: Jon Stewart actually had a hour-long talk show on MTV that competed with the big boys like Dave Letterman and Jay Leno. Obviously it failed. But the same team created The Daily Show later, and just look how great it’s become.
But getting back to BIG….this would have been one of the few and biggest TV looks that Biggie could have gotten at the time. I don’t know that they were as open minded to hip hop on the Tonight Show as they are now? And you can hear the influence of the g-funk trend in the cheesy jazzified live band and singers. I still love it though.
Props to ThaaRapBasement for the gem.
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Unreleased Music From Tupac, Dissing The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Dr. Dre & more.
Still Always Miss Big Poppa….#RIPNotoriousBIG (Updated: DJ Clark Kent, Maino and more pay tribute)
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July 12th, 2011 at 4:00 am
Cannot believe this shit was in existence. Thank you Miss Info. Made my night
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July 12th, 2011 at 4:41 am
The only time Leno attempted something like this was during the Branford Marsalis era when Gang Starr performed “Take it Personal” complete with a DJ tutorial by Premo – http://youtu.be/d_YZhjWbBnI
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Miss Info Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 11:07 am
awesome contribution! thank you for that
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July 12th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
I remember The Jon Stewart Show. I didn’t watch it, but I wish I had to see this performance. Thanks for posting Info!
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July 12th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
If I could time travel I would go back and unplug Puffy and Cease’s mics.
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Miss Info Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
um, personally I could do without the jazz band and singers.
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binary hex Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Wait I think we might be on to something here. If we combine both our ideas it would be just a dope MC and a DJ.
That would be revolutionary.
Oh and some girls dancing.
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Duro Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Info I think this is the remix to big poppa. I got a version similar to this on a mixtape although it could just be the audio from this show.
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July 12th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
im kinda tired of biggie footage its kinda borning,i like watching old odb footage or old busta rhymes footage,its fun to watch,
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July 18th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
B.I.G. may be a lot of things to many people. Good – Bad – Greatest Rap Artist Ever – Worst Rap Artist Ever. But one thing you can not deny is that he dropped knowledge on “Sky’s the Limit”.
“Only make moves when ya heart’s in it”
“Get my daughter this college plan”
“Sky is the limit and you know that you can have
what you want, be what you want, have what you want, be what you want”
http://www.lyricalsurgeon.com/Notorious-B.I.G.-Skys-The-Limit-Life-After-Death.html
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