Sat 29 Aug 2009
Jay-Z remembers battling Biggie and Busta in high school
Posted by Miss Info under Quotes , Relationships and Family , Videos[38] Comments
(thanks to IcedotCom for this video of Hov’s Myspace interview)
[38] Comments
[38] Comments
[38] Comments
August 29th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Dope
August 29th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
It’s Not working… I bet it’s interesting
August 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Nostalgic.
August 29th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Some of those titles pulled me out of the video a bit.
“Hard Knocked Life?” – umm, no. It’s “Hard Knock Life”, and if the dude who edited the video knew anything about Jay-Z, I doubt that mistake would have been made.
And Hard Knock Life came AFTER In My Lifetime, but here it was the other way round. Those things were a little odd to me.
Otherwise, it was a good watch. Hov’s getting his D-Nice on.
August 29th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
i wanna hear more stories like how biggie liked streets is watching. thats pretty dope
the bill maher interview was dope too. maybe he is right he does give hotter interviews
August 29th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Now, I always thought Jay denied meeting or knowing Biggie by anything other than reputation prior to them recording ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’. In fact, I’m pretty sure he said that.
August 29th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Westinghouse High! Brooklynnn
Dr Marc Lamont Hill, the professor and Bill O Reilly token black perspective correspondent, came to my school to speak, and talked about planning to write a book about Westinghouse when he learned that Biggie, Busta, Hov, Foxy and all these prominent brooklyn MCs had come out of one school. he went back to the school to interview staff and faculty and get all these great stories about big and hov rapping in the lunchroom and stuff like that, and was shocked to find that no one remembered any of them as students. No teachers, lunch aids, security guards. no one.
He spoke on how frightening it is to think about that, how that much talent and potential is sitting dormant and malnourished in New York City public high schools right now, with no one to really notice or remember them. It’s a really powerful thought
August 29th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Bill O Reilly token black perspective correspondent
^^^^^^^
LOL
August 29th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
go fly a kite.
August 29th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Dope interview…
August 29th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Its very interesting that he said he battled Busta in high school. Cuz unless my memory serves me correct Busta went to high school in Uniondale Long Island. (just a mental note) I have a question….. what if Jay-Z never stopped rapping fast, would he have as many fans as he does? I also saw that interview with Maher and I’m not sure if its just me but does he hit him with some questions that Jay had to really think about how to answer that question. Great Interviews though
August 29th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Oh and I just want to say congrats Info I noticed you are selling ad space. that means you are big enough that corp america wants to give you money to use your site. Must be nice!!!
August 29th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
i used to go there(westinghouse) for night school and they have like a mural or something in the hallway with them on it or something of that nature, cant remember fully!
August 29th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
@th!z werd
August 29th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Brilliant thought.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I say a B.I.G. verse I’m only biggin up my brother/Biggin up my borough!!!!
What More Can I say -JAY-Z
Do the math. Jay Z, Busta Rhymes and B.I.G all went to the same high school. Where do you people come up with such stuff? You remind me of that lady that asked a jewish senator why he was supporting a nazi healthcare plan.
He’s response was, talking to you is like talkin to a dining room table…….
August 29th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Thats becuase there’s too much stereotyping going on in schools. When you fit a profile they expect you to fuck up and go to jail.
B.I.G and Jay rapped for fun and were more interested in getting money hustlin, Busta always talked about rapping.
I don’t think you can spot potential that early only when someone becomes succesful the you can connect the dots.
The flip side is people who you grow up around who are flashy, loud e.t.c tend to become bums/wankstas e.t.c I know it’s a stereotype but, I’m talkin from experience.
August 30th, 2009 at 12:33 am
The ^above comment ……
The best comment i ever read
August 30th, 2009 at 1:28 am
i loveh tha intranet.
jayz on real time:
http://www.rap-up.com/2009/08/29/video-jay-z-on-real-time-with-bill-maher/
thanks info.
August 30th, 2009 at 1:41 am
i am so out of the loop. i just heard mad linx and dj power talking about how supposedly timbaland said “you think i’m giving jay-z my best stuff? nah”…like he’s saving it for the new shockdoctrine record coming out. wowwwwwwwwww.
August 30th, 2009 at 2:04 am
Wow that is so crazy that it sometimes is like that it’s the same here in long island. No one takes notice of the talent until they are stars.
August 30th, 2009 at 5:12 am
Damn that is kinda nuts!!
Where so busy looking for the conventional that we purge anything slightly different from our minds!!
If you can be a little different without dying your hair and nails black you done did good!
August 30th, 2009 at 11:32 am
I thought they all went to Sarah J. Hale. Maybe Dr. Hill went to the wrong school. I also heard AZ claim he went to high school with Jay as well. What ever the school that is a lot of Super talent flowing through one place. But, I willing to bet that almost every high school in Brooklyn has had at least one MC that “made it”.
I’m saying…we’re the Borough of Kings.
August 30th, 2009 at 11:42 am
i thought busta went to uniondale h.s in long island
August 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
That is really odd because I always remember Jay talking about BIggie he even had a concert where the funds were donated to Biggie & Pac funds. You may have seen Notorious and assumed that that was the whole life of Biggie when really it was all about the realtionship between biggie & puff. He even gives shout outs to biggie here and there through verses and albums
August 30th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Yeah, they became close after doing ‘Brooklyn’s Finest.
.[16] “Brooklyn’s Finest” was a competitive, though friendly battle between Jay-Z and The Notorious B.I.G. in which Jay-Z tried proving that he is of Biggie’s caliber, while Biggie tried brushing his rhymes off as insignificant.[16] Although the rappers had already met on the set for the “Dead Presidents” music video, they discovered that neither write down their rhymes while recording.[16] The recording of “Brooklyn’s Finest” spanned two months and moved from D&D Studios to Giant Studios where the Clark Kent-sung chorus was recorded.[16] The studio sessions affected Jay-Z mentally: as he told Rolling Stone, “The studio was like a psychiatrist’s couch for me”.[11]
I’ve seen interviews with Jay, talking about the production of Reasonable Doubt and the 1st time he met Big. Big was a bit younger than Jay and Jay barely went to school.
You dudes don’t know sh__!!
August 30th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Clark Kent: I just freshly came off of tour with Big. We were doing Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s [debut album], and he heard the beat and went crazy. He was like, “I want the beat.” I was like, “Nah, it’s Jay’s beat.” He’s like, “You’re always giving this guy everything.” He wanted that beat real bad. I’m leaving the studio to go to D&D to track it for Jay, and Big’s like, “Yo, I want to be on that record.” So I was like, “Yo, just come with me.” So I went upstairs, and I left him downstairs. I was like, “Big wants to be on that record. Why don’t you put Big on that record? He heard the beat. He likes it.” Jay was like, “I don’t really know him like that.” And Dame was like, “I ain’t paying him, neither.” I was just like, Ah, okay. So then I’m like, “If I get him to do it for free would you do it?” He was like, “Yeah, we’ll try it.” So I run downstairs. I go get Big, bring him upstairs, and they met each other the right way, properly. And everybody was like, “Well, if you’re going to do it for whatever…” Jay changed the verses around right there, and was like, “This is where you go, right there. You ready?” Big was like, “I can’t do this right now!”
Big said he didn’t start Rhyming till he was about 18 and kicked school in the head early too. When did they have chance to meet and battle?
August 30th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
congressman barney franke. that was good times.
i don’t know what dunk is saying…but he has a right to say whatever i guess.
August 30th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
THE HEADLINE STATES:Jay-Z remembers battling Biggie and Busta in high school
Posted by Miss Info under quotes , relationships and family , videos
Now are you arguing with Jay Z’s memory????
Like are we supposed to question what Jay Z is saying because you read something somewhere. GTFOH!!!
August 30th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I’m not questioning Jay-Z, just wondering why he would say one thing and then something contradictory 5-10 years later.
Seems strange.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
nah im 100% Westinghouse, busta has even come back a few times, they all went there
August 30th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
You’re such a stan.
August 31st, 2009 at 3:10 am
Well actually, according 2 YOU Clark Kent said 1 thing n Jay said another 5-10 yrs l8r…n when he said ” I dont really know him like that” it doesn’t sound unlikely bcuz battling sum1 doesn’t necessarily make ya’ll the best of friends
August 31st, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I quoted Clark Kent because that was the only quote I could find.
However, I watched the BBC produced making of Reasonable Doubt documentary and Jay himself says he didn’t know Biggie.
Plus, Jay is 3 years older than Big would be. I can’t imagine a 13-14 year old Biggie battling Jay, can you? Especially as neither really rapped to that before the age of 18. Going off things both have said in the past.
Inconsistencies? Embellishment of a legend?
Nah, just believe everything you read or hear.
August 31st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
cause when he was down with the leader of the new school he met them in uniondale long island they even did there first vid there
November 16th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Busta did go to Uniondale HS in Long Island. He might have went to Westinghouse for a quick second but it’s a known fact he really went to Uniondale.
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Jay said that he battled Busta not Biggie..
May 7th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I was a gym teacher at westinghouse h.s. for 35 years and didn’t know any of the 3 ( 1967-2001 )
R. Kuras