Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

My favorite was KRS-One. 637 00:33:46,649 --> 00:33:48,651 O's favorite was Rakim. 638 00:33:48,735 --> 00:33:50,903 Big's favorite was Big Daddy Kane. 639 00:33:50,987 --> 00:33:53,865 ♪ Warm it up Kane ♪ 640 00:33:53,948 --> 00:33:56,868 We would always analyze somebody flow, 641 00:33:56,951 --> 00:33:58,578 they rhymes, and all of that. 642 00:33:58,661 --> 00:34:01,581 Wasn't like I'mma make music one day. I'mma be a rapper or… 643 00:34:01,664 --> 00:34:03,207 You know, it wasn't like that. 644 00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:07,295 - Boy draws good. - Whatever, son. 645 00:34:07,378 --> 00:34:10,757 During that time, I wasn't coming around on Fulton as much. 646 00:34:11,215 --> 00:34:13,176 He started focusing on getting money. 647 00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:16,679 My turntables got dusty. 648 00:34:16,763 --> 00:34:18,598 He wasn't even thinking about music. 649 00:34:18,681 --> 00:34:21,893 It was just about that next dollar and try to up the hustle. 650 00:34:21,976 --> 00:34:24,896 Keep it flowing. Make Fulton Street an enterprise. 651 00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:29,067 When you young, it's fun for a moment, but… 652 00:34:30,485 --> 00:34:32,945 when the full gravity of it impacts you, 653 00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:34,238 it's stressful. 654 00:34:34,322 --> 00:34:35,865 You not doing the right thing. 655 00:34:35,948 --> 00:34:37,492 I mean, any civilian 656 00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:40,745 would see that as the right thing to do, is to call the police on you. 657 00:34:42,663 --> 00:34:44,999 Big would then grow up fucked up. 658 00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,584 His moms had a job. 659 00:34:46,667 --> 00:34:49,712 No, we didn't really realize what was important at that time. 660 00:34:50,421 --> 00:34:53,382 Like, my moms ain't really know about everything everything. 661 00:34:53,466 --> 00:34:54,675 You know? 662 00:34:55,259 --> 00:34:57,845 I don't know what he was doing. He told me he was working. 663 00:34:57,929 --> 00:34:59,013 I believed him. 664 00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:03,643 When he started going out on Fulton Street 665 00:35:03,726 --> 00:35:05,645 and joining in the ranks, 666 00:35:05,728 --> 00:35:08,648 I wasn't too happy. And initially, I could get him and say, 667 00:35:08,731 --> 00:35:10,566 "Come home," and he would follow me. 668 00:35:11,067 --> 00:35:14,237 Maybe for about a year, when I'd come off the road. 669 00:35:15,071 --> 00:35:18,366 And then, that part was over. 670 00:35:19,575 --> 00:35:22,453 In my mind, the only thing I could see was that, you know, 671 00:35:22,537 --> 00:35:24,288 those were guys his age 672 00:35:24,372 --> 00:35:26,374 and that he was bonding with them 673 00:35:26,958 --> 00:35:29,710 and putting some money in his pocket. 674 00:35:29,794 --> 00:35:31,671 That becomes an option, 675 00:35:32,839 --> 00:35:34,757 and he took that option. 676 00:35:37,635 --> 00:35:39,929 We had crack on a plate. 677 00:35:40,012 --> 00:35:42,348 Big used to leave it in his room 678 00:35:42,431 --> 00:35:44,392 to dry near the window. 679 00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:46,602 Hang out for a couple hours to let it dry. 680 00:35:46,686 --> 00:35:48,062 When we came back home, 681 00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:49,981 Ms. Wallace had cleaned his room, 682 00:35:50,064 --> 00:35:53,276 and as soon as he came through the door, she screamed to him, 683 00:35:53,359 --> 00:35:56,904 "Yo, why are you leaving all these hard mashed potatoes 684 00:35:56,988 --> 00:35:57,947 in the plate?" 685 00:35:58,030 --> 00:35:59,532 She scraped it in the garbage. 686 00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:02,994 She thought it was like, mashed potatoes that'd been out for a couple days, 687 00:36:03,077 --> 00:36:04,912 but that was, you know, drugs. 688 00:36:05,872 --> 00:36:07,331 Jesus Christ. 689 00:36:08,499 --> 00:36:10,042 That bastard. 690 00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:12,253 I never knew. 691 00:36:12,336 --> 00:36:15,339 I don't know if a human being can be so mad at a dead person. 692 00:36:16,132 --> 00:36:17,466 I was mad at my son 693 00:36:18,259 --> 00:36:20,178 for that, that incident. 694 00:36:20,261 --> 00:36:21,637 That's the shocker. 695 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,308 That was a big shocker. 696 00:36:25,391 --> 00:36:28,561 That means he brought it into my house. 697 00:36:29,061 --> 00:36:32,023 He disrespected my house. 698 00:36:33,065 --> 00:36:35,902 That wasn't my son. That's not the son I wanted. 699 00:36:36,903 --> 00:36:39,572 There was nothing she could do to stop a nigga. 700 00:36:39,655 --> 00:36:42,617 So I tell her I'mma stop, I ain't gonna fuck around no more. 701 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,912 She'd kick me out the crib, but I'd just like come back in, 702 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:48,414 tell her I ain't doing it, and still be doing it. 703 00:37:16,275 --> 00:37:18,861 Once Bi