Big was looking to get back to the streets, but Puff’s ambitions were set towards launching his own label, Bad Boy Entertainment. “And it had a lot of personality - like a light on his feet kind of big brother.” But Uptown dropped Biggie after Combs was fired, setting the rapper’s career in limbo. “He had a voice that just sounded like it was heavy, funky and rhythmic,” Harrell would tell the New York Times in 1994, just after Ready To Die went Gold. Uptown CEO Andre Harrell was immediately impressed with B.I.G. The MC would land some noteworthy early guest appearances on tracks by artists like Super Cat ( “Dolly My Baby”) and Heavy D ( “A Buncha N-as”), working closely with Combs at Uptown Records. From there, word got to upstart mogul-in-the-making Sean “Puffy” Combs about the gifted lyricist from Brooklyn.
The story is well-known: Big Daddy Kane’s DJ Mister Cee heard Biggie on a tape and invited the burgeoning rapper to a showcase for The Source.
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