![]() A friend of mine was out in the hallway - Billy Preston, the keyboard player. That night I was at the old Record Plant studios on third street. So I was doing demos, and the A&R guy at A&M Records at the time said, “Would you want to do disco songs of Tijuana Brass things for your uncle?” And I said, “You know Chip, I don’t feel great about working with Herb.” And when I started to do it seriously, like I said, I changed my name, and I got my first job - which was to do demos for Columbia Records, for a group called Con Funk Shun. Back then I was 11, in ‘66, packing records in the shipping room, and I loved being around there. Herb and I were always close, family-wise, and as a kid, I always worked at A&M Records. I hated as a kid how everywhere I went, I’d tell them my name, and they’d go, “Oh, are you related to Herb?” So at that time, I was going into doing funk music, and I randomly picked the name - some girl was like, “Oh, you’re pretty badass.” And at that time, I was about 17, and I went “Boy, maybe I should call myself Randy Badazz.” And I did. But when I was about 18, I really wanted to be a musician, and at that time, Herb and A&M were giants. His words have been condensed and edited for clarity. You can watch the music video for ‘Hypnotize’ in the video below.Here, Randy tells Billboard about his memories of composing and recording “Rise,” why “Hypnotize” was the first sample request that he actually cleared, and how Biggie’s song has helped his own song live on through the generations. ‘Hypnotize’ was the lead single for the album and has been certified platinum in the US and two times platinum in the UK making it one of Biggie’s most successful singles. The album was recorded during what was a media frenzy surrounding the East Coast versus West Coast beef, centred around Biggie and California rapper Tupac Shakur. The majority of Life After Death including its lead single ‘Hypnotize’ was recorded in New York. The song also samples Slick Rick’s song ‘La Di Da Di’, the sample only appears partially during the chorus.įor the chorus, Biggie specifically recruited Pam Long from the group Total. Now, if that isn’t something that needs to be freed from the old school archives, then I don’t know what is. Furthermore, still has the cassette demo. The original demo featured Biggie behind the mic singing the female’s part. Surprisingly, many don’t know that Biggie wrote the entire song, even the female part. Alpert continued in an interview proceeded to say that “Over the years was approached by Ice Cube, Easy E, Vanilla Ice, and maybe another 4-5 artists to use the song and never said yes until heard rough version of Biggie’s recording.” According to Randy Alpert, Diddy chose to use the bass riff of ‘Rise’ because, along with Chic’s track ‘Good Times’, it was an extremely popular song that the kids of New York City were rollerskating to. The track was written by Andy Armer and Herb Alpert’s nephew Randy “Badazz” Alpert. ‘Hypnotize’ was produced by P Diddy and samples the 1979 song ‘Rise’ by Herb Alpert. In this article, we’ll be looking Behind the Mic to discover the story behind The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1997 hit ‘Hypnotize’ and bring you facts no one else knows about on how this classic was made. For fans, it is fascinating to see how artists we admire and producers we love piece small things together like a jigsaw puzzle and before they know it, something unimaginable is coming through the speakers. Sometimes we need to dig even deeper to find those hidden gems. Exploring how the late rapper produced these songs is fascinating, and even the tiniest look behind the scenes of the hit factory that was Bad Boy Entertainment is enthralling.Īs listeners and fans of The Notorious B.I.G., yes, we got to hear the final version of these songs, and although there are minuscule snippets of the late rapper in the studio around the internet, they are brief and actually surprisingly uninformative and more often than not, they are not enough. ![]() Biggie was a quiet guy, and we rarely got to see how he made these songs. As P Diddy’s prodigy, The Notorious BIG went from freestyling on Brooklyn street corners to ruling the charts and producing platinum hit records. From ‘Juicy’ to ‘Big Poppa’, the Brooklyn rapper made some epic rap anthems that live on to this day. was the best-selling hip hop artist of the 1990s, and it’s easy to see why.
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