In this clip from next week’s “People’s Party with Talib Kweli,” Kweli and co-host Jasmin Leigh chat with legendary rapper Capone about Biggie originally wanting to sign him to Junior M.A.F.I.A. You like 90s NYC rap? Then this story has everything you need — from how Capone ran up on B.I.G. in front of Hot97 when he was still unsigned and how B.I.G. tried to get Capone for Junior M.A.F.I.A. to how Capone and Noriega recorded TONY (“Top Of New York”) in Bad Boy studios where Biggie heard the track and told them he wanted to guest verse after returning from Los Angeles. Sadly, Biggie was murdered in LA before he could record his verse. It’s a tragic tale that sets the tone for an episode which wrestles with massive themes of how incarceration and violence change lives irrevocably.
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