@@FrankMichaelSmith bad info. Tum Bigelow was 2 years old when Calvin Lockhart played Biggie Smalls in Let's Do It Again. Soooooo, he can't be the original now can he.
I grew up during it. I was in highschool.. and the whole east west thing even spread amongst the youth at the time.. in other words you couldn't listen to both.. u had to choose a side.. hip hop kids would call you a fraud if liked both 😆 that shit got carried away..
@@himynameis4054 they weren’t true hip hop fans then. The meaning of hip hop could be subjective but it’s a genre that brings a lot of things into new lights and can help others who really need it. Things that motivate people or making them feel in the zone. Idk hating over rap music is idiotic lol
@@daltonmoore8419 He mentioned the movie. And what he said was correct. Biggie (Notorious) didn’t use Biggie Smalls as his stage name because of Tim Bigelow since Tim had already taken the name Biggy Smallz. He even threatened to sue Notorious BIG if he used the name on his album cover and all that.
The Biggie Smalls that 2pac and Stretch made God Bless The Dead for was Drik aka Biggie Smalls their friend. He was from New York apart of the Young Guns with Stretch, Majesty, E Money Bag, etc. They even shout him out in the 2nd verse and how he died.
People don't realize just how dangerous California was in the 1990s. Yup standing outside a liquor store was considered playing with fire, or "asking for trouble".
@@JPerryBeats yep plus I've heard of the kid his talking about way before the video If Big really wanted to be Biggie Smalls he could have some 3 song yong kid in Cali wouldn't have stopped him you don't 5hink Puffy couldn't have paid the kid off or beat him in court for the use of the name Big was always the Notorious B.I.G. look at everyone from New York that mentions Biggie they all call him Big no one calls him Biggie
I thought I heard about that back in the 90’s and Suge released a Tupac album after BIG death were there was a track that Tupac said, “Rest In Peace to my nigga Biggie Smallz.”
@@leftovercrass5210 how when he didn’t own the name nor came up with it the movie did which was out before the kid. Was born so I’m sure he wouldn’t of plus the name doesn’t fit him and neither was his life anything close to the character in the movie I’m sure B.I.G deserved the name more and it fit him more
@@Peterblack12 The actor is real, but the character biggie smalls is not. But if we are gonna do it like that then the real biggie smalls was whoever conceived of, created, named, and wrote the lines for the character biggie smalls. If the fictional character portrayed in the film can be considered real, then why not the biggie smalls dreamt up by the script writer or screen writer or author or whoever the inventor was? What if that person ( the writer) thought of biggie as his alter ego? Is he the original biggie? Is he the O.B.? Or what if the character is loosely based on someone the writer knew in real life? Is he the OB? Either way, Kurt Cobain did not commit suicide with that shotgun (how could he od and shoot himself?) and Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate John Fitzgerald Kennedy that day, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas USA. Those are the facts. And also Snoop's cousin Lil Half Dead murdered Tupac. Praise Bob! Johnson out.
@@milojohnson6068 you see this has to do with the fact that it’s a black man over a little white boy. Americans are so obsessed with their race being the pinical of culture and the founders of anything and everything it’s really sad at this point ( by the way when I say race I mean white and black)
Yeah, there’s a video of him on a radio show back in 93 or 94 when he went out to Cali, and he said “I heard y’all already got somebody out here called Biggie Smalls, so I changed my name to The Notorious BIG”
Tim Bigelow’s alive, the man shouted out on God bless the dead was a graffiti artist named Biggie Smalls aka Big Dric. Still weird there was 3 of them around with no relation at the same time
Somethings not adding up... if Calvin Lockhart played Biggie Smalls in "Let's Do It Again" in 1975 how is he not the real (and by real I mean original) Biggie Smalls when Tim Bigelow didn't use the name until 1991? 🤔
@@CERTAIND00M the point is he is not the one who conceptualized the name it came from a blaxploitation film and they thought up the name. It would be akin to me suddenly calling myself Ryu and another rapper being called Ryu 3 years after me. We both got the idea from street fighter then say well the idea is really mine because Ryu on street fighter is not a real person. Still doesn't change the fact that the idea didn't come from either one of us.
God bless the dead is one of my favourite Tupac tracks and I’ve always been confused. Thank you for this clarity, so happy I stumbled across this video !
This is not true, there was a guy named Biggie Smalls from New York. Big Stretch was on that song, it was reference to that Biggie Smalls not this one. He was referring to Young Dric from the Young Guns gang.
@@jevonthegoat1053 2nd verse of God Bless The Dead: Real motherfuckin' Gz, this one is for you Yo Stretch, Biggie Yo Big, this is to you my nigga Springfield Hollis crew, Thug Life, YGz Sendin' they respect, know I mean? You my nigga for life, forever You're always gonna be with a nigga No matter what, don't forget that I pray before I go to sleep Dear God save my place before I start to eat, 'cause times is hard So I'm covered to my knees, oh why? Why you had to take my nigga with the rock I buy? You had to take a good one, a ghetto hood son, uzi weighin' a ton Niggas terrified of comin' from the young gun Hearin' that they did it outta fear don't amaze me But it's mind blowin', so I'm flowin' goin' crazy Slip for cock the gun but he didn't run like a punk He shoulda had the gauge in the trunk For spunk is what he had, kid, I'd ratha attack Big Now ya 'bout to smell the aftermath of what the mack did Wannabe suckers wanna test, I'm tellin' you, yes The teflon's 'bout to rip through your fuckin' vest Guess who? I'll make a mess of your crew quick The spirit Biggie Smalls and the Damadam clique, yeah
The weirdest thing I noticed in the song juicy was the line “blow up like the world trade”. I thought he predicted the future until I googled it and found what actually happened
He didn’t say he didn’t. He’s just telling you as far as rapping goes. And why BIG couldn’t formally use the name dweeb lol I love how nobody’s always wanna pop up IN THE COMMENTS not with their own video tho swearing they really know the truth 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤡🤡
@@jennyrebecca7243 quick to judge? The man in the video did in fact say that neither Notorious BIG or the other guy was the original, that it was the white kid. But it's actually the dude in the movie so he did give Bs info
@@jennyrebecca7243 but no where in the video did he say as far as rapping goes, I know you may think that's what he means but we can't take it as a valid point because that's not the what he said.
@Easy Money shooter I thought the real Biggie's name was Tim Bigalow. I thought Biggie Smallz was TIM Bigalow's stage name. I thought Biggie Smalz was Christopher's stage name. I thought Biggie Smalls was the name of character in a movie who existed and thought of before Tim was born. The only way we could say Tim was the 'real' Biggie is if we change the definition of real and its implications. "Real" is in quotation marks because it seems that only one of these characters who would have the greatest chance of being based on a real person and that would be the movie character. The movie character didn't get it's name from Tim Bigalow.
Everyone always thought he was talking about BIG. Even some of his friends thought he was talking about BIG. I think it was a friend of a manager, or friend of a friend.
@@shane-oshaunason7590 Or a friend of the managers friend that was a friend of the managers friend friend that hung out with a friend of his friend that had a different manager that knew the other manager they were all friends
@@originaldelta It should’ve been more obvious because Stretch actually says somethinglike “Yo Big, this goes out to you my n***a.. Springfield Hollis Crew” . Nothing to do with Notorious BIG or the younger Biggy Smallz.
1974 “let’s do it again” Calvin Lockhart is the original biggie smalls because he predates Tim Bigelow!!! The movie pre date’s Tim! So where did Tim get the name?! 🤔 this guys facts are not correct !!! Do better research and critical thinking!
So what he really meant to say was he was the first person to legally claim the name biggie smallz. But essentially he’s not the “og” or “the real biggie smallz”
Calvin Lockhart played the character "Biggie Smalls" in 1975 in a movie named "Let's Do it Again" Anybody who thinks this guy is telling the truth needs to do their homework
WRONG! The film “Let’s Do It Again” was released in the late 70s! Probably before either of these rappers were even born… I enjoy your videos but you got this one wrong…
Facts!!!This is annoying me. Notorious B.I.G got his name from the character in the movie Let's do it again. Stop trying to manipulate what the truth really is. Freakin Culture Vultures...smh
You’re wrong , the biggie smalls he was referring to was a close friend of his named big drik who also went by biggie smalls, he was a grafiti artist. 2pac has no relation to the white biggie smalls. And his linkedin profile was recently found confirming him to be alive
@@MrLemmegetit the fuck. The name is from the movie, but the first to take the name in the real world was the kid mentioned. Did y’all watch the video?
Bro you literally made this up 1. Let’s do it again came out in 1975 - predating both rappers. How would Tim Bigelow be the original in the 90s?? 2. Tupac’s other friend named Biggie Smalls was a dude from NY, not the Tim Bigelow guy. There are interviews out explaining this. 3. You could’ve paid respect to Tim Bigelow without recreating history
True and actually....Tim Bigelow was born AFTER that movie came out...about 4 or so years after....BIG was already in elementary school....(I was born around the same time as BIG)....PLUS....Because of the lack of technology like we have now...we in NY don't really know about Cali rappers unless they made it big back then....if he was little known in Cali....he was not known in NYC..... Plus,they made music around the same time...This just sounds like a coincidence....
Your info is wrong, 2pac in god bless the dead, is talking about Drik, who was part of thug life and also knew Stretch. Not about the white dude, r.i.p though.
Totally inaccurate! The Biggie smalls 2pac was talking about(in God Bless the dead) was an affiliate of Stretch (Randy Walker) and Majesty from Queens NY. Pac didn't know this Bigalow dude and also Stretch is ft in the song and does the last verse
it's just a joke/rumor that Tupac and Bigelow were friends and the dedication could have been to ANOTHER Biggie Smalls, there were at least FOUR people going by the nickname Biggie Smalls all affiliated with Tupac bcuz the name came from a Blaxploitation movie
"Let's Do It Again" (and, therefore, the character Biggie Smalls) came out in 1975. So what does he mean about the movie character not being the "original" Biggie Smalls?
The first half of this is true, the later half is wrong. Tim Bigelow didn't die in 1994 nor did Tupac shout him out on this song. He's referring to another Biggie Smalls. This would be the brother of Tupacs best friend Stretch Big Durk aka Biggie Smalls he wasn't a rapper, but a graffiti artist. Tim Bigelow went on to change his name in 1996 to Shadowcast and made a song called The Abyss. He stopped rapping and now works in IT. I just wanted to spread the real story!
This is the correct version. This white kid might have been Biggie Smalls, but he didn't know Pac and certainly wasn't the Biggie shouted out in God Bless the Dead
FOR YEARS I WONDERED WHY ON GOD BLESS THE DEAD DID TUPAC SAY RIP TO BIGGIE SMALLZ? Yet the song was 3 ywars before fat biggie was killed. Damn bro thanks for this
Incorrect. PAC’s shout-out was for another Biggie Smalls, who was a member of Live Squad. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sZS6ebdp7js.html Though there’s something weirdly hilarious about the thought of this guy collab’ing with Pac at that point in his career.
Wow that's an interesting rap history note. All of it is really sad especially since they are all dead now. They all died tragic violent deaths at very young ages.
@@joshuawilliams4380 you should care if you're gonna leave this video acting like you learned something. It worries me that people literally don't care that the people telling them "facts" are entirely wrong or misrepresent frequently.
@@TheSCPStudio at what point did this content creator claim that he was portraying the actual BIG, and not the the actor, in that particular photo? More importantly, how would the inclusion of an incorrect photo in that instance change the truth of the primary piece of information that the creator intended to convey?
This is not true. The Biggie Smalls from “God Bless the Dead” was affiliated with Live Squad (they had multiple collabs with Tupac back in the day) back in Queens, NY and he wasn’t even a rapper. It’s proven in this interview with Majesty from Live Squad: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sZS6ebdp7js.html As for the white Biggy Smallz he released songs after 94 under the name Shadowcast so yeah, he’s not dead
Tell me how is Tim bigelow the real Biggie Smalls when Let’s do it again came out years before?They both got the name from the movie.duh.Please explain.
There are people on here trying to say that because he was a movie character, he wasn't real... I say that's besides the point... he was a real character in a movie that preceded both of them
@@jaymarsh6499 Exactly. Tim Bigelow's real name wasn't Biggie Smalls so he's playing off a character in a movie too so how is he real? Calvin Lockhart is the REAL Biggie Smalls not some white kid from LA
No, just no. He was referring to a dude named Drik whos nickname was also biggy smalls from Queens who was in the Live Squad with Stretch n they were all friends with pac. Please Stop spreading mis information
Just one correction, God Bless The Dead was released in 1998 after the passing of Notorious BIG, not during when he was alive. The estate most likely chose that song to release on Greatest Hits to help push the album, as this song beat wise wasn't anywhere near the best unreleased tracks at that time that they could have used.
It's simple. The white guy name is spelled Biggy Smallz. Notorious B.I.G is Biggie Smalls. Totally spelled different. An I would love to see the paper Tupac wrote in that rap song. To make it clarified. Did Tupac spell it Biggy Smallz or was it Biggie Smalls.
Question! If you say that the Notorious B. I. G. got the inspiration for his name from the movie ‘Let’s Do it Again’, which came out in 1975, how wasn’t the character from the movie the original, or the real Biggie Smalls, yet this white kid was? Was the character from the movie named after Tim Bigalows’ epithet? I highly doubt it, being that he didn’t have a rap career in the 70’s. So in essence, he was not the real Biggie Smalls, nor was the Notorious B. I. G. the real Biggie Smalls, the character was! Even if he trademarked the name, he still wasn’t the original, or real Biggie Smalls. I surmise, he too was inspired by the movie character.
he has big in his last name too, can't be small, but named big, and incorperate both into a name, without really coming up with biggie smalls. smallie bigs? might work.
It is obvious they were both inspired by the movie character. He meant that the white kid was the first rapper to take that name (being inspired by the movie). Probably didn’t realize there was someone who had the name first.
The Movie came out when I was 5 yrs.old back in 1975 so how can this white boy he's talking about be the original Biggie Smalls he capping click Bait for sure....
Ok, I'm confused....Let's Do It Again came out in the mid 70s...my old ass went to see it at the drive-in, so I'm just a little stumped as to how the young man, may he rip, could have been the "original" Biggie and not the character🤔
yeah i remember notorious B.I.G. telling his interviewer and the camera to start calling him notorious BIG cause the real biggie smallz was gonna sue him or something 😂
He still had the name first when it comes to their stage names. The name may have been used in the film before, but the "original biggie" refers to the first actual person to use it as a stage name in this profession
Bro are you running out of content to create? You’re telling OLD AZZ stories that only the Gen Z kids don’t know. You’re probably one of them. You’re telling these old stories because they’re “new” to you so you think the whole world has never heard these before. Lmao! SMH at this dude.
😂😂😂 Ten years from now, you will be telling people that Emenim is the real Dr. Dre., but he chose “Slim Shady,” when he asked,” Will the real Slim Shady stand up?” 🤣🤣🤣
@Easy Money shooter try again! If that was the implication he would not even have mentioned the movie character. That movie came out in the 70s and the actor who played Biggie Smalls became known by that nickname. Tim Bigalow is not the real Biggie Smalls either because that's not the name on his birth certificate. The narrator specifically says that neither Christopher nor the movie character were the real Biggie Smalls. The movie character came first so that's actually the real Biggie Smalls. If Lockhart wasn't the real Biggie Smalls, how was he able to sue Christopher for use of the name, and win, forcing him to change his name to Notorious B.I.G?
I'm sorry but I don't believe that I have watch the movie let's do it again with Bill Cosby with Sidney Poitier and the character who played as biggie smalls also played on Good times from brave back in the day in the 1970s
@@vt8414 Biggie smalls started in our community. Period. Culture vultures will argue differently. Who was the bigger artist wit the name anyway? We only acknowledge one ☝🏾 Biggie smalls
Like EVERYTHING else that ANOTHER race created. Here comes you saltines taking credit. Y’all are NOT even creative as ppl😑guess that’s where all the stealing comes in🤢
@@bo-hn8xz the only truth is that he had the name first & he was down with Pac. The white dude was NEVER a factor in rap or in LA hip hop. He fasho did not create the name. A man by the name of Timothy March who wrote the story of Let’s Do it Again created the name
Bro I’m a 38 year old black who listens to pac and big bro your Mandela affecting the F@&€ out of right now! I gotta go and listen to God bless the dead
You've never heard it because it isn't true lol. Majesty from Live Squad says in an interview (it's on RU-vid) that it was a graffiti artist Pac was close with. This white rapper guy isn't even dead.
Only truth to this is he went by the same dam name..but Calvin Lockhart the actor from the movie "Lets do it again" is the original where Christopher and Tim got their rap name from
@@uvl.g5611 not true..this vlogger is dumb..The actor Calvin Lockhart r.i.p from the 1975 movie "Lets do it again" played the character Biggie Smalls which Tim & Christopher got the name from
god bless the dead was actually released in 98 after 2pac passed but it was obviously recorded before he died. The confusion was that 2pac died before biggie so the conspiracy of 2pac still being alive became more popular back then, but it was discovered he wasn’t talking about the notorious big. Edit : For the people saying that Tim isn’t the original biggie smalls Tim released songs before the notorious big. When the notorious big first started he was known as biggie smalls but Tim’s management threatened to sue the notorious big if he didn’t change his name. One last thing the song god bless the dead wasnt about Tim it was dedicated to a graffiti artist named Drik, he was known as biggie smalls.
Dude I was listening to Pac I wasn't 😭a kid when all this is happening 😭😳so fuck internet 😂iwas around stop Cap'n 😂you weren't that's why you rely on this misinformation
Bruh, do more research on The Notorious B I G. The guy you show as Christopher in the all white suit is the guy who played Christopher in the movie... sad... a common error made by Google.. I like yo ish... never expected you to make a "they all look alike" error... do better!