Juicy

I was listening to more Juan Epstein podcasts yesterday, a second one with Pete Rock. I really like nerding out to these because it makes me go back and listen to tunes I haven’t pulled out in a while. I forgot that Heavy D was Pete Rock’s cousin, and how Pete produced a lot of the songs on the Blue Funk album. Pete also talks about songs he produced, but never got credit for. He talks about how back in 1993 he was chilling with Biggie when he put on the beat for Juicy. Biggie tripped and was like “yo is this for CL?”, Pete was like, “nah man, you want it?”. Anyway, long story short, Puffy bought the beat for Big, changed the drums a bit, and took production credit for it. I always thought it was weird how similar the original Juicy beat was compared to the Pete Rock remix. I guess business is business, and Puff Daddy is definitely a business man.