Puff Daddy's Tribute to Notorious B.I.G.
(1997)
With the Sting sample being looped, Puff Daddy pays homage to the late star with "I'll Be Missing You" at the MTV VMAs.
Ludacris:
"Everyone's talking about Puffy sampling this and sampling that, but when he was performing live and doing the tribute to Biggie, he actually had Sting on stage with him. So it was real big. Plus everyone felt Biggie's spirit that night. You could just feel the energy in the room. So one love to Puffy for doing that, for real."
Grandmaster Flash:
"There was two feelings that I got. Sadness because we lost a great MC. I was still trying to get over that. But then from my business standpoint, he took the Hammer theory of the big production to a whole other level. Like, I want the whole world to know that I miss my man and that I'll never be the same since he's not here. He did it in such a big production that the whole world had to pay attention."
