Turns out that Biggie's "Juicy" beat has a whole backstory to it

Listened to Ready to Die this weekend and had to read extensively about it, only to find out that something was happening with the “Juicy” beat.

Found our way into this Wax Poetic interview (2004) with Pete Rock by Andrew Mason, where Pete mentions the following: “Puffy did the same thing to me with ‘Juicy.’ I did the original version, didn’t get credit for it. They came to my house, heard the beat going on the drum machine, it’s the same story. You come downstairs at my crib, you hear music. He heard that **** and the next thing you know it comes out. They had me do a remix, but I tell people, and I will fight it to the end, that I did the original version of that. I’m not mad at anybody, I just want the correct credit. **** that.”

That same article also sheds light on the A Tribe Called Quest situation, where Pete mentioned that he did the whole beat for “We Got the Jazz,” stating that “He shouted me out at the end and that was a big discrepancy for me. What happened was, Tip used to come over all the time. One time the ‘Jazz’ beat was already playing in the drum machine. I went to answer the door and left the beat playing. He came downstairs like, ‘What the **** is that?’ I even had the records I sampled still sitting there on the turntables because I’d just made the beat… he knew what I used and took the same elements, and made it the exact same way. And then at the end of the record he says, ‘Pete Rock for the beat ya don’t stop.’”

No caption needed when one of the greatest is talking. Crazy story; about to go watch that Joe and Jada episode with Pete Rock to hear more from him.