Take A Little Trip To Me & My Bitch

Notorious BIG: Me & My Bitch (Original Mix)
From: Unreleased (1994)

With the recent Rolling Stone article about the ongoing investigation into Biggie’s death and the upcoming Duets album it seemed only appropriate to drop some unreleased music by the great man himself.

Featured on the original promo cassette for Ready To Die, the track Me & My Bitch had to be rerecorded for the album after difficulties with clearance of the original sample of Minnie Riperton’s Take A Little Trip. As Digga himself explains:

“The original sample that we used was from a Minnie Riperton song that Stevie Wonder wrote. When they sent it out to him, he was like ‘I love the song, but this is cursing. I’m not with it, you can’t use it.’So they got Chucky to come in and add some bars here and there and take some bars there. He just had to change up the music so that Big could use it.”

However, no music is ever safe from the internet so I present to you today the original version of Me & My Bitch, the sound quality’s not the best but it’s interesting to hear how the Riperton sample gives the track a more laidback, mellow, feel. Enjoy.