Did Fat Joe work with The Notorious B.I.G. on an album? Lance Rivera refutes the rapper’s claim

Lance Rivera is slamming Fat Joe for his claims that he collaborated with The Notorious B.I.G. on an album before the latter died in 1997.

During a new interview with The Art of Dialogue, Rivera, who was close to the late rapper and also doubled as his former business partner, said of Joe's claims:

“I love Fat Joe, Fat Joe is my guy. I love the Jada & Joe show, and now I know why they’re running with the ‘Joe is the King of Cap.’ Imma call cap, without even knowing, ’cause I don’t know for sure, but I’m calling cap […] If there was a real, legitimate album, I would’ve heard about that. I wouldn’t have heard about them doing songs.”

According to Hot New Hip Hop, Fat Joe has long maintained that he worked with Biggie, but the album never saw the light of day. He claimed that this was due to two of the tracks on the album saw them diss the late 2Pac repeatedly, and so, the song was never debuted after Biggie's passing. As of this writing, it remains unclear what happened to the reported album, and if it existed in the first place.

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Per Vibe, Rivera founded Untertainment Records with Biggie and worked with him on several projects, including Junior Mafia’s 1995 album The Conspiracay. In his recent interview, he pointed out that even whispers of a few tracks between the two would have caught attention:

“And I wouldn’t have heard about them doing songs together, right? Because in Daddy’s House, Big go in the studio, you could get a verse or you might not get a verse, depending on his mood and how much money you had in your pocket. He was a ‘How much weed you got on you’ type sh*t, you know what I’m saying? But I call cap off that, Joe. Show me the receipts, Fat Joe.”

As for Fat Joe, back in June 2023, during a conversation with Angie Martinez’s Iconic Records podcast, he reflected on making the Notorious Thugs track from the album, Life After Death. He recalled Biggie calling him and suggesting that he link with “[his] guys,” because the Cleveland quartet was allegedly “ignoring” him.

“Biggie hit me up and was like, ‘Yo bro, I’m trying to get in touch with your guys. They don’t wanna do it. They ignoring me.’ They didn’t wanna do a song with Biggie. And just for Biggie to think that advanced because New York wasn’t up on Bone Thugs like that,” he recalled. “He know that they was gigantic, and he was like, ‘Yo, I need to do a song with them,'” the “What’s Luv?’ rapper went on. “And I was like, ‘Um alright.’ And he was like, ‘Nah, I know you the plug. You can do it.’ I was like, ‘Alright, Big, I got you.'”

The Bronx native continued, revealing how the project was turned down because of 2Pac.

“So, then I called them, and they had already been cool with 2Pac. And so they was like, ‘Yo Joe, we can’t do it. We cool with 2Pac.’ And I’m like, ‘Yo bro, this is B.I.G,” he continued. “‘You know what it is to do a song with B.I.G.?’ So, I convinced them — and shout-out Steve Lobel — and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony showed up to the studio. They did the record ‘Bone and Biggie, Biggie.’ And so, every time I see that picture, I laugh, but that’s why we got that.”

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