Watch the official videos for the James Brown/Biggie mashup album’s first two tracks below: The Notorious J.B.’s experiment continues from there with “Sex Machine Gun Funk” (“Sex Machine” and “Machine Gun Funk”), and the musical combination works just as well as the titular wordplay.
Somehow, it makes the familiar backing track and the oft-quoted lyrics feel new again, decades later. The album kicks off in earnest with the cleverly named “Big Poppa’s Got A Brand New Bag”, which throws Big’s famous “Big Poppa” verses over Brown’s hit, “Papas Got A Brand New Bag”. lyrics to pull from, Gazaway finds a perfect match for each song selected from each artist’s catalog. Christopher George Latore Wallace was born on May 21, 1972, in Brooklyn, New York, to Voletta Wallace. With a wealth of Brown and Biggie ad-libs, Godfather soul vamps, and nimble Notorious B.I.G. The stereotypical story for a hip-hop artist usually includes a single-mother household, a childhood of living in a low-income area of a major city, and growing up around gang violence and/or drug dealing. Related: Listen To ‘Dark Side Of The Wu’, The Pink Floyd/Wu-Tang Clan Mashup EP You Didn’t Know You Needed B.I.G.: “I like this young man, because when he came out, he came out with the phrase…” Brown: “You know I feel all right…” B.I.G. The match becomes apparent quickly, as the album’s intro intercuts Biggie’s greeting from “Sky’s The Limit” with snippets of Brown’s onstage hollers to create the illusion of the rapper introducing a collaboration with the Godfather (i.e. While many of these sorts of mashup projects come off as forced, the ease with which the music of these two inimitable showmen fits together is uncanny. That insight comes courtesy of producer/DJ Amerigo Gazaway, who combined the music of hip-hop legend The Notorious B.I.G. and iconic bandleader/performer James Brown on his 2019 mashup album, The Notorious JB’s – The B.I.G. Turns out, “The Godfather of Soul” and “The King of New York” go pretty damn well together.
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