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Topic: Notorious BIG corrections
Posted By: aaronk
Subject: Notorious BIG corrections
Date Posted: 16 October 2005 at 9:34pm
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Although my cassette singles and CD singles for the following songs are in Michigan, I'll attempt to provide the most accurate info I can.
Juicy - The cassette single (2-track) features the Radio Edit, which has only appeared on a full-length cd once, which is Big Phat Ones Of Hip-Hop Vol. 1. The version on the clean Ready To Die remaster is not the same length, and it is edited differently. This edit was not previously released. Big Poppa - The 2-track cassette single uses the Radio Edit, which has yet to appear on a full-length domestic CD. The "censored lyrics" versions appearing on Bad Boy's 10th Anniversary and Ready To Die clean remastered edition are NOT the same as the Radio Edit. They are edited differently and had not been issued prior to those releases. One More Chance/Stay With Me - The lead track on the CD single is "Radio Edit 1" which to my knowledge has never been issued on a full-length domestic cd. Hypnotize - The 2-track cd single features the Radio Mix, which has only appeared on a full-length cd once--the clean version of The Source Presents Hip Hop Hits. All other "censored lyrics" versions listed in the database are NOT the Radio Mix and were first issued on their respective releases. Mo Money Mo Problems - The 2-track cd single uses the Radio Mix, which is mixed differently than the LP version in addition to having censored lyrics. None of the CDs listed in the database with "censored lyrics" are the correct 45 version. To my knowledge, the true 45 version is only available on the CD single. |
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Posted By: PaulEschen
Date Posted: 17 March 2009 at 10:29am
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My CD single (Bad Boy 78612-79016-2) has the Club Mix for "Big Poppa" (listed-4:13,
actual-4:11) and the Club Mix for "Warning" (listed and actual-3:41). Both tracks are not censored. Are these versions different than the cassette single tracks? I want to be clear if the cassette single is censored. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 17 March 2009 at 2:40pm
| Paul, good question! Mine are definitely censored, but I wonder if there are two different cassette singles for both "Big Poppa" and "Juicy." I purchased those cassette singles at Wal-Mart, and obviously they don't sell anything with explicit lyrics stickers. It's possible that explicit versions of the cassette singles also exist. Perhaps edtop40 can help us out. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 17 March 2009 at 3:02pm
| Luckily, Big Phat Ones Of Hip-Hop Vol. 1 is available through Amazon for as little as 48 cents! |
Posted By: PaulEschen
Date Posted: 17 March 2009 at 4:38pm
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A couple of sellers online have a 12" vinyl version that has on the B-side,
both "Big Poppa" (radio edit - 4:12) and "Warning" (radio edit - 2:57). Do these match the cassette single track descriptions? |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 17 March 2009 at 6:19pm
| Ordered a copy of Big Phat Ones Of Hip-Hop Vol. 1 tonight. Thanks for the tip! |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 18 March 2009 at 1:30pm
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I have two different U.S. commercial 45s for "Big Poppa".
Bad Boy 78612-79019-7 (the plain white sleeve has a "Parental Advisory" sticker): A-side: "Big Poppa Remix (Club Mix)" B-side: "Who Shot Ya? (Club Mix)" Bad Boy 78612-79024-7: A-side: "Big Poppa (Radio Edit)" B-side: "Warning (Radio Edit)" |
Posted By: eric_a
Date Posted: 19 March 2009 at 5:29am
Wow - I have a lot of the 12" singles from Bad Boy's mid-90s heyday, but I've never seen any 45s on the Bad Boy label, even jukebox singles. Were they actually pressed on Bad Boy or on Arista? Were these available in the US? |
Paul C wrote:Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 19 March 2009 at 6:10am
They were pressed on Bad Boy, distributed by Arista. I don't have those ones, but I do have a couple of Total singles on Bad Boy from around the same time. Arista is one of those labels that changed their mind a few times about 45s. For the most part, Arista cut the production of pop 45s by late '91. During the "Bodyguard" period, they did all of Whitney's singles on 45 plus a few others. In '95 they went through about a year where they did almost all of the chart hits again - including some Toni Braxton singles on LaFace, and a couple from TLC, but then stopped (mostly) again sometime in '96. They continued to do country singles on 45 all through this period. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 9:25am
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I have taken Aaron's initial post, and tried to see what I had filed away for promo CD singles on them. I'm just about positive Aaron is already "all over" the commercial CD single configurations. Other tracks are included on some of these promos, and I would normally only note them briefly, or not at all. But I have found that many of these other, "straggler" tracks by Rap/Hip-Hop artists also seem to be of interest to many, so in this case I will include that information as well:
-Notorious B.I.G.-"Juicy" (BBPCD-9004) 1-Juicy (Radio Edit) (listed & actual 4:15) 2-Juicy (Remix) (listed 4:42; actual 4:41) 3-Unbelievable (Radio Edit) (listed & actual 3:46) **We received in to the station two separate promo CD singles for this next one** -Notorious B.I.G.-"Big Poppa" (BBPCD-9015) 1-Big Poppa (Radio Edit) (listed 4:13; actual 4:11) 2-Warning (Radio Edit) (listed 2:57; actual 2:56) 3-Big Poppa (Instrumental) (listed 4:13; actual 4:12) 4-Warning (Instrumental) (listed & actual 3:41) -Notorious B.I.G.-"Big Poppa" (REMIX) (BBPCD-9019) 1-Big Poppa Remix (Radio Edit) (listed & actual 4:11) 2-Who Shot Ya? (Radio Edit) (listed & actual 5:19) 3-Big Poppa Remix (Instrumental) (listed & actual 4:11) 4-Who Shot Ya? (Instrumental) (listed & actual 5:09) -Notorious B.I.G.-"One More Chance/Stay With Me" (BBPCD-9031) 1-One More Chance/Stay With Me (Radio Edit) (listed & actual 4:15) 2-One More Chance (Hip Hop Radio Edit) (listed 4:28; actual 4:18) 3-The What (Radio Edit) (listed 4:00; actual 3:59) 4-One More Chance/Stay With Me (Instrumental) (listed 4:35; actual 4:33) -Notorious B.I.G.-"Hypnotize" (instead of a promo, for this song Bad Boy instead sent us a commercial CD single, placing a "Not For Sale" sticker over the UPC symbol.)(78612-79093-2) 1-Hypnotize (Clean Radio Edit) (listed & actual 3:59) 2-I Got A Story To Tell (Clean Radio Edit) (listed 3:09; actual 3:07) -Notorious B.I.G.-"Mo Money Mo Problems" (BBPCD-9099) 1-Radio Mix (listed 4:12; actual 4:10) 2-Instrumental (listed 4:12; actual 4:10) |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 3:45pm
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sorry i missed this post originally.....here is the track listing of the commercial cassingles i have from "the notorious BIG"
bad boy 79004 1-"juicy" (dirty mix) 2-"unbelievable" (no description) "juicy" runs 5:02 and is identical to the full length dirty version on the cd "ready to die" "unbelievable" runs 3:43 and is identical to the full length dirty version from the cd "ready to die" the cassingle has a parental advisory sticker on the front citing explicit lyrics bad boy 79015 1-"big poppa" (club mix) 2-"warning" (club mix) "big poppa" runs 4:12 and is identical to the full length dirty version from the cd "ready to die" even though it states that the version on the cassingle is the "club mix" it is the same as the lp version "warning" runs 3:41 and is identical to the full length dirty version from the cd "ready to die" even though it states that the version on the cassingle is the "club mix" it is the same as the lp version the cassingle has a parental advisory sticker on the front citing explicit lyrics bad boy 79031 1-"one more chance/stay with me" (radio edit) 2-"one more chance/stay with me" (hip hop radio edit) 3-"the what" (radio edit) "one more chance/stay with me" runs 4:17 and is identical to the "radio edit 1" version from the commercial cd single "the what" runs 4:01 and is identical to the "radio edit" version from the commercial cd single this cassingle does NOT have a parental advisory label JUST A NOTE there is a remix cassingle for the song "big poppa" issued as bad boy 79019 bad boy 79019 1-"big poppa" (club mix) 2-"big poppa remix" (club mix) 3-"who shot ya?" (club mix) i don't have any info on the whereabouts of these tracks since it wasn't the cassingle charted on billboard the songs from 1997 and after i have in cd single format which i don't have in my possession right now, but will get them this week and post my findings as an addendum.. ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: PaulEschen
Date Posted: 03 June 2009 at 2:04pm
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Since there is a cassette single with the "Club Mix"/actual LP versions of "Big
Poppa" and "Warning", I'm going to assume that would be the official single version. Thanks for the info. I wonder if Billboard tabulated both the Radio Edit and Club Mix cassette singles in figuring the sales and airplay, or separated them? |
Posted By: chendagam
Date Posted: 03 June 2021 at 10:41am
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Does anyone know if the version of "hypnotize" on the Bad Boy's
10th Anniversary and Ready To Die clean remastered edition is the same as the "promo" cd single? My wife noticed the "a--" word in tact and was not too happy for our 2 year old to be listening :) |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 04 June 2021 at 8:54am
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The 2014 remastered Life After Death is NOT the Radio Mix found on CD singles. This version simply mutes most (not all) of the dirty words. The Radio Mix has sound effects in place of many of the naughty words, and "ass" is reversed. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |