Born Again: When Artists Flip Notorious B.I.G. Songs

Remembering Biggie Smalls with these reworked tracks.

Logic – 'No Biggie' - "Killing mics like Conrad Murray," DMV emcee Logic rapped over Biggie's "Kick in the Door." He also lifted from "Juicy" for this 2012 Young Sinatra cut.(Photo: Douglas Gorenstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
Ashanti – 'Foolish' - Ashanti went No. 1 with her debut single "Foolish," which leaned heavily on BK's finest's "One More Chance" remix.(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Ludacris feat. Young Jeezy – 'Grew Up a Screw Up' - ATL repped hard for B.I.G. in 2006 when Luda and Jeezy sampled the illest emcee's voice from his collaboration with Tupac called "Runnin.'" Biggie's lines, "I grew up a f**king screw-up /Got introduced to the game, then f**king blew up," were the chorus for this, Luda's second single from Release Therapy.(Photo: Thaddaeus McAdams/FilmMagic)
Jay Z – 'I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)' - Jay Z's used Biggie's lines countless times to big up his brother and his burough, including the start of his verse from this The Neptunes-produced jam, taken almost verbatim from The King's "The World Is Filled...." "When the Remy's in the system, ain't no telling, will I f**k 'em will I diss 'em / That's what they be yelling / I'm a pimp by blood, not relation / Y'all be chasing, I replace them, huh?"(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARAS)Cam'ron feat. Juelz Santana, Ludacris, Trina and UGK – 'What Means the World to You (Remix)' - Cam gave a nod to his mentor when he dropped this remix in 2000. Killa pulled from Big's verse on "Notorious Thugs" with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony when he rhymed, "Listen you would too, if you knew what this game would do to you / Been in this s**t two years, Boo / Look at all the bulls**t I been through / So called beef with you know who."(Photo: Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for SoundCTRL/Flash FWD)

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Ashanti – 'Foolish' - Ashanti went No. 1 with her debut single "Foolish," which leaned heavily on BK's finest's "One More Chance" remix.(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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