10 Highly Overlooked Biggie Collaborations

We miss you, Big.

There Can Only Be One King  - The Notorious B.I.G. had a string of collaborative hits in his short reign as he helped make Ma$e, 112, Total, Lil Kim and Faith become superstars, but there are a few more gems buried deep inside his catalog. As we remember losing Biggie 19 years ago on that fateful March 9, check out a few of his collabos that went below the radar but still blew up the underground. — Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photo: Clarence Davis/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

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There Can Only Be One King  - The Notorious B.I.G. had a string of collaborative hits in his short reign as he helped make Ma$e, 112, Total, Lil Kim and Faith become superstars, but there are a few more gems buried deep inside his catalog. As we remember losing Biggie 19 years ago on that fateful March 9, check out a few of his collabos that went below the radar but still blew up the underground. — Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photo: Clarence Davis/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Da Brat Featuring the Notorious B.I.G. and Jermaine Dupri – 'Da B-Side'  - Frank White and So So Def's Batman and Robin passed the blunt and the mic when they dropped the funk for the Bad Boys soundtrack. Brooklyn's finest showed early on that his duet game was real when he spit, "Live with the funkdafied cutie pie / Gat by the thigh, the Smalls by her side / If you f**k with her you got to f**k with me / And we’ll be rapping at your muthaf**king eulogy.” (Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images)

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Da Brat Featuring the Notorious B.I.G. and Jermaine Dupri – 'Da B-Side'  - Frank White and So So Def's Batman and Robin passed the blunt and the mic when they dropped the funk for the Bad Boys soundtrack. Brooklyn's finest showed early on that his duet game was real when he spit, "Live with the funkdafied cutie pie / Gat by the thigh, the Smalls by her side / If you f**k with her you got to f**k with me / And we’ll be rapping at your muthaf**king eulogy.” (Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images)

Eddie F and the Untouchables Featuring 2Pac, Heavy D, Grand Puba, Spunk Bigga – 'Let's Get It On' - Heavy D's DJ, Eddie F, branched out on his own in 1994 and displayed his production game with his compilation project. One of the gems from that album included a rare collaboration with Big and Pac murdering it on the same track where the B.K. don emptied out dutchies and bodies on this all-star line-up. (Photo: WENN)

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Eddie F and the Untouchables Featuring 2Pac, Heavy D, Grand Puba, Spunk Bigga – 'Let's Get It On' - Heavy D's DJ, Eddie F, branched out on his own in 1994 and displayed his production game with his compilation project. One of the gems from that album included a rare collaboration with Big and Pac murdering it on the same track where the B.K. don emptied out dutchies and bodies on this all-star line-up. (Photo: WENN)

Pudgee tha Phat Bastard Featuring Lord Tariq and the Notorious B.I.G. – 'Think Big' - Big was deep in New York's underground scene before he took the crown and this hard to find version of Pudgee tha Phat Bastard's "Think Big" featured some of Big's hardest lines ever.Foreseeing his own destiny, he demolished the track as he spit, "I'm inviting you, bring your writing crew and they dopest rhymes / I get up in that a** every time / Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable / Getting mad blunted in the 600 Benz / Ask your friends who's the illest / Licking shots, n****s screaming, "Biggie Smalls tried to kill us!" (Photo: Giant Records)

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Pudgee tha Phat Bastard Featuring Lord Tariq and the Notorious B.I.G. – 'Think Big' - Big was deep in New York's underground scene before he took the crown and this hard to find version of Pudgee tha Phat Bastard's "Think Big" featured some of Big's hardest lines ever.Foreseeing his own destiny, he demolished the track as he spit, "I'm inviting you, bring your writing crew and they dopest rhymes / I get up in that a** every time / Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable / Getting mad blunted in the 600 Benz / Ask your friends who's the illest / Licking shots, n****s screaming, "Biggie Smalls tried to kill us!" (Photo: Giant Records)

Uncle Luke Featuring the Notorious B.I.G. – 'Bust a Nut'  - They didn't call him Big Poppa for nothing and the King and Uncle Luke traded some freaky tales on the 2 Live leader's 1996 solo effort. No need to explain here but he definitely got it in... literally. This is a must listen when you get the time. (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

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Uncle Luke Featuring the Notorious B.I.G. – 'Bust a Nut'  - They didn't call him Big Poppa for nothing and the King and Uncle Luke traded some freaky tales on the 2 Live leader's 1996 solo effort. No need to explain here but he definitely got it in... literally. This is a must listen when you get the time. (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

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Red Hot Lover Tone Featuring The Notorious B.I.G., M.O.P. and Organized Konfusion – '4 My Peeps' - Before he made millions as half of the platinum producing duo the Trackmasters, Tone was a red hot lover spitting game on the mic with a few Brooklyn mic assassins. Biggie kicked in the door with this NY anthem where hr rode out with, "Introducing the Black bastard from Bedrock / Guaranteed to make your head rock, tote Glocks / Drop cops that mistake me for Rodney / Strictly head shots, I knock the twist out your dreadlocks / Who got the props? Biggie / Who got the Glock? Biggie / But who is he?"It wouldn't take long before that question was answered.(Photo: Select Records)

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Red Hot Lover Tone Featuring The Notorious B.I.G., M.O.P. and Organized Konfusion – '4 My Peeps' - Before he made millions as half of the platinum producing duo the Trackmasters, Tone was a red hot lover spitting game on the mic with a few Brooklyn mic assassins. Biggie kicked in the door with this NY anthem where hr rode out with, "Introducing the Black bastard from Bedrock / Guaranteed to make your head rock, tote Glocks / Drop cops that mistake me for Rodney / Strictly head shots, I knock the twist out your dreadlocks / Who got the props? Biggie / Who got the Glock? Biggie / But who is he?"It wouldn't take long before that question was answered.(Photo: Select Records)

'The Points' - Big was just one of many MCs who spit on the single from the Panther soundtrack as they shed light on the freedom fighters' guidelines and rules. With several versions of the track recorded with different artists, a few more who spit on the super line-up included Coolio, Buckshot, Redman, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Busta Rhymes.(Photo: Mercury Records)

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'The Points' - Big was just one of many MCs who spit on the single from the Panther soundtrack as they shed light on the freedom fighters' guidelines and rules. With several versions of the track recorded with different artists, a few more who spit on the super line-up included Coolio, Buckshot, Redman, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Busta Rhymes.(Photo: Mercury Records)

Neneh Cherry Featuring The Notorious B.I.G. – 'Buddy X (Remix)' - Neneh Cherry put a two-timing lover on blast with her 1992 walking papers theme and summoned The Notorious One for the remix. The Brooklyn player proved he could wild out too as he sent her packing when he rhymed, "Some honeys say I’m lovely but Neneh says I’m wicked / Look at you, you ain’t no better... / You and your friends always together / No time for the B-I-G so I’m O-U-T / The sex was great but the headaches I can’t take / I think I made a very big mistake.”(Photo: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

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Neneh Cherry Featuring The Notorious B.I.G. – 'Buddy X (Remix)' - Neneh Cherry put a two-timing lover on blast with her 1992 walking papers theme and summoned The Notorious One for the remix. The Brooklyn player proved he could wild out too as he sent her packing when he rhymed, "Some honeys say I’m lovely but Neneh says I’m wicked / Look at you, you ain’t no better... / You and your friends always together / No time for the B-I-G so I’m O-U-T / The sex was great but the headaches I can’t take / I think I made a very big mistake.”(Photo: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

Shaquille O’ Neal Featuring the Notorious B.I.G. – 'You Can’t Stop the Reign'  - Shaq had one of the illest flows from a sports athlete and Biggie’s pen game helped make him a star off the court too. While Shaq went dolo with the video, Frank White dropped a few verses on the album version and warned that he’d spray to keep his top spot. He did just that too as he loaded up the mic with this lyrical barrage, “Disappearing acts, strictly 9s and MACs / Killers be serial / Copperfield material / My dreams is vivid / Work hard to live it.”(Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Toys"R"Us)

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Shaquille O’ Neal Featuring the Notorious B.I.G. – 'You Can’t Stop the Reign'  - Shaq had one of the illest flows from a sports athlete and Biggie’s pen game helped make him a star off the court too. While Shaq went dolo with the video, Frank White dropped a few verses on the album version and warned that he’d spray to keep his top spot. He did just that too as he loaded up the mic with this lyrical barrage, “Disappearing acts, strictly 9s and MACs / Killers be serial / Copperfield material / My dreams is vivid / Work hard to live it.”(Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Toys"R"Us)

Heavy D and the Boyz Featuring Gang  Starr, 3rd Eye, the Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes and Rob-O – 'A Buncha N****s'  - During Puff’s days at Uptown, he would slide his future rap hall of famer into sessions and Heavy D took a liking to his fellow big man who could rock the mic too. Big stepped into the booth and wilded out on this posse cut from Heav’s Blue Funk album as the then-starving MC erupted with, “I bring drama like ya spit on my momma / Cannibalistic, like that n***a Jeffrey Dahmer / I’ma head peeler, girl stealer / Coffin sealer, ex drug-dealer, Huhhhh! / When I hit you with the blow of death, I leave nothing left.”(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Bacardi)

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Heavy D and the Boyz Featuring Gang  Starr, 3rd Eye, the Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes and Rob-O – 'A Buncha N****s'  - During Puff’s days at Uptown, he would slide his future rap hall of famer into sessions and Heavy D took a liking to his fellow big man who could rock the mic too. Big stepped into the booth and wilded out on this posse cut from Heav’s Blue Funk album as the then-starving MC erupted with, “I bring drama like ya spit on my momma / Cannibalistic, like that n***a Jeffrey Dahmer / I’ma head peeler, girl stealer / Coffin sealer, ex drug-dealer, Huhhhh! / When I hit you with the blow of death, I leave nothing left.”(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Bacardi)

Michael Jackson Featuring the Notorious B.I.G. – 'This Time Around'  - The King of New York and The King of Pop rocked out together on this banger from Mike’s HIStory album, where MJ let the media know he was tired of their “s**t.” Big also flexed on his friends turned enemies as they grew jealous of his new found fame.Big Poppa loaded up the clips and held MJ down with lines like, “Things always missing / Maybe it could be my friends but they aren’t friends if they robbing me / Stopping me from making a profit see / Apology shallow like the ocean / I guess I’ll resort to gun toting.”(Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images)

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Michael Jackson Featuring the Notorious B.I.G. – 'This Time Around'  - The King of New York and The King of Pop rocked out together on this banger from Mike’s HIStory album, where MJ let the media know he was tired of their “s**t.” Big also flexed on his friends turned enemies as they grew jealous of his new found fame.Big Poppa loaded up the clips and held MJ down with lines like, “Things always missing / Maybe it could be my friends but they aren’t friends if they robbing me / Stopping me from making a profit see / Apology shallow like the ocean / I guess I’ll resort to gun toting.”(Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images)