Biggie tells the same story twice!

In 2014, Knicks player John Starks appeared on ESPN’s Highly Questionable and was grilled about this song, which he said is based on a true story but wouldn’t specify who it’s about.

Then, in 2015, Jadakiss appeared on Highly Questionable and was grilled about the subject of Biggie’s story, too. He claims B.I.G. wouldn’t tell him who it was about but Jada’s done some investigation on his own over the years.. “Out of my candidates, it would have to [Anthony] Mason, Larry Johnson, maybe Derek Harper,” he said. “Could have been any of that team. Those were the crazy Knicks back then.”

In 2016, Fat Joe revealed that the Knick in question was Anthony Mason.

Diddy confirmed that the story is about Mason.

This song is a classic example of the dramatic monologue; dramatic dialogue, also known as a persona poem, is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character.

Literary critic M.H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue:

A single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment […].

This person addresses and interacts with one or more other people; but we know of the auditors' presence, and what they say and do, only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker.

The main principle controlling the poet’s choice and formulation of what the lyric speaker says is to reveal to the reader, in a way that enhances its interest, the speaker’s temperament and character.

Another thing to note about the track, or maybe to note about a later released track, is the drums used on this track, a drum sample from Al Green’s “I’m Glad You’re Mine,” are the same drum sample used on Biggie’s “What’s Beef?” and “Dead Wrong”—for more sampling information, click here.