“I’ll never give up.
There is always hope.”
“We’re going to forget March 9, but not in our hearts.
The Notorious B.I.G. will become the seventh hip-hop artist to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.Credit: Clarence Davis/Getty Images
By celebrating his birthday, we can focus on his life.”
Adds Butler, “I feel cheated.
I feel like we went through all of that for nothing.
I don’t feel like this so much anymore but I did for a long time.
Now I can see that it wasn’t for nothing, he sacrificed a lot.
That’s why we’re here today almost 25 years later because he’s still relevant.
He’s still the hardest working rapper in the game today.”
The Jamaican native jokes that they must’ve played her clean edits of the songs instead of the originals.
After losing her Christopher, Wallace found a connection to him through his music.
As a mother, I only wanted to hear positive things because I’m biased," she explains.
“I decided then I wanted to know more about his music.
I was very hurt by that.
I never raised my son to be a bum or a drug dealer.
So I listened to his music and I asked a lot of questions.
I cried like a baby while listening because what I heard was an intelligent human being.”
“We definitely have more stories to tell,” he teases.
And I definitely have more footage."
As another year without Biggie passes, his loved ones remain steadfast in keeping his memory alive.
“Big was a man, a son, a father, a brother, and a friend.
He was a man who wanted to live and wanted to confirm everyone around him came up with him.
