DJ Clue has recalled the time The Notorious B.I.G. threatened to “kill” him after he leaked one of his biggest songs.
The Desert Storm boss revisited the topic in a roundtable conversation about mixtape culture with Jim Jones, OG Ron C, DJ Holiday, Roc Nation’s Lenny “Lenny S.” Santiago and media personality Nyla Symone.
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He explained that Biggie became angry with him after he put a demo of the original version of “One More Chance” on one of his early mixtapes.
“I got my hands on a Biggie record, it was a demo,” Clue said. “I didn’t really know everyone at Bad Boy yet … I put it on a mixtape, Biggie got mad. He went on Hot 97 and said, ‘Yo Clue, when I find you, I’m gonna kill you’ or whatever he said — on live radio.”
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He continued: “You wanna know what happened? I got on the phone and said, ‘Yo, we gotta do a diss record, come on!’ I was young, we was rolling around on a different type of time. I didn’t know who they were and they didn’t know who I was.”
Despite drawing the ire of Biggie and Bad Boy Records, Clue’s relative anonymity at the time once saved him from a likely confrontation with the collective following the leak.
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“I remember one time when that beef was kinda on, we were in Virginia Beach … I went to the store and walked in by myself, and all I see is the whole Bad Boy street team. They got the picket signs, but they don’t know what I look like.
“They know they got drama with me, they know they got beef with me, but they don’t know what I look like. So I’m walking to 7/11 and I see like 30 of them coming down the street. I walked right through them! DJ Clue walked right by them.”
When asked how he and Biggie resolved their dispute, DJ Clue said that he met up with Diddy and they hashed things out about the aforementioned leak, which he said Puff admitted helped Biggie’s buzz.
“One day Puff called Steve [Stoute]’s office,” he remembered. “He was like, ‘Yo, who’s this?’ I’m like, ‘This is Clue.’ He’s like, ‘What?!’ The phone froze for a second. He was like, ‘Yo playboy, wassup with all that?’
“We met up, we talked it out. He was like, ‘Listen, from now on…’ I think Puff realized having the vehicle and seeing the impact of what the song did on my mixtape, I feel like he felt like the relationship was more important than taking it to the wrong place.”
Fat Joe had also previously spoken about the spat back in 2020, saying in an interview with DJ Envy that Biggie was so mad about the leak that he grabbed a gun and began looking for DJ Clue.
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“I’m in the club and Notorious B.I.G. runs down on me. He had a vest on with a lumberjack shirt,” Joe remembered. “He shows me the gun and he says, ‘Yo, you see that n-gga Clue in here? I’m looking for Clue.’ And I was like, ‘Nah, I ain’t seen Clue.’ And he went through the crowd looking for Clue ’cause I think Clue was putting his exclusives on the tapes.”
“One More Chance” was officially released on Biggie’s 1994 debut album Ready To Die, with the Mary J. Blige and Faith Evans-assisted remix becoming one of his highest-charting songs, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
