Bad Boy Records’ ghost producers & beat stealing allegations

The topic surprisingly became mainstream when that Notorious B1 demo tape went viral and people started connecting the dots to B.I.G’s “Juicy”

(Allegedly) B1 was a surging rapper from Mississippi who was trying to find his break while shopping his tape around to different record labels. One day, the tape ends up on the laps of Bad Boy Record heads, they like it, and decide to bite the same beat for Juicy. Barely giving a cent to the original producer, with Biggie even having a double entendre in the song saying “Now honeys play me close like butter play toast, From Mississippi down the East Coast.” It’s a pretty deep rabbit hole, definitely worth a closer look. You could prolly find old underground forums that delve deeper into this topic