Mo Money Mo Problems

Mm hmm.

Mine is Mo Money Mo Problems.

It was just such a gigantic song.

I do have mixed feelings about the timing aspect of it, but the Diana Ross thing is ridiculous.

June 14th.

Puff Daddy and the Families I'll Be Missing You is number one on the Hot 100 for 11 weeks, only to be replaced by Mo Money Mo Problems, which I'm sure we'll talk about later in this episode.

June 29th, Missy Elliott releases the single The Rain, Supa Dupa Fly from her debut album, Supa Dupa Fly.

Now, when Missy came out, I remember thinking, oh, she's kind of cool.

international albums that didn't drop in the u.s too right

yeah um so you know i mean it really took them a couple of years to like blow up to the point where even a label was even going to release an album of theirs in the united states and that album came out and even that took a few months to really get going to you know uh so yeah i mean this is kind of like the beginning of things really moving much more in like a pop direction and you know like spice girls kind of kicked that off and then like hansen got blew up and then all the boy bands started to come out but those albums were like slow burners for a while and then maybe blew up six months to a year later

august 30th mo money mo problems reaches number one on the hot 100 making big the first artist to achieve two posthumous number one singles Crazy.

The only, still, I think, the only artist to have done that.

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In the car, I listen to Can't Buy Me Love by The Beatles, and Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, and Money by Pink Floyd, and Mo Money Mo Problems by Biggie.

I am driving a Bugatti Veyron.

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New Vegas says during story outros.

He'll say, "Mojave mo problems, am I right?" And clearly that's a reference to The Notorious B.I.G., his song Mo Money Mo Problems.

It's, it was a banger.

It was a hit.

There were a couple of others that popped in my mind.

Mo' Money Mo' Problems could have been on there, but Wu-Tang is for the children, so we've got to go with the Wu-Tang

Clan.

And that brings us back to Christian.

And so they're about to interview him.

And in the background is Mo Money Mo Problems.

And he goes, he's talking to the interviewer.

I don't even know if the interview has started yet, but he's like, you know, they talk about us on this song.

But talking about his verse, though, he wrote his own verse.

I think that this may be exaggerated, because according to the AI, he is, Mase was officially credited as a songwriter on Mo Money Mo Problems, but besides that-

Right

... and he did, I guess, contribute to the majority of, of that...

Like Lizette, Danger Russ on Trzec, leave your ass, Flizette.

Mo Money Mo Problems.

Hard to believe it's been almost 30 years since Mo Money Mo Problems came out, isn't it?

Uh, I'm able-

August '97