Big Poppa

"Big Poppa"
"Big Poppa"
Single by The Notorious B.I.G.
from the album Ready to Die
A-side	"Warning"
B-side	"Who Shot Ya?"
Released	December 24, 1994
Recorded	June 1994
Studio	The Hit Factory (New York City)
Genre	Hip hop; dirty rap;
Length	4:11
Label	Bad Boy; Arista;
Songwriter(s)	Christopher Jasper; Christopher Wallace; Ernest Isley; Marvin Isley; O'Kelly Isley, Jr.; Ronald Isley; Rudolph Isley;
Producer(s)	Chucky Thompson; Sean Combs;
The Notorious B.I.G. singles chronology
Music video
	"Big Poppa" on YouTube

"Big Poppa" is a song by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. It was released as the second single from his first studio album Ready to Die. It features a sample of the song, "Between the Sheets" written by The Isley Brothers. "Big Poppa" was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 1996 Grammy Awards. It also went on to win at the Billboard Music Awards.

The single was certified platinum by the RIAA and sold over 1,000,000 copies domestically.^[2]^[3]

There was an official remix released in 1995 featuring Jermaine Dupri, called "Big Poppa (So So Def Remix)" which has similar lyrics, with Dupri replacing Puff Daddy, and Biggie providing a new third verse. This remix appeared as a single.

^ "The Best 20 Hip Hop Songs of the Mid-1990s". Mixmag. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
^ "American certifications – Notorious B.I.G. – Big Poppa". Recording Industry Association of America.
^ "Best-Selling Records of 1995". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 3. BPI Communications. January 20, 1996. p. 56. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved May 5, 2015.

[1] "The Best 20 Hip Hop Songs of the Mid-1990s". Mixmag. Retrieved June 12, 2021.

[2] "American certifications – Notorious B.I.G. – Big Poppa". Recording Industry Association of America.

[3] "Best-Selling Records of 1995". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 3. BPI Communications. January 20, 1996. p. 56. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved May 5, 2015.

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