05/05: D.V. Alias Khryst: "I Was Supposed to Sing [on Biggie's] "You're Nobody ('Til Somebody Kills You)"
Singer/rapper D.V. Alias Khryst recently told
HipHopDX that he was "supposed" to contribute to The Notorious B.I.G.'s "You're Nobody ('Til Somebody Kills You)" from the "Life After Death" album. The introduction of the interview indicates that it was the hook of the song, which Biggie ended up singing himself.
I was supposed to sing “You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)” on [The Notorious B.I.G.’s] Life After Death album, and I don’t know what happened with that not happening ...
DX: You mentioned Biggie, did he reach out to you personally?
D.V. Alias Khryst: No, my attorney … had called me around the time of that project being worked on and told me that someone that he had spoke to – don’t remember their name – had inquired about me doing that record. I was very excited when I heard about that, because [I had] known Biggie for some time …. I was around Big and [Lil] Cease and them - and Smoothe was around these dudes - smoking blunts on the stoop with these dudes before a lot of this stuff transpired and went the direction that it went. So, to see his career go the way it went, and for me to had gotten an [invitation] to do a record with him on the [strength] of how our paths [had] always crossed – even from the “Dead Presidents” video shoot with Jay-Z, and showing Smoothe and everybody that was at the round table – I [thought it] would be a wonderful opportunity. But, when it didn’t happen I was a little funked about it because I felt like that could have been a great opportunity for the world to hear me and to give me the platform to really show people what I’m made of, [as] opposed to the box that I’ve been placed in.
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