We're both from the same hood, and my goal was to give him that king-of-Brooklyn status with that track… That record was more of a statement of where he came from and how high the bar was going to be raised for the rest of the rappers.' – Deric 'D-Dot' Angelettie 'That was us saying our franchise player, our Michael Jordan, is here, and you other guys gotta top this. The original 'Rise' record climbed the chart all summer and became number one around the end of October Biggie's version was released and charted its first week at number two and went to number one the second week.' I was sent a cassette from Puffy and when I cranked it up I not only immediately loved it but my gut thought that this could be a number one record once again. Randy continued, 'Over the years I was approached by Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Vanilla Ice, and maybe another 4–5 artists to use the song and I never said 'yes' until I heard a rough version of Biggie's recording produced by Sean 'Puffy' Combs, D-Dot, and Ron Lawrence. When he first played the loop for Biggie, (he said that) Biggie smiled and hugged him.' He had always remembered that summer and that song. He told me that in the summer of 1979 when he was I think 10 years old the song was a huge hit everywhere in New York and 'Rise' along with Chic's ' Good Times' were 'the songs' that all the kids were dancing and roller skating to that summer.

Randy recalled, 'I asked Puffy, in 1996 when he first called me concerning using 'Rise' for 'Hypnotize,' why he chose the 'Rise' groove. Background ĭiddy (known then as Puff Daddy) produced 'Hypnotize' and sampled Herb Alpert's 1979 hit ' Rise' which was written by Andy Armer and Herb's nephew, Randy 'Badazz' Alpert. Rolling Stone ranked the song as number 30 on their list of the '100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time'. The last song released before his death in a drive-by shooting a week later, it was the fifth song by a credited artist to hit number one posthumously, and the first since ' (Just Like) Starting Over' by John Lennon in 1980. featuring vocals by Pamela Long, released as the first single from his album Life After Death on March 4, 1997. ' Hypnotize' is a single by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G.

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