Mo Money Mo Problems
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| Single by Notorious B.I.G. | ||
| from the album Life After Death | ||
| Released | 1997 | |
| Format | Digital Download | |
| Genre | East Coast hip hop | |
| Length | 4:12 | |
| Label | Bad Boy/Arista | |
| Producer(s) | N/A | |
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| Notorious B.I.G. singles chronology | ||
| "Hypnotize" (1997) |
"Mo Money Mo Problems" (1997) |
"Sky's The Limit" (1998) |
"Mo Money Mo Problems" is the tenth track on the first disk of the Notorious B.I.G. album, Life After Death. It features guest vocals from Ma$e and Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs. The instrumental contains a sample of the Diana Ross song "I'm Coming Out". The refrain, sung by Kelly Price, goes "I don't know what they want from me, It's like the more money we come across, the more problems we see".
The single, released posthumously, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 1997. It replaced "I'll Be Missing You", which also featured Puff Daddy.
[edit] Music video
The video featured Ma$e and Puff Daddy in futuristic locations, including a tunnel lined with fluorescent lamps and a stark white chamber with pressurized air blowing out of the floor, allowing the two to float in midair. The "air chamber" also had a video screen showing, at first, images of Kelly Price lip-synching to the sample of Diana Ross' voice and singing the song's chorus. During the final verse, which the Notorious B.I.G. performed, Ma$e and Puffy looked on as the video screen showed archival footage of B.I.G. performing, run at a speed so that the footage seemed to sync with B.I.G.'s vocals; since the rapper had died just prior to the release of Life After Death, and well before the filming of the video, this was the only way to have him appear in the video.
The futuristic sets and the physical performances of Ma$e and Puff Daddy in this video were later parodied for the music video of "Weird Al" Yankovic's "It's All About The Pentiums" (a parody of Puff Daddy's "It's All about the Benjamins"), with Yankovic emulating Puff Daddy and guest actor Drew Carey emulating Ma$e.
| Preceded by "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112 |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single August 30, 1997 |
Succeeded by "Honey" by Mariah Carey |
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Albums and EPs: Ready to Die | Conspiracy | Life After Death | Born Again | Duets: The Final Chapter |
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Singles: "Party And Bullshit" | "Juicy" | "Big Poppa" | "One More Chance" | "Fuck You Tonight" | "Hypnotize" | "Mo Money Mo Problems" | "Sky's The Limit" | "Notorious B.I.G." | "Dead Wrong" | "Nasty Girl" | "Spit Your Game" | "Hold Ya Head" |
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See Also: 2Pac vs. The Notorious B.I.G. | Bad Boy Records | Junior M.A.F.I.A. |
