Our deepest condolences go out to the Wallace family, Bad Boy Entertainment, and all of Biggie’s fans.Įverything was looking good for Biggie Smalls on March 8. Let us all pray that this is the last time we at VIBE have to cover the murders of our music’s heroes. We have passed the point for words now is the time for action and change. If we simply allow things to stay as they are, if we’re afraid to take a moral stand, there will be blood on all of our hands. We all need to come together and take responsibility for ourselves and for each other before more lives are lost. There’s a wonderful diversity of individuals in the hip hop community, and in that diversity lies strength. The juxtaposition of these grim stories-Biggie’s murder, Suge’s incarceration-with the remnants of our Sex issue may seem strange, but it’s no stranger than the situation we find ourselves in: We set out to write about sex but ended up, once again, having to confront death. As soon as we heard about Biggie, we knew that this issue’s cover had to change. But as long as our icons keep dying in bursts of gunfire, that kind of fun needs to take a back seat so we can begin rebuilding.
It’s our intention that VIBE cover the whole spectrum of urban culture, including the fun stuff. This month we had planned a special Sex issue, an exploration of matters of the heart and the flesh. In just a few short months, two extraordinarily talented young men who were at the center of the stupid and overhyped rivalry between Death Row and Bad Boy, played out so extensively in our pages over the past year, were dead, and another was behind bars. This latest tragedy came a week after Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight had been sentenced to nine years in prison for parole violation.
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