Touré is calling out 50 Cent’s Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning for using a Biggie Smalls interview clip in what he says is a misleading and historically inaccurate way.
In a TikTok video shared this week, Touré explained that the viral soundbite of The Notorious B.I.G. saying he fears someone will kill him was not recorded shortly before Biggie’s death in March 1997 — despite the documentary placing footage from the night he was murdered right after the clip. Instead, Touré says the audio came from an interview he conducted years earlier, during Biggie’s Ready to Die era.
“So I did that interview, he’s talking to me,” Touré said. “The doc places this right before the Peterson Auto Museum, March 9th. But you know what? We did that interview on the first album.”
He clarified that Biggie’s words about danger and fear were about street life, not the East Coast–West Coast feud that defined his final months.
“That’s him talking about the street, not the [rap] game,” Touré said. “That’s him saying, ‘I’m afraid of getting knocked off on the street.’”
Touré added that the interview took place in the hallway of Biggie’s building, where members of his entourage stood guard in case anyone from the neighborhood tried something.
“If anyone started walking up, somebody from the crew would go down with a hammer,” he recalled. “Big said to me, ‘I am afraid, afraid of the street. But I gotta be out here. I gotta live. I gotta show ‘em my music. I gotta show ‘em I’m not afraid, but I am definitely afraid.’”
His account of the hallway setting and the tone of Biggie’s comments — though not the exact quotes — matches a December 1994 New York Times article he wrote titled “Biggie Smalls, Rap’s Man of the Moment.”
Touré stressed that the moment shown in the documentary had nothing to do with Biggie’s trip to Los Angeles years later in March 1997 — a trip many believe he felt uneasy about because of the heightened tensions after Tupac Shakur’s death.
“But the doc makes it like that bite about his fear relates to the Big–Pac situation and his fear ahead of going to L.A.,” Touré said. “He may have been afraid because he knew he was in danger of being in L.A. in that moment, but that clip is way out of context. It’s from years earlier.”
