Sleepy Brown has shared that he believes parts of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa" video were intended to diss OutKast — and he thinks Diddy was in on it.
Appearing as a guest on Killer Mike's Conversate with Killer Mike podcast, Sleepy detailed an alleged confrontation that André 3000 and Big Boi had with Biggie and Diddy in the mid-1990s.
"I ain’t gonna lie, I wanted to fight that n***a," the singer said about Diddy. "He was cool man, but he was a little fucking arrogant."
Around the 57-minute mark in the video above, Brown said that Diddy and late Dungeon Family founding member Rico Wade had a "friendly competition" over OutKast, who were a part of Wade's camp.
While running Bad Boy Entertainment, Diddy directed OutKast's 1994 music video for "Player's Ball." Brown went as far as claiming that Biggie began wearing Kangols after Outkast sported them during their Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik rollout, with the hat also being seen in the "Big Poppa" video.
"Go look at Puff and Biggie’s video when that n***a goes to the bar and mushes n***a in the face to get to the girl," Brown explained. "He had a dude in the video that had a gap in his teeth and had his hair all permed up."
In addition to the video potentially mocking OutKast, Brown recalled the Dungeon Family believing that Wade was also being trolled, leading to confrontation during a Jermaine Dupri and Da Brat music video shoot in Atlanta. Busta Rhymes was with Biggie on the tour bus when Rico inquired about where Diddy was.
"Biggie was like, 'Rico, what’s up man? What’s going on?' Rico was like, 'Nah man, where your boy at? Your boy wants to talk that?'" Brown recalled.
Despite Sleepy Brown's claims, Biggie, who was murdered in a Los Angeles drive-by in 1997, appeared supportive of OutKast while he was alive, and even attended one of their early concerts.