notorious big shot He and Diddy rapped “as close as Starsky and Hutch” on the 1997 single “Hypnotize,” the last song released before his death. Just a week later, the hip-hop legend (born Christopher Wallace) was assassinated at the age of 24 while following Diddy in his Chevrolet Suburban.
Nearly 25 years later, Biggie’s son CJ Wallace hired publicist Jonathan Hay to revive some of the late MC’s hits for the family legacy. But according to Hayes, their business arrangement took a dark turn. He claimed that a member of Biggie’s team made sexual advances towards him.
“My experience with the Biggie Smalls team became disgusting, to say the least,” Hays told AllHipHop. “Similar to Diddy’s alleged approach, the Notorious Estate refused to acknowledge my sexual harassment complaint when I embarrassingly came forward. I will not be participating in phone sex, nor will I be seeing the Notorious during a pandemic One of the representatives of the hacienda pleases himself in a video chat.
“For two years after those disgusting events, I lived with regret that I didn’t ‘agree’ to those weird things because I was immediately shunned and they terminated the program. I lost For a large sum of money and nearly two years of exclusive Biggie work.
Hayes said Diddy remains a partner in the Christopher Wallace estate’s publishing fortune, which includes music properties featuring JAY-Z. It wasn’t until Diddy RICO was arrested that he had the courage to reveal what happened to him.
“I have great resources, but I can’t compete with the assets of The Notorious BIG, Diddy and JAY-Z,” he admits. “I couldn’t speak out about it until now because so many strong women have come forward to file lawsuits and alleged criminal complaints against the former bad boy mogul.”
In another incident, Hayes claimed that he was on a Zoom call with Diddy, King Combs and two members of the estate shortly after the release of Hayes and Frank White’s “Big Poppa (House Mix).” When Diddy complained that the song “wasn’t good enough,” Hayes said he observed Diddy smelling what he thought was ketamine or cocaine.
“Dad said I needed to make house music with ketamine because then all the ravers would hear it at places like Burning Man and Miami Ultra,” Hayes continues. “During the weird pep call from Diddy, he was snorting ketamine or cocaine, which was crazy to me at the time. I was surprised he was snorting, especially since this kid was also using Zoom.
After the deal fell through, Hayes, who had by now moved to Brooklyn, made a “last ditch effort” and contacted Faith Evans through her manager.
“I let them know that a representative of a notorious large estate had made extremely unwanted sexual advances towards me,” he explained. “I also attached the total mp3 [heard by AllHipHop] Biggie’s rep repeatedly sang that he loved me in a very strange way. Faith Evans’ ex-husband and active stepfather of Biggie’s son Todd Russaw sent me an email acknowledging that it was “disturbing” and that he Would follow up…but he never did.
“It became a little concerning when I started receiving random threatening texts from Diddy’s co-workers and people involved with Biggie’s legacy. After we temporarily moved to Texas to get out of Brooklyn , my girlfriend and I kept a low profile in Washington Heights, Manhattan, for nearly a year.
Hayes eventually received a cease-and-desist letter regarding Biggie’s project. It reads in part: “Our client has informed us that you are threatening to release the above-mentioned album without authorization. This album and all master recordings contained therein shall be individually and collectively referred to in this letter as the “Album.”
“Specifically, in your July 2, 2021 email to Christopher J. Wallace and Willie Mack, you said the following: ‘I can publish it [the Album] Personally, I have no affiliation with Think Big, Frank White, Biggie’s Estate, etc. Your statement is undoubtedly wrong.
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The letter also suggested Hayes may have violated a confidentiality agreement. It continued, “Our client has shared some of your correspondence with members of its team and third parties, which means you may have breached the non-disclosure agreement (‘NDA’) signed on April 14, 2020. Our investigation remains Continuing, we hereby reserve all of our customers’ rights in this matter. We encourage you to review your confidentiality agreement and ensure that you do not violate it, intentionally or unintentionally, in the future.
Needless to say, the project never fully came to fruition. Hayes had originally put the incident behind him, but felt the need to speak out after more and more people came forward with their so-called Diddy horror stories. The unsealed indictment alleges that from 2008 to the present, Diddy abused, threatened, and coerced women and others, led an extortion conspiracy, and engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice. Diddy remains incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
It was all a dream… until it wasn’t.
