For years rumor has been that Biggie was talking about John Starks on his classic song, “I Got a Story To Tell.” Big never named the Knicks player, but many have assumed it was Starks. Well the baller joined ESPN’s “Highly Questionable,” today & had something to say about it.
Check it out…
Via MTV:
It’s one of the great moments in hip-hop storytelling: The Nororious B.I.G.’s “I Got A Story To Tell,” where he gives a detailed account of sleeping with a woman and then robbing her man — who, he said, was “a player off the New York Knicks” — when he came home. But there’s one question that’s been left to lyrical lore: Which player is he talking about?
It’s often been rumored that the guy Big’s rhyming about is John Starks, a now-retired former fan-favorite. But on an episode of the ESPN show “Highly Questionable,” Starks said not only is it not about him, but he knows who it was about.
“That wasn’t me,” he said. “First and foremost, I’m not 6’5″; I’m 6’2″, actually.” The height comment is a reference to the late rapper’s line on the Life After Death track where he says he was at the house of, “One of them 6’5″ n—as.”
“I know who it was about, but I’m not gonna say,” Starks added, with a smile. “I can’t tell you. But I just want to get it clear that it wasn’t about me.”
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he’s talking about HUBERT DAVIS
It doesn’t matter how tall he is in real life. He was always listed at 6″5. Biggie as a fan knew his listed height and he wasn’t about to measure him. Now the only onthers listed at that height during that time was Gerald Wilkens and Hubert Davis. I don’t know what circles those guys ran in but Hubert seemed kind of quiet. So my guess would be John or Gerald