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EXCLUSIVE | Nene Leakes Lawsuit Breaks Down YEARS of Racism at Bravo! *LEGAL DOCS*

EXCLUSIVE | Nene Leakes Lawsuit Breaks Down YEARS of Racism at Bravo! *LEGAL DOCS*

QUICK QUOTES: Kandi Burruss’ Baby Daddy (Block) Claims She Knew She Was The Sidechick… (VIDEO)

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  • Where Are They Now: The Notorious B.I.G. “Ready to Die” Cover Baby…

    Mar, 21 2011 | Written by ATLien

    Remember the adorable little baby that covered Biggie’s “Ready to Die” cd?

    Well after years of searching the ‘Biggie baby’ has finally been found! He’s now an 18 year old high school senior who grew up in boogie down Bronx. (My how time files!)

    Details below:

    The NY Daily News found Keithroy Yearwood, 18, the teen who says he’s that chubby-cheeked kid on the cover of “Ready to Die” – the acclaimed debut album by slain rapper, Notorious B.I.G.

    “Every time people find out they ask me if I got a lot of money out of it,” Yearwood told the Daily News.

    As a matter of fact he didn’t.

    Keithroy only made $150 for the two-hour modeling agency shoot, where he was shot in diapers, sporting a neatly picked-out Afro.

    Released in 1994 by Sean (Diddy) Combs’ Bad Boy Records, “Ready to Die” sold 3.3 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

    Yearwood’s image was featured on the cover as well as several promotion materials like t-shirts and posters.

    “I just want people to know that’s me,” Yearwood said. “The truth is finally coming out.”

    Fans, who observed the 14th anniversary of the rapper’s death on March 9, have wanted to know the truth for years.

    Many speculated it was an early photo of B.I.G. (real name was Christopher Wallace) or one of his kids., while others thought it might be one of Diddy’s kids.

    Even the graphic designer of the album, Cey Adams didn’t know the identity of the kid.

    “That ended up being one of the most-asked questions of all-time,” said Adams, who thought the baby was the son of a hairstylist that worked at the record label.

    Butch Belair, the photographer who took the famous shot, also thought the baby was related to someone close to the project.

    “It was a friend of someone’s friends’ kid who had this cool Afro,” the photographer said. “The Afro was as big as he was.”

    RapRadar.com asked Combs about the ‘Biggie Baby’ last year and Diddy told time,

    “That was a baby we just found ….We did a little casting for somebody that looked like Big.”

    Diddy’s record company couldn’t confirm that Yearwood is the cover star saying, “files from then would be hard to find.” They did confirm the baby came from an agency.

    Yearwood’s mom Delcenia Burns, 43, took out stacks of baby pictures of her son at their Sussex County, N.J., home to show he’s one and the same – and dug up papers from the child modeling agency Chicky’s Kids to support her son’s claim.

    The agency, now closed, sent her and her then-infant camera ham to the casting, she said.

    Burns admits it was tough to get her son gigs because of his full head of hair. Some potential jobs even wanted to pose him as a girl, his mom recalled.

    This time, the Afro worked in his favor.

    “We got a call from the agency saying he got the job,” Burns said. “We still didn’t know how big this was going to be.”

    It was years before Yearwood was able to appreciate the sheer magnitude of his place in hip hop history. All his relatives had posters with the album cover on their walls but it wasn’t until he was 8 that it all sunk in.

    “When I first found out about it, it wasn’t a big deal to me,” said Yearwood, who hopes to be a basketball star and study sports management in college. “Now, of course, it’s a big deal to me.”

    Yearwood, whose favorite B.I.G. songs are “Juicy” and “Big Poppa,” insists he doesn’t discuss the album much because most people don’t believe him.

    But, he admits: “It’s an honor to be on this album.”


    (source)

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  • QUICK QUOTES: Kandi Burruss’ Baby Daddy (Block) Claims She Knew She Was The Sidechick… (VIDEO)

  • Sheree Whitfield Reunites With ‘Prison Bae’ (Tyrone Gilliams) After Early Release (PHOTOS)

  • Nene Leakes Calls for Fans to Boycott: “Turn Off Your TVs!” | #BoycottBravo Petition Gains Steam #RHOA

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