Eric Adams’ connection to hip-hop and its stars stays a scorching subject, with the New York Metropolis mayor making a shock cameo in a Biggie Smalls music video three a long time in the past.
An Eric Adams marketing campaign poster was featured within the visible for The Infamous BIG’s 1994 single “Juicy,” in response to a social media put up that just lately got here amid federal issues over Adams’ 2020 marketing campaign Reappeared throughout the investigation of the occasion.
This put up is by the big apple instances Jesse Drucker, a reporter on X (previously Twitter), confirmed a screenshot of a video by which a part of a poster with Adams’ face will be seen on a pedestrian visitors sign pole.
Did anybody discover the Eric Adams poster making a cameo in Biggie Smalls’ “Juicy” video? (h/t: my son.) pic.twitter.com/xjDPU1LIIy
— Jesse Drucker (@JesseDrucker) October 22, 2021
This screenshot, taken from the 1:38 time stamp of the music video, reveals Adams with thick hair and a mustache. The poster, to advertise Adams’ candidacy for the congressional seat in New York’s eleventh District, was posted on a visitors sign pole and confirmed a muscular man doing pull-ups on the pole.
Adams in the end got here up quick in that election, dropping to incumbent Main Owens after failing to obtain sufficient legitimate signatures to put on the official poll.
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The poster Adams noticed within the “Juicy” music video is all of the extra important due to the mayor’s shut ties to Sean “Diddy” Combs, founding father of Unhealthy Boy Data, the label on which The Infamous BIG was launched. “Juicy” was additionally launched on the label.
In 2023, Adams granted Coombs a key to New York Metropolis, a transfer that proved ironic given their respective authorized points with the federal authorities.
Final month, Adams was charged with bribery, marketing campaign finance and conspiracy by the U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York. Simply weeks in the past, Combs was charged with racketeering and intercourse trafficking.
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Combs has since returned the keys to town however maintains his innocence given the fees in opposition to him.
Watch The Infamous BIG’s “Juicy” music video under.
