Rapper Was Silent Type
By ANITA M. SAMUELS
ean (Puffy) Combs says his friend the Notorious B.I.G. wasn't the brash guy he appeared to be. In fact, Christopher Wallace was at first rather shy.
"When I first met him, he was so quiet he wouldn't say anything," Combs said. "But in due time he changed from him not saying anything, to me, three years down the line, begging him to go onstage at the Soul Train music awards."
Combs said the man who also called himself Biggie Smalls was far more talkative by then ó and he complained he couldn't go onstage because his shoes weren't right.
"I'm saying to myself, 'I can't believe that this was the same person that when I first met him wouldn't say anything, and now here I am . . . begging for him to go onstage, telling him that millions of people were waiting for him to perform,"' Combs said.
He told that story Tuesday at Biggie's private service at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel on Madison Ave.
"I wanted to take them into the world that Biggie and I shared," Combs said.
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