Allen Iverson had the answer and this time it wasn’t on the court.
In an interview with The Players Tribune, Iverson told Al Harrington about the time he got high.
The late Biggie Smalls was in a studio with Iverson and Lil’ Cease prior to his death in March of 1997 and here is AI telling the story via the per The Players Tribune.
Man this a true story. I was with Biggie Smalls and Lil’ Cease in the studio. So, I’m sitting beside Biggie, and I’m telling him he the greatest rapper. He talking about my basketball skills and this, that and the third. And I’m just smoking with him. I just remember going to the bathroom man … remember that Janet Jackson shirt? That had Janet Jackson’s face on it, and it had the man…? It was from the cover of a magazine.
Harrington
Holding the boobs.A.I.
Right. Well I had on that shirt. And man, I’m looking in the mirror at the shirt, and I notice that the shirt did not have her face … it had an ALIEN face on her body.
This is when the story really gets strange.
Biggie had AI all messed up.
I went down, opened the door … and all of a sudden, I’m back in the bathroom again. I do this like two or three times, and the last time I was like, Yo. I know she gon’ think I’m trippin’ if I ask her again. ’Cause every time I go back and end up in the bathroom!
And man, a lady was walking by, and as I was walking by her I was just stomping ’cause I couldn’t feel my feet. And she was like, “Uh, A.I., you alright?”
And I was like, “Yeah, I’m cool. Can you show me where the studio at?”
And she directed me to the joint. So I went in there, and Big or Cease, one of ’em was like, “You smoking again?” And I was like yeah. And he was like, “What you want, the hash or the chronic?” And I was like, “HASH??” You know what I mean! And they was like “Yeah, that’s what you were smoking last time.”
And I’m like, Oh my God. You know what I’m saying? Like, That’s why I’m trippin. And I had to be at the Rucker the next day! Man, I told my homeboys like, Yo man, we outta here. I gotta get outta here.
I went back to my hotel room — room was spinning or whatever. And that was like the weirdest experience that I had.
I’m sure that would’ve been one of hell of a smoke session if it was with Snoop Dogg in a Death Row records studio.
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