Though current country music star Darius Ruckerreportedly refuses to write a tell-all book detailing his Hootie & the Blowfish years until his son turns 18, that self-enacted rule didn't stop him from telling the story behind the Hootie reference delivered by Ma$e in the Notorious B.I.G.'s posthumous instaclassic "Mo Money Mo Problems."
During a recent interview on The Dan Patrick Show, Rucker finally removed the mystery surrounding the seemingly random reference. According to Rucker, the line is quite far from fiction indeed:
As for Hootie & the Blowfish, Rucker's detour through the wilderness of country music has rendered them nowhere near as active as they were during their days of selling 16 million copies of their debut album Cracked Rear View. However, everything is eternal on the internet:
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