Craig Mack and The Notorious B.I.G. have been the primary two artists signed to Diddy’s Bad Boy Entertainment, launching the label with a one-two punch that helped outline Nineteen Nineties Hip-Hop.

But whereas their careers started with promise, each artists met premature ends. Biggie was murdered in 1997 and Craig Mack died from AIDS-related issues in 2018.

Now, Mack’s ex-wife, Roxanne Hill, is elevating eyebrows with explosive claims that his sickness might not have been a random tragedy. During a sit-down with The Art of Dialogue, Hill mentioned she believes her former husband was intentionally contaminated with AIDS.

“Yes, I do. I do believe that,” she mentioned when requested if she thought somebody deliberately gave Mack the virus. Hill defined that Mack himself suspected foul play.

“Craig had a feeling that it was something given to him, not in I guess the way people usually contract AIDS,” she mentioned.

She additionally recalled Mack warning a pal in South Carolina to “be careful because they will put someone with you and they’ll poison you,” an announcement he made earlier than his analysis grew to become public.

“Craig was a very heterosexual man,” Hill mentioned. “He liked women. He liked the company of women. So when people were saying, ‘oh, he was gay,’ he wasn’t gay. Someone got to him.”

She added that his sickness appeared immediately and with out warning.

“It was just like out of the blue,” she mentioned. “You know, if their father had been an intravenous drug user, sharing needles, they would know the probability of him getting sick from that. But this was just like out of the blue.”

Hill also said her kids have struggled to grasp how their father grew to become sick.

“They’re like, ‘How?’” she mentioned. “If it had been drugs, there would be a clear path. But there’s no explanation.”

She famous that she has theories about what occurred however is unable to share them. “I have speculations,” she mentioned. “But I’m not at liberty to discuss those right now due to my attorneys telling me not to talk about it.”

After Craig Mack’s dying, Hill mentioned she spoke with the coroner in South Carolina.

According to her, the coroner advised her that Mack had doubtless been dwelling with the virus for a decade or extra with out receiving therapy. That timeline, she mentioned, suggests he contracted the sickness whereas nonetheless dwelling in New York.

“When you do the math, that timeline places him back in New York when he became ill,” she mentioned. “How it happened remains unclear. There has been speculation, but I cannot discuss that now because my attorneys advised me not to. What I can say is that it leaves the strong impression that something was done to him.”

Craig Mack, recognized for his 1994 hit “Flava in Ya Ear,” left the highlight within the late ’90s and finally joined a spiritual commune in South Carolina.

He died on March 12, 2018. The Notorious B.I.G., his Bad Boy labelmate, was killed in a drive-by taking pictures on March 9, 1997.

Mack died simply three days after the twenty first anniversary of Biggie’s dying—precisely 21 years and three days aside.

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