BIGGIE UPS

As the Hip Hop Karaoke NYC 4th Annual Tribute to the Notorious B.I.G. should be a place for inspiration, The Village Voice would like to proffer this guidance to its honorable contestants: Close like Starsky and Hutch, stick the clutch. Skip the wine and the candlelight, no Cristal tonight. Live ’til your last day, hittin’ honeys that be nas-tay, gettin’ money in the fast way. Lace lyrical duches in their buches. And, above all: Have techniques drippin’ out your buttcheeks.

Sat., March 13, 10 p.m., 2010