Diana Ross “I’m Coming Out” Aha Moment is B.I.G. [Video]

I was watching VH1's "40 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of the 90s (Hour 2)" when the 1997 song "Mo' Money Mo' Problems" from Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase and Sean Combs (called Puff Daddy at that time) came on.  The guest commentators starting talking about the song and the genius of using Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out".  Wait a minute, what?!    I had no idea.  If I were Oprah, it would have been an aha moment, um, sort of.  Well, who knew?  apparently everyone but me.  Go Diana!  To my defense, I was only seven when the song was released in 1980.

Remember our old dance party days at Boomers?  This song was always on the request list: