For further proof, she provided the Daily News with other baby photos of Yearwood. Yearwood’s mother, however, held onto the original contract from the shoot.
They said the records were lost, and all that was certain of was that the baby was chosen from a modeling agency. Unfortunately, Bad Boy Records (Sean “Diddy” Combs’ label) could not confirm that Yearwood was the baby. “When I first found out about it, it wasn’t a big deal to me,” he told the New York Daily News. Yearwood, an 18-year-old senior at Wallkill Valley Regional High School, always knew he was the cover star of Ready To Die, but he didn’t realize the implications of the album on the rap world until he was older.
( More on : See the top 10 posthumous albums) Billy Corgan tweeted she was one of the two girls on the band’s “Siamese Dream” cover, though the assistant photographer on the shoot said that Fiorentino is too old to be the child model. There’s also Nicole Fiorentino, the current bassist for the Smashing Pumpkins. He joins other famous cover babies who have revealed their identities in recent years, like Spencer Elden (aka the swimming Nirvana “Nevermind” baby) and Heather DeLoach (aka the bumblebee girl on Blind Melons’ self-titled album). Yearwood has come forward and claimed to be the baby on the cover of Ready To Die, Notorious B.I.G.’s classic debut album. Follow Yearwood’s actions as an infant led to some serious cool-kid cred in high school.