Being from NY is...Pun is regular/spectacular

[The Ruler 09]

Pun was a joke. If you ever saw him live or even seen clips of him recording, he couldn't go 2 bars without gargling on saliva or coming up for air. All that rapid fire fast rapping was cool on wax, but he must have been an engineers nightmare, having to blend 16 separate lines together PER VERSE.

Pun is just another example of how dying makes people pretend you are waaaay better than you were. In reality, Fat Joe >>> Big Pun

In the latter years when he was extremely overweight he had to chop it up a lot. But he didn't do it as much earlier on. There's footage of him spittin entire verses, it's when he got near deathly weight that it changed. I disagree, I think Pun infact dying made people forget how great he was, had he lived and been healthy he would have been probably a top 5 MC of all time, at least challenging for there. Even so he's in mine and many others top 10's.

 

[The Ruler 09]

In the latter years when he was extremely overweight he had to chop it up a lot. But he didn't do it as much earlier on. There's footage of him spittin entire verses, it's when he got near deathly weight that it changed. I disagree, I think Pun infact dying made people forget how great he was, had he lived and been healthy he would have been probably a top 5 MC of all time, at least challenging for there. Even so he's in mine and many others top 10's.

 

[FreshAIG]

Pun was a joke. If you ever saw him live or even seen clips of him recording, he couldn't go 2 bars without gargling on saliva or coming up for air. All that rapid fire fast rapping was cool on wax, but he must have been an engineers nightmare, having to blend 16 separate lines together PER VERSE.

Pun is just another example of how dying makes people pretend you are waaaay better than you were. In reality, Fat Joe >>> Big Pun

Possibly the dumbest tweet ever

 

[FreshAIG]

Big Pun is technically top 5 rapper ever, just from a pure skill perspective.

He doesn't have the catalog tho

 

[scuba]

I like the concept that pun was spectacular and regular at the same time. When I judge a lot of rappers these days, i end up weighing them low. Not because of 'hate', i just have seen folks from major label, underground, unsigned but grinding, and not in the recording game but can spit... for about 30 years. I cant really give someone a 'dope' rating unless they really spitting in the top 20% of the probably 2500 MCs i have heard in my lifetime.

 

[Majestic Pape]

I can't name five emcees who garnered mainstream success that can rhyme on the level of Big Pun. Not five.

 

[FreshAIG]

I can't name five emcees who garnered mainstream success that can rhyme on the level of Big Pun. Not five.

I can't name 5 rappers period

Only G Rap, Rakim, Nas, Eminem, had the technical skill level of Pun to that extent. That ability to flip syllables effortlessly is only accomplished by very few.

Some are better with the slick rhyming/punchline/metaphor stuff (Jay-Z, Ras Kass, Jadakiss, Big Daddy Kane, Redman)

But as far as like lyrical gymnastics with flipping and bending words with flows and rhyme schemes, Pun was top of the food chain

 

[Icantspell]

that nikka sucks

 

[The Ruler 09]

Technically it's hard to name many people on that Big Pun level... Big Daddy Kane, Rakim K-RIno, Pharaoh Monch, isn't many at all. he was an incredible MC.

 

[the rhyme king]

I can't name 5 rappers period

Only G Rap, Rakim, Nas, Eminem, had the technical skill level of Pun to that extent. That ability to flip syllables effortlessly is only accomplished by very few.

Some are better with the slick rhyming/punchline/metaphor stuff (Jay-Z, Ras Kass, Jadakiss, Big Daddy Kane, Redman)

But as far as like lyrical gymnastics with flipping and bending words with flows and rhyme schemes, Pun was top of the food chain

lol at this bullshyt big l makaveli krs-one gza are all better then pun from a rhyme scheme perpective

 

[Swing]

I fukked his baby moms. He ain't have a baby with her yet though.

 

[Thoughts]

press ctrl+alt+delete

select task manager

punch myself in the dikk 3 times

restart computer in safe mode

make posts


yes.

...Hispanics be tryna use Pun and Joe as a crowbar into this shyt, truth is both of them low key trash, it's just they the only ones reppin' for NYRicans so Angie, Enuff, Ciper and Envy stay banging us in the head with them.

Pun was low key trash like Snoop Dogg ...their rhymes are garbage but they get charisma, and Joe will have some fresh off the boat Cubans or Ricans come see you if you don't dance to his weak songs.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

pun made an impact and mark in such a short span..

 

[Awesome Wells]

Big Pun is technically top 5 rapper ever, just from a pure skill perspective.

He doesn't have the catalog tho

This here.

I think I first heard him back in like '95, and I thought he was dope as shyt. You couldn't front on the dude at all. After he passed though, a lot of people were saying he was the best, and I think we all know that wasn't true. But lyrically, he was serious and I'd say that first album showed that. shyt, even his verse on "John Blaze". But he lost a lot of what made him dope on that second album.

 

[Mike Ock]

I dunno, how to call it. I'm black and latin, I dunno if its a cultural thing. But, Pun being the first successful latin rapper really spoke volumes to me and this was happening while living in the Bronx. His first album is extremely dope to me. I love the whole vibe of the album. Pun just made dope shyt. One of my fav lines from him is:

"Taking cats way past the stars/
First it was Nasty Nas,
Now watch me turn an Apple into Macintosh"