Biggie is/was the real blueprint for sellout/commercial rap that is still being made today

[IllmaticDelta]

That entire formula on the getting fly/playa/pimp mixed with street hustler, started on Ready To Die which I consider classic but somewhat "poppy" and developed more on Life After Death which I consider commercial as fuk w/ a ton of filler for the most part. Puff took the same formula into the shiny suit era (Biggie was already heading that way) while Jay-z used it to great effect when he made Vol 2. This style birthed the commercialism/content of Cash Money Records/similar Southern acts and later 50cent on GRODT and the Massacre.

I don't know how Biggie gets away with the blatant pop/commercialism of Ready To Die and LAD with only Puff taking blame for the shiny suit era. Nas got heat from the media for "If I Ruled The World" while spitting heat/dropping gems and Big got love for "One More Chance" which was lowgrade in content and r&B as fuk

 

[Surreal]

Puff did that. Puff/Nas is the answer

 

[DANJ!]

Yeah, cause BIG was the first artist to make songs with R&B samples/hooks.

 

[Playa With Tha Passport]

Snoop dogg
50
Ice cube
Wayne
LL cool J

 

[SirBiatch]

Big is also the first major New York to swagger-jack another coast's sound to get airplay.

But let the Coli tell it, New York never bites

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Snoop dogg
50
Ice cube
Wayne
LL cool J

Snoop kept it gangster on doggystyle

 

[ISO]

Coli old heads told me it was Nas on It Was Written

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Yeah, cause BIG was the first artist to make songs with R&B samples/hooks.

In the total package that I mentioned in my first post, Biggie was the blueprint

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Puff did that. Puff/Nas is the answer

Puff was part it for sure because he helped mold Biggie. Nas ain't have nothing to do with it. Ready To Die has a more blatantly commercial/crossover sound than IWW.

 

[Tom Foolery]

"Make my name taste like ass when you speak it"

And the whole Bad Boy label got called out for that bullshyt. Wu BCC etc never fukked with them, this is what started the Mad Rapper skits.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Ed Lover on the Jay vs Big dynamic and Puff reshaping Biggie

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Big is also the first major New York to swagger-jack another coast's sound to get airplay.

But let the Coli tell it, New York never bites

jacked that g-funk but east coasted it out by adding the NYC fly style/ladies man/braggadocio element that BDK had

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

What Is it shyt on big week?

What artist from this generation you think will be talked about twenty years from now?

 

[ManBearPig]

I think Easy mo Bee said in an interview that Biggie always wanted to keep it hip hop and all the commercialized songs were suggested by diddy

 

[Surreal]

Coli old heads told me it was Nas on It Was Written

IWW was the 1st east coast solo album to debut #1 on billboard 200