Can A Case Be Made That Rick Ross Has A Better Body Of Work Than Biggie?

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Michael Knight said:
Kinda popular fam? What is this revisionist stuff in this thread?

I have no problem with nikka's preferring Ross, but dont try to rewrite history.

The premise of the post was that Big did more w/ his first 2 than Ross did.
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i wasn't referring to the "kinda popular" part but, the "3 years" part....as in he was only around for a short period.

i did bold the whole thing, so i see why it came across like that. my bad. :manny:

i may think he's overrated but, i would never devalue his impact.
 
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This whole body of work talk is absolute bullsh1t.

Fvck a body of work, Ross is nowhere near Biggie.

Biggie has tracks that blow me away, Ross doesn't have any, it's all reliant on beats and features. Biggie genuinely has timeless albums, Ross barely has timeless tracks.

Tell me, are John Cazale or James Dean gonna be remembered more with their limited releases or someone like Orlando Bloom or Ryan Gosling who are poppin right now? Fvck a body of work, Bloom and Goslng might have appeared in more films, thus a longer list of better films, but they're talent, quality and legacy will never ever top Cazale or Dean's. The same goes for Ross' over Biggie's.
 
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Biggie is a legend. Ross is an average rapper.

nikkaz, name one classic ross song. :stopitslime:
 
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GEECHIE LIBERACE said:
mafia music.....also put the dirt on 50 career
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"curtis jackson baby mama I ain't askin for a cent
burn the house down, gotta buy another
don't forge the gas can, jealous stupid motherfukker"

yeah...that's def some classic shyt. :rudy: B
 
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This thread is madness...


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Ross will never have a record like this :takedat:
 
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This comparison wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the extreme reaching niqqas are doin', just to downplay BIG and pump up Ross. And the fact that you gotta do that is evidence alone that Ross' work ain't fukkin' with BIG's. As Hexagram said, you gotta have an extremely skewed view of BIG's career to turn it into "oh yeah, he was only out for a couple years and he wasn't even poppin' like that", or limit his popularity to just the singles. Sure, he had two albums... and a bunch of other stuff outside those albums that were also just as relevant during that time. With the albums, many of the songs that weren't singles are just as well-known and remembered as the hits. At one point, every record he had a verse on was an automatic street or radio smash. He was one of the first artists really doing it to that extent with the guest features. All of this stuff factors into his career. Then there were songs like "Who Shot Ya" and "Dreams" that were smashin' and weren't even on any albums. It would be a lil' incorrect to just limit it to the singles, or just the stuff on the albums.

Only a person who WASN'T around to remember that would discount his work, regardless of how short a time it was. And that's OK if you weren't around, you can't help what year you were born. But since you weren't, don't act like you were. It'd be like me tryna tell a 40-year-old what LL's impact was when 'Radio' was out. And it actually says more for BIG than anything, that in his little 3/4 years, he put out more classic sh*t than some of these dudes have managed to put out in twice that amount of time.
 
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