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

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Youhadasparkwhenustarted said:
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DANJ! said:
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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You have to excuse these kids Danj. They were like 5 when he was out.
 
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But Biggie was considered a biter too (Rae, Ghost, Pac, Prodigy all called him out) but a lot of rap fans overlooked that at the time cause he had the fat nikka novelty factor about him. He came out on the heels of Snoop Doggy Dogg.

I hear 94 Big and I hear 92 Redman and Wu's off-the-wall approach, a little bit of 93 Pac and Snoop, Heavy D, Nas, and basically a lot of other previous rappers' distinct styles all sorta agglomerated in his..but the project RTD as a whole was so perfectly produced and packaged, you couldn't help as a fan but love the shyt

So it's kind of ironic that Biggie fans call Ross a biter like Biggie himself wasn't considered the biggest biter of all in his day
 
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But Ready to Die didn't age well. Somewhere Scarface and Kool G Rap silent want their credit for they influence they played in BIGs career .


For the record, Ross isn't a nicer MC but the double standards in Hip Hop can go. Ross can't be better than one of his influences but BIG can be better than Face, an G
 
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mvp_status said:
Hold on nikkas are seriously trying to make a legit case for Ross?
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What u mean "trying" :wtb:

The case can be argued if only the opposition would remain rational. Technically Big may be the better rapper(i disagree but that's just my opinion) but lyricism is not the only measuring stick in this debate. Ross is the better songwriter, the better businessman, and has a ton more classic material than Big(that's not really Biggies fault since he died so early but that doesn't mean its not true). Y'all can't see it now but give it a few more years and you'll see how well the music Ross has dropped in the last 3 years will age.

Its all opinions though
 
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Let's be 100% real here.

Ross benefits greatly from there being virtually no competition in the rap game nowadays.

BIG came out in arguably the most competitive era in rap music, when every region was creating classics, and was right there with anyone you can name in terms of impact or classic music.

Fred.
 
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