How the hell Big Pun and Black Thought even meet each other??

[Recca Gatsby]

Man....how the hell did Big Pun and Black Thought even link up to record "Super Lyrical"?? If you think about it that is one of the most random collabs on a song ever, especially in 1998. You got a Puerto Rican from the Bronx rolling with Fat Joe and Terror Squad who were beefing with Jay Z.... And then Black Thought, frontman of the underground, highly conscious group The Roots--out of Philadelphia.

The Roots had already dropped an album in 1996, but they mostly kept to themselves.

How the hell did Big Pun and Black Thought ever cross paths, I would love to hear how that came about. Whatever happened, that song is one of the best displays of rapping ever. Pun and Thought DESTROYED that shyt. And Black Thought actually was equal to Pun. This was when Pun was making the GOAT Nas rewrite his verses and shyt

 

[Ziggiy]

Rap is a small world

 

[WIA20XX]

These are the 2 from back in the day that were head scratchers to me.





Who signed off on this?

 

[JulesMusic719]

Real recognize real! Pretty sure Pun like The Roots like he liked Mobb Deep,bso he was tapped on with Thoughts 'Super Lyrical ' ability

 

[Mastamimd]

These are the 2 from back in the day that were head scratchers to me.





Who signed off on this?

Murray and UGK were on the same label(Jive)

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Because CanIbus never showed up..Pun was a fan of Tariq Trotter.

Homework homie

 

[En Sabah Nur]

I suppose that was kind of a random pairing. But that shows why hip-hop was so great, A street dude like Pun was a true fan and lyricist that recognized a lyricist and linked up

Mos Def collabing with Busta seemed out of left field to me too, because they seemed to be on opposite wavelengths in '99

 

[nieman]

Man....how the hell did Big Pun and Black Thought even link up to record "Super Lyrical"?? If you think about it that is one of the most random collabs on a song ever, especially in 1998. You got a Puerto Rican from the Bronx rolling with Fat Joe and Terror Squad who were beefing with Jay Z.... And then Black Thought, frontman of the underground, highly conscious group The Roots--out of Philadelphia.

The Roots had already dropped an album in 1996, but they mostly kept to themselves.

How the hell did Big Pun and Black Thought ever cross paths, I would love to hear how that came about. Whatever happened, that song is one of the best displays of rapping ever. Pun and Thought DESTROYED that shyt. And Black Thought actually was equal to Pun. This was when Pun was making the GOAT Nas rewrite his verses and shyt

He mentioned it in an interview about the album. When they were asking about who he wanted to do a song with, he said Black Thought. Then he goes to praise Thought, and how people prob not paying attention due to lack of gun talk, but how he knew Thought was nice. So, the label and such made the collabo happen.

 

[ISO]

Philly is an hour and 45 minutes to 2 hour drive from NYC

Artists meet in all different ways events, parties, clubs, conventions, happening to be recording in the same studios, through producers, other artists, labels, etc.

 

[get these nets]

Man....how the hell did Big Pun and Black Thought even link up to record "Super Lyrical"?? If you think about it that is one of the most random collabs on a song ever, especially in 1998. You got a Puerto Rican from the Bronx rolling with Fat Joe and Terror Squad who were beefing with Jay Z.... And then Black Thought, frontman of the underground, highly conscious group The Roots--out of Philadelphia.

The Roots had already dropped an album in 1996, but they mostly kept to themselves.

How the hell did Big Pun and Black Thought ever cross paths, I would love to hear how that came about. Whatever happened, that song is one of the best displays of rapping ever. Pun and Thought DESTROYED that shyt. And Black Thought actually was equal to Pun. This was when Pun was making the GOAT Nas rewrite his verses and shyt

Not odd, just A&R ing an album. Fat Joe put everything together because of his relationships.

Pun was an emcee's emcee from G Rap's family tree. So he recognized bars when he heard them. Wanted to do a duo with another razor sharp lyricist.
He bodied Thought. (and I think the Rocky sample was a lighted harded jab)


That pairing wasn't odd, what was odd was Fat Joe getting the OJays to appear in the video for the original I'm Not A Player.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Biggie was listening to the Roots in 1996, and damn near beefing with them. Doesn't seem far fetched that Pun and other NY rappers were listening too.

 

[BK The Great]

Pun was tapped in with all the legends, Kool G Rap, Busta & Wu-Tang, he had RZA produce a song on his debut

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

can we agree that Super Lyrical is overrated tho

 

[King P]

can we agree that Super Lyrical is overrated tho

No

 

[Yehuda]

Pun had Inspectah Deck on the album too, he came off like he was really a fan of emceeing.

These are the 2 from back in the day that were head scratchers to me.





Who signed off on this?

Lord Jamar spoke on this but I forgot what was his exact explanation, anyway I found this article with Pimp C from 2006

AllHipHop.com: Since the late 90s, a lot of artists have complained about the South's dominance, but by all accounts you guys are tight with a lot of East Coast artists, including Brand Nubian. How was that experience?

Pimp C: Yeah, they're friends of ours. As a matter of fact, I was a fan of theirs before I ever met them. We went on a promo tour back in the early 90s. Whenever I used to come to New York, I would always stay at Lord Jamar's house. He used to stay in Brooklyn in the same building as Jay-Z before he came up and moved out of Brooklyn. Those are good guys. Lord J has been instrumental in my career as far as giving me game at the right time and other insights. I look at him and Too $hort as guardians or godfather types in terms of helping me with what I need to do at different times in my career, so that answers that.

Pimp C: I Kept It Real For You Part 2