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

[Awesome Wells]

Pun and Thought were friends before the album.

They would hang out and when Pun started working on the album, he reached out and asked Black Thought to be on it. But when it came time to record the song, Pun wasn't able to get to the studio because he was still on the road. So Thought recorded his verses on his own, and Pun did his later. Thought always said they used to hop on the phone and let each other hear verses and all that.

Pun was supposed to be on Things Fall Apart on "Adrenaline", but he got arrested for some parking tickets the night he was supposed to record his verse, so The Roots ended up throwing Beanie on that track instead.

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Tariq my akh but his ass got ate up
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Thought was like RIIIIIIIGHT there with him, closest anyone ever stayed with Pun

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Thought was like RIIIIIIIGHT there with him, closest anyone ever stayed with Pun

Nah Pun tore that ass up
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"This massacre's on, as if Picasso laced you
There's lots of hateful skeletons locked
In the closet of my castle of Grayskull
I'm possum at grade school
That's why I have to debate you
My raps are like Cable, slashing your facial
That's how a master degrades you, I'm battling Jesus
If he passes through my label I'm snatching his halo
God, I'll trade you, if you send my father back as an angel"

 

[TripleAgent]

can we agree that Super Lyrical is overrated tho

Hell no


On topic, Pun wanted the illest MCs on his album to prove he could hang. The people on the album are the ones who answered and showed up. Shame Canibus didn't.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

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

Black thought was puns fav rapper. Apparently Fat Joe use to hate when he said that. He was a fan breh. It's not random at all. Real recognize real.

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Nah Pun tore that ass up
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"This massacre's on, as if Picasso laced you
There's lots of hateful skeletons locked
In the closet of my castle of Grayskull
I'm possum at grade school
That's why I have to debate you
My raps are like Cable, slashing your facial
That's how a master degrades you, I'm battling Jesus
If he passes through my label I'm snatching his halo
God, I'll trade you, if you send my father back as an angel"

Man......no lie Pun first verse on this is one of the greatest verses I have EVER heard in my life. That shyt was incredible.

 

[JulesMusic719]

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.

He wasn't beefing with them at all, that was a misconception

 

[Piff Perkins]

He wasn't beefing with them at all, that was a misconception

Beef too strong a word then, but he was mad about that video/song and word got back to them.

 

[Digital Omen]

Pun and Thought were friends before the album.

They would hang out and when Pun started working on the album, he reached out and asked Black Thought to be on it. But when it came time to record the song, Pun wasn't able to get to the studio because he was still on the road. So Thought recorded his verses on his own, and Pun did his later. Thought always said they used to hop on the phone and let each other hear verses and all that.

Pun was supposed to be on Things Fall Apart on "Adrenaline", but he got arrested for some parking tickets the night he was supposed to record his verse, so The Roots ended up throwing Beanie on that track instead.

Beans killed it no doubt, but Pun on that would have been dope as well. shyt, imagine both of them on there

 

[Awesome Wells]

Beans killed it no doubt, but Pun on that would have been dope as well. shyt, imagine both of them on there

Would've been crazy!

Pun was in his prime.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

MC Lyte was on Sinead O Conner's album

They were on his too lol

 

[DrexlersFade]

Hell no


On topic, Pun wanted the illest MCs on his album to prove he could hang. The people on the album are the ones who answered and showed up. Shame Canibus didn't.

He did in the form of Wyclef can't tell me Bis ain't write that shyt.

 

[TripleAgent]

He did in the form of Wyclef can't tell me Bis ain't write that shyt.

Not at all the same. That's like sending your little sister to fight for you

 

[Kliq_Souf]

People box “conscious rappers” like they not just regular niccas

 

[Recca Gatsby]

@No Hook a fukkin loser