Ice Cube Vs Biggie? who was better?

[vaudevillevillain]

Cube. Hes too lyrical to be compared to biggie and had much better content. You cant write a book about hip hop without at least one chapter on Cube, biggie would get a paragraph or page.

:rozaylol:

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Biggie really was just about Gunplay and the whole Player shyt tbh

Cube talked about MUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH more than he ever did

 

[Cabbage Patch]

This is like Emmit Smith vs Barry Sanders....

I don't know... I don't think that's quite the right comparison......

This is like comparing micheal jackson to justin bieber

Cube

This is a better comparison (and I like Justin Bieber's last R&B album). Of course, you could substitute Chris Brown, Usher Raymond, R Kelly, Jodeci, Guy, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Babyface.. for Justin, and it would still be true. I think Slystallion's comparison is more appropriate for Big Pun and Biggie.

 

[vaudevillevillain]

didn't know what you talked about had to do with skill.

 

[Mike Otherz]

like i said cube is bettern than biggie when all is said and done but i dont think bigge was just gunplay. like someone said, he was a child of cube and scarface. that scarface element means that beyond the crazy dont give a fx attitude, some analysis and reflection was going on. a song like ready to die is more than just gun talk, it communicates desperation to me. things done changed is also social analysis to me brehs. shows how the cracked out kids of the civil rights generation had taken over the hood with the infusion of drugs in the community. etc. bigs metaphores were always viloence but behind it there was deeper shyt join on. ice cube though was just better at that kind of thing. ice cube was like malcolm over some beats.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

This is a real heads list... (from around 03/04)

18.Ice Cube
17.Method Man
16.Treach
15.Jay-Z
14.Kool G Rap
13.Tupac
12.Queen Latifah
11.Nas
10.Lauryn Hill
9.B.I.G.
8.Chuck D
7.LL Cool J
6.GrandMaster Caz
5.Kool Mo Dee
4.Big Daddy Kane
3.KRS-One
2.Rakim
1.Melle Mel

No MC Lyte, no Roxanne Shante,

 

[The Ruler 09]

No MC Lyte, no Roxanne Shante,

MC Lyte is on Kool Moe Dee's list, don't think Roxanne Shante is, would have to take that one up with Moe Dee lol.

 

[The Ruler 09]

like i said cube is bettern than biggie when all is said and done but i dont think bigge was just gunplay. like someone said, he was a child of cube and scarface. that scarface element means that beyond the crazy dont give a fx attitude, some analysis and reflection was going on. a song like ready to die is more than just gun talk, it communicates desperation to me. things done changed is also social analysis to me brehs. shows how the cracked out kids of the civil rights generation had taken over the hood with the infusion of drugs in the community. etc. bigs metaphores were always viloence but behind it there was deeper shyt join on. ice cube though was just better at that kind of thing. ice cube was like malcolm over some beats.

Also have to take into account something like Everyday Struggle.

 

[puppetmaster]

Cube was talking about things that stand right this very second. Horny lil Devil off Death Certificate damn near speaks to the Donald Sterling situation 20 something years later.

Gotta go with Cube, Big had him on flow but Cube starts edging him after that IMO


-P-

 

[Diunx]

Cube and is not even close.

 

[the rhyme king]

Cube was talking about things that stand right this very second. Horny lil Devil off Death Certificate damn near speaks to the Donald Sterling situation 20 something years later.

Gotta go with Cube, Big had him on flow but Cube starts edging him after that IMO


-P-

even with flow cube rapped on faster bpms then biggie and that's a fact.

 

[JuvenileHell]

even with flow cube rapped on faster bpms then biggie and that's a fact.

If it's one thing Big has over Ice Cube in spades it's flow and delivery. Especially flow

 

[mobbinfms]

Fresh out of school cause I was a high school grad
gots to get a job cuz I was a high school dad
Wish I got paid like I was rappin' to the nation
but thats not likely, so here's my application
Pass it to the man at AT&T
Cuz when I was in school I got the a. e. e.
But there's no s. e. for this youngsta
I didn't have no money so now I have to hunch the
Back like a slave, thats what be happenin
but whitey says there's no room for the African
Always knew that I would boycott, jeez
but welcome to McDonalds can I take your order please
Gotta sell ya food that might give you cancer
cuz my baby doesn't take no for an answer
Now I pay taxes that you never give me back
what about diapers, bottles, and similac
Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack
for decent shelter and clothes on my back?
Or should I just wait for help from Bush

These lyrics are very inaccurate.

 

[Kimo_bud]

Cube easily

 

[Professor Polo]

Biggie baabay, uhhh!