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It was a huge dip in quality compared to the first one. The reviews of that album in real time reflect that as I'm sure you're aware of. LAD was a step up in quality even though there were more commercial tracks than RTD. Death never elevated Pun's second album into being called a classic & ATG album. Doesn't matter what it sold either
It was a huge dip in quality compared to the first one. The reviews of that album in real time reflect that as I'm sure you're aware of. LAD was a step up in quality even though there were more commercial tracks than RTD. Death never elevated Pun's second album into being called a classic & ATG album. Doesn't matter what it sold either
Biggie of course, and it's not nostalgia either, he was a much better and more creative artist.
Neg not necessarily off just this post but a series of post that is all.Biggie is the Penny Hardaway/Grant Hill of rap.
Tupac was special and he deserves the icon status but, Biggie was just a rapper.
Also, Pac gave us tens of albums whereas Biggie gave us two and some change.
He's overrated. I'd choose Ross's discography over Big's.
Ross doesn’t have a classic album jokes on u like I said 50 mixtape discog>>>>> Ross whole solo discography. if we add in all of 50s shyt from 98-09, Ross isn’t even ten percent of that. Regardless tho this is a big vs Ross thread and biggie washes him on all levels. So does big pun which has one classic album and a shytty one. So does big l... no need to explain it there’s levels to this shyt.50 cent is a generic ABC gangsta rapper. He's not clever at all, can't rap and has a WOAT album discography.
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The reviews in real time obviously don't reflect that if The Source gave it the same Mics as "Capital Punishment"....so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
I've never personally met anyone that thinks "LAD" was a step up from "RTD". Like I said, my peer group (I was 20 in 1996) thought it was a cool, uneven project and we were pretty muchabout the hype it received as a result of BIG dying. It was expected. I never expected that to carry on for 20+ years though. At some point I figured people would judge the album objectively.
And I never said anything about the word "classic" specifically. I said death is the ultimate pass. It's disingenuous to pretend it's not. Death is the reason people were talking about Big L could've been where Jay-Z currently is if he hadn't died. Death is the reason Mac Dre was on the verge of being a global mega star had he not died. Death tends to elevate artists, especially when it happens in their prime. BIG is just that concept taken to the extreme.
Fred.