The Greatest Rapper of All-Time Died on March 9th: 20 Year Anniversary of Biggie's Passing
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yeah man. sucks. when he mentioned the big and pun collab, i got sad. some shyt in there that will hurt the jay die hards tho
Techniec
Drugs and Kalashnikovs
Cant wait to finish my work for today, (and hit up my yoga), then blaze a fat joint and throw on Big
To this day I miss him. I wear my Pac stan badge proudly and he will always be my GOAT, but Biggie was probably the most COMPLETE rapper if that makes sense
Because he could get lyrical, could entertain, had flows and could spit substance too. Its a shame we didn't get enough of those latter type records, but even a taste of it like Skys the Limit just tells you it wasn't beyond his abilities
Big used to get a lot of flack for his lack of technical lyricism, but me I never gave a fukk about technical lyricism like that. I was never impressed with big words strung together (although word play...a la Kool G or Pun is different). Big defined rapping because he was a phenomenal SPITTER...the way he rapped, how he put words together, his flow...it was so fukking impeccable
I became a Big fan instantly as soon as the singles for RTD hit...it hurt me to turn on him a year later over the Pac beef (sorry had to do it, this was the 90s you picked sides)....Ive mentioned before on this site, that when Big died me and cousins celebrated that shyt...there was some real hatred there...but in my heart I never could deny Bigs greatness
With time and maturity of course my views changed. Today I look back at him as one of my favourite rappers ever, and I don't give a fukk if he only dropped two albums, he is a top 5 lock for me and I could never fight anyone who says Biggie Smalls was the illest
RIP brother and salute to you
Its still fukk Puffy all day tho
To this day I miss him. I wear my Pac stan badge proudly and he will always be my GOAT, but Biggie was probably the most COMPLETE rapper if that makes sense
Because he could get lyrical, could entertain, had flows and could spit substance too. Its a shame we didn't get enough of those latter type records, but even a taste of it like Skys the Limit just tells you it wasn't beyond his abilities
Big used to get a lot of flack for his lack of technical lyricism, but me I never gave a fukk about technical lyricism like that. I was never impressed with big words strung together (although word play...a la Kool G or Pun is different). Big defined rapping because he was a phenomenal SPITTER...the way he rapped, how he put words together, his flow...it was so fukking impeccable
I became a Big fan instantly as soon as the singles for RTD hit...it hurt me to turn on him a year later over the Pac beef (sorry had to do it, this was the 90s you picked sides)....Ive mentioned before on this site, that when Big died me and cousins celebrated that shyt...there was some real hatred there...but in my heart I never could deny Bigs greatness
With time and maturity of course my views changed. Today I look back at him as one of my favourite rappers ever, and I don't give a fukk if he only dropped two albums, he is a top 5 lock for me and I could never fight anyone who says Biggie Smalls was the illest
RIP brother and salute to you
Its still fukk Puffy all day tho
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Hail the victors
I remember watching MTV News that Sunday morning like 
Techniec
Drugs and Kalashnikovs
superunknown23
Superstar
You can thank hip hop magazines, the general media and fans for fueling that stupid shyt too. That East Coast-West Coast shyt was beyond embarrassing.
It stopped being funny that Sunday morning
JodyHiighroller
Superstar
right back at you breh
Biggie's death definitely hung over my introductory years to hip hop, in like 97, 'I'll Be Missing You' was the biggest song of that summer, and one of the first pieces of music in general, I really loved. Bad Boy and Biggie ran that time, from "Hypnotize", to "Sky's The Limit", "Going Back To Cali", to 'Only You (Remix) those song blasted out of those boomboxes from the 90's, all in my homies house, from his families car, when his older sister drove us, on every radio station, you could hear BIG
All my memories from those years, esp. summer 97 & 98 have an echo of Big and Bad Boy in them, trying to decipher his lyrics, (snickering at "dikk sucked and balls licked, like the adolescents we were) listening to the edited vs unedited, those damn skits running uncomfortably as the album played....Watching those iconic videos, at my friends house, lazy days, too hot to go outside, eating Payday bars and drinking cokes, and with cinematic like direction, Big and Puff in Versace on cigarette boats off Miami coast, as we watched from a house in Spring Valley...
The mournful, visuals of the over the top displays of Bad Boy's collective loss, funerals, gothic images, the sermon like gospel leading into 'I'll Be Missing You", we felt that shyt like Big was our homie, and that's the way the game felt about both these two legends who lost their lives too young....I remember my boy and I hooking up the stereo in the window, to blast 'No Way Out' and "Life After Death" while we were in the above ground pool my friends family got that summer, all those tracks playing into the evening over the sounds of kids playing past the sunset....
All my memories from those years, esp. summer 97 & 98 have an echo of Big and Bad Boy in them, trying to decipher his lyrics, (snickering at "dikk sucked and balls licked, like the adolescents we were) listening to the edited vs unedited, those damn skits running uncomfortably as the album played....Watching those iconic videos, at my friends house, lazy days, too hot to go outside, eating Payday bars and drinking cokes, and with cinematic like direction, Big and Puff in Versace on cigarette boats off Miami coast, as we watched from a house in Spring Valley...
The mournful, visuals of the over the top displays of Bad Boy's collective loss, funerals, gothic images, the sermon like gospel leading into 'I'll Be Missing You", we felt that shyt like Big was our homie, and that's the way the game felt about both these two legends who lost their lives too young....I remember my boy and I hooking up the stereo in the window, to blast 'No Way Out' and "Life After Death" while we were in the above ground pool my friends family got that summer, all those tracks playing into the evening over the sounds of kids playing past the sunset....
I live around the corner, the way that lady acted when she came out the building is indicative of the attitude of most of the white folks that moved to this neighborhood.
Youngblood Priest
Atl baby
I have to say bruh. Street nikkaz fukked with Pac. I didn't give a shyt about what the media had to say. That's why his legend jumped the way it did. Real nikkaz kept that alive. Everybody else jumped on the bandwagon. I truly been fukking with Pac since Same Son . A lot of people are MATW and on fans. His legend grew as his popularity soared. I see a lot of nikkaz scream gangsta. He wasn't tho. What he did was "real nikka shyt". nikkaz can hate all they want. There's not too many ppl period that would do the shyt he did. Big was nice tho.I remember when I heard the news on the radio that Sunday morning. Nobody was surprised when Pac died 6 months earlier because of his recent history of always getting in trouble (he got shot 9 months before that). But Biggie's death was just crazy.
It was also the scariest and most embarrassing time in hip hop. Cacs in the media had a field day with it. Everyone took the opportunity to connect the murders and shyt on hip hop in general. Keith Richards even said "I hope they all kill each other off"
I posted this on Pac's anniversary...
RIP