The way I remember it, The Big L hype online didnt start until after the Em shout out on GRODT

[filial_piety]

I never said anything about 2003...only said he got the Em name drop that year. The Big L craze u are refering to that died around late 2000's is what I'mrefering to. Thats the hype that I say was pushed by Em. Now u may disagee with that...But my argument is that there was no Lord Finesse hype around that same time...No OC hype.....No AG hype......now if dudes wanna argue his death pushing him well then the question of well why did Soulja Slim have a #1 song after death yet wasnt getting that same hype as Big L ? and Em was still considered a god around this time so I'm saying that his promotion of L helped the online hype that u are refering to..... Late 2000's is when the world had access to youtube and smartphones.....the country wasnt fukking with the net like that till the Myspace/Youtube era....thats the era i'm specifically talking about even tho the Big L hype still lingers.

Ok fair enough, but I honestly didnt know Em name dropped him.

I agree that Lord FInesse didn't have any hype at all in the 2000s. Nor did OC, AG, Showbiz etc....DITC was known for 1 album in 2000, and I don't think it had any hype to it.

What I disagree with is that there was any hype to Big L after 2000 or 2001. This is just all off of memory for me....but all of his hype was immediately after his death for a year and it was all pushed by members of DITC. I never knew or thought that Em had anything to do with it, and I don't remember any resurgence of his hype in any years later after that.

 

[Ron Fox]

What I disagree with is that there was any hype to Big L after 2000 or 2001. This is just all off of memory for me....but all of his hype was immediately after his death for a year and it was all pushed by members of DITC. I never knew or thought that Em had anything to do with it, and I don't remember any resurgence of his hype in any years later after that.

Thank you..I said the same thing in the OP...I too dont remember any hype after 2000 or 2001 like that. When The Big Picture dropped, of course he had his moment But whats funny is that @SunZoo is dapping u up like he agrees yet he came in her poking his chest out saying that there was Big L hype after 2000 - 2001.

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Nobody heard of L but he was freestyling on the radio with jay-z, and L was the headliner.

They even switch the flow to jay by saying "back to your man" as in Big L's man



He had Lord Finesse, Kid Capri, Cam'ron and Jay-Z on his debut album,

He founded a group that Had Killa Cam (cam'ron) and murda mase (ma$e)


Dude even got 4 mics from the source for hid debut album..


AND he was signed to Columbia records,



But he had no hype tho

His second album had production from DJ premiere, pete rock and Ron Browze,


And had Fat Joe, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap and (posthumous) 2pac as features


But he aint had no hype tho

 

[SunZoo]

Thank you..I said the same thing in the OP...I too dont remember any hype after 2000 or 2001 like that. When The Big Picture dropped, of course he had his moment But whats funny is that @SunZoo is dapping u up like he agrees yet he came in her poking his chest out saying that there was Big L hype after 2000 - 2001.

Oh, you can't read.



He just told you what everybody else in this thread with good sense has said, now you talking yourself in circles.

He said L had about a years worth of hype due to his death that died down before 01-02 and that he doesn't remember Em name dropping him or this sudden resurgence of hype you're talking about. Because it didn't really happen.

The same niche of fans that put him on that pedestal then are the same ones/types that do it now.

 

[Ron Fox]

Oh, you can't read.

I read the part where u mocked what I said about the country not really fukking with the net till Myspace/Youtube era.


I stopped taking u serious after that.


Me being someone who had a Dreamcast and had AOL dial up until Roadrunner came out in 2001 and having a Blackplanet account. And the era of burning cds from music downloaded from Napster and Kazaa.....Anyone who cant acknowledge that the whole country didnt really really start flocking to the net like that till the Myspace/Youtube era cant be taken serious.

 

[filial_piety]

Nobody heard of L but he was freestyling on the radio with jay-z, and L was the headliner.

They even switch the flow to jay by saying "back to your man" as in Big L's man



He had Lord Finesse, Kid Capri, Cam'ron and Jay-Z on his debut album,

He founded a group that Had Killa Cam (cam'ron) and murda mase (ma$e)


Dude even got 4 mics from the source for hid debut album..


AND he was signed to Columbia records,



But he had no hype tho

His second album had production from DJ premiere, pete rock and Ron Browze,


And had Fat Joe, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap and (posthumous) 2pac as features


But he aint had no hype tho

aren't you like 20?

Its easy to try to use that argument today....but in 1995, there were tons of hot emcees back then. He definitely didn't have any major buzz at the time. He had a video out....but it was just one song amongst 50 others on Rap City.


Jay wasn't a huge name like that....Cam wasn't out at all in the mainstream...and neither was Mase...those appearances look impressive now...years later.

THe whole industry was about Biggie, Nas, Wu, Mobb Deep, Fat Joe, Lost Boyz etc etc back then. He really didn't have any mainstream buzz at all.

 

[Ron Fox]

But he aint had no hype tho

Some of ya'll dont know how to read thread titles....aint nobody talking about "hype."

I'm talking about the over the top online hype that Big L has and its roots...u talking about something else.


Aint you 20?





@SunZoo you dapping babies who weren't even born when Big Ls debut happened?

 

[CourtesyFlush]

I don't care..he was dope as fukk all that matters

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

yeah..... nah thats false

 

[Derekjackson2]

Right & wrong.. the younger generation knows Big L from other rappers but the older people first heard him on runaway slaves’ represent & he got 4 mics in the source with a big buzz but the album never caught on as far as numbers. Big picture was the comeback album.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

Ok fair enough, but I honestly didnt know Em name dropped him.

it was on patiently waiting

 

[Randy Sandchild]

I read more posts in this thread than I should of

Out of fear of upsetting either party here I'll just say that I personally first discovered big l via a Napster download of the big L Jay z freestyle and became a fan instantly. His bars had me

From "shyts about to get drastic soon, I'll blast a goon and break a mothafugga like a plastic spoon"

To "big l's that nikka you ex-pect to catch wreck on any cassette deck, I'm so ahead of my time my parents haven't met yet"

They probably aren't verbatim but it's from memory so spare me any spell checks. My bad OP, I'm treating this like a Big L appreciation thread. As you were Ron. Rep for

 

[Ron Fox]

I read more posts in this thread than I should of

Out of fear of upsetting either party here I'll just say that I personally first discovered big l via a Napster download of the big L Jay z freestyle and became a fan instantly. His bars had me

From "shyts about to get drastic soon, I'll blast a goon and break a mothafugga like a plastic spoon"

To "big l's that nikka you ex-pect to catch wreck on any cassette deck, I'm so ahead of my time my parents haven't met yet"

They probably aren't verbatim but it's from memory so spare me any spell checks. My bad OP, I'm treating this like a Big L appreciation thread. As you were Ron. Rep for

Props..


What i meant by online bandwagon hype went over a lot of people heads so l'll make it real simple.......in 2017 who is more popular Big L or Lord Finesse?





We all know the answer but then again why is Big L more popular then Lord Finesse in 2017 if not due to bandwagon overhype? As someone who's been fukking with L sine 94 the bandwagon overhype stands out.

If we were in 1997 and asked the same question...Who is more popular between Finesse and L...it might be a toss up....But its no toss up in 2017, L wins by a landslide. Thats the bandwagon overhype I'm speaking on.

 

[Tom Foolery]

Lie, Complete Lie

What pumped Big L up was Amazon's reviews and recommended list.

He was already in the "GOAT" hype way before 50 came along. I know this because I use to download his music when I had a fukked up computer, way before 50 was on the scene.

Those Amazon list's back in the day bridged the gap for a lot of people and exposed them to classics from the past.

You're argument is false.

 

[Ron Fox]

What pumped Big L up was Amazon's reviews and recommended list.

He was already in the "GOAT" hype way before 50 came along..