14 Years Today....Biggie - post your favourite

[upstateface]

Severely Overrated.

[AllNightDayDream]

Severely Overrated.

[flyingointment]

My favorite trax of his.

[herbalicious]

^^BIGs last verse on this is the fucking best shit ever.

The original is good too. Or is the other one the original?

I think Come On was '93...and that freestle was '95. maybe not though...Difficult to say what the 'original' was when using a freestyle as context, coz I'm sure he'd probably have used that verse in a freestyle before...

Severely Overrated.

Get out.

[deeps]

Blimey 14 years! Party n bullshit, still got it on vinyl.

[AllNightDayDream]

Honeys play me close like butter played toast

[murky21]

15 years. Music still sounding as fresh as the day i first heard it

[MrAural]

My auntie had the 'Between the Sheets' tune playing in her car whenever she drove for fucks sake.

So of course, me gusta.

[mugger t]

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[cityzen]

^How long before that's on an ad?

Anyway, rest in peace you Kentucky Fried Chicken eatin, gangsta killin, black mafia ass, chronic smokin, Oreo cookie eatin, pickle juice drinkin, Chicken gristle eatin, biscuit suckin, V8 juice drinkin, slim fast, black greasy muthafucka!

[magma]

The older I get, the more I appreciate Biggie's flow. I think I unfairly slept on him a bit as a teenager mainly because of the hype around his death and that he was very much a rapper rather than a songwriter... nowadays, I can sit back and just enjoy the craft, an MCs flow is his instrument and Biggie was an absolute virtuoso... he didn't need to write a Brenda's Got A Baby or The Message, he just rocked the fucking Mic better than anyone else alive at the time. Looking back, actually Bad Boy was probably the perfect place for him to be, too.

I wonder if he ever thought Hip Hop would take it this far.

[Riddles]

15 years. Music still sounding as fresh as the day i first heard it

was about to say it was 97 when he died

On topic:

10 Crack Commandments, Who Shot Ya & Suicidal Thoughts are my favourites

[Today]

wonder what he'd think of the current state of hip hop -- cliched thing to say, but i do
I love his story telling songs

[mrdii]

Severely Overrated.

Whose better then?!

Best rapper ever? Maybe...if not then he's damn close!

[Today]

its not so much best rapper ever as best rapper around during his time
Today I would point toward the current Shady camp, guys like Common, Talib, Jean Grae, andre 3000

[herbs]

its not so much best rapper ever as best rapper around during his time
Today I would point toward the current Shady camp, guys like Common, Talib, Jean Grae, andre 3000

Biggie was better than all of them. Dre comes closest. But nowhere near.

[bela]

LOL
comparing common to BIG
shut the fuck up
both good at what they did/do but cmon man, totally different crafts
dont tell me common could jump on a mic and tear tupac's hardness to shreds

[Today]

thats why i think context is important. Biggie ran nyc crack/gangsta rap in the 90s
these days that's the same old story and usually a load of bs coming from most rappers
so guys like Common keep bringing new lyrics so i feel like in time they'll be recognized as top performers in their arena
Eminem's camp run the hardcore style atm

[herbs]

When I listen to this I think......"Oh shit, I think 'Kiss upstaged BIG on his own joint.."



Then BIG comes in.


Game over.

[herbs]

thats why i think context is important. Biggie ran nyc crack/gangsta rap in the 90s
these days that's the same old story and usually a load of bs coming from most rappers
so guys like Common keep bringing new lyrics so i feel like in time they'll be recognized as top performers in their arena
Eminem's camp run the hardcore style atm

BIG died when he was 24. Think about the lyrics he brought in what....4 years? He was better then than any od them are now....or ever have been. Mate...shhhhhh