Little Shawn Describes The 1994 Tupac Shooting & Insists He Was Not Involved (Video) “You gotta think, once again, he’s doing all this he’s not even 25 years old.” If you go back and listen to his music, you can take his voice and put it on anything, and for some reason, it sounds like a record.” He praises Christopher Wallace’s lyrical ability. a dope lyricist, I think he had a voice that was really immaculate-in a sense that some rappers get on top of music, and you’ve got to get used to them or you got to vibe with them, but he made a record that sounds like a record immediately. But just as a fellow artist, I think not only was B.I.G. So I don’t know if I’m the authority to answer it, but I’ll just speak my piece on it, and maybe I can just add on-’cause I’m sure there’s a lot of people who spent a lot of time with them that could speak on it. At 21:45 (embedded below), Fridman asks his guest what made Tupac and Biggie special within the lens of music history. In an interview with Lex Fridman, RZA is asked to compare Pac and Biggie. The Abbott produced “Long Kiss Goodnight” from Biggie’s diamond-certified double-album Life After Death, a song that many Hip-Hop Heads interpreted to be one of the Brooklyn, New York MC’s responses to Pac-even after Shakur was fatally shot several months before the Bad Boy Records release. “I went from ashy to nasty to classy.Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA was a contemporary of both Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. The milks was chocolate, the cookies, butter crunch” “I mean loyalty, niggas bought me milks at lunch His crew’s your crew or they might be next”ģ. Go in this nigga pocket, rob him while his friends watchin’ “Ladies, my Mercedes Hold fo’ in the back, two if you’re fat” They be sittin’ in your kitchen, waiting to start hittin'”ĥ. “If niggas think you snitchin’ they ain’t trying to listen “Money and blood don’t mix like two dicks and no bitchĦ. Keep your family and business completely separated.”ħ. “I got the dough, got the flow down pizatĭangerous on trizacks, leave your ass flizat” Now I cleared them shits with hits you on the fucking bench”ġ0. “I tried to warn you but your eyes fucked up “It’s unreal, out the blue Frank White got sex appealġ1. “Ain’t no other kings in this rap thingġ2. “Poppa been smooth since days of Underroos”ġ4. “Dead right, if the head right, Biggie there e’ry night”ġ5. “My alibi: any cutie with a booty that done fuck Big Pop.”ġ6.
Sold more powder than Johnson and Johnson”ġ7.
“Conscious of ya nonsense, in eighty-eight “The way Salt shoops and how they sell records like Snoop – (oops!)”ġ8. From the eerie recap of Biggie’s suicide from the previous album “Ready to Die” in the opening track, to Big’s proclamation that your life is of little intrinsic value until that day somebody decides to take it, we proudly present the twenty best lines from The Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death:īefore I go to sleep I check the beds and the closet”ġ9. We’ve gathered twenty of the best lines from this classic double album in honor of the twenty years that’ve passed since The Notorious B.I.G.’s first posthumous album was released. However, much like a classic cult film, to truly appreciate this opulent work of art you’ll need to listen to it in its entirety. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of The Notorious B.I.G.’s critically acclaimed second and final studio album, “Life After Death.” This two-disc, twenty-four track masterpiece was nominated for three Grammy Awards and has been ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. New Hip Hop Battle Rap Competition Coming to the App Store - November 8, 2017.Ab-Soul’s Amazing Message For Anyone Contemplating Suicide - December 8, 2017.LL Cool J’s Classic Posse Cut “4, 3, 2, 1” Turns Twenty Years Old Today - December 9, 2017.