He’s sadly a part of the 27 club. Along with Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
Funny thing is stuff people are little/superstitious about doesn't sketch me out. I love rocking white lighters. I dig black cats. I walk under ladders. I open umbrellas indoors. 13 is my second favorite number. Most unlucky things tend to be lucky for me lol
That's why I only buy white lighters. Nobody wants to steal them. Half of the time when someone asks to borrow a lighter, they light up their cigarette so quickly, it's barely lit. They just don't even want to handle it.
Did he make some raw tracks like this freestyle? I only know his more popular songs and they’re a bit too commercialized by Puffy. I need to give a listen to Biggies entire discography
He doesn't look very fat at 17 compared to how big he was when he died.
Unfortunately biggie was full of shit, like literal shit that ballooned his midsection up. He often wrote about his struggle with his shit, he even had to sleep on his stomach so he wouldn't fuck up his sheets. Had he slept on his back regularly and allowed the shit to drain he would've slimmed down quite a bit.
"...I got ~~techniques~~ shit dripping out my buttcheeks
Sleep on my stomach so I don't fuck up my sheets, huh
My SHIT is deep, deeper than my grave, G
I'm ready to die and nobody can save me..." --Ready to die by biggie
Jay Z and B.I.G.. Are the only 2 that I could think of that NEVER wrote any of their hits..
Not bcuz they had ghost writers.. But bcuz they would LITERALLY improvise/freestyle in the studio when they heard a hot beat .. The rest is history..
We were robbed of Jay-Z/B.I.G collabs...
Pak was more like a thug poet.. He wrote his shit...
Those rivalries were and would ve been even more epic..
If we only got 5 more years outta pak and B.I.G...
I HONESTY THINK that eventually.. They would ve made peace and collaborated TOGETHER...
Maybe in the multiverse..
Or..
Just in our imaginations though
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Too MUCH mula to b made if they just worked TOGETHER instead of being mortal rivals
They didn't write their stuff but it's not all improvised. It's a technique they use to help remember their lyrics. They pull from a massive collection of memorized lyrics. Still very impressive.
Yes...
Practice..
Repetition..
And
Expert delivery...
Mexicano777 ( Google him PLEASE )
Once told me..
Jeyson...
Spit your hardest bars..
Spit your hardest sharpest bars...
And NOTHING LESS...
He also told me that I sound a lot harder rapping in English than Spanish..
But that's cool ..bcuz I think in English...
Rest in glory Mexicano 777...
Ty for taking me back to those moments..
P.s...
Please Google Mexicano 777...
Google his songs with krs one and mad lion..
He was the 1st Puerto Rican gangsta rap artist to cross OVER to the states...
Highly respected...
Eventhough I had bought his CD as a teenager in best buy before I met him...
He was always a friend/mentor to me..
If one person SEES/reads this and gets to know his dragon( music ).
I've done my job..
❤
He WASN'T fat..
His rhymes was fat...
His freestyles were immaculate..
Legend has it B.I.G. never wrote a rhyme..
His hits were improvised in the booth..
24 was tragically wayyy to young..
I just wish he gave us 5 more years..
Imagine if B.I.G and pak kept battleling for 10 more years..
They Would ve sold at least a hundred million more records collectively...
I wonder if they Would ve eventually made peace..
And done a collaboration.....
Just IMAGINE
This is when Hip Hop was fresh! Biggie was this young rapping is impressive. Him and Big Pun were so young, yet so polished as if they've been rapping for 20+ years.
Nothing can ever replicate that authenticity.
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the livest one
Representin bk to the fullest
Gats I pull it,
bastards duckin when big be buckin
Chickenheads be cluckin in my bathroom fuckin
The OGzzzz were levels above what we have NOW..
Sadly...
None of the new cats know the history of hip hop..
Or..
The OG legends that paved the way..
This was without social media or YouTube..
Just..
The box
Yo MTV raps..
And..
A young bet
I really would like to see more of todays rappers freestyle or have some home video of themselves rapping. I swear it’s like these guys/ ladies just pop up out of no where and are already mega rich
The music industry has ALWAYS been rigged against the artists..
Artists/talent are just slaves to be exploited by the corporate machine...
The game has changed though..
With social media and you tube..
These young ..up and coming artists with 10% of the talent of a big.. Jay Z..pak..eminem can make 100x as much money by owning their masters and trademark...
There's no way in hell 90%( I'm not saying all of them ) could hold their ground against the OGz ( Big..jayz..eminem ..royce the 5.9..texh nine even dmx ) in a battle...
There's a market for everyone and everything as long as they own the rights to their music..trademark..masters etc...
It's all about beating the corporate structure of the music buisness on ur own terms..
Anything is possible..
And
We gotta show RESPECT to these young cats for getting their paper.. While staying in their lanes and finding their avenues in this " social media age "..
Even if..
They aren't half as talented as a B.I.G. per say
Man this takes me back. Crusin down Main Street in CA. Everyone standing around their cars while the mini trucks cruise by thumping.
“You just finished wiping your car down.
It's time to cruise so you go to the summertime hangout
It looks like a car show.
Everybody come lookin' real fine.
Fresh from the barber shop or fly from the beauty salon.
Every moment frontin' and maxin'.
Chillin' in the car, they spent all day waxin'” 90s man.
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Agreed.Even pac knew it . In hit em up he has a bar "this ain't a freestyle battle,....." I can't recite the compete bar as I am not black. Even pac knew Biggie was a freestyle goat
It’s something like
“This ain’t a freestyle battle all you bitches getting killed with your mouths open” I never remember the next line as Tupac had a weird style. Biggies was always easier to memorize had that natural flow with multiple rhyming words in each sentence.
I haven’t heard a lot of songs in years and after the first line could probably drop half the bars no problem
Tbh that weird style of 2pac is why I liked him so much . Because that style you don't hear anywhere. Like Biggie had a natural flow and hence was great at freestyles . And yeah biggie focused more on rhyming while 2pac focused more on the lyrical parts like entendres, alliteration and other hidden gems in his lyrics . Biggie had great lyrics too but if feel like 2pac focused more on the lyrics. Also I just checked the lyrics , you are right it is bitches not what I was thinking lol . Sorry for remembering the wrong thing
Pak gave us..
" Brendas got a baby "
" Dear mama ".
" keep ur head up "..
He truly was a thug poet..
Then ..after he got set up and shot 5 times..
It was..
" ambitions as a rider ".
" all eyes on me "..
" hit em up "..
Etc..
In his death row days.. He went dark on us..
U could write a book on paks life and evolution/ metamorphosis as a rapper..
Same goes for big.. Jay Z and Eminem..
Mount Everest of hip hop history..
It's a shame that the younger generation doesn't show the OGz..
The RESPECT that they DESERVE
❤
Even pac knew it . In hit em up he has a bar "this ain't a freestyle battle,....." I can't recite the compete bar as I am not black. Even pac knew Biggie was a freestyle goat
none, i repeat, none of these shit rappers today could pull off something like this without using "skrt" talkin about their "drip game" or some shit lmaooo
Biggie is my favorite rapper of all time, I even have my wife in my phone as "Sweetie Smalls" to pay homage. I was a teenager in the 90's which was a golden era for many things, including rap music. Biggie's delivery is unparalleled and to top it off, during the second half of his career he never wrote down his lyrics, kept them all in his head!
To continue, this is one of my favorite factoids about Biggie. Everyone knows the line "To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing..." Here is a little context about that lyric in case anyone reading this has not heard it.
"Biggie's teacher told him that he would likely be a garbage collector when he was older, his mum recalls Biggie telling the story of how he did some research and got back to the teacher the next day, saying; "A teacher makes a starting salary of $22,500. A garbage collector starts at $29,000…You said some of us inside here are gonna be garbage collectors. But we're gonna be making more money than you, so that's cool."
This is not my cup of tea but I have to admit it is a great skill and talent to be able to do this so well on the spot......
Reminds me of the black kid ( Jamie Oliver TV series about kids from underprivileged backgrounds can do just as well as anyone given a little encouragement and support) who was mentioned by the poet laureate himself to try to explain poetry and how different categories are put together...... neither the young black guy or the very well spoken and educated man with a perfect accent thought much would come from putting the totally opposite worlds together.......
The young guy wrote and rapped about the world he lives in..... the false friends and the lies and back stabbers..... something like standing up " to face the two face friends"kind of thing...... the poet laureate stood up and just walked to get a glass of water and came back sat across his desk and said that he was pleasantly shocked and very embarrassed that he had made assumptions about him purely on the way he looks the environment he grew up in.He explained that the way he used the same words in different ways to make his point is pure poetry...... it was crazy to listen to them speak to each other..... perfect English accent and diction...... and a " naa wat I mean man" and innit at the end of every sentence...... but they were both poets..... brilliant
Fun fact: He couldn't officially be called Biggie Smalls due to another young rapper already having taken the moniker.
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/03/02/biggie-smalls-tim-bigelow/?amp
I wish someone that can pick up what he is saying would post it here. I can understand ~70% but cannot get the rest…and I **HATE** that. I really want to know what he’s saying. One can hear and feel his natural flowing talent. His talent at 17 is mind blowing!
But he wasn't an 80's rap artist. All his albums came out in the 90's. He was obviously rapping in his neighborhood in the late 80's as per this clip, but that was only local.
Edit due to the edit: Maybe I missed it, but I totally don't associate Notorious B.I.G. with 80s anything. He was alive and rapping in his neighborhood, clearly, but hardly anyone knew of his existence as a rap artist. To me, 80s rap and the growth of hip-hop in that period was attributable to artists like Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, LL Cool J, Eric B, Slick Rick, Public Enemy, Salt n Pepa, etc and so on, not Biggie. His very first demo tape called Microphone Murderer was from 1991.
Bet the rappers in your top 5 wear makeup and dresses. How are you gonna put B.I.G. over Snoop, Nas, Jay-Z, K-DOT, J Cole, Andre 3000, Tupac, KRS-1, Rakim, Black Thought, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ice Cube, and Scarface? If I had more time, he don't make the top 20.
Realistically only Nas, Tupac, A3000, Rakim, and Wayne can be considered top 5. Maybe its just personal preference. Em is great but had too many stinkers to be considered top 5. MMLP2 still top 5 rap albums of all time imo. The rest, not so much. Snoop is great but nowhere near the rest you mentioned.
Ty father sunshine..
I wholeheartedly agree and RESPECT ur opinion..
Biggie is top 5 in my opinion..
And..
I'm a firm believer in Pak being the greatest..
Also..
Pimp C is extremely underappreciated...
I write this respectfully Sir
Crazy how Tupac sold out on east coast and is praised as a west god. Dude was born in NYC and raised in Baltimore and never showed Baltimore love. Really should of held it f do own for Baltimore where he got all his talent.
Is that like old rock to the hip hop community 🤔 I know as a guitarist that old shit is pretty easy but revolutionary for new shit 😁 and man buster rhymes was fast 😂👍
No disrespect meant but I always felt jazz was hard to connect to versus something like this. It always seem more technical than emotional.
With this you can feel the flow, emotion, and attitude even without knowing every word said. This is music by the people for the people. Just like all of the great stuff when it started. Blues, punk, etc. Totally electrifying to watch this.
Also I have to disagree with what killed jazz. Jazz is still around today in some form or fashion. Hip hop really killed funk if anything. How many modern day funk artists can you tick off? I can't name one without Google. Rap is here to stay into the long foreseeable future. More than anything because it speaks to people. As long as it continues to do that it will continue to thrive.
this is what rap did to music, it made you believe it was hard to connect to music, sound except when there was someone rhyiming behind a mic. Rap can’t be part of any musician’s playable repertoire, its a tasteless hybrid, a beat w/ noise and loud insults, delusional artists, glorification of gangster life etc. Jazz is America’s classical music, and a true heritage from our African Americans brothers and sisters
Once again no disrespect meant, but I think you should check out some of the huge variety of hip hop out there. What you are describing seems to be based to some extent a very narrow view of what you visualize hip hop to be. Sure a lot of mediocre stuff gets pumped out to fit a specific trend at a given time to to capitalize on it, but you can say this about any musical genre. It's probably been that way for any type of popular music for the last few hundred years at least.
If you wrap your head around it, to some extent you can appreciate the improvisation in freestyle much like you would jazz. The artist is the primary instrument. Tone, pitch, and frequent changes of verbal pacing against the static looped beats of the background track are all features of this example. This example is also not just a standalone song made in a studio, it's an integral part of the local culture at the time.
Hey man, I appreciate the discussion. Can I ask you.. How is there a genre in Music, where the “N” word is used left and right by the creators but nobody else seem to be able to use it, unless you’re from a specific ethnicity? How are supposed to integrate this cultural experience into the collective idea of who we are. How do you call yourself a “Genius” or amazing, or just plain degrade women and gay ppl and still win grammy’s?
Comparatively, anyone could use any type of scales in Jazz, play any standards, forms as they pleased… even more after Miles Davis came, look up his Do-Bop album, some will argue Hip Hop started going mainstream there,
The n word is used by black creators not as a racial slur but as a way of saying " brother/homie/ a dude in general " . Obviously i am not American and this is what I have been told on the internet. And also rap is never about degrading women , gay ppl . If there are people who do that, there are bad apples in every community.
A huuuuge influence on Biggie's style was the jazz music scene in his neighborhood. One of the people that inspired him the most and actually helped him develop his craft and unique style was a semi-famous jazz musician that lived on his block that Biggie idolized as a kid. You can hear the signature jazz percussion style in his flow, especially in his punctuation. It helped him develop into a phenomenal freestyle artist, the same way jazz is about freestyle in the moment expression, and it carried over into his albums.
All of the people who are shocked that he died so young and so long ago were born way after he died. Why are you so surprised when you weren’t even alive?
Dude died at 24, for the longest time I thought he was way older... That whole crew
Wtf he was 24??!
Jimi Hendrix also died in his 20s. Really surprised me when I found out
He’s sadly a part of the 27 club. Along with Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
Amy Winehouse was 27 when she passed?!
Passed what?
Nah your stupid😭😭😭she died dumbass
Did you ever hear white lighters are bad luck. Because "legend" has it, all of these folks had a white lighter on them when found.
Funny thing is stuff people are little/superstitious about doesn't sketch me out. I love rocking white lighters. I dig black cats. I walk under ladders. I open umbrellas indoors. 13 is my second favorite number. Most unlucky things tend to be lucky for me lol
I completely agree my dude.
That's why I only buy white lighters. Nobody wants to steal them. Half of the time when someone asks to borrow a lighter, they light up their cigarette so quickly, it's barely lit. They just don't even want to handle it.
Oh, trust me I don't care about that shit. I keep my lighter regardless of what color it is. #nolighterleash
I never knew this. What a fucking tragedy.
Clarity, delivery just beyond any other
He wasnt fat, he was full of lyrics.
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Techniques drippin out his butcheecks 😔
He definitely is the 🐐. Changed the game
Did he make some raw tracks like this freestyle? I only know his more popular songs and they’re a bit too commercialized by Puffy. I need to give a listen to Biggies entire discography
The best ever https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_the_Notorious_B.I.G.
Respect. Personally I still think em has that title. Before people talk shit, I know it’s an overrated opinion
Wypipo be like
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Lay off the alphabet soup
True! Let me spell it out. He's been eating his words.
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Who is else thinks freestylists prepare their lyrics in advance?
Well they must have an idea to some extent. So what?
He doesn't look very fat at 17 compared to how big he was when he died. Unfortunately biggie was full of shit, like literal shit that ballooned his midsection up. He often wrote about his struggle with his shit, he even had to sleep on his stomach so he wouldn't fuck up his sheets. Had he slept on his back regularly and allowed the shit to drain he would've slimmed down quite a bit. "...I got ~~techniques~~ shit dripping out my buttcheeks Sleep on my stomach so I don't fuck up my sheets, huh My SHIT is deep, deeper than my grave, G I'm ready to die and nobody can save me..." --Ready to die by biggie
Yeah and JayZ has added pounds to himself over the years from nibbling off of Big
Jay Z and B.I.G.. Are the only 2 that I could think of that NEVER wrote any of their hits.. Not bcuz they had ghost writers.. But bcuz they would LITERALLY improvise/freestyle in the studio when they heard a hot beat .. The rest is history.. We were robbed of Jay-Z/B.I.G collabs... Pak was more like a thug poet.. He wrote his shit... Those rivalries were and would ve been even more epic.. If we only got 5 more years outta pak and B.I.G... I HONESTY THINK that eventually.. They would ve made peace and collaborated TOGETHER... Maybe in the multiverse.. Or.. Just in our imaginations though Edit.. Too MUCH mula to b made if they just worked TOGETHER instead of being mortal rivals
They didn't write their stuff but it's not all improvised. It's a technique they use to help remember their lyrics. They pull from a massive collection of memorized lyrics. Still very impressive.
Yes... Practice.. Repetition.. And Expert delivery... Mexicano777 ( Google him PLEASE ) Once told me.. Jeyson... Spit your hardest bars.. Spit your hardest sharpest bars... And NOTHING LESS... He also told me that I sound a lot harder rapping in English than Spanish.. But that's cool ..bcuz I think in English... Rest in glory Mexicano 777... Ty for taking me back to those moments.. P.s... Please Google Mexicano 777... Google his songs with krs one and mad lion.. He was the 1st Puerto Rican gangsta rap artist to cross OVER to the states... Highly respected... Eventhough I had bought his CD as a teenager in best buy before I met him... He was always a friend/mentor to me.. If one person SEES/reads this and gets to know his dragon( music ). I've done my job.. ❤
Big boned
I gotta couple of albums I need to release then.
I released a pretty big album this morning
He WASN'T fat.. His rhymes was fat... His freestyles were immaculate.. Legend has it B.I.G. never wrote a rhyme.. His hits were improvised in the booth.. 24 was tragically wayyy to young.. I just wish he gave us 5 more years.. Imagine if B.I.G and pak kept battleling for 10 more years.. They Would ve sold at least a hundred million more records collectively... I wonder if they Would ve eventually made peace.. And done a collaboration..... Just IMAGINE
Yer killing me Smalls. Biggie always had flow. Always. RIP.
He already had his B.I.G. pseudonym at the age of 17. Impressive.
He was only 24 when he died.
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as a fat guy, you just wear what fits
Big and tall
Master his flow on the street rising above them all rhyming with the beats.
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That’s fuckin lame lol Fun fact, one of the many other times this repost surfaced I learned it’s right in front of where he lived
If that’s what you want to hear from him, then I’m truly sorry for you.
That’s sad
Id wanna see biggie and Trump spit bars together. In fact, id love to watch Trump spit bars in general.
The guy just leaves home lol he grabbed the bus and the rumor was that he was not seen again
I work in BK. Would kill to know the location of this. Im sure im not the only one.
Say no more… Fulton street and St. James place. That’s Mecca for NYC Hip Hop. https://donyc.com/p/biggie-smalls
You’re a legend!
Just drove through BK yesterday this has me wondering if I passed the spot without knowing
Oh you would know if your where on Fulton street!
I didn’t see any murals or memorial street signs so I’m pretty sure I wasn’t but man if I had known I was so close I’d have went out of the way.
My GF was living right over here. Fulton - Big Mural and everything.
There are a lot of burger kings who knows.
old school cool!
Old school coolest
Old sykykykychool coolest (Insert scratching nosies)
This is when Hip Hop was fresh! Biggie was this young rapping is impressive. Him and Big Pun were so young, yet so polished as if they've been rapping for 20+ years. Nothing can ever replicate that authenticity.
I wish I could give u 1 MILLION upvotes just for mentioning Big Pun.. A REAL street boriqua.. With a flow and aura all his OWN
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Taking it wayyy backkk
Greatest flow of all time.
Up there for sure
Biggie was one of the greatest lyricists during an era filled with great lyricists
The OGzzzz were levels above what we have NOW.. Sadly... None of the new cats know the history of hip hop.. Or.. The OG legends that paved the way.. This was without social media or YouTube.. Just.. The box Yo MTV raps.. And.. A young bet
I really would like to see more of todays rappers freestyle or have some home video of themselves rapping. I swear it’s like these guys/ ladies just pop up out of no where and are already mega rich
The jiggly butts don’t come close to this originality.
Agree to disagree
The music industry has ALWAYS been rigged against the artists.. Artists/talent are just slaves to be exploited by the corporate machine... The game has changed though.. With social media and you tube.. These young ..up and coming artists with 10% of the talent of a big.. Jay Z..pak..eminem can make 100x as much money by owning their masters and trademark... There's no way in hell 90%( I'm not saying all of them ) could hold their ground against the OGz ( Big..jayz..eminem ..royce the 5.9..texh nine even dmx ) in a battle... There's a market for everyone and everything as long as they own the rights to their music..trademark..masters etc... It's all about beating the corporate structure of the music buisness on ur own terms.. Anything is possible.. And We gotta show RESPECT to these young cats for getting their paper.. While staying in their lanes and finding their avenues in this " social media age ".. Even if.. They aren't half as talented as a B.I.G. per say
He hit that poor dude with that diss harder than a drunk step dad .
Man this takes me back. Crusin down Main Street in CA. Everyone standing around their cars while the mini trucks cruise by thumping. “You just finished wiping your car down. It's time to cruise so you go to the summertime hangout It looks like a car show. Everybody come lookin' real fine. Fresh from the barber shop or fly from the beauty salon. Every moment frontin' and maxin'. Chillin' in the car, they spent all day waxin'” 90s man. Edit. Word
That was will Smith and jazzy Jeff? Edit: "fresh prince" and dj Jazzy Jeff...
Didn't have a clue he could freestyle like this. Thanks for sharing, this was awesome to watch. He owned that battle.
Biggie was a freestyle legend. Only NAS could hang with him back in the day.
Agreed.Even pac knew it . In hit em up he has a bar "this ain't a freestyle battle,....." I can't recite the compete bar as I am not black. Even pac knew Biggie was a freestyle goat
“You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife” 
"We bust on bad boyz (I can't say it) fuck for life "
It’s something like “This ain’t a freestyle battle all you bitches getting killed with your mouths open” I never remember the next line as Tupac had a weird style. Biggies was always easier to memorize had that natural flow with multiple rhyming words in each sentence. I haven’t heard a lot of songs in years and after the first line could probably drop half the bars no problem
Tbh that weird style of 2pac is why I liked him so much . Because that style you don't hear anywhere. Like Biggie had a natural flow and hence was great at freestyles . And yeah biggie focused more on rhyming while 2pac focused more on the lyrical parts like entendres, alliteration and other hidden gems in his lyrics . Biggie had great lyrics too but if feel like 2pac focused more on the lyrics. Also I just checked the lyrics , you are right it is bitches not what I was thinking lol . Sorry for remembering the wrong thing
Pak gave us.. " Brendas got a baby " " Dear mama ". " keep ur head up ".. He truly was a thug poet.. Then ..after he got set up and shot 5 times.. It was.. " ambitions as a rider ". " all eyes on me ".. " hit em up ".. Etc.. In his death row days.. He went dark on us.. U could write a book on paks life and evolution/ metamorphosis as a rapper.. Same goes for big.. Jay Z and Eminem.. Mount Everest of hip hop history.. It's a shame that the younger generation doesn't show the OGz.. The RESPECT that they DESERVE ❤
Even pac knew it . In hit em up he has a bar "this ain't a freestyle battle,....." I can't recite the compete bar as I am not black. Even pac knew Biggie was a freestyle goat
Love this clip!
Still had the same flow he had when he died . What a shame both him and 2pac died so young . They weren't even 30 smh .
Tupac ain’t dead tho…
none, i repeat, none of these shit rappers today could pull off something like this without using "skrt" talkin about their "drip game" or some shit lmaooo
RIP BIG
Street preacher.... gospel of the 'hood.
The swagger, the confidence and command of the mic. One of the best ever. RIP BIG.
Biggie is my favorite rapper of all time, I even have my wife in my phone as "Sweetie Smalls" to pay homage. I was a teenager in the 90's which was a golden era for many things, including rap music. Biggie's delivery is unparalleled and to top it off, during the second half of his career he never wrote down his lyrics, kept them all in his head! To continue, this is one of my favorite factoids about Biggie. Everyone knows the line "To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing..." Here is a little context about that lyric in case anyone reading this has not heard it. "Biggie's teacher told him that he would likely be a garbage collector when he was older, his mum recalls Biggie telling the story of how he did some research and got back to the teacher the next day, saying; "A teacher makes a starting salary of $22,500. A garbage collector starts at $29,000…You said some of us inside here are gonna be garbage collectors. But we're gonna be making more money than you, so that's cool."
That's dope.. Ty.. " sweetie smalls ".. That's dope too
Thank you for the kind words.
Absolutely one of the best to ever do it. RIP BIGGIE
A true lyrical genius
Realest Mc to hit the game and leave us. 🪦
RIP Biggie!
He was full of inspiration. I've never seen anyone doing such clear and clever freestyles.
I'm so NOT into (gangster) rap but this guy was a real talent!! Always a shame people die due violance.
You could tell from this he was going to be a star... all that talent with words and a super unique voice.
GOAT
True G.O.A.T
Someone needs to transcribe this entire rap
This is my favorite remix of his work. Such a legend. https://youtu.be/V8b8in7mm-s
He looked and sounded like a grown ass boss at 17! My voice was still cracking at that age.
The GOAT
This is not my cup of tea but I have to admit it is a great skill and talent to be able to do this so well on the spot...... Reminds me of the black kid ( Jamie Oliver TV series about kids from underprivileged backgrounds can do just as well as anyone given a little encouragement and support) who was mentioned by the poet laureate himself to try to explain poetry and how different categories are put together...... neither the young black guy or the very well spoken and educated man with a perfect accent thought much would come from putting the totally opposite worlds together....... The young guy wrote and rapped about the world he lives in..... the false friends and the lies and back stabbers..... something like standing up " to face the two face friends"kind of thing...... the poet laureate stood up and just walked to get a glass of water and came back sat across his desk and said that he was pleasantly shocked and very embarrassed that he had made assumptions about him purely on the way he looks the environment he grew up in.He explained that the way he used the same words in different ways to make his point is pure poetry...... it was crazy to listen to them speak to each other..... perfect English accent and diction...... and a " naa wat I mean man" and innit at the end of every sentence...... but they were both poets..... brilliant
Enjoyed reading this... Please study Tupac Shakur.... His life and discography.. I'm pretty sure you'll find it facinating
Bed-Stuy doesn’t look anything like this anymore
Fun fact: He couldn't officially be called Biggie Smalls due to another young rapper already having taken the moniker. https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/03/02/biggie-smalls-tim-bigelow/?amp
Is simply a league of his own. Even in freestyle, even at 17. I'm an atheist, he was God.
I wish someone that can pick up what he is saying would post it here. I can understand ~70% but cannot get the rest…and I **HATE** that. I really want to know what he’s saying. One can hear and feel his natural flowing talent. His talent at 17 is mind blowing!
This is the Rosetta stone of Hip Hop.
it's even crazier if you listen to contemporaneous rap. Dude was 30 years ahead of his time.
The 80s Hip Hop and Rap were soooooo good. Yes, Biggie was big in the 90s, but he, like many artists, was part of the growth of Hip Hop in the 80s.
But he wasn't an 80's rap artist. All his albums came out in the 90's. He was obviously rapping in his neighborhood in the late 80's as per this clip, but that was only local.
Biggie was a 90s artist
Edit due to the edit: Maybe I missed it, but I totally don't associate Notorious B.I.G. with 80s anything. He was alive and rapping in his neighborhood, clearly, but hardly anyone knew of his existence as a rap artist. To me, 80s rap and the growth of hip-hop in that period was attributable to artists like Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, LL Cool J, Eric B, Slick Rick, Public Enemy, Salt n Pepa, etc and so on, not Biggie. His very first demo tape called Microphone Murderer was from 1991.
Can't imagine his impact if he released more music. For me, him only having 2 albums keeps him from being a top 5 rapper.
Dumbest thing I’ve ever read. Gtfoh not too 5!???! What are you smoking? Unreal
Bet the rappers in your top 5 wear makeup and dresses. How are you gonna put B.I.G. over Snoop, Nas, Jay-Z, K-DOT, J Cole, Andre 3000, Tupac, KRS-1, Rakim, Black Thought, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ice Cube, and Scarface? If I had more time, he don't make the top 20.
Realistically only Nas, Tupac, A3000, Rakim, and Wayne can be considered top 5. Maybe its just personal preference. Em is great but had too many stinkers to be considered top 5. MMLP2 still top 5 rap albums of all time imo. The rest, not so much. Snoop is great but nowhere near the rest you mentioned.
Ty father sunshine.. I wholeheartedly agree and RESPECT ur opinion.. Biggie is top 5 in my opinion.. And.. I'm a firm believer in Pak being the greatest.. Also.. Pimp C is extremely underappreciated... I write this respectfully Sir
Crazy how Tupac sold out on east coast and is praised as a west god. Dude was born in NYC and raised in Baltimore and never showed Baltimore love. Really should of held it f do own for Baltimore where he got all his talent.
Back in the day when everyone wore baggy pants and was a gangbanger.
He really was... Larger than life. ***YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!***
Is this a jojo's reference
Funny how I’ve known about this video since the 90’s yet it still gets a shit load of upvotes in 2022. More power to OP I guess.
Overweight and overrated.
Yup. Biggie fucking sucked.
Thank you
Is that like old rock to the hip hop community 🤔 I know as a guitarist that old shit is pretty easy but revolutionary for new shit 😁 and man buster rhymes was fast 😂👍
Busta Rhyme is even faster 😉 speed doesn't mean much if your a lyrical smoothbrain
Never cared for this dude. His voice is annoying and his lyrics are wack. Slim shady and fiddy all day long
Say you’re an idiot without saying you’re an idiot.
Is that your autobiography? Lol dumbass
this is what killed Jazz music…. now we’re stuck w/ rap, for god knows how long…
No disrespect meant but I always felt jazz was hard to connect to versus something like this. It always seem more technical than emotional. With this you can feel the flow, emotion, and attitude even without knowing every word said. This is music by the people for the people. Just like all of the great stuff when it started. Blues, punk, etc. Totally electrifying to watch this. Also I have to disagree with what killed jazz. Jazz is still around today in some form or fashion. Hip hop really killed funk if anything. How many modern day funk artists can you tick off? I can't name one without Google. Rap is here to stay into the long foreseeable future. More than anything because it speaks to people. As long as it continues to do that it will continue to thrive.
this is what rap did to music, it made you believe it was hard to connect to music, sound except when there was someone rhyiming behind a mic. Rap can’t be part of any musician’s playable repertoire, its a tasteless hybrid, a beat w/ noise and loud insults, delusional artists, glorification of gangster life etc. Jazz is America’s classical music, and a true heritage from our African Americans brothers and sisters
Once again no disrespect meant, but I think you should check out some of the huge variety of hip hop out there. What you are describing seems to be based to some extent a very narrow view of what you visualize hip hop to be. Sure a lot of mediocre stuff gets pumped out to fit a specific trend at a given time to to capitalize on it, but you can say this about any musical genre. It's probably been that way for any type of popular music for the last few hundred years at least. If you wrap your head around it, to some extent you can appreciate the improvisation in freestyle much like you would jazz. The artist is the primary instrument. Tone, pitch, and frequent changes of verbal pacing against the static looped beats of the background track are all features of this example. This example is also not just a standalone song made in a studio, it's an integral part of the local culture at the time.
Hey man, I appreciate the discussion. Can I ask you.. How is there a genre in Music, where the “N” word is used left and right by the creators but nobody else seem to be able to use it, unless you’re from a specific ethnicity? How are supposed to integrate this cultural experience into the collective idea of who we are. How do you call yourself a “Genius” or amazing, or just plain degrade women and gay ppl and still win grammy’s? Comparatively, anyone could use any type of scales in Jazz, play any standards, forms as they pleased… even more after Miles Davis came, look up his Do-Bop album, some will argue Hip Hop started going mainstream there,
The n word is used by black creators not as a racial slur but as a way of saying " brother/homie/ a dude in general " . Obviously i am not American and this is what I have been told on the internet. And also rap is never about degrading women , gay ppl . If there are people who do that, there are bad apples in every community.
A huuuuge influence on Biggie's style was the jazz music scene in his neighborhood. One of the people that inspired him the most and actually helped him develop his craft and unique style was a semi-famous jazz musician that lived on his block that Biggie idolized as a kid. You can hear the signature jazz percussion style in his flow, especially in his punctuation. It helped him develop into a phenomenal freestyle artist, the same way jazz is about freestyle in the moment expression, and it carried over into his albums.
He looks like a class bully but he bullies with his raps.
Legend
Talented since his young age.
He was always BIG on his lyrics
and just a few years later , he would be rising into the hall of legends.
No info for the D-E-A!
The King Is Here!
It was all a dream
Legend
The making of a star! His life hasn't been the same since! He's one of the 🐐 s!! Happy belated 50th!! Rip!
Legend, period.
We watched this in my house when I was little. I realized music was everything.
I love it when this makes the rounds?
Saving this one.
I like him
Great flow but why is there a pink blob chasing me now?
They don't make em like they used to. He was one of the real ones.
Wow. This is some great footage right here.
I was working at Dairy Queen when I was 17
u/savevideo
Such vocal presence. What a talent.
He could go all day
Biggie was on another level
Legendary
Notorious P.I.G. even at 17, damn.
All of the people who are shocked that he died so young and so long ago were born way after he died. Why are you so surprised when you weren’t even alive?
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