Definitely a classic. Great punch lines, dope rhyming, and an ill flow. Big L was so talented it was SCARY. Such a shame he's gone because he really was something special. Not one weak track on this album for me.
Big L was the truth.
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Definitely a classic. Great punch lines, dope rhyming, and an ill flow. Big L was so talented it was SCARY. Such a shame he's gone because he really was something special. Not one weak track on this album for me.
Big L was the truth.
I agree and I miss Big L. If he was alive, I think he would've made some good hardcore albums. I think a lot of rappers were scared of him. I never heard about any rappers trying to battle him. Nas said he was scared of him.
Yeah Big L was truly a unique talent. He was like a 90s version of Big Daddy Kane. He could story tell, freestyle, had battle rhymes, and he could talk about women while being so witty at the same time.
He definitely had a lot of emcees scared I think. And what's even more scary about that is that there were so many great emcees in the east coast at that time.
Big L is better than Big Daddy Kane. Plus Big L would've never did songs talking about he loves black women like Big Daddy Kane. Big L did songs dissing black women like No Ends No Skinz hahahahahahahahahahaha.
funny how I made that post 6 years ago.
Big L is still the most gifted rapper ever imo. He even said himself in a '97 interview in Croatia that Lifestylez was ahead of its time. Royce da 5'9 summed it all up in his song Rewind. "I think he better than Nas." that's all I gotta say.
He's better than Nas.
no doubt. I cringe when Illmatic is compared to Lifestylez and Illmatic wins by a significant margin. I'm a firm believer every Nas fan hasn't listened to Lifestylez while every Big L fan has listened to Illmatic. that's why Nas fans ignorantly vote for Illmatic like it's the hip hop bible. It's everything hip hop music is supposed to be. It's a masterpiece - I get that. But to think that Lifestylez ov Da Poor & Dangerous doesn't touch Illmatic even on a lyrical standpoint is absurd. Big L was a lyrical genius. people need to truly study his lyrics because they weren't ordinary, real talk.
I agree. Illmatic and Big L's album i would say is a tie because both albums are very good. Sad thing about Nas is that the albums he did after Illmatic aren't good as Illmatic LOL. I think if Big L had lived, he would've continued making good albums because i can't see him making bad albums. I think he would've kept his albums underground and never gone mainstream like Nas did. Nas made a big mistake when he went mainstream when he did It Was Written, Iam and Nastradamus albums. That's why he had to come back hard when he did Ether song because Jay-Z spoke the truth about Nas on The Takeover when he said Illmatic was his only good album hahahahahahahahahahaha.
I love Big L's All Black and Lifestyles Ov Da Poor And Dangerous songs. I never get tired of listening to those songs. The beats are hard on those songs.
His killer was killed last week because somebody shot him in the head and I was glad to hear that. Fuck his bitch ass and he belongs in the cemetery LOL. Big L didn't deserve to die young and he was a great rapper. I saw a documentary trailer about him on Youtube and I hope it comes out one day because I would like to see a documentary about him.
I like the scene from Bucktown movie with Fred Williamson and Pam Grier was played at the beginning of Lifestyles Ov Da Poor And Dangerous when Thalmus Rasulala(RIP)and Pam were arguing. Thalmus said you think anybody in this town cares about who gets killed. Only thing people care about is the dice keep rolling, hoes keep hoeing and the money keeps flowing hahahahahahahahahahaha.