If Big Pun Was Still Alive
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Do you think he would be ranked amongst the greatest lyricists of all time? I think so. The guy only released 3 albums. He would have been the king of east coast rap.
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Biggie dropped 2 albums and is heralded as a GOAT and many years after his death he was still considered the King of NY.
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Of course. Pun lyrically >>>>
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IMO pun was on a downward spiral. Capital Punishment is mad ill but he never matched it.
Not saying he couldn't ever but it didn't seem like he was going to
One of my favorite pun tracks tho
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Pun was on a downward spiral, being that his weight didn't allow him to flow like was flowing from 1995-1998.. you can hear Pun slowing down his flow on the (incomplete) album Yeeeeeah Baby!..
So it's not so much what will it be like if he was still alive, but what would it be like if Pun would have been able to keep the weight down.. especially since he would need to tour on a regular basis..
Pun was 698lb when he died.. -
Also, Pun had beef with 50 Cent.. so he woulda annihilated Currrtis on the mic, and threw him down some stairs like Ghostface did, LOL..
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Fiddy would have got the Lisa Rios treatment
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ironically im listening to Capital Punishment right now
He would not have been considered the best, he'd be Jadakiss/Fat Joe status, but you'd prolly see more Latino emcees (which i'm surprised there aren't a lot of [hmmm, thread to make] )
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he would run circles around most of the rappers out today if he lost the weight. capital punishment is my favorite hiphop album of all time and yeahhh babyy is a great album, its not as good as his debut but still a very solid album.
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BlackGerald wrote: »ironically im listening to Capital Punishment right now
He would not have been considered the best, he'd be Jadakiss/Fat Joe status, but you'd prolly see more Latino emcees (which i'm surprised there aren't a lot of [hmmm, thread to make] )
Speaking of Latino emcees, I think the original Terror Squad (Big Pun, Triple Seis, Prospect, Cuban Link, Fat Joe, Armageddon) would have been in a better place..
A few of those lesser known members probably would have had some (minor) hits under their belt, aside from Flowers For the Dead by Cuban Link.. -
If pun was alive and fat he'd probably be mediocre and/or washed up to be honest
If pun was alive and keeping his weight down/losing weight he'd probably make lunchables meals out of 98% of the rappers (underground and mainstream alike) out today. -
DMTxCannabis wrote: »BlackGerald wrote: »ironically im listening to Capital Punishment right now
He would not have been considered the best, he'd be Jadakiss/Fat Joe status, but you'd prolly see more Latino emcees (which i'm surprised there aren't a lot of [hmmm, thread to make] )
Speaking of Latino emcees, I think the original Terror Squad (Big Pun, Triple Seis, Prospect, Cuban Link, Fat Joe, Armageddon) would have been in a better place..
A few of those lesser known members probably would have had some (minor) hits under their belt, aside from Flowers For the Dead by Cuban Link..
crazy that Latinos are the biggest minority in the US now and they haven't had a big Latino rapper since Terror Squad (unless you count the Af-Am/Domnicans like Fab, Juelz etc -
He'd be dropping music
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If Big Pun was still alive, Burger King would be outta business.
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I was probably one of Pun's biggest fans.
When he died, people in my high school were going out their way to give me condolences on my loss. lol.
But I think if Pun were alive, he'd be on a lot of this new-music type ? , but keeping it lyrical enough to still get respect from people who enjoyed his earlier works, and no play b/c he wouldn't be able to appeal anymore. -
Big Pun was like a billy goat. he would eat all of the trash and dry wall
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Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know we riddled some middle men who didnt do diddly.... wow.
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I think that latino mc's haven't really blow the way they should it's because pun held the bar so high i dont think it can be reach, there's plenty of latino mc's out there but some of them incorporate that pun flow to kinda be accepted by the underground and of course by the "media" people like termanology, big lou, joell ortiz, nino bless, etc etc have that big pun dna in their music which is cool in a way but it takes away from the originality. there will never be another pun, that man was special and his skill level was just crazy, i mean flow wise vocabulary charisma credibility pun was/is an elite lyricist and it hurts to know that the man didnt get to see and enjoy more of his success. for us latinos pun is our biggie/pac/jay/nas wrapped in one
if he was alive he would be doing what pitbull is doing now as far as going back and forth between the latino market and anglo market but with a different approach not as corny as pitbull does.
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doblephilo1 wrote: »I think that latino mc's haven't really blow the way they should it's because pun held the bar so high i dont think it can be reach, there's plenty of latino mc's out there but some of them incorporate that pun flow to kinda be accepted by the underground and of course by the "media" people like termanology, big lou, joell ortiz, nino bless, etc etc have that big pun dna in their music which is cool in a way but it takes away from the originality. there will never be another pun, that man was special and his skill level was just crazy, i mean flow wise vocabulary charisma credibility pun was/is an elite lyricist and it hurts to know that the man didnt get to see and enjoy more of his success. for us latinos pun is our biggie/pac/jay/nas wrapped in one
if he was alive he would be doing what pitbull is doing now as far as going back and forth between the latino market and anglo market but with a different approach not as corny as pitbull does.
thats just my humble opinion
Fat Joe has found more success and more accolades than Pun as well as Pitbull who you mentioned who has far exceed any success Pun saw. They may lack the skills and credibility but they are Latinos that have defiantly blown up after Pun so I cant buy the whole Latinos cant blow because Pun held the bar so high idea. -
fat joe ? cuban link's career in a major way to the point he couldnt get a deal and he was way nicer than joe is, and well pitbull aligned himself with joe early in his career to make sure that didnt happen to him... aside from those two who else have been successful???
joell ortiz is one of the few... and guess what he had to align himself with joe too...
how can you be successful when the ? on "top" doesnt let you shine?
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Yall gotta chill with these "If" threads. They're pointless.
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If he was alive i honestly think he would be in jail for domestic violence.
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He'd still be a fat spicc.....the end.
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probably will be criticized to no end cause most likely the rest of his albums won't sound like capital punishment
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AZ is still the best Latino Lyricist
