Originally Posted by IamAlejo (Post 720481)

Potentially the dumbest thing I've ever read. I might give you 'Pac in that argument but even then that's debatable. Ready to Die is easily a top 5-10 album of all time...and Life After Death is potentially better than that if you combine the best songs into just one CD instead of it being a double.

Big L is massively overhyped. His first album isn't even that good, his second is straight up terrible. He was weird in that he was almost always completely on point with his verses but he was incapable of making full albums because he got really old really fast...in his defense for being in ditch he didn't get the best beats either.

His music is perfect if you take his best songs and throw them in the middle of your own mix cd's...when that **** comes on its crazy good but throw one of his albums on and you wanna take a nap.

Originally Posted by Kirby (Post 720796)

I get tired of people hyping up Biggie and Tupac. They're both more overrated than Big L is.

In my opinion, Big L's first album was classic, and his work with D.I.T.C. was too, and if not, it was damn near it. I can listen to "Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous" front to back, and have never really felt compelled to do so with a Tupac or Biggie album.

The reason his second album was probably not up to par, was because it was mostly accapellas when he got killed, meaning he had no input on the instrumentals used, or the guests picked (which, a lot of them may have been picked to fill up the songs).

Originally Posted by IamAlejo (Post 720934)

You'll never hear me hype up 'pac, I'm not a fan at all and believe he's been hyped up after death the same way Big L was. But Biggie hyped up? He had classic after classic. If you're really saying you'd go for Lifestylez over Ready to Die, you're just trying to hard at this whole hip-hop thing.

Big L has Street Struck, and that's about it. He got hyped over some freestyles that weren't even freestyles and some ridiculously clever punchlines. But he wasn't consistent and couldn't really switch up his delivery to keep people interested. Big daddy kane pretty much ate him up Platinum Plus. So much of his stuff just sounds exactly the same.

And I love Scarface but don't get your comparison to the ripping off. Face was way more grimey and one of the best story tellers in rap that there's been. The Diary is phenomenal.