Big L
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Lamont Coleman came straight out of Harlem with some of the sickest murder raps I have heard to this day. Sometimes he talked about other stuff too (see ‘Put It On’), but he was always at his best when he got real dark. The best part was that he hated everybody; best friends, women, Jesus, cops, gay dudes, infants, his mom.. they all got caught a bad one. Sometimes you just gotta take what you’re good at and stick with it (Are you listening Mobb Deep and Beatnuts?). He also killed every freestyle I have ever heard, including the one below where he made Jay-Z sound like a stuttering idiot in comparison. Unfortunately, it seemed like all that gun talk finally caught up with him and he got dropped on a corner in Harlem back 1999. Luckily before he left he recorded the amazing Lifestylez Ov Da Poor And Dangerous (another one of about 10 cassettes I still own) which can be best enjoyed at night cruising around with tinted windows, letting the streetlights wash over the hood as you go by.
Big L - Devil’s Son
Big L - Put It On
Big L - Street Struck
Big L - Lifestylez Ov da Poor and Dangerous
Big L - Da Graveyard
Big L - Platinum Plus (w/ Big Daddy Kane)
Bonus:
Freestyle with Jay-Z (over ‘Keep It Real’)
Freestyle from 1995 (over ‘Who Shot Ya?’)
Freestyle from WKCR (Stretch and Bobbito)
