Nobody had a better way with words.
It can't be taught.shyt was purely instinctual, it seems
Yes Big's word play was something special and unique which is why he's a Legend. Even though he dropped out he always had high marks in school before he got into the streets. I'm not shocked by the command of the English Language he had. Here are some opening bars by other rappers that I love:
Eminem - "I'm cancerous, if you diss you wouldn't want to answer this even if you responded with a battle rap you wrote for Canibus"
Canibus - "I'm a let the world know the truth, you don't want me to shine, you studied my rhyme then laid your vocals after mine, that's a B!tch move"
NaS - "Broken Glass in the Hallway, blood stain floors, Neighbors look at every bag you bring through your doors"
Tupac - "I'm not a killer but don't push me, revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting Pu$$y"
Deck - "I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery"
Pun - "My crew puff lye, anyone test the Pun must die Just give me one try -- 'Now you know you done fukked up right?' Hah, you ain't got no wins in my casa Que te pasa, you ain't even in my clasa"
Jakakiss - "You already know what it's about, when I run in the house, put the gun up in your mouth and take the money out the couch"
Lil Kim - "Hot Damn Hoe here we go again, light as rock b!tch, hard as a cock B!tch"
Jay Z - "Motherfukkers wanna act loco, hit em wit, numerous shots with the fo'-fo' fakkits wanna talk to po-po's, smoke em like cocoa fukk rap, coke by the boatload"
Prodigy - "right back to the fact that here take that, right back at you were goin at to already ran through
wasn't hard to capture, what is it that your goin after the fourty-fifth will make your clothes damper"
KanYe - "If my manager insults me again, I will be assulting him, after I F@ck the manager up then I'm going to shorten the register up."
Puffy - "The sun don't shine forever but as long as we here we might as well shine together, better now than never, business before pleasure. P Diddy and the fam who you know do it better"