Life After "Life After Death". What Biggie had planned for the future.....

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Yep, a lot of people don't know that Biggie messed with Dilla before his Death. The song was originally called "The Ugliest" or "Brooklyn Lockness" but was later changed to "Dangerous Emcees" with a different beat on "Born Again". The original beat was then to be sold to Busta and called "Modern Day Gangsters" but the song wasn't completed outside of Big's verse. Biggie wanted the song to feature Busta and NaS. Biggie's verse is actually a Pac diss. It's filled with a ton of subliminals. The beat was fire and Biggie sounded dope on Dilla's production, Well Big sounded dope over everyone's production but it seemed like a good match with Big and Dilla. Here's the beat and song:



Yeah, ninety-six, for my Nordstrom Ave nikkaz
My Fulton Street nikkaz (hardcore for ninety-six)
Dangerous MC's..

Uhh (check it out) uhh
Diamonds on my neck, chrome drop-top
Chillin on the scene, smokin pounds of green
Oooh-wee, you see, the ugliest
Money-hungriest, Brooklyn Loch Ness
Nine millimeter cock test, wan fi' test?
And the winner is? Not that Thinner Kid, Bandana Tatoos,
my fist never bruise.
Land-still-cruise, Frank White paid his dues
Ask who's the raw, bet they say Poppa very
Look forward to me like commissary
All of a sudden, now every-body Big Willie
Done did it, come widdit, get yo' head splitted
or get your neck slitted, admit it, you overdid it
Your shyt it, just ain't got that LOUD

Gold tooth shine like TA-DOW!
Biggie Smalls the illest and how, frays raise your eyebrow
By now you figure, he talkin bout that nikka
but your weak-ass assumptions, lead led to dumpin
IV to pump-in, you're feeling something

Catch my drift, or catch my four-fifth lift
at least six inches, above project fences
Turn meat to minces, jokes turn to flinches
When I rain I drenches, cleared your park benches
Missed you by pinches your talk is senseless
Actor needs chiropractor for cracked jaw
Yes I rocked your cheddar box
Dangerous you're not I gets down
Twist your body {*singing*} round and round, upside down



All the underlined are Pac refereces/diss. He even ends the verse singing like Pac did on "I get around". Here's a Dilla "Kick in the Door" remix/mashup that Premo co-signed.



I heard Dangerous emcee's a while back. Good look on the post because that verse was nasty. His flow over the beat was incredible. That flow just danced over the beat rhythmically. Definitely the most gifted emcee we've ever been graced with. Scary thing is he was getting better. If he even fell off it would've been minimal. There's no denying this man's greatness unless it's pure bias.
 

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to add more to this, if LL Cool J had that time of longevity, and Biggie was 5X better than LL, no question he'd still be doing music today even when he said he'll do 5 albums and bounce, EVERYONE SAYS THAT, Big would still be doing albums as much as Jay-Z has
 

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I'm a Jay-Z fan so don't get it twisted. But I'm shocked nobody even mentioned how he stole the whole "Black Album" with not promotion from B.I.G. I never heard that before.
And yet beyonce is the only one to ever successfully do it..just last december :mjpls:
 

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Biggie joins 7 other New York Legends including the likes of Jay Z (I posted Jay's cover in the We Made It Thread), Madonna, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Barbra Streisand, Lou Reed and Bob Dylan on the this special collector's covers of The New York "Yesteryear" Issue of 100 Years, 100 Songs and 100 Nights. LOL @ them having Biggie rolling an L on this. Dope cover and homage.
 

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Its a damn shame what both Biggie and Pac got robbed of...the potential that both of them had :wow:

Jay-Z tried his best to fill Bigs shoes and helped keep new york relevant til the mid 2000's. I think his split with Camron hurt NY. Then Dipset split...Its hard to say what woulda happened if Biggie was able to fill out his plans. With his work ethic and all the lyrics he was writing for other rappers he might still be the runnin shyt. I seen a few posters in here say he was still gettin better on LAD, i agree with that. I used to like R2D more but LAD has aged as good as any rap album from the 90's. His voice and his mic presence on LAD :wow: Top 10 with only 2 albums :wow:
 

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No doubt, Biggie most definitely would of messed with 50 Cent (Despite Jada saying Big would of spit on him, lol). 50 definitely learned from Big's blueprint. But we kinda got a glimpse with the remix of "N!ggas" called "The Realest N!ggas" which was on the "Bad Boys II" soundtrack. 50 had amazing chemistry with Lil Kim too.



Prime 50 Cent :ohlawd:
 

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Biggie wouldn't have fell off...if hov still here then its safe to say big would be on top instead......this nikka was barry bonds on steroids on his first two albums. no other rapper was ahead of the game looking backwards at nikkas after 1 album like big did....it took pac years of garbage songs and hits and misses to get to were he was b4 he died in comparison biggie came into rap like LeBron james dominating from high school straight to the league..had he lived his 5-10 year chokehold on rap would have been unmatched. His haters know that.... its the source for all the collective hate and insecurity they have towards BIG till this day.
 
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Just wanted thank everyone for the love and response this piece recieved. Got a lot of pm's about it. If you learned something new than my job was done. Sadly Big didn't live out these plans but a lot of ppl lose track he was only 24. Hip Hop is forever wounded from him and Pac's passing.
 

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This was a great read. I had heard that he was going to more or less retire after Born Again. But you never know, plans always change.

Just thinking about Big and Pun on a track together has me like :banderas: and :sadcam: at the same time
 

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don't think the Nas and Jay beef would've escalated

We all know his relationship with Jay, but he stated on the record he had mad love for Nas too, they were cool as well... Feel like BIG wouldve intervened after Takeover or maybe even before

a hiphop world without Ether, imagine that...
 

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Pac my GOAT but Big my #2

This thread>>

So glad Pac didn't release my favorite album of all time as a mixtape/black album

When you really think about it tho, the Makavelis that dropped after the original were black albums

But yea, well written OP, OP
 
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