The Greatest Rapper of All-Time Died on March 9th: 20 Year Anniversary of Biggie's Passing

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smokeurobinson said:
Biggie took over the game when Juicy dropped. No one saw it coming. Wu Tang was killing it, Jerus name was ringing bells, Black Moon was making noise and The streets of NYC had it in the air that Nas was that new nikka. Then outta nowhere Biggie drops Juicy....and then Unbelievable. The first version of Unbelievable was Biggie freestyling the song with Puffy singing on the chorus "Its Unbelevable" and Biggie actually saying "Biggie Smalls Is The Illest" Months laster the album version that everyone knows was soon in the streets heavy. It was all eyes on Biggie. By the end of the year it was Meth neck and Neck with Biggie with Redman Nas and Jeru fighting for 2nd place. Biggie did something that not even Michael Jackson could do...Biggie was on pop cultures radar for only 3 years and his 3 year presence was so strong its stongly felt 20 years later...I've never seen anything like that ever. Party and Bullshyt and the supercat song dont count....wasnt no one paying attention to him then just like no one was paying attention to Jay Z during Hawaiin Sophie. Even with The Mary J Blige Real Love remix no one was paying Biggie mind like that. Juicy is what set everything off.
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Got the 2 Goats on the same track. Shows you how high he sky rocketed on the scene



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I remember when I heard the news on the radio that Sunday morning. Nobody was surprised when Pac died 6 months earlier because of his recent history of always getting in trouble (he got shot 9 months before that). But Biggie's death was just crazy.
It was also the scariest and most embarrassing time in hip hop. Cacs in the media had a field day with it. Everyone took the opportunity to connect the murders and shyt on hip hop in general. Keith Richards even said "I hope they all kill each other off"

I posted this on Pac's anniversary...
I don't know how old are posters here but I remember vividly how this whole shyt was covered by cacs (media and police): The general consensus was "good riddance" (even on MTV, not just the news stations).
Tupac wasn't this icon that he is today back then. He was just trouble, that's how the media always presented him (a lot of black folks resented him too, as he was always seen as out of control). Every time I turned on the TV and saw his face, my first reaction would be "uh oh, what has he done now?" MTV always introduced him as "controversial rapper Tupac Shakur..." So when he died the news coverage was extremely negative, borderline gloating.
Biggie's death was icing on the cake, especially for cacs who couldn't resist connecting the murders of "two dumb thugs."

Amazingly, Tupac's posthumous image underwent the most drastic transformation of any artist I can recall... Funny how nikkas always become safer to embrace after death (see MLK, Malcolm)
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RIP:francis:
 
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