The way I remember it, The Big L hype online didnt start until after the Em shout out on GRODT

[MikelArteta]

The big picture in 2000 sold 75,000 first week and went gold

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

As a child of the 90s I remembered "MVP" ringin off a lil something but that was it...I liked "Holding It Down" so I bought the album in 99 tho

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

True story, being at Truman HS in the Bronx we all heard the news of his death but nobody knew who he was? We couldn't pick him out of a line up but all of a sudden he was this rap messiah. It really pisses me off how people try to down play Mase impact when he became a top 3 artist after Biggie's death mostly 1997/98. The same thing goes for Stacks, dude was a third option on DJ Clue roster after Fabulous and Budden. It didn't work out well for him and Paul Cain after the mixtape game started to die out then he jumped on Dipset bandwagon. Nothing much both of these artist never made impact or captured the masses just underground average rappers who couldn't make a song or had a single mainstream hit.

Mannnnnnn we in here telling the truth this morning huh?

Let's keep it a buck. Stack Bundles was an average talent. I listened and I listened hard. He said nothing of note especially compared to a young Fab & Joe. I wouldn't say he was trash but this guy didn't say much of anything considering he was a punchline rapper. I hope the same people calling Dave East average aren't still bowing to the shrine of Stack

 

[Ron Fox]

Easily overhyped and overrated. Especially when you have all these corny ass kids talking about "I wish we could bring back pac, big and big l"

Big fukin L?

yeah he had some hot verses, some cool punchlines but miss me with that bullshiiiiiit

Puns post death dikkriding gets a pass because he had a dope fukking album and a platinum plaque to his name before he died

L was a slightly better, less cornier version of Papoose

Thank you



Dudes came in this conversation and really tried to act like the same guy who I saw heavily slept on in the 90's wasnt all of a sudden over hyped out of nowhere in the new millinium.

I love Big L but seeing that outta nowhere overhype on the internet of the new millinium that didnt exist in reality during the 90's when he was alive always stood out to me.

 

[mobbinfms]

I dont think one was better then the other.

I can respect it. But to me L was a far better rapper than Finesse.

Like I said Finesse had 2 videos on heavy rotation in 95 after MVP.....and L didnt have anything in heavy rotation on BET after Finesse, so I dont see the surpassing u are refering to.

I'm talking about who was the better rapper. Not about commercial metrics.

hat would be like saying L surpassed AG or OC while alive when both had highly recognized LPs...

He did. I'm talking about rapping though. For me, when L was still alive, I was buying albums just so I could hear a new Big L verse. I didn't do that for AG or OC. OC was my second favorite member in DITC though.

 

[mobbinfms]

people loved Big L. we were 16/17 when he popped for us. My circle fukked with him after OCs Jewelz and he blew up on that DITC Album, Big Picture made him a legend

This is exactly how it went for me.
I'm out in CA seeing the videos for Put it On and the summer smooth remix of MVP. I like both I don't cop the album.
Then I hear his shyt on Dangerous
I went out and bought Lifestyles immediately
And i loved it

 

[mobbinfms]

I'm not arguing. I'm telling you the internet and Eminem are what gave big L his goat status

This thread is official. Like I said the day he died nggaz in NYC was call the radio like "WHO?"

Anybody can call a radio station and say some dumb shyt. If you were a serious hip hop fan in early 99, it would have been impossible to not know who Big L was.

 

[mobbinfms]

Big L was being overrated

 

[mobbinfms]

Yeah if anything his hyped died down once Eminem hit.

When are you saying Eminem hit? His first album dropped right around when L died.

 

[mobbinfms]

He was always just the other guy on the Jay Z freestyle

False.

 

[Victorious Secret]

You call it a bytch move....I say he forced ol boy to break bread. I dont see nothing wrong with an old fashion taxing.

"give it up.....Let me take that of u lil man"

10m isn’t a tax, it’s a rape.

 

[mobbinfms]

Did u really just use Napster and Kazaa as a reference?



Napster and Kazaa had everything, from lost songs to dj mixes...That doesn't count





I'm talking about the overall adoration of Big L.....Not songs available on filesharing sites.

I think he's making the point that people were utilizing his vocals to make remixes.

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

Fresh is black and me and Ron are sp!cs

So i have no idea wtf u talkn bout.

Mind you I'm pretty sure YOUR a CAC who's a New York transplant

I've never even heard of you in these Coli skreets or had a conversation with you but it's good to know that I'm on your mind.

 

[mobbinfms]

Like I said, I been fukking with Messageboards since 2000.... And that whole "Murs/Deltron3030/aesop rock/Immortal Tech/El-p/Illogic/Eydea/Mr Lif" movement was what was hyped up on the internet circa 2001 - 2002. I dare you to say that those werent the names hyped up on the internet around that time and then I double dare u to say that Big L was in that same mix.

I was on SOHH around the same time and I don't remember Murs or Immortal Tech being hyped up in 01 or 02...although I could have just ignored it. Murs got his first big push with the album with 9th and for Tech it was Vol. 2 which was 2003 I think.
I also don't remember there being a huge resurgence in Big L after GRODT dropped.

 

[mobbinfms]

L was dead, those artists werent, people started giving L that legend propup since 99-00, thats like saying nobody put pun in their top 5 till joe dropped lean back or something, soon as these guys died those props began. i remember kids on the bus calling L the goat in like 00-01...

and even witrh the talk online there was still a healthy amount of big L love on the net idk what yur really saying and i fukk wit ya but i dont get it...cause eminem had NOTHING to do with big Ls popularity. literally not a thing

the free with jay, deadly combo mixes, ebonics, etc were the things that resonated with people POST death. devils son got the same UG love some of those guys you posted about did

Ebonics was pre death.