Opinion: If Big L had lived...
 

... he would of gone on to become the G.O.A.T.


Lyrically miles ahead of his time. Likeable, marketable etc etc


I think he woulda crushed the industry.

That's not really an opinion, that's a fact.

Agreed.

Yeah Big L was something else, his punches still hold up today.


Ayo you better flee hops, or get ya head flown three blocks, L keeps rappers hearts pumping like reeboks!

That boy once said..."I'm known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches
I get more pussy by accident than most niggas get on purpose" - Big L

You know the game plan, C-Town that's my main man, we dont bring luggage, we go shopping when the plane land !

Battles I lose none, I make crews run
I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one
I run up like Machine Gun Kelly with a black skully
Put one in your belly, leave you smelly, then take your Pelle Pelle

And if you think I can't fuck with whoever, put your money up
Put your jewels up, no fuck it put your honey up
Put your raggedy house up nigga or shut your mouth up
Before I buck lead and make a lot of blood shed
Turn your tux red, I'm far from broke, got enough bread
And mad hoes, ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead




...This can go on forever, he's got so many damn quotables

Yo, I admit, I'm a sucker
A low down, dirty, sneaky, double-crossin' connivin' muthafucka
Breaking in cribs with a crowbar
I wasn't poor, I was po' - I couldn't afford the 'o-r'

Lmao facts

Yeah, he would have.

Always loved that bar,

you know who else is kinda under-rated? Fat Joe. (shit thought this was the "The Game" thread, oh well).

His Don Cartagena album was crazy.

Ima catch flak for this but saying L would've been the goat is a stretch. He was hella dope and def ahead of time lyrically, but his music hasn't aged as well as other albums put out during that time.

I see where you are coming from, he had alot of songs I skip, but when hes hitting, hes HITTING.

Big L is one of my favourite rappers of all time.

“big L is that nigga you expect to catch wreck on any cassette deck, im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet"

“They wanna know why I'm so fly. A girl asked me for a ring and I put one around her whole eye.”

I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked
Oh you're broke? *gunshots*
Now you're dead broke" lmao

People think conceited started those punchlines, big L was the 1st

Conceited is whack

I would have loved to see Big Pun & Big L living

FAX.


So ahead of his time dudes are barely catching up now.

Tough to say

What if Big L already hit his ceiling? Yeah he was ahead of his time, but what if he showed us his entire skillset and what he had to offer?

In a similar vein I remember hearing Cassidy 15 yrs ago & he was head and shoulders above the comp as far as punchlines. Thought dude would be in a different stratosphere by now

But time has moved on and Cassidy's skillset remains more or less the same

Before I listened to this new school rap shit, before I would even listen to metal, there were only a handful of artists that I gave a fuck about. Big L is one of them. I would've posted that Freestyle with Jay Z but someone else beat me to it. He indisputably would've became one of the biggest G.O.A.T.S. today if he hadn't got shot.

Thought you woulda been with me on this one P.

I understand your argument tho, you make a good point.

I need to hear Big L on some more modern beats man.

I imagine that it couldn't be too hard to just isolate his vocals and slap it on a new school beat.

WE NEED A PRODUCER STAT

Shit, gotta present all sides of the argument ya know. I feel like sometimes we hold dead rappers in a super high regard & its not necessarily fair to do that cuz we dont know what their trajectory woulda been

Big L is one of my Top 10 rappers of all time though, for sure. I think I made a thread about him on here lol

Turn your tux red, I'm far from broke, got enough bread
And mad hoes, ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead

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It's not that simple.

"Whats this motherfuckin' rap game without L?... Yeah, that's like Jews without ice, that's like China without rice, or the Holy Bible without Christ!"