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| It's been 3
years since we lost the greatest rapper of all time....I know a lot of
you debate on whether he was the greatest or not, but no one can deny
that he was the illest in his time and no one could touch him.
Biggie didn't just rhyme. He had a conversation with his audience. It was like listening to your best friend tell a story over the phone. Biggie didn't need no videos, you could already picture it just by listening to his music. Biggie had it all: the streets and the clubs. The radio and the TV. Ladies sweated him and guys wanted to be him. "Juicy" was an inspiration to me. My struggle wasn't exactly like Biggie's, but a struggle nonetheless. And the hook was something that rang in my head that kept me going and kept me motivated through low times in my life. Just seeing BIG come up gave the rest of us hope to achieves our goals. BIG believed strongly in giving back. The way he came up and brought up his peeps like Junior M.A.F.I.A. showed how great he was. BIG put people on. If he had shit, he made sure his peeps had shit. He gave people jobs. He didn't' just talk about it, He was about it. When I saw on the news that BIG had died, I couldn't believe it. I thought the news people made a mistake. I just couldn't believe it. Minutes earlier I was pumpin Hypnotize which just came out. I knew his album was going to be called Life After Death, so I thought maybe it was just a publicity stunt. Unfortunately it wasn't. I didn't take the news well. I was crushed. I had nightmares for a while... It was at this point I realized how much of an impact Biggie had made on me. For people to call him just another rapper, didn't really take the time to realize what BIG was saying. They were listening, but they weren't hearing him. I didn't know BIG personally, but from listening to him, I kinda felt like I did... |
| ...Just some sh*t on my
mind,
SNICKA (March 9, 2000)
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