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When Rakim spits, he’s so convincing that he’s not to be fucked with on the microphone. That’s how you convince people you’re dope. He was a wordsmith but it’s also how you say it. I’m into voices and his sound was so New York. Premier: His best attributes were his voice and his delivery. He was who everybody wanted to see and hear anybody he brought with him was secondary. Every time he made a radio appearance, it was tape-worthy. You knew you were around royalty, you were around greatness. The perfect killing machine.ĭJ Eclipse: He made the incredibly complex look effortless.
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Now you factor in the flow, the wittiness, the cadence, he was almost like a shark. I’m not even talking about his wit let’s talk about his tone first. He had this voice that just cut through the music. He just didn’t have the marketing and promotion. He was a better lyricist than Biggie and Jay-Z. He had it like that and it all made sense.įunkmaster Flex: People can get mad at me for saying this, but he was the best lyricist at the time. If he was going to rhyme about buying a drink at the bar, he would start with going up to the bar and flip it to: getting your girl, having her sit down while he plots “I’m gonna rob this person of everything he got,” going back to the chick, then leaving the spot with her in the whip f***ing her breaking out, going back to the club, rocking the party, bagging another chick.
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I just would put ’em against Big L so they could see for themselves. “These guys think they nice, let me call L, like ‘I got 500 for you right now,’ he like ‘bet.’” I never used to want to, you know, tell dudes they was trash. I would sneak off and place a call to Big L, to have him pop up and embarrass them on the mic-to the point they didn’t want to rhyme no more. Sometimes I used to have MCs who thought they were real nice come through the studio. radio stalwarts Funkmaster Flex (who admired the ascent of his fellow Bronx bomber, Finesse), DJ Eclipse, and Lord Sear, also a Harlemite Sauce Money, himself a fierce MC who came up with famed Big L frenemy Jay-Z sonic savant DJ Premier, whose throaty “Big L rest in peace” mantra kicks off Gang Starr’s “Full Clip.” Regrettably omitted: DJ Premier’s Big L impersonations, the rapid-fire articulation employed even, as Preem attests, when L was having a conversation. To celebrate his life, and to answer some of the questions still lingering now 20 years later, VIBE assembled a who’s who of rap staples: Diggin’ in the Crates architects and primary L producers Lord Finesse and Showbiz D.I.T.C. Though just 24 at the time of his slaying, and having unearthed only the tip of a creative iceberg, Big L managed to leave a Titanic wake. If I had a show, he was there.” Indeed, he was: Funkmaster Flex recalls a show at the Apollo Theater in March of 1992, seeing a then-17-year-old L perform as a guest of Lord Finesse. So I took him everywhere, and he watched my career unfold in real time: If I had an interview, he was there. “If that was him imitating what I’m doing, then I’m blown away because of how good he was at that age. “When I first heard L, I saw the future,” Finesse reveals. But, quite appropriately, it was the metaphorical shift that rang truest: the passage of knowledge from sage to scion. So, this lawful incursion by Lord Finesse, himself a general fittingly crossing a river – in this case, The Harlem – marked a territorial shift from rap’s cradle into affiliated incubator. Big L Posted Up On His Mural Wall In 98 #bigl#classic#139andlenox#hiphop#harlem#nyc#boombap#eminem#biggie#jayz#tupac#goat#halloffame #ditc #harlemsfinest#90s#oldschool#rare#legend#eastcoast#rapgod#nfl#vintage#hiphopculture #dangerzone #rip #throwback#music#mvpĪ post shared by Big L(Lamont Coleman)1974-1999 on at 6:12pm PST