I knew that but I didnt know RTD as we have it was ripped directly from Pac.

I remember Pac talking about Biggie rapping about Death after he did it, rapping about Versace after him, but I thought that was in the post RTD era where Biggie really took on the Mafioso persona.

I wasn't aware the extent he ripped from Pac until Pac went into detail in this interview.

Claiming Pac stole his style from Scarface

Big maybe but y'all are tripping saying Pac stole his style from face.

holla at me lyrics hit different now

How could you do me like that? I took ya family in
I put some cash in ya pocket, made you a man again

Biggie took the sound but I mean the West Coast inspired R&B samples and what Pac would've done on them.

Bad Boy definitely jacked some beat/sampling styles from Dre Dog, but I feel the beats would've been the same sound but different in execution.

me against the world easy bruh this not even fair for biggies album

So Many Tears is better than anything on RTD

"Far better" I dont even think its better
I wouldnt be mad if someone said the other, but far better is pushing it

the west stole there style from the texas sound

Pac was BIG's mentor, but their music is very different anyway and I hate when they get compared bc that s*** is always redundant.

I'd say MATW as a body of work.

Biggie is still my GOAT but I think Pac's music and content is timeless if you are a Black person from poverty or the inner city.

Ready to Die is more concise. Feels like a movie.

MATW sounds more like a compilation of great songs imo.

Tupac based his whole look on Smoothe Da Hustler tho

That was about stretch

Fax that album was a straight classic

Dear mama the best song between both of them

2Pac's main strength over Biggie was how human he was.

He could touch the soul in ways that Biggie wasn't capable of.

Biggie had other strengths over Pac though.

This is true. I vageuly remember Pac saying Biggie was supposed to be down with Thug Life but I didn't know Biggie wanted to leave Puffy/Bad Boy as early as before RTD dropped.

I think Mark Curry said Biggie was broke when he died and so was everyone else on Bad Boy other than Puffy for the most part.

It makes me want to see what Biggie would've been like if he would've jumped ship to Thug Life.

Ready die feels like a comp of great songs too beside the few songs that tied the concept together

Biggie > Pac

That's why Pac was so universal. Biggie was a dope rapper, but Pac was far more than that.

it still applies to big
i always thought it was about big tho

"Aiyyo, what the f*** you wanna be when you grow up RahRah?
NIGGA, is you stupid, I wanna be a motherfuckin' Outlaw"

all i know pac is a goat

Big taking directly from Pac in that way wouldn't be a surprise, he was always a chameleon in that way (but was still able to make it his own)

Big - Jay - Drake are on a through line in that sense