Also for east coast
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Since you didn’t say anything about Midwest that opens a whole lot more

how dare you disrespect rap legend Guerilla Black

Keep in mind big is one of the most quoted rappers of all time and his music is embedded into the history and identity of the entire genre

So is 2Pac lol

Still, people only want to actually be one over the other and base their whole career off of

My apologies 😔😔🤘

Everything they say for Big you can say for Pac PLUS more

Kinda crazy tbh

Biggie was a tremendous artist and talent, not an icon on the level of Pac. Pac was and for some still is the face of rap. Of course the aspiration discussions will favor Pac.

Biggie still made better music while he was alive tho

Too bad only the Tri State agrees, even when they were alive

2010s YG + Schoolboy Q and then Tyler to this day was outselling all of Atlanta

If you want to start classifying "B-listers" lol

Niggas wanna talk about numbers till it comes to they numbers

I agree with your main point. There is people like Pusha who still cosplay Big a lot tho tbh and quote him a lot. Also consider that when you say people wanna be Jay Z, jay made quoting big a whole sub genre, and wanting to be Jay basically equates to wanting to be Big.

I have more s*** I wanna rant about but I'm tryna keep it cool and light 😔😔😮‍💨

While Pusha is directly influenced by Pacs actual Rapping

The quoting thing makes no sense because they are both probably the most quoted rappers of all time, literally, and Big does not outweigh it significantly

I agree with Jay as well, who also has his own 2Pac cosplays he pops out every now and then as well - my point was tho for people itt egregiously suggesting Pac has no motion while blatantly lying, that people dont agree with their talltales when they were alive and even in death - from fans to literal other artists

Big is enjoyed n respected a lot, but honestly he has not influenced a lot. There are way more East Rappers way more influencial in sound and style overall

Kinda like the Drake vs Kendrick debates in a way. Even tho I'm way more a Kendrick fan.

Jay Z's first major radio song that went beyond Rap was a 2Pac cosplay remix with Beyonce

Me and my Girlfriend

No he didn’t. Only rolling stone writers think that lol. For some reason a lot of “album centric” critics and hipsters prefer bigs catalog and I think the album art and singles mostly sold them. There’s a very interesting and strange cognitive dissonance at play here. These are the same people who decided pac wasn’t lyrical.

And his first rap radio hits were all leaching off big’s legacy

Didn't go beyond till Pac tho which he was trying to to do for so long, and that was just the first major instance

Jay is high-key one of the biggest biters tho, and tried to fuse the essence of both Big n Pac

Pacs style and Bigs rhymes

NYC specifically Hot97 also did a lot of propaganda against Pac after Big died

That's literally where the "Pac isn't lyrical" narrative started n the blown out Hennessy jokes n s*** started too, even tho Pac was considered lyrical when alive and people like Nas told them they're wrong after Pac died

Then in the 2000s they started saying his catalog has too many "misses" even tho it was beloved alive and still selling like crazy

Then the 2010s they started doing the "people loved him for his spirit, not the music" bullshit

Literally like some Cold War s***

I just go by my ears, f*** a critic

Biggie had the better flow and pen, and yeah, Ready to Die has top 5 rap album credentials. But I was raised east coast so idk

I’ll take gimme the loot over every single song u just named

Ready to die better than any pac album argue wit ya auntie more consistent, better flows, consistently amazing hooks, every song is amazing

Personal opinion injected 🚨

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Give me 1 (one) 2pac album as consistent, tight, focused, exceptional, and conceptual as ready to die. One with 0 weak songs (ignoring interludes obviously)