just like among us fans

all the rappers worshipped biggie at some point in time

even if only few of them were ever able to get on his lvl

Jadakiss

You see where I’m headed

Watch that attitude though

Biggie also a huge influence on the sound, structure and feel of the rapper guest verse on pop songs. Am I pulling that out of my ass? Perhaps, but it sounds correct

Big Pun and Lizzo

“It’s the American expressor, the debt collecter, hailing all the way from the Mecca, got something for Trudy and rebecca” is biggie u can’t tell me nun

Nah he was the blueprint 100% I can’t remember a guest rap feature before biggie that layed the blueprint people still follow today

As far as genre influence you have to give him credit for being the prototype for rappers after him

It Was Written, Reasonable Doubt, I Am, Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, all extremely influenced by Big trying to do what he did

Biggie influenced everybody on the east including hov

Big had like 3 niggas coming in the game trying to p sound like him from 3 different cities lmao

Just because rappers might not sound like B.I.G. Or rap like him doesn’t mean they weren’t influenced. Rappers like B.I.G. And Pac have gotten to the point where their legacy influenced many to simply want to rap.

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XXXTENTACION said that Big was a huge influence on him and claimed that Biggie was better than 2Pac to him bc his music was more poetic

even though when i listen to X he only rly has a few songs that i would say are similar to Big at all, the artist himself paid homage to his influence

Yeah but even then, in addition to Ross we have Jay Elec and Pusha and others who show clear influence in the rapping style too

Big basically popularized Mafioso rap, and the idea of rappers having a "Don" persona. All the stuff about having "shooters" "my niggas will do you dirty" "Mob Ties" etc is rooted in Big's discography if you ask me. it creates distance from crime and the rapper, and lets ppl rap about the streets without necessarily living that life and doing it themselves. arguably invented the idea of being a Studio gangster or at least paved the way for them to be accepted

People can say Pac did the same thing but that wasn't really his brand. he embraced "Thug Life" and wanted to be seen as the one who was willing to let shots off himself. and he only tapped into that lane Because of Big, at one point they were good friends and Big claimed that Pac was biting him at one point in a recorded interview, can't find it rn but hopefully i can later

Pac also said Big came up with his player style after I Get Around

Even if you don’t think people sound exactly like Big he still has a large amount of sampled/repurposed material for an artist with such a short career. A lot of people just end up quoting and reusing the same material.

There’s like a whole handful of rappers that you can’t listen to without hearing a biggie quote every other song, like multiple rappers that a core part of their formula is quoting biggie every other jay Elec lyric, pusha T lyric, Hov lyric, is a big lyric

Op found a smart way to ask a dumb question

both of those things can be true

Yeah I wasn’t saying it to contradict

Pusha T and Malice, Jay Z, Lil Kim, Nicki Minaj, Meechy Darko, Earl, Schoolboy Q, and many others. His flows and rhyme schemes are easy to hear in others.

That being said...Scarface was a major influence on Biggie. So if you hear Biggie-isms in a rapper, just know he got it from Face.

Who was making this type of joints on NY before biggie?

jay, push, beans, lox etc