Notorious B.I.G vs 2Pac - Who do you prefer?

Biggie or Tupac?

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Biggies delivery paired with his wordplay was incredible. He could certainly paint pictures with his rhymes and had an addictive flow to go with it. The fact that he had back to back classic albums and not really a shitty track on either was amazing. The most incredible thing is that I believe we hadn't even seen his full peak yet, definitely a huge loss. Pac had nearly unmatched charisma and presence, only a KRS and later DMX would be able to out do him in that sense. The aspect of hip hop where I feel he is unrivalled completely was his diversity in content. He's the only rapper I can think of who has a song that anyone from any age or walk of life could vibe to. I believe that's what made him so relatable and accepted by so many around the world. There was no one like him before he came into the picture, no one that could connect or had that style, but so many tried to copy him after. They both laid the blueprint for success while never completely selling out their respective style or message. They both still kept it very street and very real even if they had some party tracks in the mix. Maybe the realness was their ultimate undoing, but man did it ever make for some incredible music in arguably the greatest era in hip hop. You had to have been alive during those times to know the full extent of how intense and entertaining those times were. Just a shame it had to end the way it did for not only those two, but so many others from around that time.
 
I know this is not a popular opinion, but KRS is not a very good MC. I also realize that peoples attraction to his music wasn't entirely about that, more about this messages.
 
I still think the Bullshit & Party theatricals are one of the best moments in any song ever.

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Mesos said:
Biggie chose to be on streets but it wasnt like had no choice like real street dudes. I remember reading something about his mom being well off, and owned some properties.

Dude wasnt hustling to survive, he did it because he liked playing street Gangster role and same could be said of Tupac to an extent but in Pacs case he became more like that after the fame.

Either way in terms of the content of the music. 2pacs music was more honest(no bs bravado like Big would do)

Things 2pac said on his songs he was down for. The ballet stuff 2pac was into ties into really his overall love of art. He wrote poetry, did ballet, acting, think he was into drawing too. It shows in the quality of his music too, he treated his music artfully and has the better catalog
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I disagree with that. There's more evidence regarding Biggie being "real" than 2Pac being it.

Anyways, this is all up to personal preference "Who do you prefer" so i forgot to say, my pick is Biggie. Better freestyle, better lyrics, way better flow, better album (Ready To Die) and far more versatile.
 
Cold187um said:
Ice Cubes first 3 solos > Pac and Biggies whole catalogs and that’s not even including the NWA stuff
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I'm a huge Ice Cube fan, Death Certificate and Lethal Injection are two of my favorite rap albums of all time but I still have him a tier lower than Biggie.
 
Dizzy said:
Absolutely this, Biggie was a crack dealer. Pac was getting down in parachute pants as a backup dancer.

It’s amazing how many people bought into the Tupac character.
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well, if you guys did any homework you would realize that biggie went to a private school as a youth and his mom has said numerous times he deliberately went down the wrong path. She actually worked hard and provided well for biggie, but he was drawn to the street life. Pac on the other hand was born into craziness. His mom was an ex black panther who was in jail, pregnant with him. Like biggie, his real dad was never in the picture and he never had a stable father figure around. Again, like biggie he had opportunities to go to better schools but unlike biggie, circumstances not intrigue pulled him away from that and pushed him into the streets. His moms started taking crack and he was literally like he said...."being raised by the thugs and dealers" in his area. If you really observe both of their situations.....one didn't have to go down the route he did but chose to....the other didnt really have any choice. Pac by all accounts was always a wild N**ga who was getting into crazy shit. He was also heavily profiled by the police, even the feds at one point as his name was rolling off the tongues of politicians and heavy hitters.

So if you do you're homework you'll know better. Most of you probably wont and just assume things based on what you read here or what the next guy says. Both of their upbringings are truly more complex then many of you would understand, but in the end they both accomplished an obscene amount in the 24-25 years they each had on this planet. Pac in my opinion just had way more against him and had far less of a chance to make it right of the get go, simply based on his childhood circumstances and because f who his parents, uncles, aunts and godparents were. That dude was born and raised a soldier. Theres no bullshitting that part.
 
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Mesos said:
Biggie chose to be on streets but it wasnt like had no choice like real street dudes. I remember reading something about his mom being well off, and owned some properties.

Dude wasnt hustling to survive, he did it because he liked playing street Gangster role and same could be said of Tupac to an extent but in Pacs case he became more like that after the fame.

Either way in terms of the content of the music. 2pacs music was more honest(no bs bravado like Big would do)

Things 2pac said on his songs he was down for. The ballet stuff 2pac was into ties into really his overall love of art. He wrote poetry, did ballet, acting, think he was into drawing too. It shows in the quality of his music too, he treated his music artfully and has the better catalog
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No doubt Tupac was all around more talented. He could have been moderately successful even without the music.
 
Ezekiel 25:17 said:
well, if you guys did any homework you would realize that biggie went to a private school as a youth and his mom has said numerous times he deliberately went down the wrong path. She actually worked hard and provided well for biggie, but he was drawn to the street life. Pac on the other hand was born into craziness. His mom was an ex black panther who was in jail, pregnant with him. Like biggie, his real dad was never in the picture and he never had a stable father figure around. Again, like biggie he had opportunities to go to better schools but unlike biggie, circumstances not intrigue pulled him away from that and pushed him into the streets. His moms started taking crack and he was literally like he said...."being raised by the thugs and dealers" in his area. If you really observe both of their situations.....one didn't have to go down the route he did but chose to....the other didnt really have any choice. Pac by all accounts was always a wild N**ga who was getting into crazy shit. He was also heavily profiled by the police, even the feds at one point as his name was rolling off the tongues of politicians and heavy hitters.

So if you do you're homework you'll know better. Most of you probably wont and just assume things based on what you read here or what the next guy says. Both of their upbringings are truly more complex then many of you would understand, but in the end they both accomplished an obscene amount in the 24-25 years they each had on this planet. Pac in my opinion just had way more against him and had far less of a chance to make it right of the get go, simply based on his childhood circumstances and because f who his parents, uncles, aunts and godparents were.
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That changes literally nothing lol. He dropped out of private school to sell crack. He was on the streets of one of the roughest areas of NY.

No politicians or heavy hitters gave a shit about Tupac lol. The stories you guys create.
 
Vergilius said:
That's not quite the whole story is it? Tupac was complex: he went to art school and was into poetry, Shakespeare and even danced ballet. But before he ever went to the West coast he had been shot five times, served time in jail for two violent assaults and sexual abuse - and he also shot two off duty cops. The whole reason he went to Death Row was because Suge Knight bailed him out of jail in exchange for him signing.

Looking back at it, the dude was spiraling out of control over a number of years. A shame he couldn't leave it behind and focus on what actually mattered. Snoop is a great lesson to young rappers in that regard - he got out and stayed out when he realised things were going South if he tried keeping things real.
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The Bay Area is the West Coast, too
Pacs entire musical career happened while he was living on the West Coast
 
Biggie, not close. Tupac was strong willed motherfucker but I didn't care for his music much.
 
Biggie had some good stuff. But I still haven't found a rapper who can top Tupac lyrically. IMO 2pac is best rap writer ever.

Flow n freestyle I give to biggie. But the others 2pac n some by a wide margin
 
Dizzy said:
That changes literally nothing lol. He dropped out of private school to sell crack. He was on the streets of one of the roughest areas of NY.

No politicians or heavy hitters gave a shit about Tupac lol. The stories you guys create.
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Bro, all of this is literally common knowledge that can be found with simple searches. 2pac, Ice-T, NWA, 2 live crew were all on a short list of artists being watched and routinely getting hassled. Bob Dole was pretty much waging war against certain artists and one of them was Pac. The FBI had files on him and there were several articles and even books written to this effect. He wasn't just rapping about slangin dope like biggie was....dude was actually dropping knowledge on wax and saying things that incited fear amongst the powers that be. Again, I wouldn't expect some of you to comprehend any of it. Go read more or do some actual homework and come back when you are up to speed. Go listen to tacks like white mans world or blasphemy and compare it to anything that biggie did. I'm not saying biggie was one dimensional as far as his rapping, i'm just saying that Pac was rapping about things that no one else either dared to or could even think to. He was pretty much Public Enemy & KRS One 3.0 for the 90s.
 
Ezekiel 25:17 said:
Bro, all of this is literally common knowledge that can be found with simple searches. 2pac, Ice-T, NWA, 2 live crew were all on a short list of artists being watched and routinely getting hassled. Bob Dole was pretty much waging war against certain artists and one of them was Pac. The FBI had files on him and there were several articles and even books written to this effect. He wasn't just rapping about slangin dope like biggie was....dude was actually dropping knowledge on wax and saying things that incited fear amongst the powers that be. Again, I wouldn't expect some of you to comprehend any of it. Go read more or do some actual homework and come back when you are up to speed. Go listen to tacks like white mans world or blasphemy and compare it to anything that biggie did. I'm not saying biggie was one dimensional as far as his rapping, i'm just saying that Pac was rapping about things that no one else either dared to or could even think to. He was pretty much Public Enemy & KRS One 3.0 for the 90s.
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Bob Dole knew who the backup dancer in the Humpty Dance was?
 
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