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Lyrically, yeah both were better but 2pac made better songs and connected with people way more, including myself
2pac remains the GOAT..... I've been listening to hip hop for over 15 years now and I say this with confidence. And Nas has never made an album better then 7 Day Theory or Me Against the World. Same with Biggie.
There's a reason Nas and Biggie aren't fucking with 2pac's fanbase worldwide, it's much bigger then Nas' or Biggie's fanbase, by A LOT........trust me, I travel
I've been listening to Hip Hop for over 30 years now and I can say this with confidence; Biggie is a better rapper than Tupac.
Tupac had the GOAT work ethic which is why he has so much more material, but a lot of Tupac's songs sound the same and have the same overall message/theme. He repeats the same thing over and over again (Hennessey, Enemy, Pennetentary).
As far as rapping ability goes, Big could rap circles around Tupac ( Real Niggas Do Real Things, One More Chance (Remix), 10 Crack Commandments, I Got A story To Tell) .
PAC was no slouch. I'm not saying he's wack but Big was a better rapper.
I get what you saying but 2pac was more versatile on his subject matter if you've listened enough to his albums. Biggie was not as versatile on his subject matter. How many songs does Biggie have like Brenda's Got A Baby or White Man's World??? I get Biggie died early but he still dropped a good amount of material and for all of his ability, he wasn't as versatile on his subject matter. 2pac could write songs on ANY subject, Biggie seemed to struggle when it comes to rapping about deep topics, minus a few great songs of course.
The emotion 2pac put into his songs is incredible and I've yet to hear any rapper emulate that. I can't imagine Biggie making a deep song like White Man's World or Dear Mama.....I like Biggie but he was very materialistic, 2pac seemed to be on another level of consciousness, and it's why people connect more to 2pac's music overall.
People always say that 2Pac was "more conscious" and "had a wider range". They say, "Pac was more versatile".
But if you listen to the second half of Pac's catalog (the stuff he recorded on Death Row) A lot of those songs sound the same. Not necessarily All Eyes On Me or 7 Day Theory, but all of those leftover songs that got released when he died. I'm talking about the stuff on Until The End of Time, Better Days, Loyal To The Game and Pac's Life. All of those albums are just recycled ideas with the same Hennessey/enemy/penitentiary flow. The way he stretches out the letter "E" to "EEEEEE" was cool on Dear Mama but it got played out by the time 7 Day Theory was released.
Biggie was a storyteller who could rap circles around Pac. Even if you listen to Hit Em Up, Pac's rhymes are basic ("Fuck You") I'm sure Big could have dismantled Pac on wax but Pac died before Big could execute a proper response.
Yeah Pac made good music but that doesn't make him the GOAT MC and there's dozens of MCs that can rap better than Pac. They might not have a better discography, but they can rap better.
they were left over songs for that exact reason, your aware of that right? if someone records 3 tracks a day then the emotions and topics will carry over, then the best ones hit the albums and the other ones dont...a lot of artists do this including the beatles
with that said until the end of time still has more diversity of topics than either of biggies albums
Until The End of Time may have had "more diversity" but Biggie is still a better rapper.
When I was coming up there was a group called The Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy. They were supposed to be an alternative rap group that spoke on socio-political concepts. Their range was diverse but the production was lame and they couldn't rap. That's why you've probably never heard of them.
Here's a song they did;
Television: The Drug of a Nation - Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy
^^^^ The song's pretty wack imo but my point is they were socio-political, more so than Biggie. But regardless of subject matter, or lack thereof, Biggie can rap circles around these guys and makes better music.
So whenever somebody says 2Pac had these socio-political songs that speak on the ills of society, consider that the Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy made socio-political music too but that doesn't make it any good.
The bottom line is; Who can rap the best? and when we're discussing Pac vs Big the undisputed fact is that Big's flow was better because of his mastery of cadence and wordplay.
yeah thats disagree on my end, pac had better delivery, more meaningful lyrics, better subject matter, and more emotion....biggie was just a typical rapper from new york, flow and lyrics are just on par with everyone else from that time
but the debate could go on forever, i just prefer having someone making music that has someone heart behind it and felt like they believed in it,
biggie was just rapping about the same stuff everyone else was, it's why his style is so much easier to copy off of
@ the bolded. That simply isn't true. Big was a storyteller and nobody could tell a story with the same detail and imagination. In addition to his storytelling abilities he had a sick cadence and delivery that made him the top MC in his era.
ehh storytelling is just a tiny piece of the puzzle, doesn't make someone the best of a era
everything your saying big is good at, nas is either better at it or right there
but pac is a better rapper than both
You keep saying Pac is a better rapper.
Pac isn't a better rapper. Biggie's wordplay was more flamboyant, his cadence was impeccable, his storytelling abilities were unmatched by anyone in his era. He made feel good party songs but he also created an alter-ego. Frank White, the drug dealer. There wasn't anybody in Hip Hop (or rap music) that could go into detail about selling drugs or being a drug dealer like Big.
Sure NWA, the Geto Boys and Above The law cursed a lot, but they didn't create alter egos. They didn't create a character that was the neighborhood drug dealer/kingpin. Big saw what NWA and them were doing and took it to the extreme. He even made a song called, "10 Crack Commandments".
There's certain literary techniques that English scholars use to discuss literature; double entendres, metaphors, similis, alliteration, anthropomorphism, hyperbole, cadence, etc.
^^^^^Big used those literary techniques in his rhyme schemes. You can actually take pieces of Biggie's rhymes and analyze them from a literary perspective. Sure you could do the same with Pac but Big used those literary techniques moreso than 2Pac.