German HipHop journalist Falk Schacht recently unearthed an interview Biggie gave to a Canadian magazined Called "Peace" in 1995. In this interview, Biggie is asked to rate his competition - which is already an interesting read itself. But the most controversial part is his rating of RA The Rugged Man - you know, the dude who constantly bragged about how he was "co-signed by Biggie" n shit? Well...seems like Biggie did not see it quite that way...Here's what he had to say about RA:
R.A. The Rugged One: The white boy??!! The one that I did the jam with??? That’s who you talkin’ about? Two…might be a three, I did the song, they paid me a lot of money, that’s why I did it. The beat was knockin’.
Here`s the rest of the rating-part of the interview:
Tupac: Pac get busy. People can’t take nothing from him. On the lyrics he get busy, straight up. That nigga got some hard shit dog for real, and it’s like the sad thing about it. When he started working on his new album he’s got now, Out on Bail, (retitled and released as Me Against The World) he had so many raw east coast producers and shit. The shit was sounding real tight ’cause everybody always says Pac had lyrics but his beats was back. He was up in New York when he was working on Above the Rim shit and he was working on his album at the same time. I put him on to Mo Bee. I put him on to L.G. He has Action, Special Ed’s DJ, he had some hard shit. (HE) went back to the west and just started getting back into that other ****.
Dr. Dre: Beats? Incredible!
Snoop Doggy Dogg: I like Snoop. I give him like an eight. I like his shit. I’m into fly pimp, straight flat shit. I don’t like no nigga that I have to decipher but some shit that I don dicipher I give a ten…Nas, I give Jeru a ten, I give ummmmm?….
Wu-Tang Clan/Method Man: Wu-Tang is hot! I like their shit. I love that shit. I like their shit because they have a real I don’t give a fuck attitude. ‘We in this game to blow thefuck up! We don’t give a fuck what happens. All of us is gonna do our thing and we just gonna do it.’ And they just did it. You can hear punches, you hear so much shit in that album you know damn these guys is not giving a fuck. At the beginning of CREAM, when that shit start!! Voila! Oh my God, this is some rushed shit but I dig it.
Outkast: I like them too…six…seven.
Cypress Hill: I used to like them. The first, shit, that first “How i can just kill a man” joint, I was liking that but that new age smoke out shit…fuck it!
Ice Cube: The old one or the new one? It’s not the same shit. It’s like nigga is changing too much for me and I can’t keep the love. I respect the nigga because I know back in the day he used to do his thing so I can’t dis him but the new shit right now is…
DJ Premier: Ain’t nobody perfect dog. Everybody got their little faults and shit but the only one I seen that’s been hitting hard with their shit is Premier. Every joint that he be putting out right now is just ridiculous, from Jeru’s shit, to the new group he got, the Group Home shit, to the shit he did with me. The shitis hard, yo! The beats is crazy.
Guru: I like Keith. Keith’s shit is hot.
The Roots: The Roots album. The Roots album is hot! On the strength, they rock the whole album for a whole hour. I was definetly in dibelief. I like the single, I really did but other people were like,. Single was hot but I wasn’t paying attention to the album at all.
KRS-One: Naahhh…I don’t like KRS no more ’cause he just think he’s too dope. He let his ego take over his shit and that’s what brings him down. When he was like that (shouts “Blow it to yourself”), when he was like that, then he was a ten but now, ‘I am Hip Hop’!!! Eat a dick nigga. Eat a muthaphukkin dick!
Redman: The new Redman!?! Seven. I can’t diss him cause I know he got skills. He get busy on the lyrics but I can’t feel his new shit, his new cosmic crazy shit. I’m used to the clean cut blowout fly nigga. When I met the nigga he was a fly nigga, you know what I’m sayin’, now he on some different shit I really don’t like when a rapper come out and they blow up the way they are and they come out again on some changed up shit. To me, that’s like getting some good coke from poppy and then getting some money and then be like,’fuck that! I’m getting some more 45ths, some brown shit and then bag that up.’ Why would you change your plan? That’s what he did to me.
Easy-E: I like Easy-E. Easy-E is a real ill nigga. He’s sharp as a tack on top but rhymin’ even he knows. He took a group from the hood and just put them on and two million. Bing! He know how to do that shit. Same thing with Luke and all the rest of them niggas. Man, I just think they take another turn. I can let you hear some Easy-E shit on some old NWA shit and niggas would think Easy was nice, you know what I’m saying, so he know. hood, staight up!
Warren G: That’s my man. nigga came to Brooklyn, he came to check me. He just came to hood and shit, pulled up in a little Crysler, jumped out and Warren G was on the ave. drinking Crazyhorse and shit, you know what I’m saying”cause I ain’t gonna lie, I ain’t going to his
Coolio: I like that new joint, “Mama I’m In love with a Gangsta”. I like that joint. I just like them hard niggas, them niggas that just be leveled out.
