Why You Tryin To Play Me - Aaron Hall feat Notorious BIG

[its....JOHN B]

I never heard this and I retired that duets album quick, he was blatantly trying to sound like Pac

 

[Lab Baby]

I heard this somewhere on a unreleased Biggie mixtape. I don't even remember the Missy version. This might've been the time he started hanging with Pac and smoothing his flow out for the singles, hence the Pac-esque flow. He had a similar flow on a lot of joints around that time (OG Runnin, his Ron G freestyle that ended up on Big L's Deadly Combination and the Ice Cube/Beans joint on Born Again, etc.). To me, it all culminated with Juicy, where he still sounded Pacish but he mastered his own rhyme structure to craft those kind of songs. The production definitely sounds 98ish, they must've reproduced it or Aaron prolly rewrote the song entirely, if it was even written in 93 in the first place. They did the same thing with the Sadat X joint off Born Again.

 

[5 Grand]

I heard this somewhere on a unreleased Biggie mixtape. I don't even remember the Missy version. This might've been the time he started hanging with Pac and smoothing his flow out for the singles, hence the Pac-esque flow. He had a similar flow on a lot of joints around that time (OG Runnin, his Ron G freestyle that ended up on Big L's Deadly Combination and the Ice Cube/Beans joint on Born Again, etc.). To me, it all culminated with Juicy, where he still sounded Pacish but he mastered his own rhyme structure to craft those kind of songs. The production definitely sounds 98ish, they must've reproduced it or Aaron prolly rewrote the song entirely, if it was even written in 93 in the first place. They did the same thing with the Sadat X joint off Born Again.

If you listen to Party & Bullshit, Real Love (Remix), Dead Wrong and some of his earlier stuff, Big used to yell. He didn't start smoothing his flow until around the time Big Poppa came out and by the time One More Chance/Stay With Me was released he had mastered the bounce cadence that he would later be known for on Life After Death and No Way Out.

 

[Built 4 cuban linx]

When he was yelling is when he used to write his lyrics down. When his delivery got smoother and actually worked with the beat is when he stopped writing his lyrics down and just started rapping from the head. Really doesn't have to do with Tupac

 

[270crownst]

This was on the dj vlad and dirty harry BIG rap phenomenon mixtape.i think the mixtape came out more then a decade ago..around 03.actually might be the best biggie mixtape of all time.. or mister see 10 year death anniversary BIG mixtape