People don't realize the Ice Cube was a teenage phenom. He was still a teenager when he wrote on We Want Eazy album and Straight Outta Compton.

I'm a east coaster who LOVED Biggie's music but I must admit, Cube dropped his very first album and I played that shit til the tape popped. We forgot how impactful Cube was. He truly did mold the West coast. He is the FIRST pioneer of the West. Easy Died, and Dre isn't a rapper. It's Cube. He's right

Ice Cube influenced every rapper (east and west coast) in the 90's, including Biggie

Most people forget, at one point of time Cube was the greatest rapper out. At one point in time there was no rapper bigger than ice cube. People forget that.

I agree. Cube deserves more respect and recognition.

Facts, Cube was incredible at his peak. That peak lasted years as well. Very underrated due to time passing and things changing. But some of us were def there.

Honestly i have to agree with Big Gip. I love both artist but Ice Cube body of work stretches far. It just the fact Biggie had great music but his career was taken away early . Ice Cube stood the test of time and his songs was not radio friendly but he had great political messages in his gangsta music. Ice Cube has always try to put you on game and he has always been woke since a teenager. I love them both. R.I.P. Biggie

This Man here needs to have a #1 platform for us all to constantly learn HipHop/Rap history information from. Like a podcast or something 💯 Protect This Man At All Costs

No one could fade 88-93 Angry Cube!!! NO ONE!!!

Gotta love Gipp for his honesty. This King always keeps it a buck and stands on it...10 toes down...respect 💯

I was born in 98 but I always argue with my elders that we put biggie on such a pedestal because of the potential he had unfortunately he died at such a young age but I agree he does not have the catalogue of ice cube and ice cube‘s first album is straight flames from speaking for a political standpoint and pure lyricism

I approve of this MESSAGE!! I heard no LIES!! Gipp was on POINT! ✊🏾

Bringing Gipp back was a great move 💯

big gipp telling the truth

This man is absolutely correct 💯💯💯💯💯

That NY bias be crazy!

He 💯 right this disrespect of cube is insane

Agreed completely and totally. Big Gip always keeps it a buck without any biases💯

Ice Cube is a west coast legend! Much respect from Toronto! RIP BIG

I totally agree with Gipp! Cube changed the game and Biggie didn't change anything around the world. But him over Ice Cube, is hating and ridiculous

This man is a national treasure!!

andre 3000 doesnt even have one solo album and this dude all up on his nuts

I said it once and I say it again.... Ice Cube 💯💪🏾

Gipp speaking facts. I'm old enough to remember the time. Biggie was dope, but the moment he died they tried to elevate him to God status, and that was mainly because New York was jealous that Tupac had achieved God status so quickly after his death

Life after death went Diamond 💎 shit iconic homie

Ice Cube is A top five rapper of all time, I know people gone get at me, but He was that guy, He was the head writer for NWA, and they got classic albums. Secondly he leaves NWA and creates multiple classic albums. He was talking that gangsta rebellious $hit back in the day. People either forget or don’t know how skilled Ice Cube was. He’s a different animal.

I think most, including Big Gipp, are missing the actual question. They’re asking who is the greater RAPPER. Not better Artist, not better lyricist, not better career. Biggie is the better rapper. His style of spitting was so melodic and flowed with the music almost like a singer. His inflections, his accentuations, his tonation. Then he showed when he rapped with BTNH that he could switch styles but so keep his signature on it. Big is the better rapper. And for context I’ll put it like this Rihanna has a better career, more hits, and is a bigger star than Jazzmine Sullivan but Jazzmine is the better singer. We confuse sales with talent. Personally, I don’t really care about hits I care about actual talent. I love Gipp but he totally missed the question lol

Big lived long enough. He just didn’t put in as much work to leave us with years of content like others that passed around the same age.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. That being said ice cube raised me 😁

Absolutely. People should be able to distinguish between socially conscious content and street gangsta content. It's the same with Pac and Big comparison. Tupac will always win because he had political and social content, while Big, though talented, was not socially conscious. Ice Cube is closer to Pac than Big is so similarly, you can't compare Ice Cube with Biggie.

Brooklyn keeps on taking it Biggie is a better rapper His formula was and is phenomenal

This is 100% truth! I often feel that Biggie (RIP) gets overrated is 1) his unfortunate, untimely death and 2) media hype. Same with Tupac (RIP). Neither were the greatest MCs of that era.

Big Gipp is a treasure and must be protected at all costs. The South got something to say!🖤👑

I agree with Gipp 100%

fun fact, every ice cube album from 1988-2006 with group projects included (nwa/westside connection) has been certified atleast gold. not to mention singles and movies. big had two albums and one group project, it aint even close, plus cube founded mack 10 and produced a lot of his work

Gipp aint telling 1 lie. Cube's 1st solo was Hands down Classic when it dropped. If you wasn't around you just don't know the impact that album had.

No lies told, if you know you know. Sad part is that we never got to see the full potential of Big with such a limited body of work. He was getting better & better, I mean the growth from Ready To Die to Life After Death was insane...lyrics, production, finding his vocal pocket (pre-album & Ready To Die he was still yelling into the mic giving him a different vocal sound), could collab with any MC & never get outshined, etc. But Cube's body of work is a different monster & his body of work speaks for itself, Cube literally check's all boxes you would want from a MC. They both share a lot of parallel's, being the pen's behind group's/rappers (Cube..NWA, Eazy E..etc./Big..Lil Kim, Puffy, Jr Mafia..etc), both having classic album's (both also have a Source 5 Mic album which is still credible to a lot of fans), both have timeless songs, both were clear cut icons of their coasts...the list goes on. Can Big outrap Ice Cube? He probably could but when we talking about ranking the whole body of work has to be considered. I mean Big L could outrap a lot of the great's, but I wouldn't put him in front of LL Cool J on a ranking system.

Ice cube nwa ,straight outta Compton,amerikka most wanted,kill at will,Death certificate,predator lethal injection,in a row classics,enough said.

I like Gipp interviews, but he is arguing 2 different things. He's talking greater and bigger vs better. At their peaks as rapper, I'm okay if you say Big was better. Plus with the reasons he uses for Cube being better, he better just say Jay is better than 3000 with those reasons. Just saying

Been saying this for years glad I got someone to agree wit me

I agree 💯 Biggie only had two albums to compare him to any rapper but I loved both of his albums and I'm from the south

“You can be the best at rapping about drugs, but that dont make you better than kendrick lamar who can rap about life” Thank you gipp!!! Thing i dont like about the hiphop audience is ppl act like we have to all agree on whos the best but art is subjective. What one rapper does for you might not do it for me

I think when we rate rappers its mostly subjective because we rate with a bias based according to the region we grew up in and also how we personally relate to the artist. So if some feel Cube is better or more relatable, I am fine with that. Cube was an incredible artist. With the above noted. We can't count NWA because that was just verses here and there by Cube, not whole songs. We must weigh Kill At Will EP, America's Most Wanted LP, Death Certificate LP, Predator LP... Biggie made Ready To Die, Life After Death, and Born Again. Life After Death was a double CD which stretches the catalog to 4 albums instead of just 3, in terms of song output. If we count NWA albums and West Side Connection then we have to add the array of songs Biggie was featured on and I'm sure they will add up to the number of songs Cube had on the group albums because Biggie had hella features. Plus he wrote for Lil Kim, Lil Ceas, Junior Mafia, Puff Daddy... So when we measure it this way Biggie does compare to Ice Cube body of work. Biggie did songs with The Lox, Mase, Puffy, Mary J Blige, Craig Mack, tracy Lee, Heavy D, Dabrat, Jay Z, Supa Cat, Lil Kim, Shaq... Biggie rhymed at an elite level amongst some of the best and his delivery was A1 as well as hus storytelling abilities. The only edge Cube may have over Biggie is the conscious aspect of his songs. Cube had the ability to do both gangsta as well as conscious. But other than that, its not fair to say there is no comparison whatsoever. Bith have heavy influence from coast to coast. Both were ghost writers, both put groups together and both had their moment at the top of the game of Rap... Lets not act as though Common Sense didnt beat Cube in a battle and make multiple classic albums like Cube did. If Common Sense ranks with Cube then certainly Biggie does as well.

Anyone who questions the greatness of Ice Cube, do yourself a favor and go back and listen to..The Nigga You Love To Hate, When Will They Shoot, Who Got The Camera, True to the Game, Wicked, Gangster Gangster, and You Know How We Do It just to name a few and then holler back at me. FYI- I’m from New York City and Big Gipp is 💯 all day! 👊🏽👍🏽

Big Gipp speaking facts. I agree with him.

That was a pretty compelling case. Ice Cube was my first favorite rapper. But then came Pac. Biggie definitely stood on Cube's shoulders when it comes to story telling. "Ghetto Vet" and "Today was a good day" can go up against anything Biggie put out.

If Biggie was alive he’d still be killing it. Ice cube was def first but Biggie over passed them in the end, and just in a short time

I agree with Big Gipp! He's 100% right. I remember when Ice Cube released Kill At Will!

Let Big and Pac rest in peace man. Them 2 ones I just can't put nobody ahead. Rap basically stopped for a while when them 2 dudes died man.

Big Cube fan from day one. Gipp didn't lie 110%

Puff gave the cat yall call biggie a dude named B1 whole persona that nigga was a character

Ice Cube hands down

I definitely agree with big gipp

I usually don't agree with this guy but he's speaking the truth like how can you just discredit Cubes entire catalog to 2 albums. Biggie is nice no question but what he made so far musically wasn't enough to say he was better. Biggies career was unfortunately just cut short and that's why hip-hop still mentions him because fans know what he was capable of.

This is really about where you lived. Biggie was that dude. And to be revered the way he is after 2 albums is amazing. Biggie wrote for others too and they blew up. Biggies skill is better that Cubes, but Cube was able to accomplish more.

EPIC! This was simply EPIC! Salute to GIPP for keeping it all the way 💯

WE NEED MORE GIPP INTERVIEWS

I'm from NYC and not mad at anyone who has Cube over BIG. Only thing I say is yea BIG Only had 2 albums, but those are two haymakers. But Cube run is undeniable

Salute to #BigGipp for always Repping The Real. As a born and raised New Yorker and Hip Hop lover. I also know #IceCube was a better rapper and lyricists than Biggie. I like Biggie music too, but as 👑 Gipp just said. It took Biggie first album a minute to pop. Why is that? 🤔🤔🤔

I OWN an Ice Cube album. I DO NOT own a Biggie album🤷🏽‍♀️ My brother bought the Biggie album and after hearing it many times I didn’t feel motivated TO OWN IT🤷🏽‍♀️💯… let’s be honest ICE CUBE is in HIS FOURTH DECADE IN HIP HOP💯 NOBODY besides Too Short, Scarface, IceT & LL Cool J has sustained a musical career SINCE THE 1980s in Hip Hop🤷🏽‍♀️

Preach my brother - Cube crush the game especially with his first two solo albums and is rap content was way superior.

How is Biggie in the same conversation with cube, smh?

I agree with Gipp. But the east coast is still feeling some type of way because the Westside Connection came out and openly said fuck the East Coast basically. Because of the same shit Tony yayo is on. Biasness. 💯FACTS💯

We gotta stop rating everyone and everything! Both were very very dope!

Ice Cube storytelling is on a whole another level Biggie was a great storyteller too but his catalog is small compared to Cube

Ready to Die shipped 57,000 units in its first week of release.[20] However, it was then certified Gold by the RIAA only two months after its release on November 15, 1994. on October 16, 1995, only a year and one month after its release the album was certified double Platinum.[

Biggie no doubt

what is he talking about. Ready to die took off immediately and was bigger than Ice Cube first album sales and hit-wise.

Cube started this gangsta shit!

I believe that gipp is biased against eastcoast rappers, specifically Ny rappers.

haha he puts up a good argument but Biggies 2 albums crush Cubes

If both Cube and Biggie had only released their first 2 albums… Cube hands down all day! To me personally Death Certificate is like the West Coast’s Illmatic.

Im a fan of both Cube and Biggie. But for the short time Big was here he did alot. He wrote for Puff, Lil Kim, Lil Cease and the whole Junior Mafia. Let alone even having to write his own lyrics. And most Big music came off the dome. Big was special bit yes his legacy was short lived.

One of my favorite cube story raps is laugh now, cry later off of the album of the same name. Check it out if you've never heard it. I also think people are missing or ignoring one of Gipp's main points: Versatility. To some hip hop fans being the person who can/does rap about more subjects well means more than wordplay.

I totally agree with Gipp💯

Gipp cool but he tripping just because someone lived longer doesn’t mean that person is better. The fact Biggies first album started off bad and then became a classic says a lot

Cube a social commentator biggie a street storyteller. No fucking comparison there Both kings of di game

Im so glad you got Big Gipp. He so great to listen to, first clip makes me wanting more. Nice Work!

And to think… ppl laugh at me when Ive had Cube in my Top 5 for years. Ppl don’t wanna give Cube props because he started making wholesome non-gangsta entertainment. But that just goes to show how deep his pen goes. From hood to Hollywood. You can’t compare that to a man who died at the height of the BEGINNING of his success.

Biggie 2 Albums are classic.....hard to make 1 classic yet alone 2

I'm not mad at him saying cube is better. But dude be hating on NY way to much. Atlanta dnt even fck wit his music like thst no more. NY still play BIG. He need to stfu frfr😊

This man spoke nuthin but facts . Gave a good overall view wit details.

Imo drink champs has and agenda too hate on pac and the west coast

Gipp said it perfectly…not to mention the Storytelling!!! “Once Upon Time in the Projects” to “Friday” …Cube Pen wicked

Everyone has their own personally opinion. Lyrically I think Biggie is better. Just because I like someone don't mean you have to like that person.

Facts and I rock with bigs campaign but ice cube been that dude and in the early 90s he was that dude I salute Gipp for his honesty and not being bias

"the 👑 died with B.I.G." -Styles P

I concur. Biggie left a short but great legacy. But Cube is still somewhat still laying his legacy down which exceeds just rap. And people need to stop ranking. It's ridiculous when we already know.

gipp really used the BIASED, like he don't hate all nyc artist

You're right. And, let's not start counting Fridays. People don't know their roots.

The Art gives no pushback whatsoever when mfers say shit. A great interviewer doesn't just ask questions and accept the answer. Hate or love Vlad but he doesn't allow his guests to say anything on his platform without challenging it if it doesn't make sense. Your credibility doesn't come strictly off who you interview and what you ask them. The validity of the information disseminated on your platform is what makes it credible. Had GIPP simply said he thinks Cube is better it can be chalked up as just his OPINION. But when he went into it with factors that led to his opinion it becomes debatable. Especially when he's been quoted saying the exact opposite in relation to Hov and Pac. An interview is a conversation. If you aren't gonna question anything he's saying you could have written the questions down and let him answer em on paper then read em to us.

Gipp please come to New York City.. we waiting for u country boy.. You on New York City nuts

I’m 29 year old New Yorker and I grew up on cube and biggie and even I agreee .. ice cube is greater … his catalog is crazy

I totally agree. Cube killed it from the gate. Ya'll know those NY folks want one of their own to be own top, I'm glad someone is saying this out loud.

Im a firm believer in quality over quantity if Biggie wasn't killed who knows what he could have accomplished

Ice Cube wrote Boyz in the hood and started this gangster $hit And this the thanks he gets

I put LL over Biggie as well!

I’m not going to debate who was better I love both biggie and ice cube both had talent as an artist. Biggie was more lyrical and cube was like a narrator telling you what’s going on in the hood. I love both. My favorite biggie story telling song was somebody gotta die, that song was like biggie was writing a scene in a script for a movie one of the best story telling songs I’ve heard.

Ice Cube also had a hand in YoYo's career and her first album "Make Way For The Motherlode" is a hip-hop classic!

You can tell Big Gipp is very intelligent It takes a cat as such to see the many different ways how someone can impact a industry Of course Ice Cube is