Basically Big L and Nas are contemporaries - bubbling in '91-'92 and really emerging/releasing songs and albums '93-'95. When did Nas first see/hear Big L? The reason I'm asking is this has a vibe and L's lyric patterns sound a lot like Nas's "One Time 4 Ya Mind" from a few yrs after this, thinking that Nas took some of that vibe from here and similar Big L cameos? Or was L influenced by Nas at all? the iconic verse from Live at the BBQ was 1991. Later L added the little doubletime patterns that Jay-Z was also using that was in the air from diverse sources - G-Rap, Kane, even Fu-Schnickens and Das-Efx, but here he sounds more like Nas's more straightfoward multsyllabic style

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Listening at 1.25x speed 🔥🔥🔥

Who's still banging this in 2024?

Funny thing is I never hear what's-his-name talking about Big l Jim Jones and he's from Lenox Ave 2 I remember hearing Big l and hearing about him in Detroit here you know mixtapes would come through and I don't remember if it was on I think it was on a CD not on a tape and it was underground cuz he wasn't signed yet I used to get a lot of people that would bring me shit that we're all underground artists Detroit in New York and hurt 50 cent a lot of his shit before he became big I'm surprised 50 cent never talks about him either because 50 cent was going hard in 96 but I don't definitely think that 50 cent could wrap like this this man melts over the beat 50 cent does make good songs and lyrics but this guy flows over the beat like natural like the words just don't stop ending like he's got a vocabulary rate in his head he'll never run out of words that's a hell of an MC rest in peace to big l

June 2024

I'm an L fan....but low key Lord Finesse ate this shit up

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Big L the Greatest to ever touch the Mic ...

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Love the intro! Feel chills! Motivating the workout today🔥🔥🔥

When you have a song from back in the day pop in ya head, then you gotta send it to someone else in hopes it uplifts them

HOW MUCH MORE CAN A SPONGE OBSORB FROM A YOUNGIN ENDURE GROWING PAINS CAN'T TAKE IT NO MORE PASS ME THE T-PAIN EACH DAY GETTING CLOSER EACH LANE CLOSING SAYING MAR STUCK NAH I NEED CLOSURE DIPPING CIGGS SKINNY DIPPING GIVE A FUCK IF I'M SKITZIN LAST NERVE LAST STRING DAMN SHAME WHOEVER GETS HIT BLADE TUCK HOMEWORK OPPS MAJOR LEARNED HELLA ABOUT Y'ALL GOT NOTHING ON A NIGG@ KEEP FRONTING ON SOME REAL ISH Y'ALL KNOW THE DEAL WITH MAKE Y'ALL FEEL THESE YEARS HOW I'VE BEEN FEELING STOMACH IN KNOTS MAR SOMEONE Y'ALL NOT SEND A SUMMONS OF PLOTS FREEZING SUMMERS WITH SHOTS RUN UP GUN EM DOWN STOMACH STAPLES OR ROT WHAT'S UP WHAT WAS SAID SO WHAT TAKE IT HOW YOU WANT ACTING TUFF GET YOUR SCENE CUT SHORT TOOK A L FROM DOUGHBOY DOUBLE BARREL SHELLS A BLOCK FROM THE CORNER STORE GET LOANED FOR WHAT WAS BARGAINED FOR GET LOW PULL UP WHAT UP WHAT'S ALL THE BARKING FOR DRIVE IT STRAIGHT TO HIS FACE OPENING LIKE A GARAGE DOOR HOLLOWS DUMPING CAN'T TELL IF IT'S A MIRAGE OR GOD COMING WAR GOING ON OUTDOORS MAKE IT RIGHT WHERE YOU LIVE BACKYARD FRONT DOOR AT NIGHT WITH THE WIZ HIGHER SOURCE FORGIVE TURN A CHEEK FORGIVE DON'T FORGET PAYBACK'S A MOTHER FCKA SON OF A BITCH BEEN IN BRAWLS WE ALL NO WHO DID WHO DIDN'T TRYING TO CLAIM GANG KNOWING YOU AIN'T BUILT FOR IT QUILT NEVER WAS WELL KNIT TRYNA CAN'T HELP IT SET WELL WITH MOMMA STAY STRONG WE ALL FELT IT HELP SHIT FAM LEFT US HANGING HELPLESS RATHER SEE ME BEGGING PLEADING ARM'S REACH HELP WITH REACHING FOR A REASON OVER TWAT THEN AGAIN HOW COULD I NOT EXPECT IT FROM THE PORCH NO EXCEPTIONS FROM HERE ON IT'S GREEN LIGHT BOUT TIME I SHOW YOU Y'ALL HOW TO GRIEVE LIFE MINES FOR THE TAKING SON OF GREED WATCH EM BLEED NO LONGER NEEDED WHERE Y'ALL GOING GENERATIONAL INHERITANCE INHERITED HERE IT IS FROM HERE ON IN HOW WERE DEALING WITH IT

Robert Anderson Locked Up forever in Illinois He believes in MOBB DEEP . Shit Wright him Real MOBB Deep ninja Wright him because he a real Familia Stone believe in MOB Deep music

Get my package?

Эйприл 2024

Baaawww,look!! I ain't got nothin' to say.👑💐🎤

Bro was getting slowly better as he grew older 😭 fuccckkk why did he have to die

...Real Hiphop!🎉

Remember first hearing this on the Doo Wop mixtape, everything on that tape crazy.

2024 we here song better than majority of the songs that dropped in the last 5 years

Bottom line MOBB DEEP forever.

Straight fucking 🔥👏 . . . D.I.T.C. 4EVER! 💯 Big L seriously BODIED this. ☠️ Amazing. 👍👍👍

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Those who sling, play the shadow by the building devil springs kept em going while the snow blowing 🎙️ 🥶🔥🔥🔥

Greatest raper!!!! Holy RIP <3

Pumping with a first-heard notes... It is da REAL RAP!!

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Two of my favorite rappers. 2pac Nas Cassidy Jada Nip East

Its a crime at how underrated L is. He deserves more fans especially for this song

Girl From Moscow ITALY MICHiGAN 💮

I sold my first bundle of crack. 😂

Still listening and 2024 down south 239

2023? 2 days till 2024

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One of L's hardest verses.

It's funny and ironic how little mobb deep is. They rap like they 8 ft tall. I used to be exponentially frightened of them and 95 when I was 13 lol. Didn't even know they were probably the same height as me lollll

85 South brung me here 💯

Cass is what Big L could have been 🔥

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Yo p nice his flow stupid

This track sucks you into Murda Muzik! Classic Mobb Deep! Rip prodigy you are missed!

The whole album is great ! From the intro to the bonus track ! Dope beats , deep lines and great features ! ❤

Hard.

They should’ve put this in San Andreas hopefully gta 6

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Did cease write that verse?

What a verse of lil cease!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Love Family ❤ God Bless us all and God have mercy on us all. I ask for forgiveness for every done that I don’t even no about . I ask for forgiveness for the pain I feel for the group home cps kids single mothers fatherless friends of mine. I love my brothers and sisters. What’s mine is there’s. ❤

“Same niggas that get down, remember them. California style, yeah I went back again. But much wiser”. Get Down reference. “Now I’m back around the old school that raised me, NY gangstas, we lounging, out in LA see”, Nas one of the few that can do this with ease.