Seven Years Ago We Lost A Rap King In The Making

Lyrically no one can touch this man. Still to this day no one can rhyme like him and couldn't hold a candle to his lyrically precise catalog. He made an impression on me not because he was a fellow South Bronx Puerto Rican, but his ability to surpass the mundane format of rap/hip-hop was at the time (even today).

Of course he would rap about Money, Women, Sex, Flossin' and that thug shit, but just like 2Pac his rhymes were laced to address real world issues; taking jabs at political, racial and the class system that we still seem to be stuck in today. What was the best that he was able to put through his songs is to not get stuck with same same lingo that is regurgitated in the streets then on songs or vice versa; I believe he made it acceptable to talk normally and expand your vocabulary while not always resorting to "street slang" even when you're just chillin on the block.

In an interview with a few people in his crew they were surprised to always catch him reading the dictionary then they hear his rhymes and just stand amazed and have to run and look up what the hell he said and what it means.

Its just a sad fact that when some of the past heavyweights in the rap game are mentioned that he's left out 90% of the time.

As for my favorite songs right now (among many): Capital Punishment Ft. Prospect; Western Ways Ft. JuJu from the Beatnuts; Whatcha Gon Do?; Brave In The Heart & Where You At?.