![]() Because the media likes to portray events suck as this one (young African-American men doing battle with one another) as a "cautionary tale". Because Tupac Shakur was a larger-than-life character (if not a very good rapper). Truth be told, Biggie Smalls only got the amount of press that he did while he was alive thanks to the unfortunate East Coast/West Coast rivalry that he found himself entangled with. You release your first album, hope it sells okay, learn from your errors, grow as a musician, and steadily improve throughout your entire career. His first album, Ready To Die, was riddled with freshman mistakes (although it is still pretty good overall), but that's okay. ![]() (And this is coming from a Biggie fan, one that always, without exception, chooses Biggie over 2 Pac.) It isn't feasible that Biggie Smalls got everything right his first time out of the starting gate. How is it possible that Biggie is that great, that he did more with his debut album than rappers that have been plugging away since 1979? It isn't. ![]() Biggie Smalls is generally considered to be one of the finest rappers ever carved from the oak tree of hip hop, and he only released one fucking album in his lifetime. The Notorious B.I.G., birth name Christopher Wallace, only released one album in his lifetime.
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