Song of the Week: Big Pun
I really don’t need to say too much about the man this Song of the Week is dedicated to. Big Pun’s birthday was this Monday (Nov. 9th) and it’s time to pay homage. As one of the nicest, Big Pun needs to be in your conversation of one of the best MC’s of all time. Here’s just a small sampling of why. R.I.P. Big Punisher.
Download: Noreaga feat. Big Pun, Nature, Cam’ron, Jadakiss, & Styles P – “Banned From TV”
Album: N.O.R.E. (1998)
Lyric: “Ay yo I hold niggas ransom for money/Like johhny handsome/Been sonning niggas for so long/I think I got a grandson/My passion is money, a stash and a honey/That won’t ask questions but will blast anybody”
Download: Fat Joe feat. Big Pun, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Nas, & Raekwon – “John Blaze”
Album: Don Cartagena (1998)
Lyric: “I hate a actor that plays a rapper/I’m Terror Squad beta kappa everybody’s favorite rapper/Grand imperial college material insane criminal/The same nigga who known to blow out your brain mineral/I reign subliminal inside your visual/Try to supply your physical with my spiritual side of this lyrical/I’ll appear in your dreams, like Freddie do, no kidding you/Even if I stuttered I would still sh-sh-sh-shit on you”
Download: Big Pun feat. Fat Joe – “Twinz (Deep Cover ‘98)”
Album: Capital Punishment (1998)
Lyric: “Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know/That we riddled some middleman who didn’t do diddily”
Bouns: Joell Ortiz – “Happy Birthday Pun”
Joell Ortiz pays respect to one BX’s finests
Niggas sleeping on Pun.
Yeah, niggas are sleepin so much on Pun. Pun should be in anyones top 5. He should be at least as famous as Biggie and Tupac. Duke was an amazing lyricist/rapper. He had the best flow ever combined with the best wordplay/lyrics ever. He was a total package. Im not even Rican saying that he was THE NICEST EVER!! as he said in Leatherface.
R.I.P The true goat and if he was alive to put more albums like CP he would be on the top of the world. The MJ OF RAP!
That Multi from Twinz still is crazy to me…
Punisher was definitely nice on the mic. Its crazy that he been dead for 9 years now, I remember like it was yesterday hearing the news and reading the source.
“It’s J-O-E Double what i’ll never take/whoever thinks they can give me my first then set a date/i’ll be there like a young mike jack/hip hop prayed and God gave Pun right back”
Joell STAY paying his respects to PUN!
THAT’S the line that made me a Joell Ortiz fan.
i can say ive deffinitely been sleeping on dude… where do i start with this guy ? what albums ya’ll fave and shit?
He only had 2 albums…Capital Punishment, and Yeahh Baby!
Start from there…