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Jadakiss Speaks On Loyalty

 The street DVD series The Come Up is still churning out volumes, and in their upcoming latest one Jada speaks on a certain Young Money artist and the the ideal of allegiance.

Jay z & Kanye West - N*ggas in Paris

I would have preferred a visual of Jay and ‘Ye fucking around in France instead of footage from their Staples Center show

Fuck it.

This Video was Better….

Dominis in the Heights

Shoutouts to @juanbago & @O4R3AL

Rick Ross - “Yella Diamonds”

SAIGON - Down This Road ft DJ Corbett

Pipecity: Omahyra Mota

I GOT A RING……

NYG’z!! 

RIP Christopher Lee Rios (November 10, 1971 - February 7, 2000)

it just wouldn’t be right if today passed without recognizing one of the greats of the past. Big Moon Dog in his prime was that rare breed of “upper echelon MC” who had the ability to battle rap and make good songs and make a good album and while his way-too-short legacy will forever cast doubt over his “Top *insert number*” status, you can’ tell me that Capital Punishment wasn’t along the same lines of Illmatic/Ready To Die classic status. Enjoy some of his greatest moments.

• (Name)-Christopher Rios
• (Alias)-Big Pun, Big Moon Dawg
• (Height)-5′ 5/5′ 6
• (Weight)-400lbs+
• (Alter Ego)-Frank Castle (The Punisher)
• (Ethnicity)-Puerto Rican
• (Place of Origin)-The Bronx, N.Y.C
• (Label)-RCA, Loud Records, Terror Squad
• (Terror Squad Members)-Fat Joe, Remy Martin, Prospect, Armmagedon, Triple Seis, Cuban Link, Tony Sunshine. (Full. a Clips-Cuban Link, Triple Seis, Prospect)
• (Albums)-Capital Punishment (3x Platinum), Yeeaahh Baby! (Platinum), Endangered Species (Gold), Terror Squad Album (Platinum) (Smash Hit, “Still Not a Player” Feat Joe, “It’s So Hard” Feat Donell Jones)
• (Accolades)-First Latino Rapper to get Nominated for a Grammy. First Latino Rapper to Go Platinum. Founded Rem y Martin. Joins The Notorious B.I.G, 2Pac, Nas, Jay-Z, Rakim, Big L & Others as one of the best MC’s & Lyricists of all Time. Arguably to Most, Top 5 Dead Or Alive. Will be Considered o ne of the Greatest of All Time. Due To his unexpected Death, Big Pun didn’t get to fully fullfill hi s dreams, and reach his all time high. His career propelled him into commercial and underground success and pushed the notion to the. side that Fat, Unacttractive, Latino Rappers aside from B.I.G can be Loved by Hip Hop and By people outside of Hip Hop alike. He influenced and Inspired a New Generation. A Generation that now Believes Impossible is Possible. A Generation that beleaves no matter how you look or sound you can still be unique and be able to create your own Lane.

• (Quotes)

“…Im the King of the Hip Hop Quotables…”

“…Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn’t do diddily.”.

“..Fuck all ya Non-Believers, I Roll with God The Squad and T.S, Out with the B.S WE PLATINUM They Even Doubted Jesus, Niggas is 85% I’m 400 Solid Brain Brolic With Knowledge Cock Diesel Scholars, Holdin it Down Walkin around with Gold by The Pound, Frozen and Drown with Diamond Boulders Holdin’ The Crown, Talk of The Town Sobberin You Down Toast Till You Drown , Ghost You and Put down Your Corpse With the Fork that Opens the Ground…”

“…I Rep the Borough That Mother This Rap Shyt…”

“…I’m Swift with the Mack, Quicker than Kung-Fu, With the Reflexes of a Cat and the Speed of a Mongoose…”

WikiPedia Big Pun

Years ago, we lost Big Pun , a legendary lyricist who changed the game with his furious flow. In tribute, we examine his jump-off– Capital Punishment , the classic LP that proved Latin MCs could rhyme and go platinum.
The first Latin rapper to baffle your skull came and went quickly in rap. His impact, though, has far exceeded his time in the game. When it seemed like Latin Americans had been permanently excised from the rap world, Christopher “Big Punisher” Rios arrived with a lightning-quick liquid flow, a waistline worthy of two linebackers and a sense of humor to match–instantly making him one of hip-hop’s most charismatic figures.
The recording of his debut, Capital Punishment , was a model of efficiency. Laid down mostly at Mystic Recording Studios in Staten Island in late 1997 and early 1998, it is a famously coherent album. “I think there were only two or three extra songs,” recalls Pun’s mentor Fat Joe. “Every joint he was making was better than everything that was out, so how could we take it off the album?”
Released on April 28, 1998, Capital Punishment went platinum in under three months on the strength of “Still Not A Player,” the thug-soul remix (featuring R&B singer Joe) of the album cut “I’m Not A Player.” Ironically, the song is an anomaly on Capital Punishment , four minutes of round-the-way seduction trapped in the middle of a fusillade of battle-ready rhymes. Still, it worked. Coming from Pun, the drippy, romantic come-ons were wild and hilarious.
In addition to appearances by Fat Joe and the Terror Squad, the album also featured guest shots from the likes of Wyclef Jean, Noreaga, Busta Rhymes, Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck, Mobb Deep’s Prodigy and Black Thought of The Roots. Sure, it’s a Latin rap classic–it was the first album by a Latin rapper to go platinum–a Bronx classic, a New York classic. But mostly, Capital Punishment is a hip-hop classic, an example of how a talent for twisting words can elevate even the most unlikely person to legendary status.
On February 7, 2000–less than two years after the album hit stores–the 28-year-old Big Pun died of a heart attack, a result of the weight-related problems he’d suffered throughout his 20s. Capital Punishment , though, remains an indelible document of a life cut short. On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of Pun’s passing, XXL spoke with the people responsible for making the album as vital as it was, and still is.

Still Not A Player
Produced by Knobody, Coproduced by Dahoud and Nomad, Featuring Joe 
Nomad: Knobody let me hear the beat and he’s like, “I’m putting these shits in it.” He’s like, “I’ve got some new shit that ain’t nobody do yet. Watch everybody going to start biting.” So when he put the little clickers in that shit, nobody had really did that. And he used that as a hi-hat.
I went to everybody. I went to Roc-A-Fella, Jay was like, “That beat’s aight.” I went back there after the shit dropped and he was like, “Yo, why you ain’t give me that beat?” Everybody and their mother, I went and seen them with that beat.
But Pun was like, “Yo, that’s hot, run with that.” He knew. He was just like, “Oh, shit. I’ma talk about girls, this and that.” He was like, “I’m going to make this the flyest pimp Puerto Rican song.” I was just like, Okay, whatever man, do your thing. He was just ill, man. To see him rhyme, like double-time. I mean that’s the first Spanish cat I’ve ever seen kill it like that. “Da Da Da Da Da Da, Da Da Da Da Da Da Da, Da Da Da Da Da Da Da.” He wouldn’t take no breaths, just keep spitting, spitting, spitting, spitting.
Soundboy: As an instrumental, I knew, Wow, we got a grand slam here. Before any lyrics or any choruses were done, I think me and Pun knew we had something special. It wasn’t your typical boom-boom-bap beat. It wasn’t your typical hardcore, gloomy dark beat. It was kind of a happy, lighthearted beat, and I was very anxious to see what Pun would do to it. Pun was very versatile. He could do a song like “Super Lyrical,” which is basically about lyrics, and he could do a song like “Deep Cover,” which is a hardcore thugged-out joint. And then he could do a song like “Still Not A Player,” which is kind of a comical song–but still keep it within the boundaries of hip-hop, still keeping within the boundaries of thugness, I guess, if you want to call it that. It’s not like he came off weak or soft. Even though the beat might have dictated that, he still did his thing on it.
I’ve got to admit, I was somewhat apprehensive when Joe the singer came down. ‘Cause I was like, “Joe and Pun? Damn .” It’s like Black and White. Extremes. Hardcore MC teamed up with, how can I say, a ladies’ man type of guy–smooth, silky finesse dude. At first I was like, “I don’t know if this is going to work. This is like, too extreme.” This is way before the J. Los and the Ja Rules and what have you. I didn’t know if it was going to work.
On the “Boricua/Morena” part, Joe, an Afro-American, was having problems saying the word “Boricua.” [Joe was like] “Borick-qua… Bor-qua… Borequay…” I remember Pun was basically telling Joe to say it the right way: “No, Bo- ree -qua.” So when he finally got it, we was like, “Okay, it’s a wrap.” And we just knew we had a monster on our hands.
Joe: Pun came to me with the idea to merge the two songs together–my original song, “Don’t Wanna Be A Player,” and his “Still Not A Player.” We was just merging the two records together.
He was there when I did my part. Pun was cool. Just real relaxed, very focused, a very focused person. He knew exactly what he wanted. He knew automatically that the song was gonna be a smash. He felt it from the door, when he brought me into it. Let’s make this magic happen. It was fun–a lot of fun. We kind of made history together. The record just continued to be a big record everywhere it went.

Flex:Pun really changed the whole perspective for Hispanics with that song. It took us around the world. It changed our whole lives. That was the most influential thing in our lives.
Pun loved to show the similarities between the races. He was a genius. Pun changed the way we thought about ourselves. He brought greatness out of all of us. He made us chase our dreams. Pun opened our eyes to a lot of great things. Pun is a Moses to me. All that negativity and that disbelief, he parted it, just knocked it out. We were doing everything we could just to stay in the market. Before Jennifer, Ricky Martin or anybody, Pun did it for Latinos. And they used him to touch the urban market. This song means Pun flying first class, slumped out all over the person next to him.

Big Pun – Dream Shatterer 

The Dream Shatterer
Produced by Domingo 
Domingo: When I was in the middle of doing [Fat Joe’s] Jealous One’s Envy album [in 1995], Pun was always coming to the studio. Pun asked me for a beat tape, because CDs were not even in style yet. The beat for “Dream Shatterer” was on that tape, and Big Pun always told me, “Yo, when I get a deal, it’s on.” He told me not to sell the beat. A couple of years went down the line. Pun called me one night when he was working on Capital Punishment . He was like, “What’s up with that beat that I told you to save?” I was like, “Yeah. I still got it.” So I went up to the studio, Axis Studios on 54th Street [in Manhattan]. Pun came in the room and played me the original “Dream Shatterer,” which was with the Barry White sample. He told me that he couldn’t clear the sample because at that time Puffy had the record out with Black Rob with the same sample. So Pun said, “Take the a capella of ‘Dream Shatterer’ and let me know if the beat matches it.” And to be honest with you, when I went home and threw the beat on and put the vocals to it, it sounded like Pun actually rhymed to the track.
When I first stepped in the studio with him to do “Dream Shatterer,” I’d seen him rhyme before–but when he was doing his album, I saw a totally different Pun. I saw the hungry Pun. Just watching him rhyme and seeing the size he was, I used to bug out how he could spit so many words and not even lose his breath.
His work ethic was incredible. He was a prankster. He was ready to get down. If you were in the studio lounge room, he was joking around. But when he walked into the recording booth, he was all business.”

…And for those who Don’t know about Pun or want to know more, Do your homework and trust me you’ll become a fan. Go buy that Capital Punishment album [worth the money trust me!]

Big Pun - Still Not a Player (feat. Joe)