Saturday, December 1, 2012

connections. beef...eliminated.


There’s this crazy connection between The Game and Notorious B.I.G.

West coast loving east coast. Why was Tupac beefing with Biggie? 









The Game is just as pro-West Side as 'Pac was, but The Game, along with other rappers praise Biggie; especially Dom Kennedy (link this), another rapper committed to showing non-stop love to the West Coast.

That shows that these younger generations are generally more accepting – maybe we’re better at realizing talent!

Oviously not, from the radio.

Seems like we realy are the “Lost Generation” after all. But now to the songs…

The first is a track called: “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly” by The game from his album: “The Red Album.” This just is “Game” telling a  story of a day in his life as gangsta Game. Listen carefully and take notes on the storyline.


That was a great story right? Like a real poem.

Hmmph, where’d he get his inspiration from? Did he just want to tell a story with a good flow?

Look at this album cover? What do you make of it, in relation to this song?

What parts stuck out to you?


Why buy this on iTunes?



Now peep this. It’s called: “Warning” by Biggie Smalls. Take notes. Mental, or whatever notes. ->

Ok, what’d you think? Compare your notes.

…isn’t that crazy?

What specific elements within the songs do you see coming out? Besides Biggie straight KILLIN it!

Game modeled his style, and it was great. The dogs, the guns, the girl, the snitches. The Hip-Hop.

What y’all think? You feel it? 

Moral of the story, things are linking...like gold links. Gold chains!


2 comments:

  1. Fascinating post, Malik. Beef in the hip hop game never fails to amaze me but I think the beef between Tupac and Biggie made it seem as if beef only manifests between the two coasts because they are so polarized; and not within each of the coasts. Back during the time of Biggie, fellow New Yorkers, the Wu-Tang Clan also had beef with Biggie. Granted it was mostly because of the wild Ol' Dirty, but they had beef nonetheless. My point is that although there is a lot of beef between coasts historically, rappers can still prefer rappers from opposing coasts. Another cool ode to Biggie, Pac, and Eazy the Game has is one his record titles "L.A.X." is "Never Can Say Goodbye" he speaks on all of the deaths of these iconic rappers

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  2. Here is the link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tgccqkl5jM

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