The greatest hip hop lyricist of all times

1. The Notorious B.I.G.

There hasn't been a single hip-hop figure who embodied everything the premise of the idiom portrays more than Christopher Wallace. Like all great art, rap was founded on contradiction, a constant display of provocative punchlines. Nobody was better at taking that stereotypical hip-hop persona and redefining it with each line, each verse, each song. For as unassuming or awkward as B.I.G. was one minute, he was just as confident and confrontational the next. While the words that came from his mouth constantly echoed bravado, they were never overshadowed by the sensitivity that crept its way into each one of his utterances on wax.
Take 1994's "Warning". "Who the fuck is this? / Pagin' me at 5:46 in the mornin' / Crack a dawnin' / Now I'm yawnin' / Wipe the cold out my eye / See who's this pagin' me and why", he proclaims during the track's first few seconds. At first glance, it may seem fairly simple, but alas the simplicity is where the brilliance truly lies -- B.I.G. knew precisely how to set the tone and the scenery for a story that would be woven into and subsequently told over a sample of Isaac Hayes' "Walk on By", which, in hindsight, was a pretty clever move in and of itself.
But that was B.I.G.'s genius -- he knew how to create scenery so vividly with words that one has to think he would have had a great second career as a novelist if he would have stuck around long enough. That's not to say his wordplay wasn't top notch -- just give a listen to the second verse of his Jay-Z collaboration, "Whatchu Want", released years after his death, or his classic records "Juicy" or "Hypnotize", and you'll quickly be reminded that he could also turn phrases on their head to prove his point -- but even so, what sets him above others was his ability to create atmosphere with his detail. Lyrically, Christopher Wallace embodied all of what continues to make hip-hop as great as it is today. He was vivid. He was honest. He was contradictory. He was sensitive. He was smart. And most of all, he was poetic.

You Probably don't agree with this. As you probably can argue that others have made better crossover tracks. You can argue that others have made more complex tracks. You can argue that others have made more provocative tracks. But the one thing you can't argue is that when it comes to what makes rap music so transcending, so revolutionary, so inspiring, there is only one guy who ever laid it out in front of you as poignantly and as epitomized as anyone who ever spit 16 bars on record could. And that guy was Notorious but please do comment with arguments and/or how you feel about biggie or who you think did/is doing it better than him.

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