Compare And Contrast Aca Biggie Smalls And Lameont Coleman
Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls, and Lamont Coleman, AKA Big L, were both famous rappers in the late 90s and early 2000s, until they were both tragically gunned down in a drive-by shooting. Not only had both of these rappers come to the same end, but they had both predicted their own deaths in their albums.
Biggie Smalls, as he liked to be called around his neighborhood, was an aspiring rapper who was picked up after his mixtape got into the hands of a famous DJ at the time. As his rise to fame became more visible, Smalls’ paranoia became larger. He had said in an interview with the New York Times that he was always so scared that someone was going to come in his apartment and kill him. The paranoia grew from fear to anger.
His fear
was put into his music, as a result, he made the album “Suicidal Thoughts” which struck people just as regular Biggie Smalls. No one could have known that this album would have become a forewarning to his fans. On March 9th, 1997 Biggie Smalls was walking out of the Soul Train Music Awards when he was gunned down in a drive-by.
Lamont Coleman, AKA Big L, had also come from the same situation, except he did not have such a high rise to fame as Biggie did. Coleman never had any paranoia about his fame, the only thing that he was worried about was the next dollar. No one really blamed him for being in it for the money, due to him growing up in a hard neighborhood.
Coleman’s album “Casualties of a Dice Game” basically laid out his death in song form. He would say things related to gambling and him dying on a street corner in one of his songs. This song aroused some of the gangsters in his old neighborhood to go and kill him. Lamont Coleman was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting just a few blocks away from his childhood home on February 15th, 1999.
From what information I gathered from these two rappers was that they were more alike than they knew. From growing up in the same city, to dying from the same cause. Both of the albums that forewarned their deaths was the most weirdest comparison out of all of them, because it is not everyday that the two rappers both at the same age, who lived in the same city, who died of the same cause, published their death notes in music form.
Biggie Smalls, as he liked to be called around his neighborhood, was an aspiring rapper who was picked up after his mixtape got into the hands of a famous DJ at the time. As his rise to fame became more visible, Smalls’ paranoia became larger. He had said in an interview with the New York Times that he was always so scared that someone was going to come in his apartment and kill him. The paranoia grew from fear to anger.
His fear
was put into his music, as a result, he made the album “Suicidal Thoughts” which struck people just as regular Biggie Smalls. No one could have known that this album would have become a forewarning to his fans. On March 9th, 1997 Biggie Smalls was walking out of the Soul Train Music Awards when he was gunned down in a drive-by.
Lamont Coleman, AKA Big L, had also come from the same situation, except he did not have such a high rise to fame as Biggie did. Coleman never had any paranoia about his fame, the only thing that he was worried about was the next dollar. No one really blamed him for being in it for the money, due to him growing up in a hard neighborhood.
Coleman’s album “Casualties of a Dice Game” basically laid out his death in song form. He would say things related to gambling and him dying on a street corner in one of his songs. This song aroused some of the gangsters in his old neighborhood to go and kill him. Lamont Coleman was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting just a few blocks away from his childhood home on February 15th, 1999.
From what information I gathered from these two rappers was that they were more alike than they knew. From growing up in the same city, to dying from the same cause. Both of the albums that forewarned their deaths was the most weirdest comparison out of all of them, because it is not everyday that the two rappers both at the same age, who lived in the same city, who died of the same cause, published their death notes in music form.