There was a time where artists weren’t afraid of speaking their minds or how they truly felt about another persons music. Its not so today because theres alot of wack rappers that are getting cosigned left and right because another artist is afraid of being looked upon as a “hater”. Well before Hip Hop became so politically correct. The game around the mid 90s was very unapologetic, the rules were in tact and you were able to speak your mind without worrying about being blackballed.

Hence this classic interview from the late Notorious B.I.G. Biggie did this interview a year before he died and it pissed alot alot of people(Mainly E-40 who had Biggie set up and checked out in Cali) But you have to give Biggie his respect for speaking his mind about who he really felt was wack and who he felt was dope. Enjoy the article!

This was a question answer session Biggie did with the audience askin’

questions. It was in a free magazine called Peace! This is how he rated

the rappers asked.



Redman: The new Redman!?! Seven. I can’t diss him cuase I know he got

skills. He get busy on the lyrics but I can’t feel his new shit, his new

cosmic crazy shit. I’m used to the clean cut blowout fly nigga. When I met

the nigga he was a fly nigga, you know what I’m sayin’, now he on some

different shit I really don’t like when a rapper come out and they blow

up the way they are and they come out again on some changed up shit. To

me, that’s like getting some good coke from poppy and then getting some

money and then be like,’fuck that! I’m getting some more 45ths, some brown

shit and then bag that up.’ Why would you change your plan? That’s what he

did to me.

E-40: No rating! Zero! I don’t fuck with duke at all. At all.



Too $hort: Ten. That’s my dog right there. I love that nigga. That’s my

man. The calibre of shit he got. Cocktails shit, I ain’t got to see that

shit yet. I know that shit was hot! I was with him in Atlanta and we were

just kickin’ it and shit. That’s my dog. I love that man.



Spice 1: Zero. I don’t like that guy at all.



Craig Mack: I don’t really like him too much either, dog. I can’t give him

a zero though ’cause he got some hot shit but like five…four, since he

on some different shit, some shit I can’t relate to. I’m from the hood, he

from the suburbs so it’s completely different shit. I don’t really like

the music too much. I like the beats but that (scats) it’s not rhymes for

me, it’s just some prety kid shit.

Eiht: I like Eiht’s shit. I give Eiht like an eight. He got some hard

shit, some real shit.



DJ Quick: I like the shit on the soundtrack. That’s shit is hot. I give

him a seven…six.

Snoop Doggy Dogg: Snoopy??? I like Snoop. I give him like an eight. I like

his shit.

He sits and reflects on what we have asked and offers, “I’m into fly pimp,

straight flat shit. I don’t like no nigga that I have to decipher but some

shit that I don dicipher I give a ten…Nas, I give Jeru a ten, I give

ummmmm?….

(Someone shouts out KRS-One.)



KRS-One: KRS-One?? Naahhh…I don’t like KRS no more ’cause he just think

he’s too dope. He let his ego take over his shit and that’s what brings

him down. When he was like that (shouts “Blow it to yourself”), when he was

like that, then he was a ten but now, ‘I am Hip Hop’!!! Eat a dick nigga.

Eat a muthaphukkin dick!

Guru: Premier??? Umm…who else I give a ten too? I like Keith. Keith’s

shit is hot.

Outkast: I like them too…six…seven.

Big Mike: Six…Seven

Scarface: Seven…eight. He got some hard shit. Face got some hard shit.

R.A. The Rugged One: The white boy??!! The one that I did the jam with???

That’s who you talkin’ about? Two…might be a three, I did the song, they

paid me a lot of money, that’s why I did it. The beat was knockin’.

Dr.Dre & Ed Lover: Those are my boys. I just like them niggas, know what

I’m sayin’. You don’t rate niggas. I just like them niggas. They just friends.

Cypress Hill: I used to like them. The first, shit, that first “How i can

just kill a man” joint, I was liking that but that new age smoke out

shit…fuck it!

New Kingdom: Who? Never heard of them.

Da Brat: I like Da Brat. I like her ****. I give her a nice six. She ain’t

the dopest female MC but I like her single. I like how she comin’.

The topic of females MC’s arrives and Biggie Speaks. “The dopest female MC

that has a record deal that’s out right now is Rage, but my Mc that’s

coming out,

Little Kim, is the dopest female MC that’s coming out ever. Ever.

She gets busy like a nigga that’s why I like her style. Hard shit! She

speaks on suckin dicks…,shooting niggas, real shit that real bitches do

that they are just scared to talk about, just how I came out, on some real

shit.”

Naughty By Nature: I like all of ’em. I got a relationship with Treach. I

got a relationship with Vinnie and I got a relationship with K, but you

know what I’m sayin’, the music itself it seems that they just wanna make

that one hit. Once they got that one hit everything else don’t count.

That’s why I can’t dig that. I want a nigga that’s gonna be like, ‘Yo, I

heard an album that’s like nine joints I like three, I like maybe the

single, the remix. I don’t want no album like that.



Coolio: I like that new joint, “Mama I’m In love with a Gangsta”. I like

that joint. I just like them hard niggas, them niggas that just be leveled

out.

Ice Cube: The old one or the new one? Kickiyaya???? It’s not the same

shit. It’s like nigga is changing too much for me and I can’t keep the

love. I respect the nigga because I know back in the day he used to do

his thing so I can’t dis him but the new shit right now is…

The topic of quitting before the game gets up on you is put on the table.

“I quit before it get on me like that dog!! I know my niggas keep it real.

My niggas be like,’Big, you are sleeping. That shit right there ain’t no

Ready to Die type shit’. I take my niggas word. If shit ain’t right, it

ain’t right. I ain’t putting it out. I quit before a nigga say Big was

wack. fuck that!! I produce, get a label, do something. fuck that!

Tupac: Pac get busy. People can’t take nothing from him. On the lyrics he

get busy, straight up. That nigga got some hard shit dog for real, and

it’s like the sad thing about it. When he started working on his new album

he’s got now, Out on Bail, (retitled and released as Me Against The World)

he had so many raw east coast producers and shit. The shit was sounding

real tight ’cause everybody always says Pac had lyrics but his beats was

back. He was up in New York when he was working on Above the Rim shit and

he was working on his album at the same time. I put him on to Mo Bee. I

put him on to L.G. He has Action, Special Ed’s DJ, he had some hard shit.

(HE) went back to the west and just started getting back into that other ****.

Dr. Dre: Beats? Incredible!

The topic of producers arrives and names are fired out for Biggie to rate.

“Who do I think every beat they make is just ridiculous??!!…

Ant Banks: I like Banks. I like that whole shit though. Ant BAnks shit,

the whole Dangerous crew shit.”

Who is a ten producer?

“Ain’t nobody perfect dog. Everybody got their little faults and shit but

the only one I seen that’s been hitting hard with their shit is Premier.

Every joint that he be putting out right now is just ridiculous, from

Jeru’s shit, to the new group he got, the Group Home shit, to the shit he

did with me. The shitis hard, yo! The beats is crazy.”

Sir Mix-a-lot: Nothing! I love his coats. I would love to be in the game

like how that nigga get in the game. I wanna be just as large as those

fools but get busy, cut the bullshit fuck saying…I got millions but

God damn that nigga get on the mic it’s just something terrible dog. I

just wanna get busy on the mic more than anything. The little bitch game

the niggs play with the girls, man! A nigga just throw some bitches in

they shit and they just sit there, like from the “Tootsie Roll” shit to

the “Whoot! There it is!” It’s the same shit. You get trapped up

with these hoes. That shit ain’t got nothing to do with hip hop. Nothing!

The topic of wack lyrics arises and Biggie states:

“I don’t wanna be a nigga paying so much attention to the fuckiing

networking and all that other shit and I’m not paying’ no attention to

these rhymes. That’s what made me get to where I’m at so I gotta make sure

the lyrics is hard.”

K-Dee: “The greatest MC in the world”?? I like that track. He don’t

really be saying nothing to me, you know, like lyrically he don’t be

saying nothing to me. What make it so bad is when they come out with some

shit that’s like half ass and like you wonder like, “I wonder how the

video will be.” And then they got a video with this nigga spinning this

bottle and I’m like OK, what’s gonna happen when the bottle stops and the

bottle is spinning for like three fucking minutes and then it stops and

everybody laughs like ha, and he spins again!!! Who directed this? Cube,

it had to be. It’s just that funny style shit that I can’t fuck with. I

like flat on the table shit, like my shit. They try to stick me for my shit I shot ’em. Period. There’s no helicopter scenes with me talkin to

somebody like , ‘Well, how’s the record doing?’ There’s no shit on there

that you could be like why is that shit in there. That’s how I like the

shit, just regular shit.

Easy-E: (before his untimely death)-I like Easy-E. Easy-E is a real ill

nigga. He’s sharp as a tack on top but rhymin’ even he knows. He took a

group from the hood and just put them on and two million. Bing! He know

how to do that shit. Same thing with Luke and all the rest of them niggas.

Man, I just think they take another turn. I can let you hear some Easy-E

shit on some old NWA shit and niggas would think Easy was nice, you know

what I’m saying, so he know.

MC Breed: He ain’t come out with nothing too wrong for me. I gotta hear

some shit. I know once when I was in L.A. I saw Breed at Fattburger and

that nigga just took me into the room and just got me smoked out. He had

me listening to some ill beats and shit that he work on production too and

I didn’t know that. That’s a plus for MC’s. If you can make your own beats

you got props because producing is better than being an artist.

Warren G: That’s my man. nigga came to Brooklyn, he came to check me. He

just came to hood and shit, pulled up in a little Crysler, jumped out and

Warren G was on the ave. drinking Crazyhorse and shit, you know what I’m

saying”cause I ain’t gonna lie, I ain’t going to his hood, staight up!

Wu-Tang Clan/Method Man: Wu-Tang is hot! I like their shit. I love that

shit. I like their shit because they have a real I don’t give a fuck

attitude. ‘We in this game to blow thefuck up! We don’t give a fuck what

happens. All of us is gonna do our thing and we just gonna do it.’ And

they just did it. You can hear punches, you hear so much shit in that

album you know damn these guys is not giving a fuck. At the beginning of

CREAM, when that shit start!! Voila! Oh my God, this is some rushed shit

but I dig it.

The Roots: The Roots album. The Roots album is hot! On the strength, they

rock the whole album for a whole hour. I was definetly in dibelief. I like

the single, I really did but other people were like, ‘Single was hot but I

wasn’t paying attention to the album at all.’

Bonous Questions:

Did you dis The Roots on the remix for “Flavour in your ear”?

“I stepped to them about that. They heard about it but they knew I said

Gooch (a character on the Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Dano Plato series

Different Strokes) so that’s all they cared about. As long as they knew I

wasn’t trying to dis them. It’s over.”

Are you really the crew who will take it to that other level if someone

steps to you?

“For real! For real! We be banging! We be banging! We’re definatly the

crew that just go out of the world. We take it to the extra extra limit. I

mean that shit from the bottom of my fuckiin’ heart. Cold blow your head

off. fuck the rap. fuck Puff, fuck Arista, Clive, BMG!!! I don’t give a

fuck. It’s over!!! Anything happen to me it’s over!! They just throw the

whole shit in the toilet. I don’t give a fuck, we banging now! Everything

is switched over for real man. A nigga ain’t gonna dis me. niggas is not

dissing me, man!!!!