Notorious BIG vs. Big Pun
versus
tue 1/27/2009
| name | Christopher George Latore Wallace. | Christopher Rios. |
| born | May 21, 1972. | November 9, 1971. |
| weighed between | 300 to 380 pounds. | 450 to 700 pounds. |
| repped | Brooklyn, New York. | South Bronx, New York. |
| also known as | Biggie Smalls. | Big Punisher. |
| named after | A fictional gangster who appears in the film Let's Do It Again. | Marvel comics hero The Punisher. |
| style | East Coast hip hop. | East Coast hip hop. |
| partner in rhyme | Diddy. | Fat Joe. |
| associated with | Junior M.A.F.I.A. | Terror Squad and The Beatnuts. |
| platinum debut | Ready To Die. | Capital Punishment. |
| breakthrough track | Juicy. | Still Not A Player featuring Joe. |
| killer collab | Notorious Thugs with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. | Twinz with Fat Joe. |
| beef | Tupac Shakur. | Rumored beef with Jay-Z. |
| in their own words | "People want to attack anybody that's a large figure, you know what I'm saying? They did it to Jordan, they did it to Tyson, they did it to Bill Cosby, you know what I'm saying? They're gonna attack you if you on top." | "I'm not gonna write about green grass and dandelions, because I don't know about that. I write about what I see everyday, bring it to you like that, and do it as mature as I can, you know? I just hope you can relate." |
| died on | March 9, 1997. | February 7, 2000. |
| cause of death | KIlled in a drive-by shooting. | Died from a heart attack. |
| posthumous album | Life After Death. | Yeeeah Baby. |
| movies | The biopic Notorious and the documentary Biggie and Tupac. | The documentaries Still Not A Player and the forthcoming Big Pun: The Legacy. |
| charities | Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation. | The Big Pun Foundation. |
| the critics | All Music: “Biggie was a gifted storyteller with a sense of humor and an eye for detail, and his narratives… were told with a gritty, objective realism that won him enormous respect and credibility.” | All Music: “In contrast to his large frame, Big Pun was a surprisingly graceful and nimble rapper, delivering his often clever, tongue-twisting rhymes at a torrential pace.” |
| webprops | Various tribute websites. | Various tribute websites. |
| best video moment | Spitting game at the ladies in the club in Big Poppa. | Spitting verses on Wall St. with The Beatnuts in Off The Books. |
Big Pun
previously
wed 11/19/2008
Big Pun was only 26 years old when he became the first Latino rapper to go platinum. He was dead by 28.
Born Christopher Rios, the Bronx-native bum rushed rap radio in the '90s with tongue-twisting lyrics and a razor-sharp flow. Bigger than life in every sense, the Nuyorican MC made a star turn on the 1996 Beatnuts classic Off The Books. A year later, Big Pun released his debut single, the X-rated I'm Not a Player. The streets were buzzing about a "Latino Notorious B.I.G." and his follow-up single did not disappoint. The racy Still Not a Player helped his 1998 debut album, Capital Punishment, go double platinum.
But by 2000, Big Pun's battle with obesity was making more headlines than his music. In a span of just two years, he went from 400 to just over 600 pounds. Fellow Terror Squad member and close friend Fat Joe recalls how Big Pun struggled with his weight for over a decade: "For a long time, even though he was a big guy, he could do whatever he wanted… [a]s time went on, however, his health got worse." Big Pun, who often had trouble breathing during interviews, weighed nearly 700 pounds when he died of heart failure.
Rios was survived by his wife and three children. His second album, Yeah Baby, was released two months after his death. It also went platinum.
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