S4E6 Big L by Drew Curry

Big L is one of the most lauded and celebrated emcees of all time. Big L was a wordsmith, a mic destroyer, an emcees, emcee. Big L would be taken from his family and the world way too early. After releasing only one album in his career, while he was working on his second album, Big L was murdered in the neighborhood he grew up in, Harlem, New York City. Big L was also on the verge of signing with Roc A Fella Records, the label owned by Dame Dash, Jay Z and Kareem "Biggs" Burke. Big L was also in a group, he started, called Children of the Corn that included Cam'Ron and Mase amongst others. He was also about to start another group with himself and Jay Z amongst others called Wolf Pack. Big L was an elite lyricist who had the potential to be one of the greatest emcees of all time. He is already and rightfully so, considered one of the greats by many, but with only one album he comes up short because of his untimely demise. Check out this episode and find out a little bit more about this one of a kind emcee. Thank you Lamont Big L Coleman for everything you did for hip hop and the world. Thank you. And thank you for listening to this episode of hip hop history, please like, subscribe and leave a review where possible. Thank you and have a great day.