Guest Blog: Bishop The Greek “14 Years & Still Taking Sides?”
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Sermon: This is all Bishop’s thinking. Don’t lash out on me via Twitter or in the comments. Consult everything with Bishop if you have complaints.
Bishop: On March 9, 2010, the 13th anniversary of The Notorious B.I.G.’s passing, many people took to Twitter to pay their respects, pay homage and carry on the legacy of Biggie Smalls. I’m an avid Biggie fan from Brooklyn so you know I followed suit. I noticed many of the people that were praising Big for his rhymes and his life were also trying to degrade the life and time of Big’s once rival Tupac Shakur. I would see many tweets on how Pac wasn’t real or that he couldn’t touch Biggie lyrically. Really? After 14 years we’re still on this “taking sides” note? It wasn’t one person that sparked me to write this, it was a vast amount of people.
Let’s put it in perspective – both Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls are two different people, two different rappers from two different walks of life. Just because they had a rivalry does not mean there’s a way to compare them both. They may have similarities in their art form but in no way can they be easily compared. I never knew these men personally but I have heard all of their music as well as viewed many documentaries to get an idea of how they were although there are probably personal traits that they expressed around loved ones many may not know of.
