Big Gipp praises 50 Cent and DMX in a new interview.
In a new interview with The Art of Dialogue, Big Gipp talked about the recently released Billboard and Vibe’s Top 50 best rappers list. He stated that 2Pac would’ve topped the list instead of JAY-Z if he was alive, and also claimed Beyonce would’ve been with All Eyes On Me rapper if he was here.
Now in another part of the interview, the Goodie Mob rapper again discusses JAY-Z and stated that 50 Cent and DMX were bigger than Hov when they came out. “When 50 came out, I ain’t hear no JAY-Z music — it just stopped playing,” he said. “Come on, bruh! I was there When 50 came out, he shut everything down. And the reason why they didn’t give it to 50, you know why? Because the West Coast did his music. New York has never crowned 50 Cent because the West Coast did his music: Dr. Dre.”
He continued, “To me, DMX was bigger than shawty all day. Shawty put out two albums in one year that smoked anything he put out. And you still said he was the best? F**k this industry, man, ’cause y’all still want who y’all want to be the best, but the numbers say DMX is the biggest thing walking round here. And when it wasn’t no DMX, it was 50 Cent. It was still somebody else.”
He added: “The movement that Ruff Ryders had was totally different than all of the sh*t that ever came through New York. It was just totally street. Nobody had seen a dude from New York sleep on bi**hes with dogs roof-roofing at the camera, ride motorcycles and sh*t, and then pray on stage and cry. DMX was a muthaf**king true artist because he never cared about money.”
Gipp also talked about JAY-Z’s Roc-A-Fella label, and put Murder Inc. above them. “I still think Murder Inc. was bigger than Roc-A-Fella. When you go back and look at them numbers, Ja Rule was nothing but on the radio, [Ashanti] was nothing but on the radio. If you go back and look at the Roc-A-Fella roster, it was Beanie Sigel and them; it wasn’t Ashanti.”
He continued and gave the crown to 2Pac as the greatest rapper ever. “To me, 2Pac number one. I don’t care what nobody say,” he said. “Nobody did what that man did. That man had more albums in death than most people have living.
