Wiz Khalifa praises The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac in a new interview.
The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac are two of the greats of Hip-Hop, and both of them were assassinated at a very young age. Both of them provided a number of classic rap records, which still help put them on everyone’s top rappers’ list. Wiz Khalifa, who sat down with DJ Whoo Kid for a conversation, asked about his pick between the two rap giants.
“Who’s my favorite? Biggie. Yeah, I like Biggie ’cause lyrically like, you can still listen to Biggie’s sh*t today and be like, ‘Wow, he really said that?’ Like, he talks about clothes and brands in a crazy way, talks about cars in a crazy way, talks about women… he’s just really poetic, you know what I’m saying? That’s not to say that one is better than the other, but I just love how complex his bars are,” he said.
Wiz Khalifa continued, “Pac is raw. Pac is crazy, he’s hard. His beat selection was wild, his work ethic was crazy. You know, just his attitude and you know, everything like that. But I’m more on the Biggie side for sure.”
Despite growing up 400 miles west of Brooklyn, the Pittsburgh native has often demonstrated his admiration for Biggie’s record by sampling him in his tracks. “The Race” by Rolling Papers and “Gin and Drugs” by Wiz both sample the B.I.G. classic “Going Back To Cali.”
During an interview with The Art Of Dialogue last year, Wu-Tang Clan legend RZA chimed in on the Biggie vs. 2Pac argument. RZA, unlike Wiz Khalifa, supported the Death Row legend. “You go to Pac, once again, immaculate voice, but what Pac had, I think, was a way of touching us in all of our emotions,” he said. “Like, Pac had the power to infuse your emotional thought, like ‘Brenda Has a Baby,’ ‘Dear Mama,’ but then he had the power to arouse the rebel in you. You know?”
Check out the interview below.
