The Biggie versus 2Pac debate continues to rage on in Hip Hop fan circles even 25 years after their untimely deaths.
During a stop by SiriusXM earlier this week, Wiz Khalifa was asked by DJ Whoo Kid about his preference between the rap deities since he’s lived on both coasts for large portions of his life.
“Biggie. I like Biggie because lyrically like you could still listen to Biggie’s shit today and be like, ‘Wow, he really said that,'” Wiz replied. “He talks about clothes, like brands in a crazy way and he talks about cars in a crazy way and he talks about women. He’s just really poetic.”
While he gave Biggie the nod for his lyrical gifts, Wiz still had glowing words to say about 2Pac when it came to his work ethic and artistry.
“That’s not to say one is better than the other,” he continued. “But I just love how complex his bars are. Pac is raw, Pac is crazy, he’s hard. Beat selection was wild and his work ethic was crazy and just his attitude and everything like that, but I’m more on the Biggie side for sure.”
While he grew up 400 miles west of Brooklyn, the Pittsburgh native has repeatedly shown his appreciation for Biggie’s discography by sampling him in his songs. Rolling Papers‘ “The Race” and Wiz’s Problem-assisted “Gin and Drugs” both sample the B.I.G. classic “Going Back To Cali.”
Wu-Tang Clan luminary RZA weighed in on the Biggie vs. 2Pac debate during an interview with The Art Of Dialogue last year. Unlike Wiz Khalifa, though, RZA sided with 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?”
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He added, “And those two things — actually, he was probably more dangerous than Big. Notorious B.I.G., we could party with him, to this day we’re still … but Pac, we’re probably, going to point, he was more going into the Malcolm X of things and society fears that.”
As far as Wiz Khalifa’s own music goes, Wiz Khalifa is readying his experimental Multiverse album, which arrives next Friday (July 29).
Wiz is a bitch
Absolutely right Joseph and anyone else is one to think Biggie Better than Pac
Wiz is an idiot
Wiz is right
Biggie had bars, Pac had passion
Pac is GLOBAL ur BIGGIE local. On a WORLD SCALE BIG AINT TOUCHING PAC, GO LOOK IT UP. BIGGIE BARS NO PASSION, PAC BOTH!!!
I really wish I knew you in person,you are very right,am from Africa,we don’t even know biggy here,2pac is every where here,I only learnt of him with his beef with pac,all over Africa here is 2pac,he is known here even more than rappers who are still living
how many African countries have you visited? don’t be this dumb bruh.
So true. I am in Africa as well and the only way I got to know about Biggie was through Pac. If it wasn’t for beef with Pac, maybe we would have heard something about Biggie during Covid-19 extreme year 2020.
2pac was a life changer
Tupac was a liar and a fraud. He was a ballet dancer that pretended to be something he wasn’t. He landed millions of young black men in a grave or prison cell Thru his ignorance. You have an excuse. You don’t speak english well.
Folks love to cherry pick random incidences of Pac’s life from second-hand stories/rumors and construct their own trivial weak (oftentimes feminine) image of Pac. It’s hilarious. Bro could’ve easily been the next Malcolm X/Huey Newton and probably more given his likability across people of any race/ethnicity, but he was “canceled”. Unfortunately there will never be another Pac… 25 years later and he’s still heavily studied, that’s what you call impact. #rip
For u the one who said Tupac was a fraud I feel you’re a hater and Tupac was by far the greatest thing that touched Rap he can’t be touched as a rap artist he was so deep beyond his time. Some people don’t know what greatness is and never will
Wiz is best friends with Snoop and Snoop hates Pac.
Lmao, biggie… poetic? When compared to tupac? Cmon. Tupac was one of the more poetic rappers to exist in the mainstream. Biggie wasn’t very poetic. More so flow, stories, and eminem like shock value.
NOT SAYING ONE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER, BUT I ALSO PREFER BIGGIE AS FAR AS DAY TO DAY LISTENING GOES.
Wiz has his opinion and it is how he feels, but I think RZA explained the difference much betters. As far as Pac going to the school of the arts in B-More so what he was perfecting his craft, and no he was not a ballerina allegedly that was Prodigy from Mobb Deep. Yes Pac was not a fraud pretending to be something else he was real he really spared to Atlanta cops, got sparked in NYC for real and ultimately got killed in Vegas, it don’t get no realer than that. You do the math. Wiz had a baby with a known garden tool so I question his judgement for real.
Wiz is gooft-out for me PAC is the best
Tupac Shakur is the God of Rap….. Comparing any rapper to him is blasphemy…… Wiz should repent…..