Why the Mad Rapper say the hottest shit, but be sellin' the least?

This skit epitomizes the age old question of mainstream rap versus underground. Underground complains that mainstream doesn’t make real hip hop and mainstream complains that underground is jealous of their money and success. Biggie is poking fun at less commercial rappers who have problems with him. In this song specifically Wu Tang Clan, Nas, and Jeru The Damaja

Interesting article on the two.
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/editorials/id.1021/title.get-your-mind-right-underground-vs-mainstream

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A clip holds a bunch of bullets and gets loaded into a gun. Biggie is always prepared for a scuffle, so he keeps extra clips

I’d like to think that in a simpler world, Biggie would have made a great Boy Scout

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Oh my god, that sounds like a beat! Is the song about to start!?

In typical DJ Premier fashion, this beat contains a lot of samples and scratches — This one is taken from a Martin Lawrence stand up bit

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T-t-t-today junior!

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Finally! It’s starting! It’s starting!

That spacey sound you hear just as the beat starts to drop, and sporadically throughout the song, is a sample from the first electronic score ever done for a movie, a 1956 science fiction film called Forbidden Planet — Premo really went all out on this one

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And it begins…

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Sure she can. That’s the format of the show

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But Mad Rapper, surely someone has told you what kind of show this is. Are you really shocked that Shay has asked you a question? I find this difficult to believe

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According to Wikipedia, New Rochelle is the safest city of its size in New York State

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The Mad Rapper takes up the bulk of this auditory abortion. As you’ll soon see, he’s quite mad and quite long winded

Producer D-Dot eventually created an entire album in the Madd Rapper persona — Tell ‘Em Why U Madd (2000). This album is notable because it featured of a nascent 50 Cent (on “How to Rob”), playing a major role in building the buzz that resulted in him being signed to Aftermath. This was also one of the earliest projects Kanye West has production credits on.

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March 9th, 2012

He was not dissing Method Man…Meth was actually one of the only people in the Wu that Biggie was cool with.

Biggie DID have been with Rae and Ghost though.

Chris
December 2nd, 2012

It’s a reference to Nas. Nas himself says in his song ‘Last Real Nigga Alive’ — “Y'all don’t know about my Biggie wars
Who you thought ‘Kick In The Door’ was for?” It was never the fully fledged beef that Biggie and 2Pac was but more of them taking digs at each other over who was “King of NY”. Since BIG’s death Nas has no beef with him and even appears on the ‘Duets — The Final Chapter’ album.

February 20th, 2013

The MADD Rapper was Deric D-Dot Angeliette who was actually part of Bad Boy Records and it was probably put in the song to enhance Biggie’s greatness and promote D-Dot’s album Tell ‘Em Why You Mad

Andrew
October 11th, 2012

The mad rapper is in reference to 2pac, The mad producer is in reference to Suge Knight.

Capo
March 21st, 2013

He was referring to Nas everybody who knows his Hip Hop knows that ! Straight Like Dat !

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Editor
December 29th, 2012

To me the Mad Rapper sounds a lot like Ghostface Killah.

steve-o
November 21st, 2012

he’s referring to Nas, whom he also had beef with. It’s pretty obvious by his voice, sounds pretty similar

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