big L, then biggie, then pun
pun was a great lyricist, his cadence and lyrical prowess was pretty fucking crazy
dead in the middle of little italy little did we know that we riddled to middlemen who didn’t do diddily.
mc search was funny as hell, too. he did that back to the grill again with Nas (not many people remember that) and more recently he did that song Black is Blak with mos def canibus etc