Big L - The Enemy ft. Fat Joe (Lyrics)

[@peggytheveteran4968]

He only had 1 album out when he was alive and he's still top 5. Just wish he lived longer

[@lloydwomack3786]

With much respect he not top 5 nice MC though.

[@mynamejeff4642]

@@lloydwomack3786 he is

[@TheSpacemarine1980]

@@lloydwomack3786 Imho maybe not regarding performance, but what he wrote or came up with and the effortless delievery are very high up.

[@bellam8672]

@@lloydwomack3786 Wack. Big L was one of the first rappers to put New York on the map. He was one of the most loved and respected rapper in his time he even made a song with Tupac and Jay z.

[@flwlessvictory9577]

Just did a music lyric video to this song

[@punchyrivera]

Fat Joe and big l killed this. I didn’t know Joe was this lyrical I should’ve knew since he was in the 90s.

[@Rickboss212]

He had to be he on a track wit L

[@helowgaes7544]

Also he running the bussiness too with pun

[@randilla]

Joe was motivated and that's about it.

[@miguelesteban5768]

He called Pun that day and told him to write him a quick 16 to match against L 😂

[@Jsmitt716]

You didn't know joe was lyrical? Is this the first song you've heard of his?

[@soultheinterrogator]

This is Fat Joe's dopest lyrics IMHO. He didn't want to get flamed by Big L so he had to dig deep 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@goodwiil]

he said in an interview that he was threatened by big L and he wrote the best rap he ever wrote in his life for this song

[@JemyEddine]

actually i see big pun in this lyrics cause i know pun's lyricism like my hand and this is one of his lyrics ​@@goodwiil

[@Carlwilliamsburner]

Never rat a cat that he know. So he’s still a snitch just not to friends .. yuck

[@karlarsch1627]

"them Federals... house tapped....mousetrap, i doubt that" brings always a smile + it rolls so smoothly over the tongue.

[@Trekceffej]

Big L is one of the baddest dudes to ever do it RIP

[@JemyEddine]

Joe's verse was fiiire 🔥🔥🔥 no doubt but every big pun fan! he knows what it is

[@BahhaAhmad]

Old is gold maaan🤟🏼🤟🏼

[@onahunt5967]

Big l ain't nothing to fuck with 🔥

[@ice9557]

Hardest beat in the game

[@flwlessvictory9577]

Just did a lyric video

[@pr_tr4p_g4wd20]

God damn this shit go hard af had to play again and again straight bars.😏🫡

[@Kareemburkebiggs96]

Dam fat joe went in

[@AMANDABriggs-g2b]

I’m 38 and haven’t heard this song since high school. But once it started I remembered every word. 😊

[@gaticusx2933]

" you just made cause I'm a young cat...pockets dumb fat" 🔥🔥 his style was too dope

[@joshrizeberg646]

This my favorite Big L song.

[@LukeJack-mm9lc]

Joey 😂😂😂😂😂 went crazy on dis he was right 😂😂😂 big L was himmm

[@mush9153]

classique et légendaire ,la noblesse de l'art par l' excellence.

[@dregooztopdrawerent]

Hov definitely sat in a few of big L's classes

[@swaynec.o.p.d_the_discography]

I thought the same, just 4 Bars in...

[@Marleybynature]

L is legendary as ever but this is by far the hardest(pause) I ever heard crack on a 16

[@mikemanolo]

D.I.T.C. 🔥🔥 Rest easy L Corleone

[@icsux]

My favorite rapper all time.. best flow ever!

[@jeannettemiller9275]

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME 👏

[@nosleepkeith]

Hardest Joe verse ever! 🔥🔥

[@zombl337og]

seen a yt short with Fat Joe and the song sounded dope just by the lyrics!

[@Kiubo_Que]

The real gangster Rap Saludos desde Colombia! Greetings from Colombia! 🔥

[@di1832]

RIP Big L. Mouch love from Albania ⚔️🇦🇱⚔️

[@Mockturtlesoup1]

Man, I haven't heard this song in a looooong time.

[@originalityisdead.9513]

They don't make music like this no more. Big L didn't even have time to get going. Someone else killed over some bs.

[@antoniogambardella785]

Rest in pace big l

[@adriansaenz4906]

use the feature that makes the song go by 2x fast on fat joes verse it sounds badass, and the best sounds crazy too

[@migueldeleon1320]

Fat joe realized I need to represent correctly.

[@thenomadicsavior9118]

Listening to this lets me know that Jayz stole this mans flow. I know jigga a thief. Is that a thing? Did they beef? Im about to do some research.

[@kentalks2818]

You know how stupid you sound? You know but you have to go do research? You obviously don’t know jack. Jay and L never had beef, were always friends, and played off of each other just like Jay and Biggie. L was going to sign to Roc-A-Fella when he was murdered. L was one of the greatest but he wasn’t on Jay’s level as an artist or businessman. If he was he would’ve been bigger than Jay by time he passed. Truth is L’s first album was lackluster and it hurt his rise. He had to go underground and rock the mixtape and local radio circuit for years before he bounced back. Plus DITC kept his name strong by always shouting him out wherever they went. If he had lived he would’ve got his just due with The Big Picture because it was by far way better than Lifestyles. Jay came out with a classic from the gate in 1996, one year after L’s debut, that changed the hip-hop landscape. Three albums later on vol. 3 in 1998 Jay was 5x platinum. In 1998 L dropped Ebonics which put him back in the number one contender position. But by then Jay-Z, Cam’ron, and Mase all were bigger and better artist than him. Huge difference.

[@northphillymorningstar7385]

I mean they have mad comparison. All Jay had to do was SLOW IT DOWN

[@helowgaes7544]

U sounds like trying to Rapp my man

[@DCoop-uo2wq]

Jay z was big L's guy he put him on

[@HannibalKing-e7e]

I think it's pretty much the exact same with Gillie and Wayne

[@pieter9733]

Dude this is awesome

[@inspector760]

Been listening to this shit and I gotta say l destroys this joint

[@hjhhjh9650]

thank you for this video

[@richot305]

Fat Joe is underrated. Listen to his part on the song "John Blaze" oh by the way, all of the dudes killed it but Fat Joe got the W.

[@OG_VERBZ]

Uh no Pun had the best verse smh

[@SeanyMacKTA]

Fire 🔥

[@devious187]

Epic... Just. Fucking. Epic.

[@danielcarlos847]

On fire

[@davidmakai8508]

Fat Joe is fkn mad nice

[@kugekki]

Big L was really him

[@bansheemakaveli6700]

YO I’ve been waiting for a lyric vid for this song in so long! Do you take requests if so( take your time by square one is the song !)

[@johnbergendahl878]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Seven-z6d]

We talk about Biggie, pac, nwa, snoop, the list goes on .. but gawd damn, BIG L! Shit when you have this generation listening to mumble wrappers 😔😔 😔😔 " so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet " .. now you got, " blaw blaw yeah yeah yeah you know for real yea yeah " 😑😑 .. rip real rap 😔

[@charlotte1029]

Jat Joe did good its only Big Ls voice and energy is deadly ...Rhymes the both good...L killed it tho

[@unameit0000]

The original 99 Problems by Big L

[@freebie808]

STILL

[@chicago23cub]

This was my shit while you guys were listening to snoop and No limit 😆

[@williamcapone5457]

Snoop and No Limit are still the shit, y'all do nothing but hating.

[@chicago23cub]

You so weak

[@chicago23cub]

Non lyricist wack ass uhhhhh

[@flwlessvictory9577]

Just did a music lyric video

[@brmbkl]

@@williamcapone5457 he said nothing about quality

[@YoungDrick1992]

Big Pun raps like that. Anybody could hear big pun wrote joe verse

[@GetPackedUp00]

Knock It Off........ That's Joey Flow Not Pun's

[@christophernodal3809]

They didnt know eachother then. 😂

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

@@christophernodal3809 yes they did you fool. this song is released in 1999. big pun got famous in 1997. and been friends with fat joe years earlier

[@GetPackedUp00]

@@GodzillaKaijuGK So What It Doesn't Mean Pun Wrote His Verse

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

@@GetPackedUp00 didn’t say he did

[@XThanatos2X]

Fat Joe didn't bring the same energy as Big L. Sub par bars when compared to Big L, sick beat tho, Big L killed it. Just kinda a letdown that Fat Joe's wasn't at the same level.

[@inspector760]

Few rappers can compare to big l he is on another level

[@krzysztof4607]

What did you expect Fat Joe isn't out rapping any true lyricist lol

[@ayoofacts]

Big pun could of

[@benwilson6559]

Fat Joe actually tells a funny story about it, they were boys but L told him before they recorded it he was gonna murder Joe on the track.. an he did

[@godapparelyoutube]

Nig u Wilin Joe merked L

[@shiloh542]

Oh maaaa gooooooodddddd tf is dissssssssss mfffff masterpieces geniouuuuuuuus mfffffff

[@rodrigoafonso4466]

Young Thug, Lil Wayne, Lil Pump, Lil Yachty take some notes, this is how to rap

[@chomkeygamer9455]

Lil Wayne is good

[@cliffpadilla5871]

​@@chomkeygamer9455hell naw.

[@OSE319]

​@cliffpadilla5871 your sleeping on lil wayne cause he can spit

[@RawDogJohnson1]

I agree ​@@OSE319

[@ViewsfromAbove-l99j]

The only lil who can rap like this is Lil Wayne period.

[@OM3N666]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@beyondgamer3518]

Aint much like this one

[@charlotte1029]

Did pun write joe this?

[@lordfarquar9215]

Nah joe wrote his own lyrics theres a story joe tells about when they were writing it they were basically competing against each other and L was talking smack to joe about taking his fanbase. The story is on youtube

[@OG_VERBZ]

@@lordfarquar9215Fat Joe didn’t write this 🤣

[@kentalks2818]

@@OG_VERBZY’all people talk so much 💩 in these comments when you could easily type song credits into wiki. Joe wrote these lyrics. Joe is a prolific writer and spitter. He proved himself to those who matter in the competitive 90’s. What you think as a Johnny Come Lately means nothing.

[@JemyEddine]

​​@@kentalks2818He was a good rapper back then, and nobody can take that away from him. But every big Pun fan knows that the lyrics in this specific song weren't written by Fat Joe! We're talking about the style of lyricism, the way he puts words together and the multis, that's all Pun's style

[@kentalks2818]

@@JemyEddine Take that weak minded 💩 somewhere else. Now you’re the authority of every Pun fan, and you’re somehow in the know of what happened for this song. FoH. Was you in the room with them? Joe and Pun heighten each other pen like Rae and Ghost, or Nas and AZ. There are plenty of songs they both made that has each other’s influence in them.

[@mellymel9892]

Joe always had presence but he never really had profound bars 😂

[@noelcepeda1245]

Listening to this makes me think JayZ copied his style, PERIODDDDD

[@IlungaMesso]

Jay z stole this flow for really

[@charlieharper6377]

What song, name one song

[@miguelesteban5768]

Joe was nice on this, but yall know he didn’t write his verse to it 😂

[@Garrett1240]

Who did

[@miguelesteban5768]

@@Garrett1240 This was released around the time Joe was doing the Don Cartagena album. His ghostwriters at the time was Pun and Triple Seis (which Seis mentioned in an interview), so my guess based off that flow, it might have been Seis (or Pun lol). Joe can spit , but he isn’t articulate enough to come up with concepts like Pun and his camp could. Which is why he hires writers, because he got no pen game to follow up on it.

[@JemyEddine]

​@@miguelesteban5768Absolutely, everyone knows Pun's music, he definitely knows that this song was written by him, and not just this one! There are other songs where Pun was ghostwriting for Joe as well

[@miguelesteban5768]

@@JemyEddine Yes. That’s including the Don Cartagena, Terror Squad album and some of Jealous Ones Envy. He even owes Flavor Unit rapper King Sun some cash for writing Joe’s first album Represent. Now I’m hearing about some kid named TA who helped wrote a couple of Joe’s albums from J.O.S.E. to Darkside. TA called him out on it and Joe disconnected his ties with him. Joe been using writers for years, I’m surprised no one ain’t notice that since he never a had flow or cadence of his own.

[@ratamrato99]

genial

[@vedantpatil3535]

Eminem's Sslp hooks always sound similar to this hook Just shows how much Em was influenced by Big L and his delivery are insane too

[@ARIES24kal]

Same flow...same rhythm scheme..punch lines...Jay bit...back in the late 90s....close ur 👀 s and you can hear Big L on Dead presidents....same Candice..voice.. EVERYTHING...

[@charlieharper6377]

What songs did Jayz say these lines on?

[@ARIES24kal]

@@charlieharper6377 not same lines...but sounds same on Dead Presidents track...

[@46.56.A.]

Fat Joe killed this.

[@samuelbrandao5324]

Tony soprano

[@someguy-sq5om]

Definitely doesn't have the catalog to be top 5. Could have been but isnt. Even guys like Ras Kass, Royce Da 5'9, Pharoahe Monch have better claims just based on how much epic lyricism they've created through the years.

[@Rickboss212]

Big L has single verses that’ll shut down some rappers whole albums so he is top 5 for me rip l

[@blazayblazay8888]

THAT’S NOT WHAT HE SAID BUT OK