Big L vs. Canibus

[@AlwaysElevating]

Canibus is one of the only MCs that can actually be compared to Big L.

[@TheRealShaoKahn]

I say Canibus, he had better punchlines than any emcee did back then. His knowledge nowadays is better than punchlines. He continues to improve while others fall off. He out-shines people without punchlines. Big L was still disgusting though! If only he and Pun were still alive, all three of them would've made tracks together featuring K Rino of course! LOL

[@ccyungin]

you can tell Cassidy was deeply inspired by Big L

[@elpinchemarax3871]

Who is Cassidy ?

[@thanitoast]

Jigga man also

[@KirkSaintsLoverMills]

Big L wins, he wasn't even using his best punchlines in the video.

[@gabrielleelliott4214]

Big l killed this here

[@JoseVelasquez-zy2yl]

Top 5 Nas Big l Az Mf doom Guru

[@ishaking6278]

Canibus wins. Cause his rhyme schemes, metaphors, entendres and wordplays are way better period.

[@I3oomerTappy]

Big L overrated!? He is the most underrated MC of all time. Anyone outside of NY doesn't even know the name Big L

[@midwestnative32]

I do I’m from Detroit 29 years old

[@darrylyoung849]

I do I’m from Omaha and he use to be in DITC with Showbiz and AG

[@morbster6520]

@Goopy Le Grande but look at his views on his songs

[@niilokankainen6441]

Im literaly from FINLAND and people knows him

[@I3oomerTappy]

@Goopy Le Grande Yeah at the time of writing this, 8 years ago, L was nowhere near as known on the internet. Only old school heads knew of him. Now a lot of these weirdo kids be talking like they knew Big L like that lol

[@gangstamind187]

i wonder if they ever met... Both some of the greatest.

[@TheColorfulCube]

Messages - Canibus Flow -Big L Diversity - Canibus Punchlines - Canibus (Big L has overrated punchlines) Rhyme Schemes - Big L Storytelling - Idk Albums - Canibus (RTJ/Mic Club > Any Big L album)

[@ishaking6278]

Yeah , big l has overrated punchlines but he is destroys bis

[@ishaking6278]

Rhyme scheme goes to Canibus.

[@drEAmzZzza]

canibus #1 of all time lyrically. L right up there with him rip

[@westong6819]

im 4 years late but I agree

[@ishaking6278]

Do you really think Canibus is the most lyrical? Aesop Rock, Eminem, Big Sean, Mozzy, MF DOOM, most of the Wu-Tang clan, Mos Def and dozens more rappers are destroying him.

[@drEAmzZzza]

@@ishaking6278 ur 10years late and no theyre trash

[@mmarcjp5057]

@@ishaking6278 we talking about canibus and you talking about asap rocky, and big Sean? Really?

[@ishaking6278]

@@mmarcjp5057 yeah

[@shamarrich1636]

Can-I-bus

[@thabothapedi1147]

Where is the energy Big L?? We want Bis, we want Bis!!!!

[@Bentropy88]

Lifestyles of the Poor and Dangerous and Rip the Jacker are my all time favourite albums. Love your track choice as well, beast from the east, old freestyle over the milkbone beat and of course poet laureate. Think we have a very similar taste in music.

[@thisismyfirstnamethisismyl7531]

Big L, but their both really really good

[@ishaking6278]

It's connected to what you wanna thing measure. Big L wins at the punchline, flow, storytelling. But Canibus is way better at rhyming, wordplays, metaphors, entendres period.

[@runegeezy]

whoever made this did such a bad job. Compare apples to apples. Dont use Big L's radio freestyles and Canibus' album shit. Use Canibus' radio freestyle appearances and compare those

[@nas9957]

buckingham palace is a freestyle turned into a track, tho other two aint

[@runegeezy]

@@nas9957 😒

[@slyc7872]

Man Canibus on radio is monster

[@krzysztof4607]

They both are known for radio freestyles

[@krzysztof4607]

Both are the greatest in other lyrical aspects Big L - the best in punchlines and slick talk type of rhymes Canibus - best vocabuulary, wisdom, song concepts (like 100 bars, 1000 bars, Poet Laureate II)

[@ishaking6278]

Aesop rock , Eminem , Busdriver etc has more vocabulary than Bis

[@ishaking6278]

Eminem has way better punchlines than Big L since 90's.

[@krzysztof4607]

@@ishaking6278 cut this shit 😭😭😂

[@ishaking6278]

@@krzysztof4607 Lol. You don't know anything.

[@Tariq0826]

I love Big L's Punchlines. Punchline for punchline Canibus Punchlines make Big L's sound like amateur punchlines. Prime Canibus was not a human being

[@thatt-shirtguy9669]

@StreamerVideo canibus is more of a mad scientist, while L is more of a sharpshooter

[@simonhilmoine1439]

Canibus lines are sooo inovative and fresh, his ideas for his punchlines are sooo original, and he is very very unique. He says thinks that is so fucking genius funny and hard that he impresses me so much. There is really no one like him. Big L had so fucking powerfull punchlines aswell, also L´s flow and the way he is able to do crazy good compound rhyming that make his shit sound fresh as fuck. However i do think that L was limited to do songs only with gangster content. But we will never really know what he might have done if he lived longer.. First album was the best in my opinion. When i was 20 years old i traveled with my friend from Denmark to NYC just to visit L´s hood. L has always been my favourite rapper. Who is best... i dont know man its to hard! Canibus did not get the chance in the game that i deserved. Its crazy to think about how prehaps the best MC ever did not really get his shot... But i wonder if he even was able to put a good album together, i mean he was not really able to put out albums that you felt like listening to from a to z, because production was not really good, and his content was to packed in a way... But as a MC and the lines i has written he will forever have done some of the best shit. I wonder if him and L ever met each other? More notes about Big L. He was a superhuman rapping, and he will just smash the mic line for line with funny and hard hitting shit, very strong flow and rhymes that are out of this world. "Big L be lighting n****s like insense/ getting men lynched/ to intense/ im killing infants for 10 cent/" cause im a street genius/ with a unique penis/ Got fly chicks/ on my dick/ who dont even speak english/ - just fucking killing it with funny and hard hitting lines bar after bar always just smashing it.... However Canibus said "Im the illest n**** alive watch me prove it/ I snatch the crown of you with your head still attached to it/ Bis is the type to fight for mics´s/ Beating n****s to death and beating dead n'****s to life/ That is just soo fucking hard... fuck man i can´t make my mind up who is best.. But maybe im leaning to Canibus a little just because of his uniqueness. L´s style was so strong, but the gangster street persona is just a little boring and limitting.

[@TheColorfulCube]

@StreamerVideo TI isnt that good, and shouldnt be compared to Em or Canibus.

[@CAM8689]

both are tight but I got Big L in this one.

[@EmceeEntertainmentRS]

They're both nice emcees in different fields of flow and overall rhyme technique

[@KirkSaintsLoverMills]

You got some of that wrong. Big L is the punchline king, his punchlines beat Canibus punchline, Big L is more diverse and they are equal at storytelling. But Canibus does have better messages and albums right. But overall is Big L.

[@NewEarthSon]

Canibus wins

[@3therock3]

Big L was a lyrical beast he won that shit plus thats not even his best punchlines

[@ishaking6278]

Canibus wins. Canibus rhyme schemes, emtendres, metaphors, wordplays way better. Canibus put more thought into his lyrics

[@RejectingGlobalism]

This was alright but you should have used canibus radio appearances, like you did with big L. IMO Bis' radio appearances in the 90s are fuckin BEAST.

[@Regzus]

Big L all the way.

[@skatinwhenican]

Canibus flow is still amazing decades later

[@Eziokilla9595]

@TheColorfulCube How is Bus more diverse than L? I'm not saying Big L is very diverse, but Diversity is the last word I'd use to describe Bus. L is definitely a better storyteller. I can't recall the last time Bus spit a COHESIVE story. Freestyles is about a tie. Big L is more accessible and entertaining to me. But, punchlines and albums, you're right. RTJ is seriously insane, this is coming from a dude who never liked Canibus.

[@Tariq0826]

Canibus, Canibus's Punchlines make Big L's sound like Amateur punchilines for me. They just not in the same weight class shame, Bis is a beast man

[@drgongshankthachef6153]

Name me a rapper that has better punchlines than Big L. Ok I'll wait....

[@ishaking6278]

Em and Royce has way better punchlines.

[@CockyR4]

Big L more lyrical than Cannibus? Maybe his flow lol

[@popeye_thesailorman]

Big L king of punchlines

[@user-yi9hz3or2t]

Flow, punchlines and internal ryhmes while rapping fast L is better

[@ishaking6278]

@@user-yi9hz3or2t Canibus has way better rhymes.

[@ishaking6278]

@@popeye_thesailormanThe doing punchline doesnt mean you are better lyricist. Canibus's rhyme schemes, entendres, wordplays metaphors hard that Big L cant touch. Also Eminem has way better punchlines than Big L

[@user-yi9hz3or2t]

@@ishaking6278 nah

[@killerstrict]

L's the rebel on a higher level on this one

[@ReturnOfTheZ]

@vermont4life34 C'mon, you gotta give Bis his due. Rip the Jacker, 2000 B.C., Miclub, C of Tranquility, Meltanin Magik and Lyrical Law are all very good (some even classic) albums. I've actually preferred him over L as of late. Canibus' main problem has been production. Lyrically, he's a complete monster. His evolution over the course of his career is amazing. L is a legend, but now I think he's too one-dimensional to fuck with Canibus. I actually preferred L back when I first made this lol.

[@lethalassassin1754]

L was showing potential for a lot of things. He had great storytelling capabilities. Canibus talked a big game and brags how he’s the illest. L was raw and talented. Bis is the one dimensional I’m the illest rah rah rah fruits and foods fuck you fuck you im better im better….aliens.

[@jasonolafami4528]

Big l is also a lyrical beast on the mic. Most of his topics i agree were about how he was the best and how if you try to step up to him he will fuck you up with his superior rhyme schmes. But the amount of rappers Big l influenced can't be denied. One of the first with that hoorocore style. Em and Jakakiss said that they both looked up to him. If he made his first album around em's time. he would have been bigger for sure

[@TheColorfulCube]

@Eziokilla9595 He's more diverse because his subject matter is more diverse. Big L mostly had horrorcore type of bragging. Canibus also has excessive braggin but he has deep songs like Channel Zero, Secrets Amongst Cosmonauts, I Honor U, etc. And you may be true about Big L being a better storyteller. but Big L is more one dimensional than Canibus. and alot of his stuff was just him rhymin for the sake of rhyming. Canibus actually has more thought to his lyrics.

[@jasonolafami4528]

listen to how will I make it by Big l and Street Struck

[@drEAmzZzza]

bis beter

[@KSATica]

Check out this video for anyone interested and in love of Hip-Hop. (Song:K-Rino Vs Canibus- Video created by [The Colorfulcube] ).

[@Eziokilla9595]

@ReturnOfTheZ I thought I'd return and suggest a video. Kendrick Lamar vs. J Cole. If you don't have Section.80 yet, go cop that shit NOW. And if you don't have Friday Night Lights, go download that shit NOW. Both are two up-and-coming rappers going hard.

[@XShollaj]

BOTH GREAT IN MY OPINION BIS WINS BUT THATS A PERSONAL PREFERENCE WHOEVER WINS IS COOL

[@TheColorfulCube]

@Vermont4life48 Start with "Sickplicity". Then listen to some of the songs on his first album. He has some nice shit.

[@TheColorfulCube]

@ThatMilkMan27 Canibus doesnt use much multis. He often uses big words but that doesnt make him good at multis, because he rarely rhymes the full syllables. Maybe the last 2 or 3 syllables. ppl need to realize that big words isnt multi rhyming, unless you're actually rhyming more than one syllable.

[@tris87don16]

Yeah Canibus I’ll go with Big L was bad though

[@ReturnOfTheZ]

@Eziokilla9595 That's whassup, thanks for the comment and support fam.

[@gangstamind187]

Canibus is way beyond Big L...just because he died and left a legacy doesn't mean he's better than Canibus... stop fronting people...Canibus is too complex for L

[@moccri1003]

🤡

[@Eziokilla9595]

@ReturnOfTheZ Respect, and I'm subscribed now.

[@wyclefadamcy9863]

I don't even have to know the outcome, to know bus murder him. ain't no one can fuck with canibus.

[@jaganmaster]

@ReturnOfTheZ Topics r important...I never discounted that. Topics is what will ultimately decide whether someone clicks with an artist or not. I said it's Kraft-T-Ness (then explained) combined with the topics (plural) that mean the most to a person-personally. I just put the message out there for the kids on a never ending search to find who's the dopest mc of all time lyrically. As to whether a topic gets old or not depends on the individual. I personally get jaded from 1 topic tho lol

[@sfknns]

@StreamerVideo , can you break that canibus line down for me?

[@Eziokilla9595]

@ReturnOfTheZ ....and as a result of that, he ended up a sell-out. "Rip The Jacker," is one of my Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums ever, but that was the end of the good stuff. You could switch around Bus' verses in MIC Curriculum and I wouldn't notice. When every song has the same flow, same beat style and no hook, Canibus loses all personality. I'm not questioning his lyrical ability, but when Canibus first started, he was a GIFTED lyricist who tore every guest appearance to shreds, to a man that.....

[@Eziokilla9595]

@ReturnOfTheZ Oh, you need to. Look up, "HiiiPower."

[@ReturnOfTheZ]

@Eziokilla9595 That's on Section.80 lol, I've heard it, but that's ALL I've heard from Kendrick. I don't wanna compare a bunch of songs from one album to a bunch of songs that have been released over the course of 4 different projects.

[@Eziokilla9595]

@ReturnOfTheZ Just supporting real Hip-Hop shit man

[@YORACO20]

Canibus #1

[@daredevil5716]

I feel like canibus takes the W on this one

[@HighVltgBTDwn]

Hey can anyone tell me what the first beat is?

[@ishaking6278]

Canibus way way better in his prime.

[@TheColorfulCube]

@StreamerVideo TI??? LOL

[@jaganmaster]

I swear niggas think da topics u rhyme about make u lyrical. LET ME TELL U NAGGAZ SUMTIN. Being lyrical is all about Kraft-T-Ness which may include flo, swag, wordplay, multi's, punches, knowledge, makin sense etc... it's the overall delivery of ur words. That combined with topics that speak loudest 2U = UR GREATEST RAPPER OF ALL TIME LYRICALLY & by industry wut matters is who sells the most which = Eminem currently. I just thought I'd put the hammer down

[@Eziokilla9595]

@ReturnOfTheZ That's fair. And I get it. But, Section.80 is the shit I'm on right now

[@Eziokilla9595]

@TheColorfulCube Yeah, you're probably right.

[@Larsinyfammm]

@TrueSomename the stuff he is most remembered for is mostly NWA and that was all Ice Cube

[@jackaboodf16]

i hope u liked it

[@ReturnOfTheZ]

@vermont4life34 lol you ain't gotta apologize, it's not like I personally know the dude or anything. But yeah I feel you.

[@Eziokilla9595]

@ReturnOfTheZ Uh.....Bus has more problems then that. He never learned how to write a song, he doesn't have an ear for beats, and he tried to kick-start his career by starting random beefs with rappers like Eminem (which was an overall horrible beef for both rappers,) Royce da 5'9'' and DJ Premier. His problem with LL was the only justified battle in his career, and he lost. Bus has made his career by burning every single bridge that he came to. He refused to learn from his mistakes and....

[@CelaMayne]

Are these freestyles versus writtens? Big L is better in my mind.

[@TheColorfulCube]

@young128 LOL you sure do love to follow me just to start arguments.

[@Tariq0826]

Canibus is a heavy weight, L a middle weight

[@jayd4ever]

they are both equal but lyrically cannibus is better so cannibus

[@rampagecurruption]

Both are real

[@MrKingchris13]

haly shit this is a beast mix up five stars

[@helloulotful]

canibus just says massive complicated words half of the ppl dont even understand that shit..

[@jaganmaster]

Now 4 my opinion.....Canibus by far.... Rip Big L

[@jackaboodf16]

check canibus -- yale universe it'll blow ur mind

[@jackaboodf16]

funny thing it was off the dome :O it's true

[@Larsinyfammm]

@StreamerVideo he didnt even write his lyrics ice cube did, so how does that make eazy e good

[@jayd4ever]

canibus better lyrically but big l better flow

[@Eziokilla9595]

@ReturnOfTheZ Believe me, I'm no hater. I just didn't like, "Second Rounds K.O." because I felt that it was a very generic diss. But, again, THATS subjective. I'm also not riding LL or Eminem's dick and I'm offended that Canibus dissed them. While I love both LL and Eminem, I'm just trying to express that Canibus isn't flawless. And Mic Club had some great tracks, but I just feel like Canibus never learned how to be an MC, not a rapper. The verses just lost personality after, "Master Thesis."

[@Eziokilla9595]

@ReturnOfTheZ ....that uses his large vocabulary as a crutch, and an excuse to make himself look like he still has an edge. Just look at Canibus' recent stuff. For example, his verse in Diabolic's album, "Liar & a Thief," in the song, "In Common," is nowhere near the caliber that, "Poet Laureate II," was. Conversely, Big L will always be a part of the Hip-Hop community, and I find listening to a rapper freestyle with fun punchlines is much more satisfying than rhyming large words. I'm no hater.

[@ishaking6278]

Most of Big L lyrics for rhyming.

[@greyfearon394]

Big L annihilates

[@user-yi9hz3or2t]

Facts

[@TNGBigTy187]

@gangstamind187 VOCABULARY WISE...........BUT SKILL WISE ABSOLUTELY NOT, BIG L FUCKING SHREDDED BEATS BRO

[@ReturnOfTheZ]

@Eziokilla9595 Nah, I know, I ain't accusing you of hating lol. But oh yeah, of course Canibus isn't flawless. No MC is flawless, no matter how you cut it. Every rapper can improve in some way or another.

[@MannyMMA]

canibus is more lyrical

[@Larsinyfammm]

Big L bad comparison

[@landoverroc2870]

L wins in a battle and Is the better mc by far even tho bis is more complex and lyrical. Not rocket science people.

[@sashasarronen6300]

Naah canibus takes it

[@jarrelely1376]

Landover Roc the 89 Jay-Z vs the 89 fresh Prince? Who was the nicest MC?

[@ali25393]

lyrically canibus overall L

[@ETEECEEZ]

Dam honestly its a draw..

[@Gupitor]

two legends but can-i-bus wins

[@helloulotful]

obviously big l...

[@gabrielleelliott4214]

helloulotful that part

[@LD-xn8jj]

Big l rip

[@ahmedinajad77]

Both these guys are better than NAS and eminem.

[@jissrapisardi9499]

bonez 206 Hahaha, no. Big L is the GOAT, but Em and Nas are both top 6. Canibus is top 25 at very best.

[@emmanuelteshome2469]

Jiss Rapisardi Canibus is top 5. His Mic Club: The Curriculum and Rip the Jacker albums are lyrical masterpieces. They were both out of this world. Just cause someone got blackballed doesn't mean they suck. Not a huge fan of Big L, but I think his punchlines and wordplay are better than Bis.

[@TERRELLTURNER1999]

eh

[@ishaking6278]

Big L is trash and most overrated rapper of all time. Big L is all does punchline and doing punchline does not mean you are greatest lyricist of all time or you are better than Eminem or Nas. Eminem's rhyme schemes, wordplays, metaphors, entendres, flow, freestyles... Unrivaled. This much. Also Nas has way better flow, storytelling, metaphors, rhyme schemes, wordplays than overrated ass Big L.

[@ishaking6278]

@@emmanuelteshome2469 Canibus is not even top 50

[@yquickzyy-_-260]

Big l

[@_WESTSIDE_]

people give to much credit to canibus. he's overrated

[@krzysztof4607]

Nah bro he isn't, his punchlines are overrated because he had that punchline style for a short time when he was starting career. But overall lyrically he is a beast

[@ishaking6278]

@@krzysztof4607 Big L is overrated and his punchlines too overrated. Canibus way better lyrically than Big L. This much.

[@krzysztof4607]

@@ishaking6278 Big L is underrated because he was so much a head of time, nobody had punchlines like him in 95, Canibus is underrated too, he is overall the best lyricist and his discography is great.

[@ishaking6278]

@@krzysztof4607 Em is had. Also I see that he is greatest lyricist of all time at every comment videos that about him. He is not.

[@krzysztof4607]

@@ishaking6278 "em is had" wtf that even means

[@user-yi9hz3or2t]

Big L

[@JoseVelasquez-zy2yl]

Big l wins