Ice Cube Responds To Tony Yayo’s Claim That Biggie Was Better Storyteller Than Him

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Ice Cube has responded to comments made by Tony Yayo in a recent Drink Champs interview regarding The Notorious B.I.G. being a better storyteller than him.
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[@seanhinton5655]

"I started this gangster shit and this the motherfucking thanks I get"

[@thunderouso6662]

Ice T did

[@fuads5529]

@@thunderouso6662 ice cube did too

[@yuur-km4uy]

Hello

[@lmcmill5964]

“To be in that conversation, I’m winning already.” 👏🏾

[@gt024]

Ice Cube is very humble. Allow me to retort. The "Conversation" about "Storytelling" in Hip-hop starts with CUBE. 💯

[@gt024]

@big_dinero7942 This ain't about 2pac and Biggie. Stay focused. This is about the ability to tell a story. Make your argument. Based in logic please.

[@rightsoon4836]

@bigduninero. 🤨Why NY peeps always brags what do you mean story telling starts from NY and who told you biggie was humble? Biggie humbled distanced himself from the guy who housed him took him to shows when he was in prison for a crime he really did not do? He was humble when he chose to diss a dead man? He was humble when he couldn’t talk it out with him while alive? He’s humble when he went to radio calling for snoops and co to be gunned and chased out of ny? All this was how big was so humbled🤫

[@gt024]

@big_dinero7942 I said Ice Cube was humble. Like most Biggie worshipers, you wanna give him that title too. 🤣 Best everything! As for storytelling, the conversation starts with Ice Cube because he's arguably the best to ever do it. FYI.. I can tell you don't really know Cube's catalog like that. I've heard every Biggie song ever made at least a hundred times. I'm probably more qualified than you to speak on this. You haven't made a compelling argument using examples. I'll give you "One More Chance." Then I'm going in on you with "No Vaseline." Lol

[@gt024]

@big_dinero7942 "Clearly" humor is not your strong suit. One more chance and no Vaseline was aimed at you as a play on words, goofball. I'm over qualified to give you this work. Notorious Big; while he was an excellent word Smith, one of the best to ever do it, he never used that to expand beyond telling stories about himself as a King Pin drug dealer, NY Gangster, being a playboy, being rich, or being broke early in life. Ice Cube; by the time Biggie was on the air with his debut album, Cube already had 5 legendary albums that gave him the crown for the art of storytelling. He's made songs about the hood, hood cats, drug dealers, convicts, ex-cons, gangsters, gang banging, being broke, being rich, economics between the haves and have nots, racism, police brutality, sellouts and uncle toms, strip clubs, interracial dating, troubled youth, traveling, black empowerment, Jim crow, slavery and the kkk, being a boss, giving away our culture, standing on principles, etc. I could keep going but I don't need to. Biggie never touched 95% of that subject matter. Thus, he could never be a better storyteller. He was a good storyteller and that should be enough for you as a fan.

[@niecy5425]

Ice Cube handled it like a gentleman, I love his response 👏🏾

[@Blackfeet]

Whoo Kid is a part of G-Unit also and they're all from the tree of Eazy-E and Dr. Dre so it's all family at the end of the day.

[@alexprovence9379]

Ice cube can’t f with biggie let’s be honest

[@jonathancoleman6482]

@@alexprovence9379why better than biggie

[@unlcemierda1738]

He kept repeating the suitcase in the Sentra had me dying 😂😂😂

[@blueprint_says7264]

😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂 bro stop it 😂😂😂

[@thekingsempire]

Ice Cube's WHAT CAN I DO..... Timeless story telling

[@mfjudge9212]

My summer vacation Lil ass gee Steady mobbing

[@KasanovaKee325]

@@mfjudge9212 A Bird in the Hand Alive on Arrival Ghetto Bird Once Upon A Time in the Projects Robin Hood We can go on and on with Ice Cube’s story telling.

[@gt024]

​@@mfjudge9212Exactly, I just mentioned all these songs in my comment. He's also not over glorifying himself to sell the narrative.

[@Cartwright21215]

Today was a good day was a story

[@geeknsneaks]

Roll All Day, Color Blind, Black Korea, Look who’s Burnin, Doing Dumb Shit, Who Got the Camera?, Higher, Down For Whatever, You Ain’t Gonna Take My Life, The World Is Mine, Gotta Be Insanity, Ghetto Vet, Now I Gotta Wet Cha, Natural Born Killaz, AmeriKKKa’z Most Wanted, When I Get to Heaven

[@lukekhalid896]

That was a killa flex, "Are we just talking about rap? Cuz i write movies too" Hard AF, that could be a bar low key

[@FreeRek16]

What else would we be talking about Ice Cube? Shout out to John Singleton 👀

[@KDogduval]

As Cube said..HE WRITES MOVIES..ain't no better story tellin that. Case closed💯

[@NavAK_86]

Has nothing to do with raps. Making a song about a story is completely different than a script.

[@lwrncjms]

​@NavAK_86 Ice Cube wrote Today Was a Good Day long before he started writing movies so yeah

[@JCMthebrand]

That’s a dumb ass logic, so Stephen king a great storyteller in rap too? So dumb.

[@ericharris2860]

​@@lwrncjmsAnd biggie wrote warning long before ice cube picked up a script also

[@ThereWasThisBchFromMinnesota]

@@ericharris2860warning and Juicy don’t even compare to it was a good day, or summer vacation

[@worldtree2027]

Ice Cube is one of the best songwriters in history regardless of genre. His ability to convey through vivid imagery and command tone with specific words or deliveries was unparalleled. Death Certificate to date is one of the few 10/10 albums to come out of hip-hop. Listen to his catalog from ‘90-‘93 as well as his writing contributions to many other MC’s work during that period.

[@shady6152]

@big_dinero7942 yeah like I said before. Rakim , slick Rick and KRS1. Are the golden standard of storytelling. I’ve listened to no Vaseline and the other albums and tracks people tell me to listen too. I didn’t get a reply value out of them.

[@shady6152]

@big_dinero7942 you and I both. Not even close. I’ve tried to listen to cube, not saying that he’s a bad rapper, but we need to slow down with the cube over biggie thing.

[@mistaknewitall2718]

Exactly

[@bradenwright2586]

Unparalleled until Pac & Biggie dropped. oh wait Rakim had already dropped! 😅

[@LuisMartinez-le2pc]

@big_dinero7942ce Cube is top tier and one of the all time great’s. To me Nas is my favorite story teller and is in my top five of all time. KRS ONE is also probably in my top five but bro it’s even hard just to make a top five. Certain MC’s have already surpassed Biggie in my opinion. He didn’t have that much solo material and both Ice Cube and BIG ghostwrote for group’s. That alone is extremely hard. To state that Ice Cube is basic or does not belong on someone’s top list is crazy. He does deserve his flowers and I personally would not be mad if someone has him on their top five but again it’s all about preference. To me in a way it depends on the era that we are talking about. Because every era has their top five in a way. I think everyone need’s to respect if it’s Biggie, Cube, Nas, KRS ONE, etc. Everyone has a certain influence and do keep in mind that BIG only really had a couple of album’s. In my opinion Jay Z and Jadakiss already surpassed Biggie but then again that is just my opinion. Anyways Peace and Love and long live hip hop.

[@Napierre]

My Summer Vacation is one of the best story raps I've ever heard. And it didn't sound far fetched, animated or like fiction, some of them Biggie stories sound like he watched a movie and wrote a rap about it..matter of fact Biggie aliases are all movie character names.

[@e.r.g.thegod3905]

Who’s the Mack was a classic nice storytelling in that one also

[@elbowgang9715]

My Summer Vacation is a movie off of other niggas lives so you still wrong. Cube wasn't selling Crack in St Louis

[@Napierre]

@@e.r.g.thegod3905 💯

[@pharoah504]

Facts. Summer Vacation, never get with a girl from the projects,today was a good day.

[@Napierre]

@@pharoah504💯 Ghetto Vet! Can't Fade me!

[@mrhdwhite]

I have been listening to hip-hop since tracks were 11 minutes long. I have owned all of both Cube’s and Biggie’s joints and listened to them probably hundreds of times each. This debate is not one that I have ever heard before, but it forced me to go back into my mental crates of these two legends. First, let’s be real, there is a lot of emotional attachment to Biggie - gone way too soon. Because of that attachment, I think it is difficult for some people to actually listen to the heart of the debate. There is a difference between storytelling and rapping or flow. I think even Cube would agree that Biggie’s flow was nearly untouchable. Storytelling is another facet of hip-hop, that is used far less these days. When I think about storytelling telling, I think about a writers’ ability to visually put your mind into the scene of what they’re communicating and to make the listener feel as if they are experiencing what is being said. Your flow and ability to tell stories are two different skill sets. When I look at this debate this way, I agree, Ice Cube was better at storytelling than Biggie. I think “Good Day” and “Jackin’ for Beats” highlight Cubes ability take a plot and move it along within a song. Other examples of storytelling - Special Ed (The Mission), Rakim (Mahogany), Tupac (Dear Mama) and more recently Jay-Z (99 Problems), Kendrick (Savior), J Cole (Wet Dreams).

[@emiliadumitru8030]

Damn. This a hip hop take if I ever read one.

[@emiliadumitru8030]

And thank you!

[@TheCityIzLitty]

IDK bro story to tell, gimme the loot, niggas bleed, get money. BIG was a very visual emcee in general and flow is critical in rap so I’m giving the 👑 to BIG he’s better overall at rapping and that absolutely counts. Cube sounds like he’s reading from a notebook a lot of the time and his rhymes are also generally very basic although thought provoking. BIG used more poetical elements which made the visual interpretations more interesting and vivid he REALLY WAS the rap Alfred Hitchcock. Bro said “sweat trickling down ya cheek / ya heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet, THUNDERING shaking the concrete. Then the shit stops when I foil the plot neighbors called the cops said they heard mad shots.” . Ten Crack Commandments You literally see Jake whipping rock and the girl snorting it all up sucking off and cooking steak and if ya don’t ya blind and I grew up in NYC during crack BIGGIE captured the time period precisely in a vile of musical crack. Cube and Friday is dope but without the movies he wouldn’t be as big and there wouldn’t be a comparison. We haven’t heard this comparison because there really shouldn’t be it’s apples and oranges Drink Champs is stupid overall especially when they try and compare art like just let it all be great. If anything cube and NWA is foundational to BIG it’s symbiotic like we don’t need to compare them really. Only in Black Music do they try and tear one artists shit down so another’s can be held higher it’s wack. Biggie is one of the top 5 lyricists of all time DOA simply off the compression factor. Even if you want to compare Cubes storytelling BIG did all that in 3 years and 2 albums the only other storytelling MC with a track record like that is Slick Rick. You can’t really compare cube to either one the trajectory of they careers are completely different. Rick went to jail at his peak and Big Passed. Cube got more fame from Friday than ANY prior album he dropped although they were considered classics it’s the whole NWA and no Vaseline plus linking up with Public Enemy’s production team that got him some clout but let’s be 100% nobody was EVER comparing Cube to REAL NYC lyrical dudes like Kane, G Rap or even Grand Puba at the time. BIG got all those comparisons and still does and it’s for a reason. Cube is dope and creative but he’s not better than BIG by a long shot BIGs stories are intricate cubes play out like see Jane run. Fuck DJ EFN for even Making the comparison like seriously who TF put him in position to even have a public opinion like that? NORE??? drunk moron who barely remembers elements of the questions he’s asking. Shit like that is killing hip hop. BIG came and went like a supernova cuz that’s what he was they really need to stop shitting on his name and legacy with these lame and inaccurate comparisons.

[@burgesswilliams8745]

Slick rick children's story also

[@eessaaiidd]

Stan - Eminem. Genius.

[@BO4SHO]

Killed him With the Movie writing....... OVERWITH

[@NavAK_86]

Completely irrelevant to rap

[@martinezandy15]

Ice Cube just needs to drop one last album for the culture

[@VapelifeX]

Cube been dropping projects. He also did that project with Snoop, E-40 and Too $hort

[@edmondpeoplesjr2768]

Everything corrupts is fire and recently new along with mount Rushmore

[@pearleycunningham]

No he doesn’t… everything since “I Am The West” has been trash…

[@richieedwards4133]

Two different era's, two different coast, both deserve to be honored.

[@SupaNovaDomino]

How were they different eras when they literally both had albums in the 90s ?

[@richieedwards4133]

@@SupaNovaDomino nwa's first album dropped in the mid to late eighties Biggie came out in the early 90s

[@toyz8ntus]

Ice Cube’s has music in the 90s …Big has music in the 90s.

[@richieedwards4133]

@@toyz8ntus Big and Cube is a terrible debatable topic. Big and Nas makes more sense. And in that case Nas is the one. You wanna compare cube with someone from the East. Maybe Kool G Rap

[@DreX-8810]

Biggie was grossly overrated

[@roddrickd.haynes2801]

Cube is one of the reasons that we know what story telling in rap music is about!

[@shady6152]

Slick Rick and Rakim

[@kbtitan2464]

Rick Da Ruler

[@shady6152]

@@kbtitan2464 see you understand. Lol

[@NICKEYBLACK35]

I'll give that to Slick Rick, and Biggie, nor Cube, is above Slick Rick as it relates to storytelling.

[@instanturbannews]

Biggies music is ass 😂

[@h0t3L]

They are both great. Its difficult to choose because they both had very iconic moments in hippop.

[@houseofmatrix6174]

I definitely agree

[@Eli-ss9gj]

I agree. Both are definitely top 5 in that regard.

[@liljuve13]

Tripping, don’t come close to cube

[@elbowgang9715]

I got Nas over both of them

[@fonzworthy26786]

30+ year career and a pioneer vs a 2album career what are we even talking about

[@MrDipper3]

The best story tellers I’ve ever heard were Cube and Scarface.

[@leesmithsr]

I agree

[@Coco-de2ei]

Nas

[@MrDipper3]

@@Coco-de2ei yes nas also

[@slreynolds5651]

🙌🏾

[@BDoz513]

Got Damn thank u man! I’m from the Midwest Ohio to be exact. Somebody wit some sense on here. Nas is up there too

[@1977Kingsolomon]

Who really thinks Yayo heard or was bumpin Cube in the 90s in NY? I lived on both coasts in that timeframe and loved both. If you lived where Big lived his stories resonate with you on a different level. Same for if you was in LA, Compton, or the Bay area.

[@jenniferohjenny7142]

Before falling in love with East Coast, Ice Cube was definitely my favorite rapper. I was too young to under the art of storytelling at that time but Ice Cube is a great story teller. I mean he wrote most of the NWA records.

[@icarusachilles6777]

Never really thought about it but Cube might just be the greatest storyteller, period. You can't undermine the impact of Boyz N The Hood. That ONE song alone jump-started A LOT of careers PLUS Cube writes movies bruh. Movies!! I don't think there's really a comparison

[@kaineshigaraki5253]

With all due respect to all the Goats. Especially the Goats that are no longer with us. One of Ice Cube’s most popular songs is a storytelling song about having a good day. A song that many know by heart. [>

[@ronm3034]

Ok and one of biggie best songs is a story telling song you never heard of the warning?

[@devantethedcguyreactstoo252]

​@@ronm3034cube is better drops mic 🎙️

[@ronm3034]

@@devantethedcguyreactstoo252 that’s not a mic drop wtf lol

[@kaineshigaraki5253]

@@ronm3034 The Warning was a single? It plays on the radio?

[@slickjustgotpaid9865]

@@ronm3034but did he drop a triple double

[@inphumusfraust995]

I encourage everybody to listen to Ice Cube's Death Certificate album...his first solo album. Listen to it from the first track to last, in that order. One hell of a story.. u can't shuffle through it..the skits and everything...🔥🔥🔥

[@thegreatcanadianhustle8348]

2nd… AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted was the first.

[@static1217]

​@@thegreatcanadianhustle8348was about to post this

[@Dj.Hylanda]

Was gonna check that too 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@juliusgraham5952]

I know what you mean Death Certificate is a Classic..👍🏾

[@NavAK_86]

Dope classic album. Not better than Ready to Die though.

[@winningnow6960]

Ice and Big, no freaking comparison! Ice Cube had, has, and will always have the advantage in the story telling category. Whole nother level.

[@skemeSterling]

Don't ever sleep on Cube his body of work is crazy ... I believe his underrated. For the record I love both of the artists.

[@dorrianlassiter9980]

People also forget that ice cube wrote all of nwa songs until he departed hands down ice cube is a beast

[@theoriginal668]

Cube and Ren write most of the songs if not all

[@Audiophilifix]

Cube washing biggie LOL

[@blackvanguardrbg3468]

Ice Cube hands down. Yayo is like most New Yorkers who claim to listen to west coast rap. I can tell he never listen to an Ice Cube album. Biggie’s flow was nice but let’s be real he cannot mess with Ice Cube’s story telling. This argument is not even close. FYI, Nas is a far better story teller than Biggie.

[@357twilson]

You smokin that Cali weed

[@blackvanguardrbg3468]

Smoking cali weed would be a lot better than smoking that NY garbage zouk weed. I didn’t know yall still smoked crack and weed mixed together? That would explain Why yall think Biggie is a better storyteller than Cube. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@xl576]

😂😂😂

[@ronm3034]

If u not a bigggie fan just say that I’m from ny and nas is my favorite rapper but as far as storyteller it’s close ! But I tired to listen to cube just couldn’t get into his shit!

[@kgordon8834]

Not even close? Just say you don't like Biggie and leave it at that. You sound ridiculous. I'm a New York nigga that listened to all of Cube's albums and he is nowhere near the storyteller B.I.G. is. What's Cube's best stories? My Summer Vacation, Ghetto Vet, Today was a Good Day, Once Upon a Time in the Projects... what else? Those shits don't compare to Warning, Gimme the Loot, Everyday Struggle, Somebody's Gotta Die, A Story to Tell, Niggaz Bleed. Shit, Real Niggaz do Real Things is over all west coast beats and it shits on any story Ice Cube has.

[@Guda88]

When I hear it was a good day or juicy I get the same feeling. This is a tough one.

[@lg3385]

You know NY is gonna ride for NY no matter what.

[@realone6138]

Ya'll have ALWAYS BEEN the biggest HATERS smh

[@luyandajayjonsile2545]

😂yeaaaaaah😂

[@dallasborn8574]

East coast rappers will always be biased. Cube has many songs that make you visualize what he's saying as well as Big but Damn! Cube got Big beat. Especially about the movie shit lol.

[@lyricistdestroyerqueensbor8782]

I got mad respect for ice cube, I used to recite his rhyme all the time in school, being a new yorker everybody wanted to be a rapper and I you to say cube rhymes....and everybody though I made them up. That's how nice cube was. BUT saying ice cube was better than biggie is historically insane 😂😂😂 I just wanted to give respect to cube bcuz I respect my g.

[@joebrown2898]

@@realone6138you just mad we created it. Go make your own genre if y’all do nice 😂

[@nasim9619]

We love, Ice Cube, over here in the UK. ✊

[@BabsW]

We love Biggie even more

[@gregoryjames216]

Ice Cube is the number one story teller in Hip Hop history. Big is great but Cube got that category. Today was a Good Day is timeless.

[@sugs1191]

Slick rick

[@BabsW]

Ice Cube doesn't have records like "I Got a Story to Tell", "Niggas Bleed", or "Somebody Gotta Die".

[@gt024]

From "Steady Mobbin" talking about a day in the life of a hood cat, to "Little ass G" talking about a kid getting involved in street life, to "Check Yoself" talking about beef in prison, to "Good Day" talking about a day where everything goes right in the wrong environment for that to be probable, to "What Could I Do" talking about an Ex-Con adjusting to social/economic reform after years of being the man in the street and prison, I'd have to go with CUBE. That's an easy one if you're not From NY. I expect a New Yorker to have Yayo's position. Biggie has to win in all categories. 😂 BLESSINGS to the late great

[@NavAK_86]

Yeah but you're comparing basic nursery rhymes from Cube to Big's more technical lyricism and flow. His stories had more lyricalness to it. Cube rhymes only the last word of every bar. Too simple.

[@gt024]

@@NavAK_86 That's a foolish statement on your part. Yes, Biggie was more "Lyrical Miracle" but that doesn't make him a better storyteller. In order to be a great storyteller, you have to connect with the listener and get them to relate to what's being said. That's why the best storytellers use simplicity and don't over complicate the message. Also, Cube did mult-syllable rhymes as well. Hip-hop has evolved to value that more. It's a nice technique that pleases the ear, but it will never and should never be more valuable than the message or story being told.

[@terrancewebb8562]

Death Certificate is one of the hardest albums in hip hop PERIOD... I can tell Yayo didn't listen to Ice Cube cause he wouldn't have said that!

[@kevinferguson5580]

Biggie Is definitely a great Lyricists But ice cube catalog is way bigger

[@3rdGenerationCancer]

That doesn't make you a better rapper.

[@johntimothy9757]

Biggie DIED two albums in. Of course Ice Cube is gonna have a bigger catalog 😂 what are we even talking about?

[@bufflowsouljah2256]

I wonder why?

[@liljuve13]

@@3rdGenerationCancerthey talking about being a story teller.. big don’t come close to ice cube..

[@danielcampos20242]

​@@johntimothy9757Cube's catalog is bigger based on his classics AMERIKKAS Most Wanted, The Predator, Death CERTIFICATE and Straight Outta Compton > Ready To Die and Life After Death, That's The Point

[@adamhernandez8368]

Both hall of fame, and very legendary artist

[@thecunninlynguist]

Both dope

[@ChrisControversial]

He is right though and thats no diss to cube. I never understood why everyone has to be the "best". Cube ran so big can fly.

[@ThereWasThisBchFromMinnesota]

Today it was a good day.

[@dannybuck4445]

You can never tell a New York dude that it’s a better rapper than Biggie.

[@jamalrussell3865]

Of course. Ice Cube wins hands down. Biggie is very overrated

[@MusicByDiverse]

@@jamalrussell3865you really said overrated? Nah, slow down.

[@Eddiaz72]

It’s kinda unfair that Biggie is not here with us anymore. Because if Biggie was still alive and continue to make music we can finally match Cube’s catalog with Big’s. Biggie gets more love because he was taking away from us too soon. And y’all can’t deny that bro. Yayo is the homie but he was trippin getting loud bout this topic. lol He should of just not answer and take a shot because Cube and Big are forever legends.

[@donmacmilly]

I'm more of a BIG fan and i do think BIG is lyrical, but Ice Cube " it was a good day" probably the most popular storytelling song. Also Ice Cube in his prime was nasty with it " Black Korea" and " No vasline".fyi: Cube been told yall about the gatekeepers in no vasline. One of the lyrics "you let a(fill in the blank) break up the crew"

[@michaela5811]

Ju 😂

[@JayFingers]

“Children’s Story” is probably hip-hop’s most popular storytelling song.

[@ronm3034]

If you was a biggie fan you would have said. It biggie got the warning, I got a story to tell, beef!

[@lusciousmayweather8385]

Man ice cube had at least 6 Storytelling Songs on each Album. Hell "Alive on Arrival " on his Death certificate Album kills this debate.

[@slickjustgotpaid9865]

@@ronm3034bro you can be a fan of someone and still think someone else is better at a specific thing. Jordan is better than Steph but Steph is still the better 3poimt shooter

[@DailyUNFAIRNESS]

Classy Classic Cube response💯💯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@santanapwillis]

Number one…Scarface Number two.. Cube.. I say Face is number one because of his style with most of his works are precautionary stories. Scarface rhymes are vivid Stories that the listener plays out in their minds. No video has to be made for the Song you can picture everything in your own mind.. Ice cubes death certificate, album, “The album from front to back” Fire.!! The album is relevant to this day. My example without ever having a video is the song “Us” by ice cube..

[@BDoz513]

Midwest checking in. Thank u man! Thank u for telling the truth!

[@dugnice]

I think the more diplomatic way to say it is that Big was a more technically advanced storyteller than Cube. I think Cube's biggest storytelling song is "Today was a good day" but the rhymes in that song are very simple compared to Big's "Gimme the loot", "I got a story to tell" or "What's beef". Doesn't mean either of those songs are necessarily better than "Today was a good day", but certainly different.

[@c-bulletstheblackjesus4230]

Bullshit.. technically advanced my ass and cube had way more stories than today was a good day

[@TeeJayYuki]

Yup. You get it. Same with somebody’s got to die , such vivid painted pictures with incredible wordplay/scheme. Big was just different

[@dugnice]

@@TeeJayYuki Wasn't even thinking about that one when I posted, but yeah another amazing story. Big really mastered storytelling.

[@user-vc6yt8yc3w]

Biggie's abilitiy was insane, specially as a storyteller, now that being said Cube was so ill as well i think both deserve equal amounts of respect

[@picturemerollintk4057]

No! Ghetto vet is way better story than ‘today was a good day ‘

[@percybhere]

Ice cube is right, you can’t be everyone’s favorite BUT to be in the conversation is the achievement because it’s an acknowledgement of your talent Not being there would be the insult

[@skipgotti6599]

Once upon a time in the projects 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🚒🥶

[@dawisekrakken7026]

Cube is a legend in his own right as a storyteller.

[@outforfame408]

Let’s not forget cube wrote Boyz N Da Hood, top 3 biggest story telling tracks in hip hop history

[@KOVIDGOON]

Once upon of time in the projects, YO!.......

[@Prince-233]

They too young bro, they don't know about that classic Cube. And how groundbreaking Amerikkkas Most Wanted was!!!

[@KOVIDGOON]

@@Prince-233 🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ smh damn shame

[@PointBlankChiWay]

never thought about it. But its closer that you think.

[@2020TYBO]

YAYO TOO YOUNG, BIGGIE WAS INFLUENCED BY ICE CUBE..

[@mikeakabighomie7159]

Do not never forget, he was not Influenced by ice cube He was influenced by snoop To be precise With you

[@rodneyhiggins8562]

​@@mikeakabighomie7159That's a lie

[@DJGary0910]

​​​@@mikeakabighomie7159Lies Ready To Die and Life After Death Copied Death Certificate

[@NoMetsNoNetsNoJets]

Where are you ppl getting this from? Who told y’all that lie?

[@clipsthemasterpiece7576]

That's cap no where did it say biggie was influenced by cube nobody was talking bout cube when big come out an plus what top five is cube part of big is on every top five plus topping charts

[@manniedagamer5514]

Tony Yayo needs to listen to Ghetto Vet by Ice Cube 💯

[@ronm3034]

You need to listen to gimmie the loot 💯

[@manniedagamer5514]

@@ronm3034 Been listening to it for the last 20 plus years bro. I’m a fan of BIG and Ice Cube, they are both incredible artists 💯

[@LytninStryke]

The talk of new york still making headlines

[@Jakeakatheone]

lot of people are going to go with the usual songs from both artists but a song i hardly ever see mentioned. Once Upon A Time In The Projects.

[@Jakeakatheone]

You Can’t Fade Me as well

[@slimerfpv3497]

My summer vacation

[@arkeithsmith7957]

They both legendary Storytellers PERIOD!!!

[@loulou704]

It’s two different time periods… for ice cubes time, it was the best. Big was the upgraded version of that. They can’t be compared unless they were in the same time period.

[@shawnblack]

Two of them are two brilliant artists and I love and respect them both just sad we never git to see much more of biggies talent

[@Eshaper]

This is about rap. So everyone’s point is valid and at the end of the day it’s people’s opinions. My opinion is it’s extremely difficult. Lyricism and storytelling not movies or anything else.

[@bufflowsouljah2256]

Once upon a time in the projects-Ice Cube

[@ronm3034]

Damn why they wanna stick me for my paper- biggie

[@gt024]

​@@ronm3034that's a good one, but does he have any stories about other people, or one where he's not the King of NY? Not saying he doesn't. The only one I can think of off top is that sad song he did with 112.

[@gt024]

@@LowerEastSidePR I would put that one in the "King of NY" category. Tying up NY Knicks basketball players and smashing their broads??🤣 If that's the one you're gonna hang your hat on, Cube won hands down. Not even close.

[@echad6259]

We was though

[@DLHarv]

Starting to hate the whole goat conversation. I love them all. Sometimes when a song just randomly comes on like ghetto bird or juicy I’m just never hitting skip I don’t care who’s the best if I’m chilling I just want to continue to build an ultimate playlist of songs all of which I’ll never skip. Been trying for years, it’s really hard I don’t care about the goat I want timeless songs I never want to forget.

[@the.elsewhere]

I used to do these convos when I was 14 years old.

[@BAG-es6qy]

It all was freestyle, no pen no papper!!! TALENT!!! RIP B.I.G

[@josephwilliams3005]

He still can’t fuck with ice cube ever !!!! And 2pac mopped him On hit em up 😂

[@elbowgang9715]

They both top 5 with Nas and Slick Rick. I thought Juvenile had some nice story telling skills as well as Scarface. Immortal Technique up there too

[@reidwilson7974]

juvenile big facts he walked everybody threw the Nolia I'm from uptown

[@stickshiftt9127]

I respect the debate ... they are both great. We can appreciate both.

[@soundretarded]

They both are great at it! Cased closed

[@JorgeGarcia-tf3sw]

Cube has a larger sample size and NYC rappers will always idolize BIG without questions. It’s a debate stalemate.

[@KingWilliams661]

It's all subjective How can you get mad at someone's opinion??? How can you force someone to feel the same way that you do about someone or something ?? Some say biggie and some say Cube Some of y'all is weird

[@gt024]

You can tell a New Yorker that Tony Hawk is better at skateboarding than Biggie. They will school you on that one time Big did a kick flip without busting his ass.😂

[@zerogabz1153]

He does it to everyone except to 50.

[@philippe597]

You try to brought a reason plate into a passion dîner !

[@Mercedes_Benz_Bros.]

Hands down Ice Cube. People are always bumming rappers that are not here. Ice Cube a living legend.

[@blueprint_says7264]

“I write movies too” 😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂

[@Rspit030]

Biggie was a better story teller

[@lionzilla2173]

Oh yeah? Tell me his best movie he wrote? I’ll wait 🥷

[@RonaldJames-eo2hc]

Slick Rick is the best. He started that shit

[@AuthorBAnderson]

Gimmie the loot and my summer vacation are 2 of my favorite storytelling songs of all time.

[@romeoblair7467]

Ice cube know the truth low key

[@chosen_remnant]

A DJ could never fathom the level of difficulty it takes to *write* a song like Ni**as Bleed & BIG didn't even write it he made it up on the fly, bar by bar.

[@danielcampos20242]

Biggie Was Lazy, He wrote Niggas Bleed In Over 13 Days, Pac wrote harder songs than that in the same day

[@NavAK_86]

Comparing basic nursery rhymes from Cube to Big's more technical lyricism and flow. His stories had more lyricalness to it. Cube rhymes only the last word of every bar. Too simple.

[@vitorcosta7676]

Bruh i only got on thing to say, today was a good day!!

[@tongstimothy1978]

I go with Yayo on this conversation! 😀 Respect to Cube for his body of work but Biggie is at a higher notch.

[@boneworksmortal8709]

"Today Was A Good Day" is goated, Yayo just ridin for New York its nothing

[@joshuatia009]

“It was a good day “ for cube to be in that debate. Legendary

[@iSpitGame]

Rakim “Remember That” i be listening like Yoo factsss😂

[@cdsboyg]

Ice cube is such a legend

[@Mebirduwine]

:just today was a good day" people still reference to this day

[@lierx.agerate8230]

Come on people live for conversations of that intensity

[@datdudecool1]

If I hear Yayo say “Today’s Agenda” one more time, I’m gonna lose it.

[@datdudecool1]

@big_dinero7942 😂😂😂😂!!!! Right!!!

[@rcautoglass6064]

Cube all the way hands down

[@3RDSwishhh]

Once upon a time in the projects

[@EMan-8900]

Everyone is gonna have a different opinion on who's better. And most will be bias depending on where they come from.

[@doctorswagj]

They both better then Tupac in my opinion

[@FuckYunoMiles]

Fuck no

[@almightytre3730]

Cube could never make an album like makaveli.

[@javidspencer3563]

You bugging biggie don't have not one song better than Brenda has a baby when it comes to story telling big just did it more

[@3rdGenerationCancer]

@@almightytre3730 Makaveli is not a good album

[@3rdGenerationCancer]

@@javidspencer3563 Me & My B!tc# Warning Gimme The Loot Somebody's Gotta Die Niccas Bleed I Got a Story to Tell Stop playing

[@ily_xan]

Cube is one of the best rappers ever

[@aubrey6834429]

Man listen TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY alone kills I got a story to tell🤷🏾‍♂️ Classic

[@3rdGenerationCancer]

Its's tough to compare greatness to greatness. But Big will always the best to do it. Cube and Biggie are both in that category that have a hard to beat first two albums. Along with Nas, Eric B and Rakim. Who else am I missing.

[@houseofmatrix6174]

I say Biggie , Ice cube is great story teller

[@konumusic]

Cube is a master at painting vivid pictures with words. Love Biggie but Cube takes this one.🙏🏽

[@NatureBoi53733]

Ice Cube,Hand$ Down!!!! Once upon a Time in da project'$!!!!!!❤❤❤❤😤

[@BDoz513]

I don’t know why they never mention this song. It’s crazy to me. Big does not have enough content to compete with most of the heavyweights.

[@NatureBoi53733]

@@BDoz513 You right 👍

[@qbconnect2883]

I understand that most people under 47 ain't up on Cube like that but I invite anyone who needs to check his storytelling resume to listen to Alive on Arrival & My Summer Vacation from the Death Certificate album. The only storytelling record Big has that can f*k with either one of those is Ni**as Bleed imo

[@PrettyTone10377]

Somebody’s gotta die? The Warning? I Gotta Story to Tell?

[@shady6152]

I’ve listened to Cube and no sorry. (41 here).

[@DarkshadowXD63]

Color Blind has the best intro verse of all time I swear that's Cube's best verse, the delivery alone is 🔥🔥🔥

[@Hellrazor818]

I’m 45, and I got Cube all day. Death Certificate is one of the best conceptual albums ever. Cube got more range in subject matter and was way more intellectual. No contest to me. Death Certificate > either Big album.

[@Israel85324]

38 & Krs One…Ice Cube …Scarface …Slick Rick…Pac & Biggie were amazing storyteller! Honorable mention: NAS

[@uoliveira7]

Yayo is damn right

[@lionzilla2173]

There’s a reason why he still lives in 50s garage

[@darryllmcgee]

​@@lionzilla2173 Why are you lying?

[@billiondollagoalz5098]

Biggie had more witty and gritty rhymes in his main flo we mostly got that from Cube when he was pissed off but cube definitely he co wrote for a group that Damn near if not blow up the gangsta rap story telling that Big got his story format from 💯. Legends

[@theoriginal668]

Cube is one of the best story tellers in the game. Tales from the Darkside, It was a good day, whose the mack. Biggie can't come close🤣

[@GBOY185]

I'm more of a Biggie fan... But Cube is a better story teller.

[@NOVIAUGI]

Summer Vacation Against Anything Biggie Wrote! Please Let’s Hear It. Cube Hands Down. Next Question.

[@sleazus845]

Today was a good day !!!!

[@Meechonomics]

C'mon now, you know Cube is better than Biggie. Biggie was dope. Cube destroyed his ex group with No Vaseline plus not 1 East Coast rapper fueded with him during the so called East/West beef when he had Westside Connection.

[@donmacmilly]

Ummm Common dissed ice cube and the westside connection. I'm not going to give you the backstory, but gor you to be so confident in being wrong i just had to say something

[@Meechonomics]

@@donmacmilly Read what I said

[@donmacmilly]

@@Meechonomics I did. You said not 1 east coast rapper fueded with him. Common dissed ice cube and westside connection. Like i said u wrong

[@Meechonomics]

@@donmacmilly Like I said Common is from CHICAGO, that's Midwest not East Coast.

[@donmacmilly]

@Meechonomics Common would not be looked at as a mid-west rapper at that time. He would be looked at as a east guy