In HHC episode 3: The Richmond Chronicles, producer/artist Danja Mowf shared an exclusive story about his celebrity crush on Lauryn Hill. This epic story was equipped with detailed information on how the producer found his way backstage at one of her Fugee shows in Hampton, VA. He recounts how he snuck in behind the late Biggie Smalls and caught her attention. At one point in the story he mentions how he wrote and recorded an audio poem for the songstress. Well, he finally released it… Extremely rare & possibly embarrassing, but undeniably full of talent and thought. Hats off to you Danja and thanks for the exclusive, we are still waiting on the recorded phone conversations now LOL!! Click the hyperlink below and enjoy…

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DANJA MOWF POEM FOR LAURYN HILL

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SKILLZ:
Top 5:

1. Rakim
2. Big Daddy Kane
3. KRS-One
4. Ice Cube
5. Black Thought

Not 5: Only got a chance to name 2

1. Pras
2. U-God

NOTTZ:
Nottz played it safe with is Top/Not 5. Rightfully so! He’s a producer that is still in the game heavily and his income relies on other rappers paying him for his service so we will accept that.

Top 5:

1. Skillz
2. Joe Buddens
3. Pac
4. Biggie
5. Big Pun

Not 5:
The only one he named was Soulja Boy.

JOE BUDDENS:
Top 5:

1. Pac
2. Big Daddy Kane
3. Rakim
4. Jay-Z
5. Eminem

Not 5:

1. Young Berg
2. MC Brains
3. Cappadonna
4. Lil’ Romeo
5. Tone Loc

So now we ask you, who are your top 5 emcees and 5 that would NEVER make your top 5?

Ready to Die was the introduction, it established Big’s hunger, his motivations, and even his obviously occasional self-hatred for his own life (“Suicidal Thoughts”). I think we got to learn Big’s thought process in that album, which to me is what a good first album does, builds rapport. Then Life After Death was the expansion of his sense of humor and his talent. Somewhere between the first and second album he became accepting of what his abilities were as an emcee and probably saw the importance of his music on the masses. So his content altered into topics that were more universal, and cinematic. There is no question that Big was one of the best storytellers hip-hop ever encountered. I always felt that The Black Alfred Hitchcock fit him better than The Black Frank White, but both aliases have their own connotation.

So my biggest analogy would be that the progression of his albums went from a documentary about cocaine like Cocaine Cowboys to a film like Scarface. Both of them are detailed in the causes and effects of their subject and are entertaining, but one is more RAW than the other. No hate, no animosity, but I personally give more credit to Life After Death than Ready to Die for being more universal in appeal, more polished in its delivery as an album, and just as entertaining as the previous without the listener losing their sense of who Biggie was/is as an emcee. What are your thoughts?