Big Pun ft. The O’Jays – I’m Not A Player (Uncut)
June 142010
From 1998 Album: “Capital Punishment”…..
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Christopher Rios (November 9, 1971 – February 7, 2000) R.I.P., better known by his stage name as Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was a Puerto Rican-American rapper who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts, on the track “Off the Books”, and on Fat Joe’s second album Jealous One’s Envy, on the track “Watch Out”, prior to signing to Loud Records as a solo artist. Big Pun’s career was cut short in 2000 at age 28 when he died of a fatal heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Liza Rios, and three children.
He grew up in a Puerto Rican community in New York City’s South Bronx neighborhood. By all accounts from Rios’s family, his early years were very difficult, including witnessing his mother’s drug abuse, his father leaving the family, and a stepfather who was very hard on Rios. According to his grandmother, Rios would become angry and self-destructive, punching holes in the walls of his family’s apartment and eating pieces of broken drywall. Rios dropped out of high school and for some time was homeless staying in abandoned buildings or at friends’ homes
Sometime during the 1980s, he formed the Full a Clips Crew with Triple Seis (rapper), Prospect and Cuban Link who was at the time named “Lyrical Assassin”. At this point Big Pun was operating under the alias Big Moon Dawg. Rios met fellow Puerto Rican and Bronx rapper Fat Joe in 1995 and made his commercial debut on Joe’s second album, Jealous Ones Envy, in addition to appearing on a b-side to Joe’s “Envy” single, “Fire Water” and “Watch Out.”
Later, “I’m Not a Player” (featuring an O’Jays sample) was supported by a significant advertising campaign and became an underground hit. The song’s remix, “Still Not a Player” (featuring Joe) produced by Knobody, became Big Pun’s first major mainstream hit. His full-length debut Capital Punishment followed in 1998, and was the first album by a solo Latino rapper to go platinum, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200. Capital Punishment was also nominated for a Grammy, but lost out on the award to Jay-Z’s Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life. He became a member of Terror Squad, a New York-based group of rappers founded by Fat Joe, with most of the roster supplied by the now-defunct Full a Clips Crew who released their debut album The Album in 1999. In 1999 he co-starred in the Albert Pyun-directed ghetto-movie Urban Menace, alongside his frequent collaborator Fat Joe.
Also Big Pun had a small role in the 1996 film High School High which starred Jon Lovitz.
Excluding his adolescence, Big Pun struggled with his weight for most of his life; his weight fluctuated in the early 1990s between obese and morbidly obese. Big Pun enrolled in a weight-loss program in North Carolina, in which he lost 80 pounds, but he eventually quit the program before completing it, returning to New York and gaining back the weight he had lost. On February 7, 2000, Big Pun suffered a fatal heart attack and respiratory failure while temporarily staying with family at a Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains, New York during a home renovation. Pun was pronounced dead at the hospital after paramedics could not revive him. He reportedly weighed 698lbs at the time of his death.
A new tribute documentary Big Pun: The Legacy is currently in post-production. The film will contain multiple interviews with artists, actors, close friends and others whose lives were touched by Big Pun, as well as rare exclusive performances and scene interviews with Big Pun himself. The film will feature appearances by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Snoop Dogg, DMX, Method Man, U-God, Liza Rios, Xzibit, Cuban Link, Swizz Beatz, DJ Skribble and many more. Film is directed by Vlad Yudin. The documentary will come out September 15, 2009. It is distributed through Vivendi Universal and The Soundtrack is released through Legacy/Columbia Records, Sony Music. Footage from the documentary included Prodigy, of Mobb Deep, saying that Big Pun, “ordered like all the entrees and all the appetizers.” He stated that Big Pun had become out of control to the point where when Prodigy, Pun, and Fat Joe would be in the studio and Joe left for a few minutes, he “would order two buckets of KFC, like two, three buckets and try to eat them before (Fat) Joe came.”
Extended & updated info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pun
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June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Amazing track!
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Amazing track!
R.I.P PUN
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
His flow is to sick
His flow is to sick
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
shit
shit
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
@JUARITOSWAY You a …
@JUARITOSWAY You a nigga….bet this fat nigga coulda ya moms wit no problem….R.I.P PUN!!!
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
@MrPRBABY I agree …
@MrPRBABY I agree with you!
I like the way the O JAYS did that hook!!!
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
@danielquezada1 he …
@danielquezada1 he wasn’t even a nig
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
@ …
@GuitarristA1quimista the late 90s sucked (unless it was underground) before eminem, big pun was its only relic of brilliance. of course it makes sense then he had to go
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
illest rapper EVER! …
illest rapper EVER!!!
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
what remix with Joe …
what remix with Joe?!? Are you ya’ll talkin about STILL not a player?!? Thats part 2, of Not a Player. Not a Remix, entirely different song./ lyrics. Both Really Great Songs! Up’s to the man Pun. I miss the latter 90’s…….. Pun was holding down, Jay~Z, Dmx, and Ja rule were on everything. Nas still shining. FUCK!!!!! That was the end of the true rap era.
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
One of the sickest …
One of the sickest flows ever!! Pun for ever..
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
he honestly aint …
he honestly aint that bad of a rapper
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
i didn’t notice …
i didn’t notice raekwon in there before – this song is classic way better than that whack remix
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
i miss pun yo
i miss pun yo
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
damn this song …
this song brings back alot of nostalgic emotions . we love u pun you are the best to ever and made me puerto rican . boriqua!
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
0:17 ??
0:17 ??
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
@danielquezada1 …
@danielquezada1 TRUE!!!
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
who gives a if …
who gives a if the nigga was fat…. his flow and lyricism are raw and incomparable.. man when u thinking bout best rappers and u pull out pac and biggie out yo u aint no nothing bout the rap game….R.I.P BIG DOG THE PUNISHER!!!
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
google mp3iifffy to …
google mp3iifffy to download this song from youtube.
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
When he dances !!!! …
When he dances !!!!! play it again, Hilarious!!!!! nothing like seeing a lethally obese (not morbidly obese, because hes way beyond that) dancing and thinking he´s all hot hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! damn, too bad his fat died, he would have made a of a comedian.
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Big Pun Was the …
Big Pun Was the best and could have remained that way if he was still alive. He was a True BOSS, Reakwon, NoRE, and Prodigy were in the video, he had a lot of people under the Wing. Even Cali rappers respected PUN. Xzibit has a tatoo of Pun on his arm out of respect. He was a true ganster that made the music he wanted and not that watered down industry Crap. God Bless Your Soul Pun and god bless Your Family. RIP
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
u made me spit my …
u made me spit my hot pocket all over my keyboard lol!!!
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Kool man but it’s …
Kool man but it’s sad how he died…
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
capital punishment! …
capital punishment!!!
KING PAPI CHULO!
BIG PU was one of the best, in my top 10he is in there no diggity!
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
dude was ill
dude was ill
June 14th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
he was a better …
he was a better student of kool g rap than biggie ever was!!!!!!