The crazy thing is Pun originally made up the Little Italy line as a joke. He didn’t take it seriously. He just said that line one day while joking around. Fat Joe was amazed at that line and asked him to put it in the song. Pun originally said no and thought the line was silly. Joe begged him and Pun gave in. Turned out to be one of the best lines ever.
The crazy thing is Fat Joe says that he had to argue with Pun to do the "dead in the middle of little Italy" on the record. It was something that Pun was just walking around saying like an exercise!😆
Your facial expression change @1:40 when you heard that Italy rhyme scheme was genuine! Same reaction I’ve had when I first heard it. That verse HIT you for real!
I saw this video and thought to myself, "there's no wayhe doesn't stop the song, take off the headphones, and get out his seat upon hearing 'dead in the middle if Little Italy ', no way"... And whatayaknow... That is the appropriate, and only acceptable, reaction, upon hearing that line fir the first time
AYEEEEEEE This was the one where everyone was like yoooooo Big Pun is F****** Niceee it Solidified him as one of the best Rappers even more after he came out
@ NicolasDuran... if we can put BIGGIE in the group We can put PUN... ACTUAL FACTS.. Sun flow..delivery.. cadence WE NEVER heard b4 r since... THTS GREATNESS @ ITS CORE
You just brought back that feeling I felt when I first heard that "Dead in the middle of little Italy" scheme back in the day. Same reaction. Im sure everyone thats watching this and was there when this shit first dropped was looking for that same reaction from u. Your face literally had three different reactions at once. Good job...thank u.
Every reaction video, everyone I've ever heard listen to this song, always loses their mind when Pun spits the little Italy scheme on Twinz. It's that powerful. RIP BIG PUN!
Stumbled on this page from your Kool G Rap, and Nas Fast Life reaction! This is dope and sets you a part from other reaction channels. Doing th old school gives it a real feel. Salute
Have you done Big Pun featuring Black Thought yet? "Super lyrical" is a super-lyrical track from two legends!!! 🔥 P.S. you really need to pump more KRS ONE! Dude been doing it for 35 years + and still giving us knowledge!
Yea man.. This is Deep Cover part 2.. Deep Cover was a Laurence Fishburne movie.. Snoop & Dr. Dre made the title track.. Deep Cover was Snoop Dogg's debut to the world and Deep Cover was the 1st record Dr. Dre dropped after he left N.W.A.. Welcome to Death Row!
Fam, if you like this, you have to listen to Biggie's Mixtape Song called "Road to Riches", the full version where he's rapping on all early 90's West Coast beats. Probably his best song ever, in my humble opinion.
I went to his concert a little before he passed it was sad to see that he couldn't finish his lines and was short of breath all the time. I wish he could've be with us and have more albums like capital punisher. That's one of my favorite albums of all time
Big Pun and Terror Squad were really from the streets. DJ Whoo Kid from G-Unit told a story of how he was kidnapped by Big Pun. Big Pun had either an Uzi or an AK-47. Before they got DJ Whoo Kid in the van, he looked up and there were shooters up on the roof tops of the projects aiming their guns at him. The interview is here on UA-cam. Another story is when Pun and Terror Squad were performing at the Apollo. There was a knucklehead in the balcony throwing ice at them during the performance. Pun pointed him out and during the performance, Pun’s goons grabbed the dude and threw him over the balcony lol.
That same verse, "Dead in the middle of Little Italy...." was such a verse it messed up a lot of lyricists who appreciated the wordplay. I don't remember what other song it was but Pun had a line that went, "I'm the only vato loco to smoke you w/ fire glowing nostrils...." He really was special!!! #ripbigpun
Have you been referred yet to JDilla? He's worked with Madlib (who worked with Doom on Madvillan) on a collaboration album called Champion Sound by Jaylib!
This is the moment when you listen to Naughty By Nature and get familar with Treach and you will get some more rapid fire flows. Craziest & Uptown Anthem display Treach's verbal warfare. Everything's Gonna Be Alright is another classic to get to
FYI the line is: "Dead in the middle of Little Italy Little did we know that we'd riddle Two middle-men who didn't do diddly! 💪🏾🔥🔥 #RIPBIGPUNISHER Legend
Just commenting. Growing up in NYC you just know things. I hope this help you guys. Btw, Great Videos. 1) In NYC back in the days, 187 was like NYC Cop Code for Homicide Crime Scene, Murder Response, etc 2) Wop is a NYC street slang slur. Some used for Italians thugs, Italian Wannabe thugs, etc. But oddly many times not slangs, slurs, Among each other wasn't really meant to offend. 3) T-Bird Ford Thunder Bird
Pun was just different. Pun brought the best outta Fat Joe. Just watched Verzuz earlier tonight. Remy Ma did Pun's parts on this song to perfection, while performing it with Fat Joe.
Pun really that nice one of best that did it just wish he had the right people behind him when it came to his health pun always be best Rican rapper ever i miss him pun forever 😢🔥🙏
That Little Italy part was hot then and still fire now. By far one of his most memorable bars to anyone who thinks of Pun's body of work.
So true
Nah, in rap history🔥
The crazy thing is Pun originally made up the Little Italy line as a joke. He didn’t take it seriously. He just said that line one day while joking around. Fat Joe was amazed at that line and asked him to put it in the song. Pun originally said no and thought the line was silly. Joe begged him and Pun gave in. Turned out to be one of the best lines ever.
Yeah that’s the real line. My mans set off the whole song with that line
That one and "even if I stuttered I would still sh sh shit on you" are my favorites
The Dead in the middle of Little Italy 🇮🇹 got everyone. Definitely special and an all time great! RIP Pun 🙏🏾
“Packin the mac in the back of the Ac’” “make the hardest largest artist heart just collapse”
I rewound that shit about 30 times when this dropped...🤯
Still
Oh I know yo
@@mtcnaz right?
Pun never laid down a wack verse. Every single song that he was on he spit 🔥 fire
Facts some of the beats weren’t all that but he never slacked on ANY verse 💯
@@passionplaya4510 I 3rd that
“I’ll make examples out you ample rappers
Smack you make u trample backwards”
@@ZeeloBk1 ridiculous! I really think he would have given EMINEM a hard time.
@@passionplaya4510 Can you imagine an Eminem/ Pun song 🤔 😳 the lyrical craftsmanship would have been a wonderful work of art 🎨🖼
The crazy thing is Fat Joe says that he had to argue with Pun to do the "dead in the middle of little Italy" on the record.
It was something that Pun was just walking around saying like an exercise!😆
Ooooo!!! Where i can I find the whole story?? I gotta hear this
@@YouAwakeYet drink champs bro
Like packin a mac in the back of the ac (Acura) in his packinamac skit
Was waiting for your reaction to the "....of little Italy, little did we..." Everyone loses it on that. Pun CRUSHED that sh*t
Same bro, worth it just for that reaction
I watch reaction vids to this cut JUST FOR the reaction to that part of the song bro. 🤣
Your facial expression change @1:40 when you heard that Italy rhyme scheme was genuine! Same reaction I’ve had when I first heard it. That verse HIT you for real!
Pun wrote the whole song its why Joes flows is flawless with Puns
you hear it also. it made Joe look closer to Pun in skill but it's Pun featuring Pun.
The WHOLE Captial Punishment album was pristine. Big Pun neva MISSED
That first verse was straight fire that threw you off your seat. The reaction you suppose to have. Legend
PUN was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. 🇵🇷✊🏽
In his last verse he says, “heather b couldn’t make me put my glock down” in reference to heather b’s track; all glocks down👍
That one flies over most people’s heads. Actually a dope album. Her track with M.O.P. is 🔥
Bruh, we had the same look on our face in 1998 when Pun spit that line! #BIGPun
He was one of the greatest of all time and never gets his respect!
All he did is Spit FIRE!
I saw this video and thought to myself, "there's no wayhe doesn't stop the song, take off the headphones, and get out his seat upon hearing 'dead in the middle if Little Italy ', no way"... And whatayaknow...
That is the appropriate, and only acceptable, reaction, upon hearing that line fir the first time
Big Pun is one of hip hops most underrated lyricist! The man was a fucken beast!!! Legend!
AYEEEEEEE This was the one where everyone was like yoooooo Big Pun is F****** Niceee it Solidified him as one of the best Rappers even more after he came out
Reading his lyrics on tracks is even hard to repeat and I've been listening to PUN for 25yrs + now... RIP Big Dawg Punisher🙏🙏
Pun flows is legendary, but also give credit to Kool G Rap flow which Pun was really influence by. Rip Big Pun 💯
Kool G Rap..."Real Life" Dj Muggs Presents (Soul Assassins 2) Album🔥🔥🔥🔥
@Jose Ortiz Ill Street Blues is a classic
Pun literally kissed KGRs ring when they met
Trivia About This Song: Every verse from FatJoe on every Pun song was written by BigPun
RIP Pun. Dude would have been in discussion of best all time had he not passed so early
@ NicolasDuran... if we can put BIGGIE in the group We can put PUN... ACTUAL FACTS.. Sun flow..delivery.. cadence WE NEVER heard b4 r since... THTS GREATNESS @ ITS CORE
Pun IS in that discussion💯💯💯
People still put pun in that discussion along with big l, biggie and Tupac.
Pun is the greatest with less time to be great than anybody
And pun better than biggie
Biggie and Pun have the greatest flows ever it just depend on the mood Big L is in that category too 👑
They would have def collabed had Biggie lived 2 more years.
@@cagnazzo82 Joe said him and Big was supposed to do an album together. Pun and Big on a track definitely would have happened.
Scarface
For real!! R.I.P
Nah. Ghost and Jada. They was good. Just not the greatest
You just brought back that feeling I felt when I first heard that "Dead in the middle of little Italy" scheme back in the day. Same reaction. Im sure everyone thats watching this and was there when this shit first dropped was looking for that same reaction from u. Your face literally had three different reactions at once. Good job...thank u.
Pun was so ill. His idol was Kool G Rap. He was very similliar
Fuckin nasty
Every reaction video, everyone I've ever heard listen to this song, always loses their mind when Pun spits the little Italy scheme on Twinz. It's that powerful. RIP BIG PUN!
He said “Dead in the middle of little Italy, little did we know that we riddled some middlemen who didn’t do diddly”🤯⛽️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Luv your channel!! I grew up on 90s hiphop! Lived it , glad to see a young G into this great music!
Stumbled on this page from your Kool G Rap, and Nas Fast Life reaction! This is dope and sets you a part from other reaction channels. Doing th old school gives it a real feel. Salute
Kool G Rap- One Dark Night 🔥🔥🔥
You will lose your mind...thanks for the great content... keep up the great work!!!
Have you done Big Pun featuring Black Thought yet?
"Super lyrical" is a super-lyrical track from two legends!!! 🔥
P.S. you really need to pump more KRS ONE! Dude been doing it for 35 years + and still giving us knowledge!
That one is different ⚡🔥⚡🔥💯
That shit hit different
People scared to touch that one hahaaaa
Dead ass pun was the illest that ever did it. Rest in peace king 🙏🙌
The BEST part of Rap/HipHop is those that do things FIRST! Because after that, EVERYBODY copies off of them.
Yea man.. This is Deep Cover part 2.. Deep Cover was a Laurence Fishburne movie.. Snoop & Dr. Dre made the title track.. Deep Cover was Snoop Dogg's debut to the world and Deep Cover was the 1st record Dr. Dre dropped after he left N.W.A.. Welcome to Death Row!
Fun fact: Pun nearly ditched that whole *dead in the middle* scheam….Fat Joe begged him to keep it lol and now we see why 😆🙏🏾🔥🇯🇲
Yo i use to live in the BX.... you have no idea how tuff this was when this came out
the golden age of lyrics,flows, and beats💚💚💚
I was alive when that verse was dropped in Hot 97 for the first time. Flex dropped like a million bombs that day.
Man if it wasn't for saints row 2 having all these bangers I wouldn't know who big pun or joe or who any of them are without that game
Wow!!!! You got the unedited video?!! BIG PROPS, cuz this is easily one of the top 5 videos to be destroyed with the censors
One of my favorite hip hop tracks of all time easily
You the GOAT bro
Btw do some Biggie
1.Your nobody till somebody kills you
2.Warning
Pun was the man all of his song are fire hands down 🙌 also back in the day, my mom use to live down the block from pun he’s a legend 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷💯💯💯💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Pun was immune to wack lyrics
Fat Joe,
"Take a look at my Life" video
Bronx HEAT🔥
Man I wish Pun worked on that health, not just for himself and his family but for the rest of us as well. Never dropped a trash verse ever.
Pun, Fat Joe and Big L were in a crew called Diggin In The Crates with other members like Diamond D, Showbiz & AG. Check out some of D.I.T.C.’s music.
Glad you back Ahmad 💪🏾
My guy 🖤💪🏾
Great reaction bro.. I like to see my child hood best friend Fat Joe get his Credit! ✌️
Big pun, Biggie, Nas, Busta, and M are my top 5 lyricist💪
I wish I coud hear this for the first time again, timeless!!
I clicked just to see your reaction to the Dead in the middle of Little Italy line and you didn't disappoint
1:40 - 1:46...your reaction is priceless!
Fam, if you like this, you have to listen to Biggie's Mixtape Song called "Road to Riches", the full version where he's rapping on all early 90's West Coast beats. Probably his best song ever, in my humble opinion.
probably find it easier under real niggas
Naw fam def the best song / freestyle ever
* real niggas do real things
@@thebrogressiveagenda9936 that's the name of the video on here that I want him to see.
Pun was a very underrated lyricist.
Dead in the middle of little italy to this day is top 3 dopest moments on record.
I went to his concert a little before he passed it was sad to see that he couldn't finish his lines and was short of breath all the time. I wish he could've be with us and have more albums like capital punisher. That's one of my favorite albums of all time
Golden era Hip hop has God Level, ultra instinct, Super Sayian 5000 level MC's. No other era comes close. These are fact, not even for dispute.
Poor Joe had to follow probably the greatest 5 seconds in hip hop
That may have been the most lyrical bars ever 😳 my boy like got damn
Joe went in too tho
Always good to see the youth doing their homework. You will go far my man. Glad u feeling the music. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Big Pun and Terror Squad were really from the streets. DJ Whoo Kid from G-Unit told a story of how he was kidnapped by Big Pun. Big Pun had either an Uzi or an AK-47. Before they got DJ Whoo Kid in the van, he looked up and there were shooters up on the roof tops of the projects aiming their guns at him. The interview is here on UA-cam. Another story is when Pun and Terror Squad were performing at the Apollo. There was a knucklehead in the balcony throwing ice at them during the performance. Pun pointed him out and during the performance, Pun’s goons grabbed the dude and threw him over the balcony lol.
This is the East Coast version of Deep Cover 🙌
Pun was amazing ! One of the greatest lines ever “ little Italy “!!!!!!!
Puerto Ricooooooo!!!
Toe to Toe- Big Pun 🔥🔥
Pun is a legend and made Fat Joe step his shit up whenever he was on a track wit him, know dat!😆😎
Have you done twista Adrenaline rush
Pun was so fire
Big pun is just other level, so effortless broooo
been waitin on this 1
Nice video but at 1:49 the sound you made with mouth is much like pouring the water out of a glass bottle
@@iraklii4856 LMFAOOO
Big pun is the greatest!!! 🇵🇷❤️🇵🇷
That same verse, "Dead in the middle of Little Italy...." was such a verse it messed up a lot of lyricists who appreciated the wordplay. I don't remember what other song it was but Pun had a line that went, "I'm the only vato loco to smoke you w/ fire glowing nostrils...." He really was special!!! #ripbigpun
ua-cam.com/video/Pom4lxeI12A/v-deo.html
It’s this one right here ⬆️⬆️⬆️
Fat Joe held it down to me this was Fat joes golden Era Don Cartegena was and still is a fire 🔥🤞🏽 album
Have you been referred yet to JDilla? He's worked with Madlib (who worked with Doom on Madvillan) on a collaboration album called Champion Sound by Jaylib!
Snoop was in this cause before Pun and Joe did this
Snoop and Dre did it 1st 💯💯💯
And this track was 🔥🔥🔥 back then
The impact he had with just one album, just like Biggie.
This is the moment when you listen to Naughty By Nature and get familar with Treach and you will get some more rapid fire flows. Craziest & Uptown Anthem display Treach's verbal warfare. Everything's Gonna Be Alright is another classic to get to
This is my guy!!!! Classic!!
I've seen many reactions to this track. In person and on the net. Each and every time they hear that 'Dead in the middle....' they become converted.
FYI the line is:
"Dead in the middle of Little Italy
Little did we know that we'd riddle
Two middle-men who didn't do diddly!
💪🏾🔥🔥
#RIPBIGPUNISHER Legend
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
R.I.P Big Pun ☝️🇵🇷🙏🎤
Lately, I’ve been listening to this more than Deep Cover.
Big L - Ebonics (Criminal Slang)
Only here to see your reaction at 1.41........you didn't disappoint, mine was the same in 1998
6:06 yeah I agree the Big Pun in Hip-Hop
This is easily one of the greatest songs in hip hop history💥💥💥
Listen koolgrap thats where big pun got hes style
Kool G Rap Ft. Nas - Fast life
Kool G was Puns favorite rapper, he always influenced this Legendary flow with the multi syllables 🔥🔥🔥
Big pun is the Spanish eminem he different that little Italy bar ain't nobody doing that ever!!!
Just commenting.
Growing up in NYC you just know things. I hope this help you guys.
Btw,
Great Videos.
1) In NYC back in the days,
187 was like NYC Cop Code for Homicide Crime Scene, Murder Response, etc
2) Wop is a NYC street slang slur. Some used for Italians thugs, Italian Wannabe thugs, etc.
But oddly many times not slangs,
slurs,
Among each other wasn't really meant to offend.
3) T-Bird
Ford Thunder
Bird
It’s been 23 years and I still can’t say that verse!!!!!! Lmmfao
Pun was just different. Pun brought the best outta Fat Joe. Just watched Verzuz earlier tonight. Remy Ma did Pun's parts on this song to perfection, while performing it with Fat Joe.
Bruh, Dude Is One Of The Greatest To Ever Bless A M.I.C, Word To Motha
A good song to hear Fat Joe talk his talk is DON CARTAGENA ft Diddy🔥🔥🔥🔥 I promise you
That beat is from deap cover song by Snoop and Dre
Pun really that nice one of best that did it just wish he had the right people behind him when it came to his health pun always be best Rican rapper ever i miss him pun forever 😢🔥🙏
Sorry for the second comment but god bless your heart! Sending all love and blessings your way bro keep up the good ear for music
🔥🔥🔥🔥 RIP BIG PUN!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Pun🔥🔥🔥
“Dead in tha middle of little Italy, little did we know that we riddled to middle men who didn’t do diddly “ 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Have you done a video for "You ain't a Killer" ?