big pun's wife sells his medallion on e-bay ...
beirut
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"The sale of this medallion goes to Big Pun's wife and three children. Since Pun's untimely passing in 2000, Pun's wife has struggled to raise their three children as well as make mortgage payments on their home and other expenses. Contrary to what some believe, the family are far from millionaires, Pun's wife and children do not receive royalty checks for Pun's first two albums, and only one small royalty check was paid for Pun's final album. The family's attempts to get the money due to his children have been unsuccessful to date. By bidding on this piece of Hip Hop history, you are helping the family of a Rap legend, part of the funds will also go towards legal efforts to retrieve any unpaid album sale money the children could receive."
damn
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7526357976&indexURL=5
damn
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7526357976&indexURL=5
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His wife said she used to have to wipe his ass...
Now that's love
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Big Pun R.I.P.
I would start with a lack of financial literacy.
Big Pun circa 1990. He coulda been banker #2 on New Jack City.
it would not let me bid... you have to be " pre-approved ".
whatever that means.
rip big pun.
That was funny as fuck. I love Contra.
Hmmm...very interesting. Can you shed some more light on the whole "jewelry" and "New York Thing" in hip-hop? I was never really aware there was a connection.
Nothing quite as hilarious as making fun of someone's untimely death.
you mad doggie?
lol.
Nope, just think that shit is in terrible taste.
Shit is hilarious to me - it's such a weird idea, and the writing is funny. But I think beating your wife so hard she has to go to the hospital repeatedly over ten years and calling yourself Punisher is in terrible taste.
I don't condone dude's actions at all, but that doesn't mean he should be the butt of someone's jokes because he was overweight and had a heart attack. I dunno, I guess I've lost too many people close to me before their time and I can't imagine how i would feel if someone used one of their deaths as the basis for comedy. Like I said, shit is in really poor taste to me.
why? You know that shit is par for the course for a sucessful rapper! You gotta have the chain to go with it!
Big Pun's story is just sad all around. The domestic abuse stories are totally disturbing, the fact that his wife has no money to pay the morgage and raise his kids sucks too.
p.s. that contra shit is stupid.
You see, it all started when Afrika Bambaataa was filming Beat Street. While he was taking a break, he summoned his apprentice, a young Jam Master Jay. In the past couple of years, the apprentice had been experimenting with the Three Elements: b-boy moves, turntables and emceeing, but he had not yet chosen his Life Path. "Master, which direction would you desire me to follow?" asked Jay, looking up wonderingly at Bambaataa. The Master held up a great-sized dookie gold rope, and it glowed immensely. Jay felt its force and was infused with the spirit of hip-hop. "Take this Rope, grasshopper, and place it around your chest. When you meditate with it, your own wisdom and knowing will guide you."
After a couple of days, Jay exclaimed frustration in not being able to meditate steadily. He focused on the Three Elements, but try as he might, he experienced difficulty in deciding his path. Suddenly, the master appeared as an apparition. "You are trying too hard, my son," echoed the Master, filling the room with his voice. "Use the Force, Jay." And as Jay focused inwardly to his hip-hop spirit, the Rope glowed again. Eventually, he was able to decide his path.
A new DJ was born. And so was Run-DMC.
In the years that followed, the Rope has been passed to various hip-hop DJs. Ali Shaheed Muhammad used the Force to make innovative beats laced with jazz. DJs such as Terminator X assisted their emcees in making powerful, conscious hip-hop. A number of other DJs produced beats for fun-, feminist/machismist- , or even gangsta-type rhymes, with styles ranging from the inner cities to the suburbs. Depending on their image, the DJs chose whether or not to wear the Rope. Regardless, the Rope gained more power and spirit as it has been passed through many masters of the ones and twos. Before the onslaught of commercialism brought the Rope to near obscurity, DJs such as Premier, Maseo (Plug Three), Kid Capri and Pete Rock continued to keep the hip-hop spirit flowing. But as the Rope became less visible to newer appreciators of hip-hop, the legend of its origin also faded.
But the spirit of hip-hop was never lost.
The spirit lives on today in DJs of the widely known "underground" hip-hop scene. Among the DJs are the purists who still practice the Three Elements. Recently, this rope is in the hands of DJ Young Einstein of Ugly Duckling. He will not reveal who passed the Rope to him, but he wears it at UD shows, honoring its power. Some of the audience may point and laugh, either remembering this golden icon with a nostalgic feeling, or because they're just plain "ignant" about what the rope really symbolizes. As long as the spirit of the Rope exists, true hip-hop will live a long life, and reincarnate itself into many styles.
Nah, really you don't, B-ides. This whole "bling" thing is like a big stereotype that everybody in hip hop right now is just falling in line with. Tribe, De La, Public Enemy, Pete Rock, etc. etc... in that era you didn't see every rapper wearing big chains. You don't see Mos Def, Talib Kweli etc. wearing bling now (even if Mos couldn't afford it from his music career I'm pretty sure he could buy all the diamonds he wanted from his acting career paychecks). You never saw Em rocking that shit until recently- I don't know what the hell happened to him.
It's true that, like Dee Rock said, rappers have been wearing chains and what have you since the beginning. But as the amount of money rappers make has gone up, so has the amount they spend on jewelry. To each his own, but there's no argument I'm trying to hear that says that there's anything smart about spending $100,000 for a damn chain. Maybe if you're Bill Gates or Oprah or somebody (and of course they have no interest in shit like that). But a rapper??? Like I said, to each his own, but I bet' not hear about none of these bling wearin' muhfuckas being broke and homeless after their rap career is over. If Pun had invested that $100,000 a little more wisely maybe his wife and kids wouldn't have to resort to this pitiful Ebay business in order to pay their bills.
Bottom line: only unintelligent people are gonna be real impressed with a $100,000 chain. The rest of us are not gonna be impressed. At all.
I'm sayin' though.
Yea, a lot of people aren't old enough to realize that RUN DMC got some sideways looks when they first started with the chains. Plus, they weren't real, just some plated metal. At the time people were like "Show offs, that ain't keeping it real." Same with LL Cool J Walk Like a Panther. People were like "What a jerk showing off his money and jewels with that pather like he's better than us." (not everyone said this, but it was said) Now the whole bling bling thing is the standard image.
I dunno, Id have myself a nice chain if I had a platinum record out. Thats all Im saying. I like that shit.
Word to burger!!!!!!!!!!!! Why did this other fool on here say run DMC had some fake plated chains? Are you serious? Mad fools had fat gold chains in the mid 80's. Look at the Infamous Times DVD about kelvin martin the real 50 Cent. I even had some, see the Posse on Broadway video. I'm the one with the most jewelry on! For real. They did have fake chains just like they have that crap now in the back of the source magazine, but a lot of them shits were real. They were hollow and very lite almost like foil, and fragile too. Everyone would come up and grab my chain thinking it was gonna weigh a lot and say "Oh" thinking it was fake because it was so lite. In fact I seen one a few months back at the Slauson swap meet and wanted to buy it but didn't feel like dropping the 2 Grand they were asking. Anyway back to the history, mad bboys and new yorkers in general have rocked name plate necklaces, and rings for decades. Walk down the new york streets and it is like pizza slices and jewelery every few steps!
"Less is more" - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
you're a suburban whiteboy, of course you don't understand it.
Also, can somebody explain to me what Pun's piece is supposed to be, exactly? What is that thing perched on the upper right--an owl?