Biography
An associate of Body fat Joe’s DITC team, rapper Big L was created Lamont Coleman on, may 30, 1974. He produced his single debut with 1995’s Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Harmful, scoring some underground strikes including “No Endz, No Skinz,” “Road Struck” and “Da Graveyard”; Big L’s best-known work, the solitary “Ebonics,” adopted by himself Flamboyant label in the summertime of 1998. Around once, he became a member of the Bronx-based hip-hop supergroup DITC (Diggin’ within the Crates), showing up on their solitary, “Dignified Troops.” Around the night of Feb 15, 1999, Big L was shot and wiped out just blocks from his Harlem house; he was simply 24 during his death. Both DITC recording Worldwide and the next Big L single effort, THE PICTURE AS A WHOLE, adopted in 2000.
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1 | Lamont started his career in 1990, when he was in a group called Three the Hard Way, but he left because the other members didn't take it seriously. He later formed a group called Children of the Corn with a couple of emcees (Killa "Cam'Ron" Cam, Murda Mase, McGruff, and Bloodshed) from a local hip-hop crew called Caged Fury. |
2 | Had a deal with Jay Z and was about to sign with Roc-A-Fella with his friends McGruff and C-Town. The trio had plans to form a group called the Wolfpack. Its members were supposed to be McGruff, C-Town, L, and Jay-Z. However, L was murdered a couple of days before they were supposed to close the deal. |
3 | Worked on a second Columbia/SME album in 1996, after "Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous." Three tracks ("Now or Never," "Hit It," and "Games Females Play") were released on the complication album "The Archives: 1996-2000." the album was never finished because L left Columbia/SME the same year. |
4 | Recorded a song called "Deadly Combination" with verses by Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.. |
5 | Recorded with Jay Z. |
6 | Big L started his career with fellow Harlemites Cam'ron, Mase, and Bloodshed. |
7 | Was a freestyle hip-hop emcee. |
8 | Recorded for Columbia/SME Records and Rawkus/MCA/Universal Records. |
9 | Was a member of the famed D.I.T.C. crew. |
10 | Was a Gemini. |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Venus and Serena | 2012 | Documentary writer: "I'm Ready" - as Derek Lamont Coleman | |
Transporter 3 | 2008 | writer: "Set It on Fire" | |
Hak hap | 1996 | writer: "The Enemy" - as L. Coleman |
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# | Quote |
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1 | There's a difference between confidence and being cocky, and I'm real confident, because I know what I'm capable of. |
# | Trademark |
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1 | His voice |
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