Any interview prefaced by a disclaimer about how its subject definitely knew they were being taped when they said what they said, is already really promising — and it only gets better. Apparently, Peace (the aforementioned Toronto outlet) asked Biggie to rate his contemporaries on a scale of 1-10, and Puffy's most-famous protege (sorry, Cassie) obliged.
He opines on rappers from those now largely overshadowed (of R.A. the Rugged Man, Smalls says "The white boy [...] I did the jam with? Two, maybe three. I did the song, they paid me a lot of money, that's why I did it") to forever-legends like KRS-One ("Nah, I don't like KRS no more, 'cause he thinks he's too dope" before going on to say that KRS could eat ... well, things we can't print). Apparently, Biggie's standards were so high that Bay area legend E-40 didn't even earn a rating from him (unless you count zero).
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