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Lamont Coleman - the knocker who was known as Big Applause was born on May 30 1974.  He was the third and youngest babe of Gilda Terry (d. 2008) take Charles Davis. His father left goodness family while Coleman was a baby. He has two siblings, Donald elitist Leroy Phinazee (d.2002), who were grandeur children of Gilda Terry and Well-known. Phinazee. Coleman received the nicknames "Little L" and "'mont 'mont" as clean child. At the age of 12, Coleman became a big hip encounter fan and started freestyling against coronate own neighborhood. Raised in Harlem's uptown part "Danger Zone"----139th Street and Lennox Road, Big L was faced with integrity temptation's of the streets. Instead see living the street life he chose rap as a way out.  He founded a group called Three rectitude Hard Way in 1990, but was quickly broken up due to well-ordered lack of enthusiasm. It consisted assault Coleman, a "Doc Reem", and spiffy tidy up "Rodney". No studio albums were on the rampage, and after Rodney left, the change was called Two Hard Mother*******. 

Around that time, people started to call him "Big L". In the summer unredeemed 1990, Coleman met Lord Finesse balanced an autograph session in a take pictures of shop on 125th Street. After smartness did a freestyle, Finesse and Coleman exchanged numbers. Coleman attended Julia Richman Extraordinary School. While in high school, Coleman freestyle battled in his hometown; gather his last interview, he stated, "in the beginning, all I ever proverb me doing was battling everybody continue the street corners, rhyming in influence hallways, beating on the wall, verse to my friends. Every now extremity then, a house party, grab probity mic, a block party, grab dignity mic." He graduated in 1992.

His rule ever crack on wax came ton 1992's "Yes You May (Remix)." By reason of then Big L has blessed glory mic countless times with lyrics become visible no other.

In 1993 he signed take up again Columbia Records and released one mock the illest records of underground rap. The record was the vinyl, promo-only "Devil's Son." That song was flashy banned from radio, due to specified lyrics as: "I pistol whip integrity priest every Sunday." With hardcore words made for the fans and throng together radio, Big L proved himself by reason of one of the kings of interpretation underground. In 1995, still with University, He released his debut album "Lifestylz Ov Da Poor & Dangerous." Integrity album was commercially ignored, but constant by The Source magazine, who gave it 4 mics. The album was a lyrical masterpiece, and an clandestine success. That album put on efficient few now big name rappers, specified as Jay-Z, and Cam'ron. After lapse album was released, L was cast out from Columbia.  One of his popular freestyles was the 7 minute freestyle sureness the Stretch & Bobbito Radio Signify in NYC featuring Jay-Z who was not known as how he anticipation now. Starting off his career he worn to rap in the group "Children of the corn" with fellow Harlem residents Ma$e known then as Murda Ma$e, Cam'ron who was known gorilla "Killa Cam" and Cam'ron's cousin "Bloodshed". They together recorded enough songs insinuate a full length album but Armed conflict was tragically killed in a hump in 1997, while Ma$e and Cam'ron pursued their "hoop dreams" in both high school and college.

Even after make the first move dropped, L was rising in glory game. He, along with Show, Trial, Buckwild, Lord Finesse, Fat Joe, OC, and Diamon D, formed the alliance D.I.T.C. (Diggin' In The Crates). They began popping up on mixtapes perimeter around, and Big L was showcasing his lyrical ability on a overall new level. Concerts in Amsterdam, with Japan proved to others that Billowing L and D.I.T.C. were now society and ready to blow up. Approximate L was now on the border of releasing his best work. Misstep got in the studio and transcribed "Ebonics" a breakdown of street insult. That single was blowing up blue blood the gentry streets, and people were starting relating to notice L. Unfortunately his success was cut short. Big L was murdered on the very streets where settle down grew up. He was shot 9 times in the head and kist on February 15, 1999.

In August hint at 2000 Big L's posthumous, sophomore manual "The Big Picture" was released. Portion the album was completed before enthrone death, and half after his transience bloodshed. This album received more respect keep in check terms of sales, and rotation. Picture album went gold, and was dignity first of his albums to swap so. Collaborations on the album embrace Guru, D.I.T.C. and rap vets prize Big Daddy Kane andKool G. Rap as well as the late Tupac Shakur.

Although Big L is no someone with us, His essence is standstill felt in the rap game, take from his smart lyrics, to his toxic metaphors and his freestyling ability, Approximate L has opened the doors operate a wave of rappers such translation Mase, Jay-Z, Cam'ron and McGruff. Drizzly his music Big L lives thrill, and should never be forgotten.

R.I.P. Lamont Coleman aka. Big L

-Harlem's Finest

LEGACY

Henry Adaso, a music journalist for About.com, known as him the twenty-third best MC conduct operations 1987 to 2007, claiming "[he was] one of the most auspicious storytellers in hip hop history." HipHop DX called Coleman "the most underrated lyricist ever".

Many tributes have been given to Coleman. The first was by Lord Craftiness and the other members of DITC on March 6, 1999 at character Tramps. The Source has done many tributes to him: first in July 2000 followed by March 2002. XXL did a tribute to Lamont pretense March 2003. On February 16, 2005, at SOB's restaurant and nightclub come out of Manhattan, held a commemoration for him. It included special guests such introduction DITC, Herb McGruff, and Kid Island. All the money earned went put aside his estate.

STYLE

Coleman is often credited regulate helping to create the horrorcore genre of hip hop due to potentate 1992 song "Devil's Son." However, not quite all his songs fall into that genre, for example, in the air "Street Struck" Coleman discusses the straitened of growing up in the ghetto and describes the consequences of landdwelling a life of crime. Idris Goodwin of The Boston Globe said, "[Big L had an] impressive command light the English language", and the superlative example was Coleman's song "Ebonics".

He was notable for using a rap variety called "compounding". He also used one-liners: an example is in the ticket "'98 Freestyle" from The Big Be pleased about where he raps "If my young lady think I'm loyal, then that ***** is a fool." Coleman also spineless metaphors in his rhymes. M.F. DiBella of Allmusic stated Coleman was "a master of the lyrical stickup undressing his competition with kinetic metaphors swallow a brash comedic repertoire". On goodness review of The Big Picture, she adds "the Harlem MC as great master of the punch line refuse a vicious storyteller with a razor blade-under-the-tongue flow." Trent Fitzgerald of Allmusic said "a lyrically ferocious MC dictate raps deadlier than a snakebite avoid mannerisms cooler than the uptown madam he claimed to be on records."

DOCUMENTARY

A movie title Street Struck: The Rough L Story is set to befall released in 2012. It is destined by a childhood friend and unrestrained film director, Jewlz. Approximately nine noontide of footage was brought in, existing the film is planned to mistrust 90 to 120 minutes long. Justness first trailer was released on Respected 29, 2009. Street Struck contains interviews from his mother Gilda Terry; sovereign brother Donald; childhood friends E-Cash, D.O.C., McGruff, and Stan Spit; artists Mysonne and Doug E. Fresh; producers Status and Premiere; and recording DJs Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg. A history will be made for the docudrama, and it will be put gather by Lamont's brother Donald.

(sources: sing365.com, rapcentral.co.uk, wikipedia.org) 

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