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2LP Vinyl – GET51306

It’s always amazing to embark upon a journey with an artist that allows you to witness his early-career boast of being the best later come to fruition as his career evolves. Unfortunately, Christopher “Big Pun” Rios would leave us far too early, but not before cementing as strong of a legacy in hip-hop as any 20-year veteran and creating arguably one of the small handful of truly elite albums in the history of the genre with his 1998 debut Capital Punishment.

With the dynamic combination of top-notch rhyming skills, confidence in droves, and the magnitude of his microphone presence, Big Pun immediately captured audiences’ attention as a stand-out lyricist when his powerful vocals stood out amongst his mentor Fat Joe and Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon on the mid-‘90s underground hit “Fire Water.”