In 1995, the video for the single " No Endz, No Skinz" debuted, which was directed by Brian Luvar.ġ995-1996: Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous and release from Columbia On 11 July 1994, Coleman released the radio edit of " Put It On" featuring Kid Capri, and three months later the music video was released. In 1994, he released his second promotional single "Clinic". So I just put it all together in a rhyme." On 18 February 1993, Coleman performed live at the Uptown Lord Finesse Birthday Bash at the 2,000 Club, which included performances from Fat Joe, Nas, and Diamond D.
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Plus the things I see in Harlem are very scary. He said he wrote the song because "I've always been a fan of horror flicks. Sometime in 1993, Coleman released his first promotional single, "Devil's Son", and claimed it was the first horrorcore single released. which consisted of Lord Finesse, Diamond D, O.C., Fat Joe, Buckwild, Showbiz, and A.G. Around this time, Coleman had become a member Lord Finesse's Bronx-based hip hop collective D.I.T.C. In 1993, Coleman signed to Columbia Records. In that same year, he won an amateur freestyle battle, which consisted of about 2,000 contestants.
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Coleman's first professional appearance came on the song "Yes You May (Remix)", the B-side of the 1992 single "Party Over Here" by Lord Finesse, and his first album appearance was on "Represent" off of Showbiz & A.G.'s 1992 album Runaway Slave. On 11 February of that same year, Coleman appeared on Yo! MTV Raps with Lord Finesse to help promote Finesse's studio album Return of the Funky Man. In 1991, he founded the Harlem rap group Children of the Corn with Killa Cam, Murda Mase, and Bloodshed. Every now and then, a house party, grab the mic, a block party, grab the mic." He graduated from high school in 1992. While in high school, Coleman freestyle battled in his hometown in his last interview, he stated, "In the beginning, all I ever saw me doing was battling everybody on the street corners, rhyming in the hallways, beating on the wall, rhyming to my friends. After Coleman performed a freestyle, he and Finesse exchanged numbers.Ĭoleman attended Julia Richman High School. In the summer of 1990, he met Lord Finesse at an autograph session in a record shop on 125th Street. Around this time, Coleman adopted the stage name "Big L", a reference to his childhood nickname "Little L". At the age of 12, Coleman became a big fan of hip hop and began freestyling against people in his own neighborhood. His two siblings were Donald and Leroy "Big Lee" Phinazee (d.
His father left the family when Coleman was a child.
On February 15, 1999, Coleman was fatally shot by an unknown assailant in his hometown Harlem, a neighborhood of Manhattan. Many of his songs feature violent and homicidal lyrics, with songs "All Black" and "Devil's Son" being prominent examples of his use of the sub-genre horrorcore. The main components of Coleman's lyrical technique were a straight forward matter-of-fact style, multi-syllabic rhyming and a rough sense of humor. Shortly before his death, he created his own independent label, Flamboyant Entertainment, on which he released one of his best-known singles, " Ebonics", in 1998. Coleman released his debut album, Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous, in 1995, and significantly contributed to the underground hip hop scene in New York. His first professional appearance came on the remix of Lord Finesse's "Yes You May" in 1992, and later became a member of collective D.I.T.C.
Lamont Coleman (February 15, 1999), better known by stage name Big L, was an American rapper from Manhattan, New York.
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