The Notorious B.I.G. may have had more mack than Craig, but Craig Mack had more bars on one particular occasion.
There’s a video posted on YouTube that have Biggie and Craig trading bars with each other. According to the soundbite, the two Bad Boy signees, alongside their CEO Sean Combs, were at a Funk Master Flex birthday party in the ’94.
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Craig starts it off and impressively goes in for a bit. Biggie would come with a few fresh lines of his own, but taps out shortly after. Craig wasted no time picking back up.
Though the two were competitive, it merely seemed to be a friendly competition. Biggie even gives Craig some props.
More than likely, Diddy, then known as Puffy, had Biggie and Craig on a campaign run, titled “B.I.G.-Mack,” a promotional tool for both artists who were practically newbies at the time.
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