Big Pun
Overview
 
Christopher Lee Rios better known by his stage name
Stage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...

 Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was an American rapper
Rapping
Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

 who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx
The Bronx
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 in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts
The Beatnuts
The Beatnuts are a New York-based hip hop group and production duo from Queens, New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les. JuJu is Dominican American from Corona and Psycho Les is a Colombian American from Jackson Heights...

, on the track "Off the Books" in 1997, and on Fat Joe
Fat Joe
Joseph Antonio Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad....

's second album Jealous One's Envy
Jealous One's Envy
Jealous One's Envy is the second studio album by Fat Joe released in 1995. It fared well on the hip-hop charts.- Track listing :...

in 1995, on the track "Watch Out", prior to signing to Loud Records
Loud Records
Loud Records is a subsidiary of SRC Records founded by Steve Rifkind in 1992.Loud was a hip hop label which has released material by acts such as Wu-Tang Clan, Big Punisher, Mobb Deep, Krayzie Bone, The Beatnuts, M.O.P., Tha Alkaholiks, Pete Rock, Lil' Flip, Three 6 Mafia, Project Pat, Xzibit,...

 as a solo artist. Pun's lyrics are notable for technical efficiency, having minimal pauses to take a breath, heavy use of alliteration as well as internal and multi-syllabic rhyming schemes.
Quotations

Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

Trunk jewels, cruisin in the Land, pumpin 'Wu-Tang Clan|Cash Rules' Last crew to want it caught a hundred tryin to pass through

Ready for war Joe, how you wanna blow they spot I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some wop

I rub your face off the Earth and curse your family children/like Amityville drill the nerves in your cavity fillin/Insanity's building up pavillion in my civilian/The cannon be the anarchy that humanity's dealing

You ain't a killer, you still learnin how to walk/From New York to Cali all the real niggaz carry chalk/Mark you for death, won't even talk that East and West crap/From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where you're from it's where's your gat

So be advised, the streets is full of surprises/It's not what crew's the livest/One that survive is who's the wisest

Nowhere to run, hide, I'll find you and and silence your screams/And even if you kill me I'll still be in your fuckin dreams

The harsh realities of life is takin tolls/Even Jesus Christ forsake my soul

 
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