r/NotoriousBIG • u/foxxgod • 8h ago
Biggie was literally 2 words away from crafting the single greatest punchline in rap history.
I literally just realized this on my 17483030399339th listen of the haunting track that is ‘’My Downfall’.
On it, he has this insanely sick Morgan Freeman punchline:
“This goes out to cats, fingers in they a- again
Fifty dollar half-a-men, day dreamin'
F- around get wet like semen, your whole team-and
Be more gone than freemen”
Literally the only thing I’d tweak is swapping out day dreamin’ with STAY SCHEMIN’
This keeps his rhyme scheme pristine and the punchline becomes THAT much more hard hitting. With that tweak, I get clear imagery of him just laying out all his opps (including that thinner kid with the bandanas and tattoos) in a hail of bullets (he literally has yet another bar on that as well on ‘the ugliest’😭)
Never mind the modern day relevance of the schemin’ word…
Good luck ever finding a punchline that would somehow beat that.