LUKE CAGE Will Feature Musical Performances From Some Notable Hip-Hop Artists

@JohnnyTBP - They said Faith Evans and this takes place in Harlem - best case means Biggie, worst case means... Ewwww Puff Daddy. I don't want [frick]ing Sean Johns lame ass involved with this. Get the [frick] out of here Combs.

@Yaf - I have had a crush on Faith Evans since high school. Still have "Never Gonna Let You Go" on my playlist.

@Luminus - Are you [frick]ing kidding me? All of those songs [frick]ing suck. Let's start with "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" - that was his rapping debut and boy did it suck. I remember that day like it was yesterday, everyone at school was like "damn Puff and Mase sound the same, why's the nigha even rapping?".

Then I'll Be Missing You, people were like it's a cool sentiment but talking into a mic don't qualify as rap. Plus that [frick]ing song robbed Biggie Smalls, the man who that shite was a tribute to of the Grammies he deserved, so [frick] it!

Don't Stop What You're Doing? If you take any song from No Way Out it should always be either Victory or It's All About the Benjamins, and neither because of Puff's verse.

And Bad Boy for Life and Been Around the World are just shit. The bastard can't rap, he's coordinated some good production in songs (he can't make beats either) but he can't rap. Hell I can't rap but I'm 100% confident I could beat him in a rap battle.

@Luminus - His wild success? He hasn't had a successful or good album since his first, which was only good because it was marketed off of the death of Biggie Smalls. He's only worth $750 000 000 because he owns the ghost of Biggie Smalls. I'm sorry if this is rude, but you clearly don't know shit about the rap business.

@Luminus - I don't have a leg to stand on? His first album, No Way Out was marketed entirely on songs featuring the late Biggie Smalls. Yes, it won Grammy for Best Rap Album but ask anyone who knows what they're talking about and they will tell you that it is the worst win of all time. Why? Life After Death, the last album of the artist to whom No Way Out was a tribute to didn't win even though it was the best hip hop album since It Was Written.

Again, why do you think his first album is seven times platinum? Not because of P. Diddy - P. Diddy can't rap to save his life. Because of Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace, because it featured his last verse ever recorded in Victory, the most successful song from that album was dedicated to him (I'll Be Missing You) and the album gave people another chance after Life After Death to listen to BIG.

You can like Puff all you want that's fine, but not knowing shit about the rap business proves you don't know why he's successful. This is the man whose first rap concert resulted in the deaths of eleven people in a stampede. He's not successful because of himself, he's successful because he had ONE amazing artist whose death turned him into a legend.

Puff Daddy is an artist whom from his first album is all about nostalgia? His second album, Forever, was a critical flop and when he realized that Puff Daddy or P Diddy isn't a marketable name he went back to that Bad Boy Family bullshit, which is why his whole last album and tour is marketed towards people who loved the Lox, Lil' Kim and Mase in the 90s.

I get how you can like his music, but I don't get how you can have respect for such a shitty person. This man surrounded himself with the same Crips who ended up killing Tupac Shakur, refused to make up with Suge Knight (which got Biggie killed), forced Biggie to work in a hostile Los Angeles (which got Biggie killed), beat the shit out of Shyne, is gun crazy and tried to murder his son's football coach with a kettleball. Plus, he's a shitty rapper.

@Luminus - So what if you have friends who are gangsters? I grew up in a shitty nieghborhood, I too know plenty of people who wound up being gangbangers. But purposefully surrounding yourself with people like that so that they will kill for you is completely stupid.

You act like I'm completely downplaying No Way Out. I'm not. Victory features one of the best Biggie Smalls' verses out there, All About the Benjamins is very entertaining, the Lox is enjoyable as usual. No Way Out by Puff Daddy and The Family is a good album. Is it a good album because of Puff Daddy? No. It is a good album because of The Family. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five all over again. The point is, that album is overblown. It capitalized off of the death of Christopher Wallace so much that Biggie Smalls' Life After Death didn't win the Grammy it deserved. Can you in your right mind say that No Way Out is better than Life After Death? That Victory is better than Notorious Thugs? That I'll Be Missing you is better than Long Kiss Goodnight?

What isn't clear is why you think my comment about the business was about your taste in music. It was about Puff's wild success. He's successful as a businessman, yes. Not a rapper.

When people comment things like what does it matter how he became successful, it really gets me questioning your morals. The man is successful by fiending off of death. He fostered the environment in the 90s that led to the deaths of Tupac and Biggie Smalls, Slick Rick, was deeply invested with Jimmy Henchman, associated with the BMF through their murder and rape and was made by Eric von Zip. What does it matter? Well, he's the Charles Manson of rap if Charles Manson never got caught. So you tell me, what does it matter?

So why haven't I done it? Number one I live in Vancouver, Canada and am successful as an honest businessman. Number two, there is no rap industry in Vancouver. But number three, and here's the real reason but I'm going to ask you:

Would you willingly walk over the bodies of men and women dead and injured in an event, caused by you, for success?

@Luminus -

Let's just leave the gangsters out of it, I was simply using Puff's association with Tupac's killers to show his snakish personality.

However, you say don't sleep on Puff. I am sleeping on Puff. Do I listen to Victory for Puff Daddy? No, I listen to it because it's the last verse ever recorded by Biggie. Do I listen to No Way Out for Puff Daddy, no I listen to it for the Family. I sleep on Puff and pretty much everyone who enjoys that album does as well.

I dismissed Puff Daddy because I do not want to hear the guy whose lameass repetition of Biggie's verses on Biggie's songs makes them unhearable while wearing headphones. No, that's not the specific reason why but if I don't want to listen to Puff, I don't want to listen to Puff. None of those songs are "good" because of Puff, that album isn't "good" because of Puff. The worst parts of that album is of Puff.

And as for that last part. The only real gangster left in rap is Gucci Mane, no rapper since the early 90s has been a hard gangster. Most were just drug runners or hustlers in their teens and those that weren't aren't noticeable. Even then, no rapper has caused as many people to die as Puff Daddy - that's a fact.

And man, as for my responses getting longer, I didn't plan that shite yo. But hey, if you say we're done, then we're done, just wanted you to read what I had left to say.

@superbigguy32 - that is fire