50. "sure he did, which is why he ended up coming out the way he came" In response to In response to 31
and why he was discussing such things on his first and second albums.
Plus he was older and more mature embued with more life experience by the time he came on the scene than BIG would ever live to be.
It'd be silly to pretend that Jay didn't posses a degree of calculation to his thing that we never saw BIG display, you can take that for better or worse but it is what it is.