Video: Nas Vs. Biggie – The Battle That Never Happened

Posted on by Robbie Ettelson

Uptown tape king DJ Doo Wop threw me this exclusive blend video he made, which answers the question – What if Nas and Biggie had gone at each other on the same stage, verse for verse? Here’s how it might have gone down…

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22 thoughts on “Video: Nas Vs. Biggie – The Battle That Never Happened”

  2. On stage? Well, as a person who’s seen and participated in battles before, I can safely say Biggie woulda had that. Stage presence is something that plays a part in battling live, and Nas is notorious (no pun intended… well maybe a little) for his lack thereof. I think that on that alone, Big woulda got him. And also, I feel like if Big ever really engaged in directly going at somebody’s head on the mic, he PROBABLY woulda buried ’em. Not that Nas wouldn’t go hard too… but Big woulda prob. had the edge on that as well.

  4. Nas has no charisma, Biggie sweated charisma. Album for album, Nas wins but in a street corner battle in say ’96, Biggie embarasses him!

  5. off the head biggie would murk it but if your talkin’ tracks then its gotta be nas,.. although i havnt really enjoyed isht hes done since his 2nd album… but if you compare their two first albums nas is better track for track in my opinion… :)

  6. BACK THEN ; NAS WAS ILLMATIC NEVERTHELESS
    DONT FORGET DAT, A EASY BATTLE 4 BIGGIE,
    I DONT THINK SO !

    THREE BIGGEST AND MOST LEGENDARY “GIMMICKQUOTES” :
    BIGGIE SMALLS IS THE ILLEST !
    LL COOL J IS HARD AS HELL !!
    NASTY NAS IN YA AREA
    ABOUT TO CAUSE
    MASS HYSTERIA !!!

  7. First, that damn Diddy and his dances are still Hysterical a decade later… but I say biggie woulda won it EASY! Illmatic and It was Written were dope albums BUT from the footage I’ve seen of Biggie’s performances… he woulda won the crowd over IMO.

  9. It would have been Biggie all day!!!!!! But a nice battle indeed.On another note how many of y’all caught those darts(PUN)fired at Biggie in-DREAM SHATTERER????Now there’s your BATTLE for real!!!!!!!!!

  11. What are these shots at Biggie on Dream Shatterer then? Bearing in mind the track came out over a year after Big’s death in would have been in spectacularly bad taste. The only link to Big on that track is ‘I’ll even let you rhyme to the Benjamin beat…’ but that’s just Pun cockily saying he’d make it easy for his (imaginary) rap rivals in a contest by generously giving them a dope track to freestyle to….

    on the subject at hand, Lyrically Nas can be Godlike, but there’s no question Biggie would’ve ripped him to shreds – Biggie was a ‘star’ where as Nas is an ‘artist’.

  12. At R. Jones… that woulda been crazy… on record only though. You ever seen Pun perform on stage? Maaan, SKEE-LO could prob’ly top Pun on stage, just on the strength of being able to get thru two bars without getting winded.

  13. On stage? Biggie no question … did you ever hear that freestyle he did with Pac, Kane, and them? He totally ripped it … ! In terms of presence, few could top Biggie live! Nas doesn’t have3 that type of presence live. Now, if the battle were strictly on wax, then that would have been a much closer battle … but the question was who would rinse who on stage!!! Biggie, no question!!!

  14. @ Danjamania-Lol,no doubt!!!!!!!

    @Don King

    that,”over the benjamins beat line,I theorize was a shot at B.I.G.,in preperation for a potential battle,never realized because of B.I.G.s death.The title alone:Dream Shatterer,”Dream”?As in it was all a…,Biggie verse:Christopher/real name Lucifer….Pun verse:Fakin like[you]Satan when I’m the real rapping abomination.The track alone sounds like Pun is addressing someone in particuliar,not emcees in general.God bless ’em both,they were both great,…but back to B.I.G. he was hands done THE BEST in his GENERATION(not ever,but his generation) to do it,the most complete emcee package,and not surprisingly..the most HATED during his short reign.Nas is great in his own right,…but it would have been no contest.

  15. this aint the today’s Nas cool,calm & collective….THIS WAS NASTY NAS ERA. So, dont give me that Biggie charisma BS because Nas was raw on stage back then

  16. Nas has no charisma, Thats straight bullsjit The man acts his Rhymes out on stage if he is in his zone /he will get emo and sjit…on stage …Big would flip it easy off da top off the dome and he was mad Live ….sjit ….i would not nooo i have to see that 1

  17. Considering Biggie is reputed the best rapper of all times, a 5% difference is not bad for Nas.
    I still think he would have won (probably on wax, rather than live).

  21. It’s like comparing Jehova to Allah, it can’t be done. They’re both amazing.

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