Big Pun

“Dead in the middle of Little Italy, little did we know / That we riddled two middlemen who didn't do diddly.”

Christopher Rios possessed one of the most astonishing technical instruments in hip-hop history. Packing twelve-to-sixteen rhyming syllables into single four-beat measures without audible breath intakes, Pun turned tongue-twisting Bronx street narratives into multi-platinum anthems.