BAR BATTLE: Hov vs Biggie

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⬇️all polls found below⬇️
1.
HOV - I administer pain, next the minister’s screamin your name, at your wake as I peek in, look in your casket, feelin sarcastic, ‘look at him, still sleepin’

BIGGIE - There's gonna be a lot of slow singin' and flower-bringin', If my burglar alarm starts ringin'
2.
HOV - Look, if I shoot you, I'm brainless, but if you shoot me, then you're famous

BIGGIE - Bitches I like 'em brainless, guns I like 'em stainless steel, I want the fucking Fortune like the Wheel
3.
HOV - She saw my necklace, started relaxin', now that's what the fuck I call a chain reaction

BIGGIE - Uhh, your reign on the top was short like leprechauns, as I crush so-called willies, thugs, and rapper-dons, get in that ass quick, fast like Ramadan
4.
HOV - I'm so far ahead of my time, I'm 'bout to start another life, Look behind you, I'm 'bout to pass you twice

BIGGIE - It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine, Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine
5.
HOV - I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell, I am a hustler, baby, I'll sell water to a whale.

BIGGIE - Number 6: that goddamn credit? Dead it, You think a crackhead paying you back, shit forget it!
(context: rules of dealing)
6.
HOV - "Son, do you know why I'm stopping you for?", ‘Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hat's real low? Do I look like a mind reader, sir? I don't know’

BIGGIE - Keep your family and business completely separated, money and blood don't mix like two dicks and no bitch
7.
HOV - 9 to 5 is how you survive, I ain't tryna survive, I'm tryna live it to the limit, and love it a lot

BIGGIE - No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us, birthdays was the worst days, now we sip Champagne when we thirsty, Uh, damn right I like the life I live
8.
HOV - Financial freedom my only hope, Fuck livin' rich and dyin' broke, I bought some artwork for one million, Two years later, that shit worth two million, Few years later, that shit worth eight million, I can't wait to give this shit to my children
BIGGIE - Spit yo game, talk yo shit
Grab yo gat, call yo clique
Squeeze yo' clip, hit the right one
Pass that weed, I got to light one
All them niggas, I got to fight one
All them hoes, I got to like one
Our situation is a tight one
What you gonna do: fight or run?
9.
HOV - I was gonna kill a couple rappers, but they did it to themselves, I was gon' do it with the flow, but they did it with their sales.

BIGGIE - I got enough to feed the needy, no need to be greedy, I got mad friends with Benzes, C-notes by the layers, true fuckin' players
10.
HOV - I move with biscuits, stop the heart of n***** acting too suspicious, this is food for thought—you do the dishes!

BIGGIE - So instead of making hoes suck my dick up
I used to do stick-ups, 'cause hoes is irritating like the hiccups
H-Thanks to the duffle bag, the brown paper bag
The Nike shoe box for holding all this cash, boys in blue who put greed before the badge
B-I hope it makes me a better man, take a better stand, put money in my mom's hand, get my daughter this college plan so she don't need no man
12.
HOV - A loss ain't a loss, it's a lesson, appreciate the pain, it’s a blessin'

BIGGIE - Don’t let ’em hold you down. Reach for the stars.
13.
HOV - But I never sat back feelin' sorry for myself
If you don't give me heaven I'll raise hell, 'Til it's heaven

BIGGIE - It don’t make sense, going to heaven with the goodie-goodies, dressed in white, I like black Timbs and black hoodies
14.
HOV - Got a strange way of seeing life like, I’m Stevie Wonder with beads under the doorag, Intuition is there even when my vision’s impaired, yeah.

BIGGIE - Now when I'm fucking off gin I'm invincible
Don't love no ho, that's my principle, 'Cause, bitches come bitches go
15.
HOV - Don't argue with fools, Cuz people from a distance can't tell who is who

BIGGIE - N****, you ain't got to explain shit
I've been robbin' motherfuckers since the slave ships
With the same clip and the same four-five
Two point blank, a motherfucker sure to die
16.
HOV - I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca Right next to DeNiro, but I'll be hood forever

BIGGIE - Separate the weak from the obsolete
Hard to creep them Brooklyn streets
It's on, n****, fuck all that bickerin' beef
I can hear sweat tricklin' down your cheek
I hope you enjoyed my 3rd bar battle. These rappers really are incredible and digging through their songs today truly reminded me. Who won for you? Which bar do you like the most?
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