- Capital Punishment · 1998
- Capital Punishment · 1998
- Yeah Baby · 2000
- Capital Punishment · 1997
- Capital Punishment · 1998
- Yeah Baby · 2000
- Capital Punishment · 1998
- Capital Punishment · 1998
- Capital Punishment · 1998
- Capital Punishment · 1998
- Capital Punishment · 1998
- Capital Punishment · 1998
- Capital Punishment · 1998
Essential Albums
- Big Pun never grew as notorious as he should have: Capital Punishment was the Bronx icon’s only album released during his lifetime. Still, the Puerto Rican MC had the slickest tongue on the East Coast for a spell. Don’t let the flirty piano-bop of “Still Not a Player” fool you: Capital Punishment is an absolute clinic in technique (look no further than “The Dream Shatterer”). For all his hardcore appeal, Pun never neglected the party people, deftly balancing accessibility and aggression.
Albums
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- Super lyrical styles from the Latin hip-hop phenom.
Singles & EPs
Compilations
More To Hear
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About Big Punisher
Late hip-hop powerhouse Big Punisher, aka Big Pun, was a gifted rapper and proud Nuyorican who enjoyed widespread commercial success in the late ’90s. • Pun grew up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the South Bronx. He moved out of his unstable household at the age of 15. • He performed under the moniker Big Moon Dawg but later named himself after the Marvel superhero The Punisher. • Pun’s wordplay and multisyllabic rhymes impressed rapper Fat Joe, who decided to develop Pun’s career. • Fat Joe helped Pun sign to Loud Records and inducted him into Terror Squad, his Bronx-based hip-hop collective. • Pun’s 1998 debut album, Capital Punishment, opened at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. Its popularity was largely due to the summertime cookout classic “Still Not a Player,” which peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. • The album sold upwards of 2 million copies, making Pun the first solo Latino rapper to go platinum. • Pun’s career tragically ended in February 2000, when he died of a heart attack at the age of 28. His posthumous sophomore album, Yeeeah Baby, reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
- HOMETOWN
- Bronx, NY, United States
- BORN
- November 10, 1971
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap