After he did a freestyle, Finesse and Coleman exchanged numbers.Ĭoleman attended Julia Richman High School.
In the summer of 1990, Coleman met Lord Finesse at an autograph session in a record shop on 125th Street. Around this time, people started to refer to Coleman as "Big L". No projects were released, and after Rodney left, the group was renamed Two Hard Motherfuckers. It consisted of Coleman, Doc Reem, and Rodney. He founded a group known as Three the Hard Way in 1990, but it was quickly broken up due to a lack of enthusiasm amongst the members. At the age of 12, Coleman became a big hip hop fan and started freestyling with other people in his neighborhood. Coleman received the nicknames "Little L" and "'mont 'mont" as a child. His two older siblings, Donald Coleman and Leroy Phinazee (d.2002), were the children of Gilda and a man named Mr. Davis left the family while Coleman was a child. Lamont Coleman was born in Harlem, New York City, on May 30, 1974, the third and youngest child of Gilda Terry (d. I said, ’Yo, it’s no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with.' When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. Noted for his use of wordplay, multiple writers at AllMusic, HipHopDX and The Source have praised Coleman for his lyrical ability, and he has also been described as "one of the most auspicious storytellers in hip hop history." Regarding Coleman's legacy, Nas said on MTV, “He scared me to death. On February 15, 1999, Coleman was shot nine times and killed by an unknown assailant in a drive-by shooting in his hometown of Harlem. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most lyrical rappers of all time, and is known for helping to pioneer horrorcore.Įmerging from Harlem, New York in the early to mid-1990s, Coleman became well known amongst underground hip-hop fans for his freestyling ability, and was eventually signed to Columbia Records, where he released his debut album, Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous in 1995 and is now considered by many fans as a classic album. Lamont Coleman (– February 15, 1999), known professionally as Big L, was an American rapper.
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