Well damn. On February 23rd, 1995, Big L and a young Jay-Z were guests on the Stretch & Bobbito show. The shit that went down was epic and became known by all as the “7 Minute Freestyle.” Now ...

On this day in hip-hop, Feb. 23, 1995, Jay-Z and Big L spit one of the most epic radio freestyles on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show.

AllHipHop: Talk about the epic Jay-Z and Big L freestyle on your show. Bobbito: Type up Big L and Jay Z, it’s a 10-minute freestyle that happened in 1995, February 25th to be exact.

Big L, the vaunted rapper who died in 1999, has long been hip-hop royalty. ... Jay-Z’s suave boasts and expert bursts of speed weren’t enough to carry the night, though, ...

And then he had the Big L/Jay Z freestyle session on our show, which was not a battle. They came up there together. He came up to our show five times.

Jay-Z Vs Big L: Both Deserve Better Than Weak Reissues & Posthumous LPs. Read later. Ringo P. Stacey looks at the releases of Jay-Z's The Hits Collection Vol 1 and the late Big L's Return Of The Devil ...

Also chiming in is Grand Daddy I.U., who joined the likes of Big L, Jay-Z, Finesse and others on one of the fiercest posse cuts ever, “Da Graveyard.” ...

Today we remember Harlem’s very own Big L on what would’ve been his 49th birthday. Sadly, L, whose given name is Lamont Coleman, was shot and killed on his own block in Harlem a week after his ...