Big L
Lamont Coleman, aka Big L, was a New York rapper famed among underground hip-hop
fans for his freestyling.
Coleman was born in Harlem on May 30th 1974. At the age of 12 he started getting
into hip-hop, freestyling with other fans in his neighbourhood. A couple of
iterations of an early group failed to stick, but in the early '90s Coleman, now
known as Big L, recorded several demos (a few of which later landed on his debut
album) and founded Children of the Corn with Killa Cam (Cam'ron), Murda Mase
(Ma$e), Bloodshed and McGruff.
In 1995, Coleman made his solo debut proper ...
