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Personnel: Big Punisher, Fat Joe, Wyclef, Busta Rhymes, Black Thought, Noreaga, Miss Jones, JOE, Triple Seis, Armageddon, Cuban Link, Prospect, Dead Prez, Prodigy, Inspektah Deck (rap vocals); Funkmaster Flex (spoken vocals); Roc Raida (scratches). Producers include: Ju-Ju, Rockwilder, Knobody, Mike Zulu, Domingo. Engineers include: Ken "Duro" Ifil, Adam Kudzin, Soundboy. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Rap Album. Personnel: Big Punisher, Fat Joe, Wyclef, Busta Rhymes, Black Thought, Noreaga, Miss Jones, JOE, Triple Seis, Armageddon, Cuban Link, Prospect, Dead Prez, Prodigy, Inspektah Deck (rap vocals); Funkmaster Flex (spoken vocals); Roc Raida (scratches). Producers include: Ju-Ju, Rockwilder, Showbiz, Big Punisher, RZA. Engineers include: Ken "Duro" Ifil, Adam Kudzin, Soundboy. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Rap Album. Prepare to be punished. Loud Records presents the newest MC mastermind, Big Pun. The latest spin-off from the Bronx-born Terror Squad (first introduced by Fat Joe), Pun's quick-tongued delivery and witty lyrics have earned him a highly anticipated debut album, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Punisher blew up the spot with the street anthem "I'm Not A Player," the remix of which featured R&B singer JOE and helped gain commercial success for the Puerto Rican rapper. Both versions are featured on CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, in addition to other evidence of the artist's diversity. In addition to Big Pun's skills, the album contains some of the hottest upcoming talent in hip-hop, with MCs like Noreaga and the Wu-Tang's Rebel INS appearing as guests.
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Some rappers die because they get shot. Some die of AIDS. But corpulent Latino rapper Big Punisher died of a massive coronary; at the time of his February 2000 death, he weighed over 600 pounds. While this made Punisher a suitable poster boy for the dangers of conspicuous consumption, on his platinum 1998 debut album, Capital Punishment, he's eager to poke fun at the creed of greed: "I'm not a player", he announces, "I just fuck a lot." But while Capital Punishment is perfectly adequate gangsta fare, Big Pun doesn't deserve the deification that dead rappers so frequently receive; here, he deviates little from the egomaniacal posturing that the Notorious B.I.G. branded his own. "If it doesn't make dollars, then it doesn't make sense," splutters compadre Fat Joe on "Glamour Life." Suitable, then, that Big Pun died in an industry where rigor mortis is the ultimate unit-shifter. --Louis Pattison
