Big Punisher
Album: Capital Punishment
Release Date: August 24, 1999
Label: Relativity

Review:
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.

Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Beware
3. Super Lyrical
4. Taster’s Choice
5. Still Not A Player
6. Intermission
7. The Dream Shatterer
8. Punish Me
9. Pakinamac Pt.I
10. You Ain’t A Killer
11. Pakinamac Pt.II
12. Caribbean Connection
13. Glamour Life
14. Capital Punishment
15. Uncensored
16. I’m Not A Player
17. Twinz (Deep Cover 98)
18. The Rain & The Sun (Interlude)
19. Boomerang
20. You Came Up
21. Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy)
22. Charlie Rock Shout
23. Fast Money
24. Parental Discretion

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