Lamont Coleman, aka Big L, was a New York rapper famed among underground hip-hop
fans for his freestyling. Lamont 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 Lamont 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, Big
L made his solo debut pro...