Born on this present day in 1971 in Bronx, NY, Terror Squad lieutenant Christopher ‘Massive Pun” Rios grew from an distinctive emcee that stood aspect to aspect by Fats Joe throughout his Jealous One’s Nonetheless Envy heyday to morphing into one of many recreation’s biggest lyricists of all time.
Massive Punisher initially entered the rap recreation within the mid-80s as a member and founding father of underground hip-hop collective Full-A-Clips and on the time, went underneath the moniker Massive Moon Dawg, which was drawn from a famed professional wrestler with the identical title. Recordings from the collective have been hid and stay unreleased, however are identified to be the earliest recordings of the late Puerto Rican emcee.
After Pun acquired a Grammy for “I’m Not A Participant”, the full-length, double-disc model of his debut Capital Punishment was launched the next 12 months,. The album went platinum inflicting Pun to make historical past as the primary Hip Hop solo act of Latino descent to realize the mark.
On February seventh, 2000 throughout a momentary keep at Crowne Plaza Lodge in White Plains, New York, Pun confronted a deadly coronary heart assault and respiratory failure. He weighed 698 kilos on the time of his loss of life, the best weight in his lifetime. He withdrew from a Saturday Night time Dwell efficiency two days prior the place he was scheduled to carry out with Fats Joe and Jennifer Lopez.
