Big Pun ft. The O'Jays - I'm Not A Player (Uncut) video

From 1998 Album: "Capital Punishment"..... Big Pun Tribute Site: www.bigpunforever.com Get Big Pun's Music: www.amazon.com & itunes.apple.com Christopher Rios (November 9, 1971 - February 7, 2000) RIP, better known by his stage name as Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was a Puerto Rican-American rapper who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts, on the track "Off the Books", and on Fat Joe's second album Jealous One's Envy, on the track "Watch Out", prior to signing to Loud Records as a solo artist. Big Pun's career was cut short in 2000 at age 28 when he died of a fatal heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Liza Rios, and three children. He grew up in a Puerto Rican community in New York City's South Bronx neighborhood. By all accounts from Rios's family, his early years were very difficult, including witnessing his mother's drug abuse, his father leaving the family, and a stepfather who was very hard on Rios. According to his grandmother, Rios would become angry and self-destructive, punching holes in the walls of his family's apartment and eating pieces of broken drywall. Rios dropped out of high school and for some time was homeless staying in abandoned buildings or at friends' homes Sometime during the 1980s, he formed the Full a Clips Crew with Triple Seis (rapper), Prospect and Cuban Link who was at the time named "Lyrical Assassin". At this point Big Pun was operating under the ...