YMMV / Big L

• Complete Monster:
  • "Devil's Son": Big L, reimagining himself as the titular Devil's Son, commits countless petty atrocities through the song since preschool. Beating a kid to death, L later on hangs someone for the mere crime of hitting him with a can. Gaining a reputation for killing and raping nuns and bragging about having slaughtered more people than abortion clinics, L is willing to go as far as target his enemies' loved ones, forcing Joe to watch as he rapes his wife and sending hitmen not only after Tom but also the latter's mom and baby daughter. Though L initially wonders why he goes so far, he concludes that he was always evil and takes joy in it.
  • "Devil's Son (Live in Amsterdam)": Big L is a sociopathic child who decides to slaughter his own family. Targeting his mother first, L drops a blow dryer in her bath, mockingly saluting her as she is fatally electrocuted. Poisoning his father's toothbrush next, L later on drops his infant sister in a fish tank, leaving her to drown. Finally inviting 4 people before slaughtering them and eating their corpses, L shows that not even his cousin is safe from his depravity, with the latter's hand ending up cut off and cooked.
• Harsher in Hindsight: "Street Struck" contains this line: "Stay off them corners, that might be your best plan/before you catch a bullet that was meant for the next man". Four years later, he would take a bullet that was meant for his brother, killing him.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • "The Heist" and "The Heist Revisited" from The Big Picture: Big L, upon leaning from his friend Corleone that his wife was seen with his rivals Mike and Ben and a random woman entering an hotel, seeks revenge. Aware that Mike and Ben aren't only in the hotel to have sex with L's wife and the other woman, but are also there for the sake of a drug deal, L, Corleone and their friend Tommy Gibbs come up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone. Entering the hotel, L forces the receptionist at gunpoint to reveal their four targets' room. Entering said room, L, Corle' and Gibbs tie up their targets and force them to reveal their drugs and their money's location. After L successfully finds the drugs and the money in the stated location, he, Corleone and Gibbs kill their four targets, split the money between them and celebrate their successful heist, getting away with their crimes.
  • "Casualties of a Dice Game", video by Bizerk: In this fan-made animation based on the late Harlem rapper's 2000 eponymous song, the protagonist wins a cee-lo game and subsequently gets the other players' money. After dropping his friend Lroc at a McDonald's, the protagonist, coming back home by car, realizes that he's being pursued by the losers of the cee-lo game. When his friend Bones refuses to help him because he's busy having sex, the protagonist improvises by accelerating and then brutally stopping his car, sending his pursuers' car crashing into it. Keeping his calm despite being heavily wounded and bleeding, the protagonist then finishes off his pursuers. Going to Bones' home, he kills his former friend for refusing to help him. When the police attempts to stop him as he tries to reach the hospital, he triggers a gunfight, kills a policeman, forcing the other one to hide as the protagonist leaves to a nearby park. Giving his money to a couple of kids playing there, the protagonist succumbs to his wounds and enters heaven before the police catch up with him.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Big L and Jay-Z pulled out what is considered to be the best freestyle ever made in 1995. Jay-Z was doing good and was already a skilled rapper. But Big L proved to be leaps and bounds ahead of him.
• Posthumous Popularity Potential: His popularity, at first, was limited to the underground. He has been considered a solid contender for one of the greatest rappers of all time...after his death. With only one and a half album completed in his lifetime, to boot.