RHH: What did Big L add to hip hop?

Straight from wikipedia

Coleman(big L) is often credited in helping to create the horrorcore genre of hip hop due to his 1992 song "Devil's Son."[9] However, not all his songs fall into this genre, for example, in the song "Street Struck" Coleman discusses the difficulties of growing up in the ghetto and describes the consequences of living a life of crime.[56] Idris Goodwin of The Boston Globe said, "[Big L had an] impressive command of the English language", and the best example was Coleman's song "Ebonics".[57]

He was notable for using a rap style called "compounding".[58] He also used one-liners: an example is in the song "'98 Freestyle" from The Big Picture where he raps "If my girl think I'm loyal, then that ***** is a fool."[59] Coleman also used metaphors in his rhymes.[22] M.F. DiBella of Allmusic stated Coleman was "a master of the lyrical stickup undressing his competition with kinetic metaphors and a brash comedic repertoire".[22] On the review of The Big Picture, she adds "the Harlem MC as a master of the punch line and a vicious storyteller with a razor blade-under-the-tongue flow."[23] Trent Fitzgerald of Allmusic said "a lyrically ferocious MC with raps deadlier than a snakebite and mannerisms cooler than the uptown pimp he claimed to be on records."

I think his punch lines combined with multisyllables was never really done before in such a vicious, flowing manner. Pun and Big L are fairly close in skill. But I think Big L was more of a CLEAR story teller. You understood his punch lines much easier than with Pun. Pun was so good it was hard to even understand what he was saying. He was a fast rapper, combined with all that crazy skill. It's hard to get into him even, kind of like Aesop Rock. It's over your head. Big L was more accessible but equally nasty in my opinion.

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