fast facts

• Big Pun loved sports – he grew up playing basketball and boxing.

• He met his future wife, Liza Rios, in 8th grade.

• Big Pun met fellow Puerto Rican rapper Fat Joe in 1995 and made his commercial debut on Joe’s second album.

• “Still Not a Player” became Big Pun’s first major commercial hit.

• Pun’s first full-length album, Capital Punishment, was the first album by a solo Latino rapper to go platinum.

• Capital Punishment was nominated for a Grammy.

• Big Pun’s second album, Yeeeah Baby, peaked at #3 on the Billboard charts.

• A new tribute documentary, Big Pun: The Legacy, featuring interviews with artists, actors, and close friends, should be released sometime this year.

• Pun died at the young of 28.

• Big Pun is survived by his wife, Liza Rios, and three children.