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It appears as if a tribute song recorded by Slaughter House group member Joel Ortiz, has been denounced by the widow of late-great Bronx MC Big Pun.
The song “Big Pun’s Back” was released early last month and finds “Mr. Yaow” paying homage to the great Christopher Lee Rios aka Big Pun, over Maybach Music Group member Meek Mill’s street anthem “Tupac’s Back.” Ortiz starts the track off by stating, “we have to keep this man’s (Big Pun) memory alive” before he spits bars full of reverence to Pun. In “Big Pun’s Back,” Joell crowns himself “the new Christopher Rios of rap” all the while shouting out Big Pun and Puerto Ricans across the map.
But one person extremely close to the deceased rapper has taken major exception to “Big Pun’s Back” and that’s Pun’s widow, Liza Rios. A fuming Rios took to her Facebook account to air out her grievances towards the song and its creator Joell Ortiz. “A lot of people are asking how I feel about the Joell Ortiz BIG PUN is Back. Well it was a good attempt on Joell Ortiz part BUT a BIG PUN he will never be!” Rios wrote. “Found it a bit disrespectful that he would say he the next Christopher Lee Rios to say the least with no regard to me and my family especially my son Pun's only son, which should be the ONLY one to claim that BIG PUN is back.”
Although many consider Ortiz to be the closest in comparison to Pun skill-wise and the most relevant rapper of Puerto-Rican descent not named Fat Joe, Liza Rios is not impressed.
“Let me tell you something, if Pun's torch is being passed down then it will be to his son it's his birthright not Joell, and the fact the he didn't even ask to begin with to see if I was cool "passing the torch" is disrespectful!!” Rios would close the matter out by saying “point black, at the end of the day only how I feel matters cause that's my husband, my name, my torch to pass!!”
Source: MTV