Honestly I disagree with the RTD / Scarface comparison. Scarface really doesn't age well as a movie where as RTD is a timeless classic. If anything RTD is The Godfather and Reasonable Doubt is Godfather II. Plenty of people prefer pt 2 but the original set the template for the whole genre. That's RTD in a nutshell. Jay's whole drug king pin persona and flow are largely derivative of the template Biggie laid out. That's why he gets accused of biting Big's style so much.
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