...it would be greatly appreciated. I only knew 11 out of 87 names, which I think would be average for most music fans, because most of these rappers are obscure, local legends perhaps, but not really nationally known outside of rap obsessives. I did my best to strike a balance between using what's on the card as the name versus correcting what I concluded were typos/misspellings, and I think I did okay, but I'm not sure. (Just now realizing you'd need the card images to compare, and so far I could only find one perfect image to upload, so, you'll have to search for other low-quality images, sorry!)
This set is a sneaky important one in the music card world. It's somehow been overlooked, even though it was launched with the help of Biggie's mom, and packs were sold in all the big retail stores. Maybe it's the fact that Halpen's HOF First Card gallery erroneously (Halpen is the best, by far, but he's not infallible) lists Biggie's rookie as the 2013 Panini? For whatever reason, that 2013 Panini card gets sold on eBay as Biggie's rookie, for hundreds of dollars. If more people realized that Biggie's rookie was from this set, then this set would be a bigger deal. It would also piss off a lot of people who bought the 2013 Panini under the impression it was Biggie's rookie, so I'm prepared to duck and run if someday somebody steps to me with a frown and asks if I'm wigglestrue from TCDB.
Hip hop fans love the music rookie card concept. They're ahead of the curve. I think part of that must have something to do with Snoop, who is an avid card collector, both sports and (naturally, I presume) music. I would bet $1000 that Snoop has used TCDB more than once before, and I imagine he'll be visiting it more often as the music pages are filled in.
