He debuted as a guest rapper on Fat Joe\'s 1995 album Jealous One\'s Envy, then appeared on Flesh-N-Bone\'s solo album T.H.U.G.S. in 1996 and The Beatnuts\' 1997 album Stone Crazy before signing with Loud Records as a solo artist. Pun\'s lyrics are notable for technical efficiency, having minimal pauses to take a breath, heavy use of alliteration as well as internal and multi-syllabic rhyming schemes.\n', '

About.com ranked him #25 on its list of the 50 Greatest MCs of All Time, while MTV2 ranked him #11 on its list of the "22 Greatest MCs". In 2012, The Source ranked him #19 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.\n', '

Christopher Lee Carlos Rios was born on November 10, 1971 in The Bronx, New York City to parents of Puerto Rican descent. He grew up in the South Bronx neighborhood of the city, and had at least 2 sisters and 1 brother. He regularly played basketball and trained in boxing for a while. He eventually moved out of his mother\'s house at the age of 15, and was homeless for a period of time in the late 1980s. Rios received a large settlement from the city stemming from an incident in 1976, where a five-year-old Rios broke his leg while playing in a park. Using the settlement money, Rios married his high school sweetheart, Liza, and the two moved into a home together. Rios struggled with depression stemming from his turbulent childhood, and turned to food as a way of coping with it. Between the ages of 18 and 21, Rios’ weight ballooned from 180lbs to 300lbs, and he was consequently unable to tie his own shoes.\n', '

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