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6. On 30th November 1994, Tupac was shot outside Quad Recording Studios in Times Square. After being called up to the studio by Biggie's affiliated rapper Lil' Cease, Pac was shot, beaten, and ...
- In One Corner…Tupac Shakur
- In The Other Corner…The Notorious B.I.G.
- It All Began with Friendship
- The Fateful 1994 Shooting
- Tupac Goes to Prison, Biggie Drops “Who Shot Ya?”
- The Beef Escalates
- “Hit ‘Em Up”
- The Death of Tupac Shakur
- The Death of The Notorious B.I.G.
Born in Harlem, New York in 1971, Tupac Amaru Shakur moved to Marin City, California when he was 17 years old. It didn’t take long for teenage Pac to embrace the West Coast—drug culture, music industry, and all. In 1991, Tupac got his big break in the rap game when he signed a deal with Interscope Records. His first two albums—1991’s 2Pacalypse Now...
Around the same time that Tupac was making waves with his first albums, another emcee was getting his feet wet on the East Coast. Born in 1972, Christopher Wallace gained notoriety on the streets of Brooklyn for two things: his prolific drug dealings and his mind-blowing rap skills. In 1992, Wallace (now going by the name of Biggie Smalls) decided ...
The two emcees first met each other on the set of the 1993 film Poetic Justice. (Tupac, already an established name in the rap game, was headlining the film with Janet Jackson.) The story goes that Tupac repeatedly played Biggie’s “Party and Bullshit” on the set—a move that flattered Biggie, who had not even released a studio album at that point. T...
Biggie’s star did rise in September 1994, when he dropped his debut album Ready to Die. With the critical and commercial success of his initial outing, Biggie could finally stake his claim as one of the finest emcees of his generation. He could, at the very least, be in the same conversation as his mentor Tupac. While Biggie reveled in the success ...
In retrospective interviews, Snoop Dogg (who had been a friend to both rappers) and Biggie himself pointed to Tupac’s 1994 shooting as a turning point. From then on, the strong friendship between Tupac and Biggie would give way to feelings of betrayal and animosity. Just a day after the shooting, the wheelchair-confinedTupac showed up at a New York...
While Tupac’s psychological torment in prison continued, he began receiving support from a powerful figure in the music industry: Suge Knight. An intimidating strongman who co-founded Death Row Records, Knight sent financial aid to Tupac’smother, who was losing her house. As the relationship between Knight and Tupac grew, Knight came to offer Tupac...
In October 1995, Knight posted a $1.3 million bail to secure Tupac’s release from prison. True to his word, Tupac went straight to work for Death Row, recording tracks at a prolific pace. While regaining momentum in his music career was a primary goal, Tupac also had plans to settle the score with Biggie and Puffy. On June 4, 1996, he released the ...
On the night of September 7, 1996, Tupac was in Knight’s car en route to a party in a Las Vegas nightclub. Shortly after the car—a black BMW sedan—stopped at a red light, a white Cadillac pulled up to its side. An occupant seated at the back of the Cadillac then rolled down the window and fired shots into Knight’s car. One of the bullets hit Tupac’...
As 1996 came to a close, Biggie was hard at work on his second studio album Life After Death. In a 2021 Netflix documentary on Biggie’s life, Puffy explained that Biggie’s diligence on the album was in the name of “turning the energy around in hip hop,” in the wake of Tupac’s death. Biggie wanted to take it a step further: upon the completion of th...
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Dec 19, 2023 · In 1996, Tupac released Hit ‘Em Up, one of the greatest diss tracks of all time, as a direct diss towards Biggie. It covers everything from their relationship leading up to that moment, from Biggie crashing at Tupac’s place in California to the shooting that effectively ended their friendship. 1998 – Faith Evans.
Notorious is a 2009 American biographical drama film directed by George Tillman Jr. and written by Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker. It is based on the life of Brooklyn-based hip-hop artist The Notorious B.I.G. Much of the film dramatizes key events in Biggie's life: his criminal lifestyle, arrest and release from prison, his ...
- January 16, 2009
Feb 20, 2015 · Biggie’s onetime pal, and the most hands-down transfixing MC out of the west (if not the best), Tupac Shakur, was shot in late 1994 during a robbery at a Manhattan recording studio, which ended with Tupac recovering from gunshot wounds in hospital. It was noted that B.I.G came into the studio twenty minutes later, yet managed to remain safe.
Jun 29, 2020 · The beef between 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. ( Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace) is not only the most well-known and well-documented in rap history, but has come to embody the West Coast-East Coast hip-hop rivalry that took off in the 1990's. Ironically, both men were born in New York: 2Pac in Harlem in 1971, per Biography, and Biggie in ...
English. Biggie & Tupac is a 2002 feature-length documentary film about the murdered American rappers Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace and Tupac Shakur by Nick Broomfield . Broomfield suggests the two murders were planned by Suge Knight, head of Death Row Records. Collusion by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is also implied. [1]
