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Dec 3, 2020 · While members of Biggie’s camp such as Diddy, Lil Kim, Junior M.A.F.I.A. were understandably heated, their boss apparently forbade them from responding to the diss. During a recent Instagram...
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- 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...
Oct 30, 2019 · And so was Junior M.A.F.I.A., the rap group started by Christopher Wallace, better known as the Notorious B.I.G. Biggie was in the studio with the rest of his group, including Chico Del Vec....
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Shakur welcomed B.I.G. to join his side group Thug Life, but he would instead form his own side group, the Junior M.A.F.I.A., with his Brooklyn friends Lil' Cease and Lil' Kim. Shakur had a falling out with B.I.G. after he was shot at Quad Studios in 1994.
Oct 10, 2019 · by SMF · Published October 10, 2019 · Updated June 18, 2020. The classic 2Pac and Outlawz song “Hit ‘Em Up” has been called “the most savage diss track ever” and for good reason. Rap music, as we all know, is a genre in which popular artists tend to have beef with each other.
Oct 18, 2023 · Junior M.A.F.I.A. member Lil' Cease said in an XXL interview that Shakur was the subject of Biggie's track "Long Kiss Goodnight." Diddy, staying along his diplomatic path, steadfastly...
Sep 29, 2023 · In the inflammatory song, Tupac also spat venom at artists Lil Kim, Junior M.A.F.I.A., and Prodigy of Mobb Deep. Tupac and Biggie’s rivalry was fast becoming hip-hop’s most famous—and...
