I saw the "notorious" movie yesterday, and it brought back some memories of the 90's, and i just decided to write on what really went down with the tupac and biggie beef. The greatest beef of all time, that lead to the death of two great rappers.
The beef started off with the shooting and robbing of tupac at the quad studio in 1995. Apparently tupac was meant to record a song with an artist who was under the management of "jimmy henchman". Big and puffy were also using a studio in the building, and he saw "lil cease", biggies associate, at the window before going into the building. So when he was robbed and shot, he just assumed that he was set up by biggie. People should know that they had no problems prior to that event, so i only wonder what made tupac think that a fellow artist would want him robbed, or worse dead.
Tupac was short 5 times during the incidence, among some places he was hit were, the scrotum, the arm, and a bullet grazed his head. he still managed to make it up the building, where he saw puff and accused him of setting him up. I read an interview of "jimmy henchmen" a couple of years ago in the source magazine where henchman claims he believed tupacs gun shot wounds were self inflicted. He said he believes pac was reaching for his gun and accidentally let off shots. Henchman was one of the other people tupac accused of setting him up.
Weeks after the shooting, tupac was found guilty of a rape charge he had been charged off, and was off to jail, but before then, he had been making a lot of noise that biggie was either directly involved in the shooting or knew something about it, since he and his entourage were all in the building when it happened.
Tupac spent a couple of months in jail before suge knight, founder of death row records, bailed him out and signed him to his label. Then the war continued. Tupac went into the studio to record a diss track called "hit em up", where he samples the beat of the junior mafia track "get money". In the song, he disses biggie and the whole bad boy record label, as a clique and as a record label. The song went on to be loved by all west coast fans of tupac, and the war was on.
Biggie never really replied pac, but people claimed he replied with a track called "who shot you", which biggie said he had recorded prior to the genesis of the beef.
The beef went on on wax, and it started a whole coastal beef. The east and westcoast beef.
Tupac got shot in september of 1996, by an unknown person, drive-by style. Four shots hit him, and he died a couple of days later. He was shot in Las Vegas.
Biggie was killed, the same way pac was killed, drive-by style, in california on march 9 1997.
Now what i want i want to point out of this whole saga is my own conclusion on the shootings. Tupac was a very political individual, and he talked against anything, or anybody who he did not like, openly. We have to face the fact that he had a lot of enemies. He even got into a fight with a known crip member a couple of minutes before he was shot. Now, we can not say big or puff organised for him to be killed in las vegas, i do not see those two as people that would have interest in that.
The governemnt could have organised for him to be killed, or one of his enemies.
As for biggie, i have to conclude that tupac fans killed bigge.
Any gang banger, or hustler, or rap lover in the west, most especially california could have organised the biggie hit. Biggie should have been advised against making the "going back to cali" track. Where he talks about going back to have fun in cali. How can he , just months after the west coast legend, tupac was killed, make a song about going back to california and being untouchable. I believed he caused his death. Tupac fans were still mourning the death of their hero, and you come up with a song that depicts you as the winner, the last man standing in the whole beef, what is that suppose to mean. Then, biggie now made the biggest mistake of physically going back to california, and rocking in their clubs.
The whole dispute could have been settled if the two had sat down to talk about there differences, but that was not the case, and it ended the lives of two gifted rap artist.
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