"Keep your friends shut, simply your enemies closer," is a famous quote from the Godfather II which pretty much sums up the relationship between the late Tupac Shakur and Christoper hip hop legend, "Biggie Smalls" Wallace, who has also passed abroad.

Hip hop is predicated on beef (e.g. boxing rapping), and many feuds have cropped upwards in the genre over the years (fifty Cent and Ja Rule, for example). However, none compare to the Notorious B.I.G.'s feud with Tupac. Their dispute went from interviews and diss records to flaming bullets and funerals.

We're going to look back on the blood-stained conflict between Shakur and Wallace, and we're going to be reminded of grim details, center-rending tales, and ghastly revelations. The beef lasted a little more two years, though a lifetime of events transpired in that relatively brusk time menstruation.

Walk down memory lane with us equally we explore the fiercest rivalry in music history.

12 Tupac And Biggie Were Good Friends At Outset

Despite having presumably the biggest rivalry in the history of music, Tupac and Biggie began as good friends. In 1993, at a Los Angeles party, Wallace asked a drug dealer to introduce him to Shakur.

Dan Smalls remembered the meeting: "Pac walks into the kitchen and starts cooking for us. He's in the kitchen cooking some steaks. We were drinking and smoking and all of a sudden Pac was like, 'Yo, come become information technology.' And we get into the kitchen and he had steaks, and French chips, and breadstuff, and Kool‑Assistance and we just sittin' there eating and drinking and laughing...that's truly where Big and Pac'due south friendship started."

11 Biggie Asked Tupac To Manage Him

Tupac and Biggie actually hit it off. Shakur would always visit Wallace's neighborhood in Brooklyn when he was in New York, and Wallace would crash on Shakur's couch whenever he was in California. In one case, Tupac even gifted Biggie a special bottle of Hennessy. In essence, they were practically BFFs...and so much then, that Wallace actually asked Shakur to manage his music career.

Although flattered, Shakur informed Wallace that he didn't mix friendship with concern: "Nah, stay with Puff. He volition make you a star." Not bad motility, considering that'due south exactly what Sean "Puffy" Combs did.

10 The Two Rappers Recorded A Vocal Together

Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur recorded a song titled "Runnin' from tha Police force" together in 1994, for Shakur's "Thug Life" album; notwithstanding, it wasn't officially released until 2002. The track was produced past NYC producer, Easy Mo Bee, and featured rappers, Buju Banton, Stretch, and Dramacydal.

The song was later scrapped considering of the heavy flak "gangsta rap" was getting at the fourth dimension. The track was and so set to be on Tupac's 'Me Confronting the Earth' album in 1995. The thing is, due to the rappers' falling out, it never happened. The song was the only official studio collaboration between Wallace and Shakur.

9 Big And Pac's Beef Began At Quad Studios

On the evening of Nov thirty, 1994, while Biggie recorded upstairs, Tupac was robbed by three men and shot v times, at Quad Recording Studios' lobby in Manhattan. In a Vibe magazine interview in 1995, Shakur accused Jimmy Henchman, Sean Combs, and The Notorious B.I.G., among others, of fixing the Quad Recording Studios ambush.

Vibe magazine altered the names of the accused bandits upon publication. Later proof did not implicate Wallace in the studio attack. When Biggie's crew went downstairs to meet what was going on, Tupac was being hauled out on a stretcher, flipping the heart-finger to those around him. This event eternally inverse things between Wallace and Shakur.

8 The Beef Escalated Afterward Tupac Heard "Who Shot Ya"

Biggie's classic song, "Who Shot Ya?", was released a few months after Tupac was shot five times in the lobby of Quad Studios, by unknown assailants. When the rails dropped, Shakur defenseless wind of it while incarcerated in Rikers Island. Tupac had been constitute guilty of sexual corruption.

Reportedly, Tupac was crushed and wary; he'd already wondered if Biggie and Diddy knew who'd assaulted him...or if they were perhaps involved. At present, Wallace was putting out a tape named "Who Shot Ya?" in which he depicted himself as a hitman? Later, Puff and Biggie revealed that the song was absolutely not about Tupac, just to Shakur, the song was as well coincidental.

7 Decease Row Records Blew The Disharmonism Out Of The Water

With Tupac already peeved at the Notorious B.I.Grand. and P. Diddy, there was one pivotal moment that ignited the rap rivalry into an inferno. In 1995, Suge Knight, CEO of Decease Row Records, attended the Source Awards, hosted in New York City. While on phase, Knight took reward of his moment and common cold dissed Puff Daddy, without mentioning his name.

"Any creative person out in that location that want to be an artist and stay a star, and don't have to worry virtually the executive producer trying to exist all in the videos, all on the record, dancing… come to Death Row!" said Knight.

From that point, every time Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records crossed paths, there was some sort of confrontation.

6 Their Feud Acquired The Infamous East Coast-West Coast War

The East Coast-Due west Coast rivalry was an American, mid-1990s quarrel between fans and artists of the W Coast hip hop and Eastward Coast hip hop scene. At opposite ends of the dispute were Tupac Shakur (a West Coast-based rapper on Death Row Records) and The Notorious B.I.One thousand. (an East Coast-based rapper on Bad Boy Records).

Technically though, it was Tim Canis familiaris who gear up off the East Coast-West Coast rivalry. In 1991, the New York-based rapper elected to release the diss record, "Fu** Compton", because he was upset at record companies' refusals of Eastward Coast artists, due to the rising prominence of Due west Declension hip hop. The rail included crass shots at the Los Angeles hip hop scene.

5 Tupac Was Shot To Expiry In Las Vegas

Tupac was mortally wounded in a drive-by shooting on September 7, 1996, in Las Vegas, Nevada. At xi:15 p.m., PST, the shooting took place at E Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, when the BMW hauling Shakur was stopped at a ruddy light. Tupac was hit by iv .forty quotient rounds: ane in the thigh, one in the arm, and two in the chest. He succumbed to his injuries six days later on.

Prior to the shooting, Shakur approached Orlando Anderson in the vestibule of the MGM Yard and asked if he was a Southside Crip, then punched him in the face, dropping him on the floor. Tupac and Suge Knight's entourage jumped Anderson, kicking and punching him while down on the basis. The brawl, which was broken up by hotel security, was recorded by MGM Grand's video surveillance team.

four Biggie Was Gunned Down In Los Angeles

The murder of the Notorious B.I.G. went down in the early on hours of March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. The rap star was shot iv times in a drive-by shooting, while sitting in a rented Suburban, after attention an subsequently-party hosted by Qwest Records and Vibe magazine. The part venue was the Petersen Automotive Museum.

Post-obit the gunfire, Wallace'due south entourage hurried him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Heart, where physicians performed an emergency thoracotomy. Despite intensive medical care, the hip hop star was pronounced expressionless at i:fifteen a.one thousand.

Following the slaying, a procession carrying Wallace's torso was hauled through his Brooklyn neighborhood, Bed-Stuy, to let fans and those that knew him to pay their last respects.

3 Biggie Almost Survived His Shooting

Biggie was hitting by four bullets out of a 9mm handgun, merely did you lot know that it was the fourth bullet that killed him? According to Wallace's autopsy study, the outset bullet struck his left forearm and journeyed downwards to his wrist; the second hitting his back, missing every vital organ, and departed through his left shoulder. The third struck his left thigh and went out his inner thigh.

The terminal bullet entered through Wallace'southward right hip and struck numerous vital organs, including his heart, liver, colon, and left lung upper lobe. It halted in his left shoulder and proved to exist fatal.

2 Tupac Foresaw Biggie's Decease, Maybe

Tupac recorded a track titled, "God Bless The Expressionless," which was officially released in November 1998. At the beginning of the song, Shakur recites: "Residual in peace to my motherfu**** Biggie Smalls, that'southward correct, bwoy, it'due south goin' on, right here thug life, God bless the dead."

Okay, wait....what? Shakur died half-dozen months before Biggie, so why would he say "residuum in peace to my motherfu**** Biggie Smalls" in the intro of his song? Chilling, to say the least. This particular lyric, forth with Tupac's last album being named after Niccolo Machiavelli, convinced many fans and conspiracy theorists that Shakur faked his death and is still alive. What do you call up?

1 Both Of Their Murders Are Still Unsolved

The Notorious B.I.G.'s murder remains unsolved to this solar day. One theory is that Marion "Suge" Knight was behind Wallace's murder, as a direct reprisal for Tupac's slaying.

Voletta Wallace, Biggie'due south mother, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in 2002, alleging investigators had covered upward info about the LAPD's participation in her son's decease, which concluded in a mistrial in 2005. A judge ordered 50.A. to pay Biggie'due south family $one.1 million. Wallace'southward mom filed over again in 2006 and that lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice.

Regarding Tupac'due south killing, it'due south been reported that the Crips murdered Shakur every bit payback for him ambushing 1 of their members in a Las Vegas casino entrance hall; Keefe D claims he and 3 other men were in the vehicle that shot at Suge's BMW, and that Orlando Anderson is the one that fired the fatal bullets at Tupac. Another rumor is that Sean Combs ordered the hit on Tupac months in advance, supplied the murder weapon, and promised the shooters $1 million.

Both homicide cases remain officially unsolved.

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Sources: EOnline, Genius, Billboard, Slate, Vice, Popular Sugar

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