The Dispute Between Biggie and Tupac

The notorious B.I.G was a well-known rapper that represented the east coast area. As the rapper took set and headed off to many parties, little did anyone know of the trouble that was ahead. There has been beef with the west coast rappers and the east coast rappers for a good amount of time. Biggie was up against a lot even the world known rapper and librarian known as Tupac Schurz. There was neuromas amounts of people that was on the street past midnight, when B.I.G. was shot to death.

An american rapper and actor who came to embody to the 1990s gangsta-rap aesthetic and in death became an icon symbolizing noble struggle. He sold 75m albums to date. A sensitive, precariously talented and trouble soal , tupac was gunned down in las vegas on september 7,1996 and pat six days later. His death has never been solved. Tupac began his music career as a rebel, his skill in doing so made him a spokesperson not just for his own generation but for subsequent ones who continue to face the same struggle for equality.in life, his biggest battle was sometimes with himself.

This incident triggered massive riots in Los Angeles areas. Tupac was aware of the violence and saw no change from decades ago; racism was alive and thrived in the streets of America.

Everyone knows a guy by the name of Tupac Shakur, but how do people know Mr. Shakur? Maybe it is by the hardcore gangster and obscene rap lyrics directed towards people, more so aimed towards his east coast rivals. As years went on, more and more people viewed a handful of Tupac’s music as a true work of art, containing strong messages along with stories from his troubled childhood and young adulthood. Later on in both Tupac’s life and career, he began to realize the demise of the African American culture as a whole. During his last stint in prison, not only did he realized all of this wrongdoing throughout this life, but also the negative influence rap and hip hop had over the young African American community. What happened during his incarnation,

A few years later his family moved to the West Coast in California where he began to to grew as an artist. In 1995, he became a solo artist and signed to Death Row with label CEO Marion “Suge Knight. That same year he also dropped his album Me Against the World . He record this album while he was in jail. According to a BET article, he was arrested for a felony with a deadly weapon. Despite his issues of being in prison, he was the first artist to go Number One on the Billboard charts while he was in prison. On September 7th 1996, Tupac was gunned down and was pronounced dead after 6 days of fighting for his life. As an artist he spoke a lot of violence and how to be aware of the society that everyone is exposed to. He spoke to the youth and was actively involved in the group the Black Panther which emphasizes equity and black power. Tupac music had meaning and emotion behind it that most struggling people in the urban community could connect to which made his so popular because people could relate. According the Rolling Stone index, Tupac was viewed as “one of the most dynamic, influential and self destructive pop stars of the Nineties.” Despite him going to jail for his wrong doings, he was a man who spoke only of the

Even though Tupac is not alive today his music still carries throughout this generation. His music talks about topics that most people are too scared to talk about. He gave people a voice that were not confident enough. He related problems to his real life. He stood up for himself through music and expressed himself through it.

It may be hard for a kid to understand why his parents didn’t want him or her listening to Pac or Biggie’s lyrics, but as their actions on TV and in music videos displayed the same notions, their fear only increased. For both artists, they had videos displaying women with nearly nothing on, smoking, drinking and carrying weapons, but kids people liked it. That’s why both of these artists are known as the best of all time. What they didn’t see though was the rising amount of disrespect towards women, increase in drug sales and an enormous increase in gun violence during this time. This is proven by Lindsay John, “The endemic of violence in the black community can be directly traced back to the whole irresponsible images of black masculinity which is fed to us through music.” (174) Along with the videos, they had concerts that displayed rash and harsh comments towards not only whites but also law enforcement. Like in this lyric by Tupac:

The Black Panthers were an organization during the late 1960’s to fight for African American rights. Tupac grew up in an infrastructure where he had to struggle and battle for his rights growing up during the decades of the seventies and eighties because of the color of his skin. With tension and anger building inside of him, he used poetry to express his frustrations and immediately found his outlet. His outspoken charisma brought him attention from millions of people relating to the similar situation Tupac was going through, and eventually he used his poetry and pursue a career in Hip-Hop. Topics that he explained included using guns, drugs, committing crimes, having multiple affairs, and threatening the lives of people, specifically against law enforcement and his old best friend Christopher Wallace, The Notorious B.I.G. Wallace is often suspected of being the mastermind behind the conspiracy, because of his ongoing war with Tupac. They were both best friends, as Tupac initially took Wallace under his wing by teaching him how to record his music lyrically and developing his approach to hip-hop. Both Tupac and Christopher Wallace spent a lot of time together before their fallout because of reports of an affair between Tupac and Wallace’s wife, Faith Evans. This rumor was confirmed when Tupac released a song titled “Hit ‘Em Up” where Tupac explicitly raps about having an affair with Faith Evans. Theorists believe the affair gave Wallace the motive to kill Tupac for this betrayal. However, six months later, Christopher Wallace would die similarly to how Tupac died, but both deaths are not correlated with each

bail to get Tupac out of prison. He immediately flew off to Los Angeles to record his fourth album. In an apparent attempt to further enrage the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac said that he had slept with the rapper’s wife, Faith Evans. She denied this allegation. Tupac added more fuel to the Bad Boy (B.I.G. ‘s record label) vs. Death Row feud when he released the music videos 2 of Americas Most Wanted and later Hit ‘Em Up, which both assassinated the character of Bad Boy Records, B.I.G., Sean “Puffy” Combs (B.I.G.’s best friend), and others on the Bad Boy label. He returned to

Christopher George Latore Wallace who is better known as B.I.G or Biggie or Biggie Smalls. Who was raised in Brooklyn New York, Biggie was known to be the central figure in the east coast. On March 9, 1997, Biggie was killed in a drive by shooting. (enm.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Notorious Big).

Tupac Shakur was the king or rap back in the mid-90s. He was thug poet; the voice of a generation and his music still lives on inspiring rap music today. While his music and lyrics tell a story of the streets, the once great rapper is now better known for the mysterious circumstances surrounding his 1996 death, just like the John F. Kennedy assassination before it. The murder of Tupac still remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the late-20th century. There are many theories about his death, some more outlandish than others-though it is most likely that Tupac was murdered by friend and mentor Suge Knight, because of east coast west coast rivalry, Suge’s greed because of Tupac’s plan to leave Death Row Records, and Suge’s undeniable

The Controversial Life of Tupac Shakur Despite his reputation as a criminal and a thug, Tupac Shakur effectively spread his message of the unfairness in society through his storytelling, music, and public stance to increase awareness of discrimination against African Americans. Tupac Amaru Shakur came into the world on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York. While poverty stricken,Tupac faced many obstacles as a child and an adolescent. All his life, Shakur used issues in his family as an underlying conflict and expressed these issues while growing up.

And, 'Where are Biggie and Tupac?' " So there’s my focus. Who killed Tupac? Some say that it was Suge Knights wife with her own motives, and some say it was Biggie Smalls or one of his people because of gang related violence and clashing colors. Others believe that it was Orlando Anderson on his own trying to get back at Tupac for doing him dirty and leaving him jobless.

When most people hear the name Tupac, they think of a tattooed thug, a gangsta rapper killed in a tragic shooting who only got what was coming to him, a man who lived by the gun, and who died by the gun. However, those people probably have never taken a chance to look beyond what their eyes tell them, past the ignorance and into the depths of the man who really was Tupac.

One thing that Death Row and Tupac had in common was animosity toward the New York based record label Bad Boy Entertainment. This label included artists such as Sean "Puffy" Combs