![]() ![]() and Tupac Shakur at Club Amazon in New York. But Tupac advised Big to stay with Puffy, saying that the Bad Boy founder “will make you a star.” July 23, 1993: The Notorious B.I.G. “Biggie looked like he was wearing the same pair of Timberlands for a year, ‘Pac was staying at the Waldorf‑Astoria and buying Rolexes and dating Madonna,” EDI Mean said. Mean recalled Biggie not being happy with the way his recording career was moving and asking Pac to be his manager. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap, Outlawz member E.D.I. In an interview with Ben Westhoff for the book, Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. “We just clicked off the top and were cool ever since.” ![]() “I always thought it to be like a Gemini thing,” Big said. In a later interview, Big would recall Pac bumping his debut single “Party and Bullshit” repeatedly. meet for the first time on the set of Poetic Justice, a 1993 John Singleton-directed film starring Janet Jackson alongside Pac and Regina King. This is a story about Pac and Big, but it’s also a story about New York and L.A., a story about Suge Knight and Puffy, a story about Snoop Dogg and Nas.ġ993: Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. So while this article focuses on Pac and Big, it will also include major moments in the East Coast-West Coast beef because there’s no escaping it. They were icons, who accomplished in a few years more than what most rappers could have achieved in a lifetime. It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that they were the two of the most important figures in hip hop history, their impact extended far beyond beats and rhymes, and the music in general. You can’t talk about hip hop history without talking about the East Coast-West Coast rivalry and you can’t talk about that, without talking about Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. ![]()
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