Suge Knight wanted to kill his artist, Tupac Shakur because his Death Row Recording label was having financial problems and Tupac was one of the people Knight was in debt with. According to Shakur's bodyguard, Frank Alexander, Knight owen Shakur 10 million dollars! Tupac recorded a lot of new tracks (about 150!) and wanted to leave Death Row Records and release his new music on the label Shakur planned to found himself. Suge did not like this idea and decided to kill the rapper and keep releasing the new material on Death Row to keep the label ruuning.
Suge Knight had arrangements with police/FBI workers such as David Mack and Harry Billups aka Amir Muhammad, who did all the 'dirty job' for him and made sure nobody gets arrested as they were police workers too! Unfortunately we do not have any evidence of Mack and Billups being involved in the Shakur September 7th 1996 shooting but both rappers were killed exactly the same way and tactics, so who knows, maybe Amir Muhammad was the 'hit-man' of both rappers?
Christopher Wallaca aka Biggie Smalls was killed because Suge Knight wanted people to think Bad-Boy Records wanted to get rid of their rival and payed the Crips gang to do it as Knight was a Bloodz gang member and Tupac was close to him. This is why Harry Billups was wearing the Crips' colours on the 9th of March 1997 in Los Angeles.
No arrests were made because the police is so ashamed of their workers being involved in the killing of the two rap stars which would bring huge controversy to the public! They are trying to hide the truth, just like the inspector said.
The East Coast V West Side beef was media created fiction that Suge Knight and Sean 'P Diddy' Combs started off for attention and business.
Finally, yes! I am sure there was a link between the killing of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur because Suge Knight was behind both murders, both rappers were gunned down using 9 mm bullets, both killed at night in crowded places, both cases remain unsolved for now known reasons to us. To me the murder of Christopher Wallace is like the next step of the Tupac shooting on September 7th 1996.
Now we are 99% sure Suge Knight wanted both rappers dead and this is the person who started the murders. He got his 'business partners' to plan and release the killings as Knight had a lot of money back in the day and a strong group of people behind his back who supported him, as Suge had a lot of power. Knight took a few notes out his purse and the mission was passed!
All this conclusion was fair easy to find out and if college kids like me were able to come up with it, then why the police struggles so badly with the cases and never arrested anybody for being behind the shootings of Tupac and Biggie? Let's listen to the inspector again:
Exactly. The police could easily solve these cases and release the truth to the public but they did not and seems like they will never do because as we now know, the Notorious B.I.G. has been killed by past FBI workers and the police is so ashamed to say that because they would loose their authority in the eyes of the society! This is exactly what happened!
So far we know about Suge Knight and police being involved in the murders of the rap stars. However, we do not really know if the police officers who decided to take care of the murder cases have found out about the police arrangements with the Death Row founder who was one of the most notorious gangsters in the West Side in the 90's.
Let's watch this shocking video that shows how Biggie's bodyguard reacted to the sketch of Harry Billups:
It comes out that Harry Billups aka Amir Mohammad was the 'hit-man' of the Notorious B.I.G. and people who were with Biggie in thee car on 9th of March 1997 can remember the face of the killer!
Have you also noticed what Big's bodyguard said? The police has showed him some other rubbish pictures but never actually showed him the photo of Billups who came out as the man who physically opened fire at the rap star in Los Angeles!
Also in this video we found out that Amir Mohammad was wearing a white shirt and blue suit at the night when Christopher Wallace got shot and these are the colours of the Southside Crips gang but come on... Crips would never be that stupid to wear their gang clothes and commit a crime! This was the whole plan to make people think that Bad-Boy Records have paid the Crips to kill Tupac and the Crips killed Biggie because he has no paid them back! This is not true, Harry Billups was an FBI worker and it was him who opened fire to Biggie Smalls on 9th March 1997!
As the lyrics of the song "Keep ya ear to the streets" by rapper Kasinova The Don say, we are going to now find out about what people who know a lot about Suge Knight say about the gangster himself, reputation and the power he used to have in the 90's.
So far we know Suge Knight knew a lot of police officers and FBI workers, had contacts and arrangements with them and also policemen were not 'holy' at the time too, as we found out earlier. Does that mean Knight and his police related mates could do some business together?
According to my reaserch, Suge Knight's most effective arrangements were with the x CRASH worker, David Mack and x FBI worker, Harry Billups aka 'Amir Muhammad'.
David Mack - Born on the 30th of May 1961 in Compton, US. He is one of the central figures in the LAPD Rampart police corruption scandal. Mack was arrested for masterminding the November 6, 1997, robbery of $722,000 from a South Central Los Angeles branch of Bank of America. He was sentenced to 14 years and three months in federal prison. Mack has never revealed the whereabouts of the money.
This information is enough to tell he was definitely a corrupted police officer and was involved in a lot of crimes such as bank robbery in 1997.
And this is Harry Billups, aka 'Amir Muhammad' who used to work for the FBI. Also one of Suge Knight's police related mates. As far as I know he got kicked out of the FBI then disappeared and nobody knows where he is right now!
Let's see what people know about Knight's dirty businesses with the police related people.
Part II
So, David Mack was known to Suge and they were making business together. My research really leads to a conclusion because so far we know Suge Knight had a reason to kill Tupac Shakur for his label's financial problems and debt to the rapper. Knight probably is behind the murder of Christopher Wallace too because he wanted the situation to look like Bad-Boy Records got rid of their rival and somebody gunned Biggie down as a revenge for Shakur's death. Also now we found out Suge Knight probably has not planned the drive-by shooting himself and so far it seems like he received a lot of help from the 'professional killers', such as police related workers he arranged with!
Tupac has been dead for 16 years now and Biggie for 15. The Los Angeles police should be ashamed of that result because it takes far too long to solve a murder case that took place in the centre of huge cities such as Las Vegas and Los Angeles in front of hundreds of people!
However, now after I have done some research and listened to opinions of people who were close to the two rappers, I start to come to a conclusion that police officers were involved in the shooting and worked with Suge Knight. This is why they do so poorly with the investigations and even if there is so many facts pointing at Suge Knight for being behind the murder, they still have not done any arrests.
Anyway, when Biggie Smalls was receiving phone calls that were telling him to watch his back, he received protection from the FBI that supposed to protect the rap star. Let's find out how come Biggie still got murdered, even if he had FBI protecting him:
Exactly, where was the FBI the night Christopher Wallace got shot? Is it because they were in the car on the right, shooting to the rap star?
Now, let's see how the police interviewed the witnesses of the Biggie shooting and how well or bad they did. Biggie's close friend and Junior Mafia member, Lil' Cease will tell us about it:
This is ridiculous! Police who decided to solve the murder case of the rap star were asking the person who was sat right behind the victim who is the man on the picture, pointing at the person who is being interviewed right now, and show the witness some other rubbish picture. This clearly shows the police have not tried to solve the murder cases at all! Why? Have got something to hide? Are they protecting someone? Or maybe white policemen do not care about black citizens? We will find out more!
For now we only know Suge Kight is behind the murder of Tupac Shakur and the reasons were Death Row's financial problems and Suge wanted to release posthumous Tupac albums with new material that the rapper left, because Tupac was the best selling rapper in the world in the mid 90's!
Was Suge Knight also behind the murder of Biggie Smalls? Just like the inspector said, Knight wanted it to look like it is some gang wars; both rappers were shot exactly the same way and who knows where the rumour comes from about Wallace paying the Crips a million dollars for killing Shakur!
Also it does sound shocking that Knight had arrangements with the Los Angeles Police because police is meant to be there to fight thugs, gangsters and gangs, not work with them!
However, it seems like policemen are not holy at all. Let's hear what this girl has got to say:
Police officers drink alcohol, take drugs and have sex with a different partner every weekend, like all the 'bad kids' do? Oh yes! If they break the law they meant to follow, then why can't they work with gangsters like Suge Knight and professionally kill people for money?
I think this is another path we can take to find out more about the murder cases and answer the questions if the killings were linked.
There are rumours going around from ear to ear but now it is time to focus on the real facts.
After the release of 'All eyez one me' album', Tupac mentioned that he wants to quit Death Row, however his contract was still valid and to complete it, Shakur needed to release two more albums. In August 1996, he started working on the next studio album to complete his contract as quickly as possible and in the time of seven days, Tupac made his life's final album under the stage name 'Makaveli' titled "The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory". The '7 day' comes from the fact the album was made in seven days. Unfortunately Shakur was murdered a few weeks before the release of the new album. However, after Tupac finished working on the 'Makaveli' album, he kept recording new songs that he could release on the next project and when he completes his contract with Death Row, he can open up his own label, as he planned to, and release the material by himself.
Tupac wanted to quit Death Row Records because Suge Knight owed Shakur $10 million dollars for the previous 'All eyez on me' album.
Also Knight did not like the idea that Tupac was using Death Row recording studios to make new tracks that he would then take with him and release on his own label.
$10 million is a huge amount of money that Suge Knight would probably never pay back to Shakur, so a good way to avoid the debt would be getting rid of Tupac, take over the new material (about 150 songs, some of them still remain unreleased) and release them on posthumous albums!
After the death of Tupac the main Death Row artists left the label. Dr Dre left and Snoop Dogg tried to leave but he also used to get death threats of Knight's people and even got badly beaten up!
When finally Knight's main sources of income have left the label, he then started to release posthumous Tupac albums with unreleased material. The new Shakur's music sold millions of copies and kept Death Row Records running for a few years but honestly... how can a dead man keep such a big label alive? Album sales are not enough to survive, you need gigs and tours to make serious money, which was impossible to do. Now let's listen to X-Death Row Records worker, called Hackey has got to say:
So, it comes out that Suge used the whole East Coast V West Side situation to kill Tupac and then kill Biggie 5 months after to make it look like gangs did it or Bad-Boy Records killed Tupac to get rid of the rival, where the main reason for the death of Shakur were Death Row's financial problems!
Here is a proof that Suge Knight is a cold blooded man who really is able to kill somebody. Here is an interview with Frank Alexander, Tupac's bodyguard who admits he used to receive death threats from Death Row Records. Similar to what was happening to Biggie, huh? Seems like this is what Knight does before he kills someone...
Finally, look what happened to Death Row Records. The label has bankrupted in 2006. Why? Because all main artists have quit because they were being ripped off by Suge Knight, which is not a secret and... did they know something we do not know yet? Look what Snoop Dogg, ex Death Row artist said here:
Of course Suge Knight defends himself and yes, he does have the right to plus he was not officially arrested or punished in anyway for the killing of Tupac Shakur.
Now let's see what a police inspector who ran this case has got to tell us:
So now we came to something serious! Now we know Suge Knight had a lot to do with the murder of Tupac and it is not a secret Knight was one of the most dangerous and powerful gangsters on the West Side in the 90's but now we also know he had some arrangements with the police!
When Tupac Shakur was gunned down only five months before Biggie, everybody thought Wallace and Combs were behind the murder. Now, when the other rap star is dead, people have started to come up with other solutions. People started to say that Biggie paid the Crips $1 million to get rid of his rival but has not paid the debt off to the Crips, so he paid his life for it.
It is so easy to make up stories like this and people said so probably because Suge Knight was a Bloods Gang member, so Tupac was closer to the Bloods and Biggie decided to use the opposite power to get rid of Pac, so he got in touch with the Crips.
To me this sounds like a story somebody randomly made up and spread around without any evidence supporting this theory. I think we should take a closer look to those two murder cases.
Also some fans think Biggie killed Tupac because he says it in some of his songs like for example 'Somebody's got to die' or 'Long kiss goodnight' from Biggie's second and last album, 'Life after death'.
I personally think we cannot judge someone by the lyrics of the song and especially mainstream artists such as Notorious B.I.G. or 2Pac because in this case, music is only business and way to make money. Anyway... compare the old 91-95 2Pac to the 1996 Death Row Tupac who changed from the modest, inspiring, good lyrical rapper to the man in the fast car who talks about partying, money, material things and women. These topics were used on 'All eyez on me' and look what happened... it sold 10 million copies, giving Tupac and Death Row a diamond status and Pac was sorted for the rest of his life!
This is why I believe people should not blame Biggie for murdering Tupac and base their evidence on the music. Anyway, let's have a look what B.I.G.'s childhood friend, Ebrahim has got to tell us about Christopher Wallace:
Biggie was going to release his second solo studio album, a follow up to his 'Ready to die' debut, titled 'Life after death'. In February 1997 he hit the roads to go on a tour to California to promote his new album.
On the 5th of March 1997 he even said in a radio interview in San Francisco that he travels with security around him from the FBI, because he gets death threats and especially when he goes to the West Side of the US where he is not welcome by Death Row fans.
On March 8, 1997 he presented an award to Toni Braxton at the 11th Annual Soul Train Music Award in Los Angeles and most of the audience booed at him. After the music award ceremony, Biggie and his label mates attended to an after party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
A few hours later, on the 9th of March 1997, at around 12:30 AM, Biggie and his crew decided to return to their hotel. Biggie travelled in the front passenger seat along his mates; D-Roc, Lil' Cease and driver, Gregory Young. P Diddy was travelling in a different car with three bodyguards.
At around 12:45 AM, the streets were full of people leaving the event. Biggie's car stopped for the red light about 50 yards away from the museum, a group of young women exchanged a few words with the rap star and suddenly a black Chevrolet Impala came from nowhere to the right side of Wallace's car, rolled down the window and opened fire at the rapper, hitting him four times in the chest!
Below is the real video of the whole scene, recorded by anonymous person:
Biggie was rushed to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre but passed away on the operating table at around 1:15 AM.
On Tupac's new 'All eyez on me' album he talked a lot about the feud with Wallace and Bad-Boy Records but also he mentioned stuff about his own death on songs such as: 'I ain't mad at cha' where he gets shot at the start of the video and then is presented as an angel in heaven, talking about him being dead.
What was Tupac trying to do? Prepare his fans for his early death or maybe bring another controversy, get media involved and make more money? I guess we might never know, but unfortunately seven months after the release of 'All eyes on me', Tupac Shakur passed away.
On the 7th of September 1996, Tupac Shakur and his Death Row Records mates, including Suge Knight attended to Mike Tyson's boxing match at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, as Shakur and Tyson were close friends. Here is a video from that night where Tyson and Shakur celebrate the won match:
When Tupac and the rest of the Death Row crew were heading to the exit of the MGM Grand, one of Death Row workers has spotted a Southside Crips gang member, Orlando Anderson who then got badly beaten up by Tupac and Tupac's crew joining him to kick Anderson while laying on the floor. The reason for Orlando Anderson's beating was because earlier in 1996, Anderson and a group of Crips stole some jewellery of Tupac. Here is the video of that fight:
When they came out of the MGM Grand, Knight and Shakur got inside Suge Knight's new BMW and headed to the Death Row owned club called 'Club 662'. Suge Knight was the driver and Shakur was sat in the passenger's seat on Knight's right side.
At about 10:55 PM some photographer took the last ever photo of Tupac Shakur. At about 11:00 PM their BMW was stopped by the police because their music was playing too loud. About 5 minutes after, Tupac exchanged a few words with two young, attractive women who walked past and invited them to the Club 662 party.
At about 11:15 PM, Suge's BMW stopped at the red light and a white four-door Cadillac pulled up to the sedan's right side, rolled down one of the windows and opened fire at Tupac Shakur. The rapper got shot in the chest, pelvis, his right hand and thigh! Unfortunately one of the bullets reached Tupac's right lung which caused terrible bleeding!
Frank Alexander, Tupac's bodyguard did not know what to do, first he thought they are both dead but then the BMW set off and rushed the injured rapper to the hospital as Suge Knight has not received any injuries.
Alexander then decided to follow them with the hope they only tried to test him.
On their way to the hospital a police car stopped the BMW with Suge Knight and bleeding Shakur inside and told them to come out the car. Knight refused and told them what happened but they kept asking them to get out. While this incident, Tupac lost a lot of blood. He then got put into an ambulance and rushed to the hospital. Here is a short video of how the shooting looked like:
At the hospital Tupac Shakur had his right lung removed to stop the bleeding and got put on a life support machine. His condition was critical but stable, however on September 13th 1996 the great Hip-Hop legend, Tupac Amaru Shakur passed away. The reason for his death was the incorrect working of the life support machine!
What happened then?
The world of Hip-Hop was shocked by the death of one of the top rapper, Tupac Shakur.
The fans gathered at the hospital where the rap star passed away and respected the memory of their idol. After the silence, people started thinking who killed the rapper; whether gang wars or maybe the West Side V East Coast feud? Of course the first people who got blamed for Shakur's assassination where people from Bad-Boy Records with Christopher Wallace and Sean Combs at the front.
People first thought Biggie paid someone to kill Tupac to eliminate his main rival and the person who caused the divorce of Wallace and Faith Evans!
While Tupac fans blamed their idol's greatest rival from the other side of the US, Biggie Smalls himself started to receive death threats through phone calls from the unknown!
This song will tell you how Wallace reacted to the phone calls. The intro is a recording of one of the calls too! Check out!
Anyway, Tupac fans did not care about B.I.G. too much and most of them probably did not even know about Wallace's death threats and kept accusing Biggie for killing Tupac. However...
So, Biggie remains cool to Tupac and mentions that he was shocked by the death of his main rival and says he feels sorry for Pac's family too. Again, seems like Biggie had nothing to do with the murder of Shakur.
Unfortunately the situation got out of control because the feud of two men has quickly turned into the whole West Side and East Coast feud with other rappers and of course fans involved! Look what happens in this video below:
Death Row records receives an award somewhere in New York City and the fans start booing at Suge Knight and his artists. This video is a great example of how serious the West Side V East Coast business was!
However, everybody has their own opinions, some people were saying Biggie and P Diddy really have organised the shooting of Tupac in 1994 and are on Tupac's side and also there were people who thought Tupac went crazy or wanted media attention and said what he said, but all these are fans and media opinions.
Now let's see what family members of Biggie and Tupac had to say about the whole situation.
Below is a video of B.I.G.'s mother, Ms Violetta Wallace sharing her personal opinion about the whole feud:
So it comes out that Ms Violetta Wallace thinks the whole East V West feud was caused by Suge Knight and Sean 'P Diddy' Combs and it was theirs and only theirs problem that got their best rappers involved and of course caught media attention.
After the 30th November 1994 shooting, Shakur's father Bill Garland has visited Tupac at the hospital. This was the first time they met since 1978!
And even Tupac's father seems to agree with Ms Wallace! He even said that Biggie visited him and Tupac at the hospital and offered help. This is another evidence that Biggie probably had nothing to do with the shooting and the whole East Coast V West Side beef was a lot of misunderstanding caused by Suge Knight's and P Diddy's stupidity, as Ms Wallace said.
Other side of the coin...
Yes, we can call the whole situation stupidity but if you think about it, Knight and Combs knew exactly what they were doing. Evil, stupidity and controversy sells best and this is exactly what happened!
On February 13th, Tupac's first album released on Death Row records titled 'All eyez on me', flowed to the stores and sold in 10 million copies in the US, giving Tupac and Death Row a diamond status! This was the best selling Hip-Hop album in the 90's and still remains as one of the best selling! This way, Shakur became a millionaire and gained a lot of fans and reputation.
Bad-Boy records also did quite well at that time as the debut Junior Mafia 'Conspiracy' album received a gold status.
Tupac was released from prison earlier than everyone expected because the founder of the most powerful Hip-Hop recording label, Suge Knight paid for releasing Tupac from prison earlier. However Knight's condition was signing a contract by Shakur with his label, Death Row.
Death Row was already massive in the 90's in the United States for releasing albums such as 'The Chronic' in 1992 by the past N.W.A. member, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg's 'Doggystyle'!
A few months after the November 1994 shooting, Tupac and Death Row decided to start a real feud with Notorious B.I.G. and the whole Bad-Boy Records! They decided to make a how rappers call it 'a diss song', lyrically attacking Biggie, P Diddy and other Bad-Boy artists! The song is titled 'Hit 'em up', it was released in June 1996 as one of Tupac's first releases for Death Row Records, featuring Shakur's new rap ground called 'The Outlaws'.
This diss track shook the whole Hip-Hop world and by many is treated as the strongest diss song of all time! However, Biggie and Bad-Boy did not respond to this release for a long time, even if in the first few bars of the track Tupac says: "First off, **** your ***** and the click you claim, Westside when we ride come equipped with game, you claim to be a player but I ****ed your wife, we bust on Bad Boy *****z ****ed for life..."
Biggie did not respond to this track for a while but the first few lines made him wonder what Tupac was talking about having sex with his wife, Faith Evans who is an R&B singer, past Bad-Boy Records artist, until he found a photo of Tupac and Faith Evans in some music magazine:
- Tupac and Faith Evans, Biggie's wife!
Wallace was very angry about this and he even accused his wife for having sex with Tupac, even if she contradicted. She said they only took this picture and that was it! No matter what Evans said, Biggie still was mad at her and was making huge scenes. This even brought the couple to the stage of breaking up!
Let's see what was B.I.G.'s comment on Shakur's shooting prosecutions and lyrical attacks was:
So from this interview we can see that Biggie remained cool with Tupac and chilled with the whole situation because he believed Tupac was still in a shock after the November 1994 shooting and seems like Biggie wanted to give some time for Shakur to calm down.
On the 30th of November 1994 Tupac headed to Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan, New York to record another track with Biggie and other Bad Boy Records artists. As he entered the building, two armed men in army fatigues shot him five times; twice in head, twice in the groin and once in the arm and robbed his jewellery worth a lot of money! Tupac was taken to the Bellevue Hospital where he was operated and three hours later, against doctor's advice, he left the hospital. Shakur accused Wallace and Combs for setting up the shooting, as they were upstairs in the building.
- Tupac released from the hospital
A few months after the shooting, Tupac Shakur got arrested and put in jail, as he was accused for sexual abuse. Let's listen to what Tupac himself though of the November 1994 shooting:
So it comes out that Tupac was serious with his theory that Biggie and P Diddy organised the shooting to rid of him, however no serious evidence was provided and the police did not intervene for Shakur's accuses.
Biggie even tried to calm Tupac down and tell the fans about this situation with his song 'Who shot ya?' released in 1995:
Unfortunately the song brought a lot of controversy and even warmed the whole situation up, as some fans took is as an offence to Tupac and thought it is a diss song!
Every fan of Tupac and/or Biggie know about the feud of those two Rap stars, however not as many people know Tupac and Biggie used to be good friends before!
Tupac and Biggie met in 1992 at one of the first serious performances of Biggie at some show for underground rappers. Biggie was performing his underground hit song called 'Party and bulls**t' and Tupac came around to see how the underground is doing. Tupac liked Biggie's rapping and had a nice chat with him and gave Wallace some advices. Since then they became good friends!
Here is a funny rare video recording of Tupac and Biggie together:
They also planned to release a song together for 2Pac's 1994 album titled "Thug Life - Volume 1", titled 'Running from the police' that featured 2Pac, Dramacydal, Big Stretch and Biggie.
The song has been recorded but unfortunately it was not included to the album's track-list because the rappers' friendship ended soon. However, the song was released in 2003on 2Pac's posthumous album, 'Resurrection', remixed by Eminem with Tupac and Biggie verses only!
Tupac Amaru Shakur was born
on the 16th of June 1971 in East Harlem, New York. He was an
American hip-hop artist, poet and actor who have sold over 75 million albums
worldwide. His whole family were members of the Black Panther organization,
which influenced Tupac to talk about social problems, racism and poverty. Shakur
was gunned down on September 7 1996 In Las Vegas in a drive-by shooting. Died
on the 13 September 1996 in the hospital. He is officially one of the top
Hip-Hop artists of all time.
Biggie:
Christopher Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G. was born
21st May 1972 in Brooklyn, New York. He was an American rapper who is
now recognized as one of the best MCs who walked this Earth. He also sold nearly
20 million albums worldwide. Before he became a rap star, he was a New York
drug dealer and his lyrics mainly were telling the listener about life in the
streets. He was killed in a drive-by shooting, exactly the same way as his rival,
Tupac Shakur on March 9 1997 in Los Angeles.
The birth of the stars:
Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher Wallace was surrounded by Hip-Hop music since his teenage years. When he started rapping in his mid teenage years, he used to go out to the streets and freestyle to people. Here is a very old video of one of young Christopher Wallace's street freestyles in Brooklyn at the age of 17:
After Wallace's nine months prison term, he decided to record a demo tape under the name 'Biggie Smalls', which was his nick name that came from his size and heavy weight. Some of the songs were written during his prison term (some of the lyrics were featured on his 1994 debut album, 'Ready to die'!). The most common songs from the demo tape are 'Microphone murderer', 'Guaranteed raw' or 'Love no h*e' (all included on the soundtrack for the 2009 biographical film 'Notorious'!)
Even if the demo tape had no serious promotion, it still went to the right hands of a New York DJ 'Mister Cee' who had some contacts with 'The Source'.
In March 1992, the young Christopher Wallace featured in "The Source's'" Unsigned Hype column, dedicated to underground rappers. Biggie has received an invitation to produce a recording with other unsigned artists. This brought new opportunities for Wallace and soon, he got a contract offer with Uptown Records and producer, Sean 'P Diddy' Combs.In the middle of 1992, Combs and Wallace have left Uptown Records, to start their own recording label, Bad-Boy Records!
As business went on well, on the 13th of September, Christopher Wallace, now known as the Notorious B.I.G. released his debut album titled 'Ready to die'! The album has sold 3,300000 copies in the united States and 4 million worldwide assuring Wallace with a platinum! This way the Notorious B.I.G. has been promoted to the Hip-Hop top league!
2Pac:
Tupac Shakur was interested in arts since his childhood. He enjoyed acting, writing poems, beat-boxing, dancing and rapping. Even during his school days, he was recognised as the best rapper at school! His love for art kept growing with every year and finally in 1989 Tupac joined a young rap group called Digital underground as a dancer! As a rapper, Tupac debuted on the first Digital Underground release titled 'This is an EP Release' that was a follow up to Digital Underground's first album, "Sex Packets". Tupac decided to feature on the second album of the band, 'Sons of the P.' and finally in 1991, Shakur released his first solo album titled "2Pacalypse Now"
Unfortunately the album did not do very well in the charts and received low ratings from music critics for political and police brutality lyrics and rough, underground sound but luckily the album found people who appreciated it and sold over 100,000 copies in the US to give it a gold status. Anyway, Shakur's second album titled "Strictly 4 my N****s" which was released on February 16th 1993 has done a lot better, as over 1 million copies were sold that brought Tupac a platinum status CD! This is how the legend of Tupac Shakur was born!
This blog is designed for my college task, which is a research if the assassinations of the two Rap Stars, Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. were linked.
