The real start of the beef!

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.