East Coast V West Side

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.