o be a playa, but I *censored*ed your wife." Some of these songs went at the entire group to say "*censored* Bad Boy as a staffand if you wanna be down with Bad Boy then *censored* you too*censored* 'em we Bad Boy killas"(Death Row's Greatest Hits, tr. 8-2: Los Angeles). Some of Tupac's fellow rappers jumped on the bandwagon to record songs of their own; one example is the song "New York, New York" recorded by Snoop and Daz. This song was a play-on words as the two rappers laid into all New York rappers claiming that they were "too afraid" to venture to "killa-Cali" and that they should remain in the East if they wished to stay alive. Tupac had been a force to reckon with every since his inception into the rap world in 1990. Within the first year he produced the now infamous album "2Pacalypse Now" which coincided with many run-ins with law that were all well publicized because of his newfound fame. Trouble was not new to Tupac who grew up in a gang being constantly arrested and eventually forced to move because of his involvement with gang violence. But, what was new was the media and his record label threatening to ruin his career. Tupac was the leader of the coastal battle by being the first one to publicly bash Biggie, and other rappers, notably Mobb Deep and Sean "Puffy" Combs. No one knows the exact reason for his hatred of his former friend Biggie, including Biggie, but it is presumed that he had desired Faith Evans, Biggie's wife, and that Biggie had supposedly confronted him on the situation. This event is rather minute, but Tupac was known for his temper and small events like this one compiled and surmounted to an extreme hatred of Biggie and the entire East coast.Biggie was very similar to Tupac in the way he lived the earlier part of his life in that he sold drugs, was in a gang and was constantly being arrested. Biggie's life seemed to be coming to a close in 1993 when he was selling $3 vials of crack in front of a...
