Tupac claimed to have directly influenced Biggie's style. "I trained the nigga, he used to be under me like my lieutenant," Tupac said. Biggie even told him he'd like to be a part of another of his affiliated groups, called Thug Life. "Everyone was transfixed on this dynamic individual, and soaking up all the information we could soak up." But Tupac devoted special attention to Biggie, grooming him and letting him perform at his concerts. "'Pac could get up and get to teaching," said EDI Mean.
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Biggie and other young rappers assembled in recording studios or hotel rooms to hear Tupac lecture about how to make it in the game.
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Tupac, by then a platinum‑selling rapper and movie star, acted as a mentor. The pair freestyled back-to-back at a concert called Budweiser Superfest at Madison Square Garden in 1993, with Biggie wowing the crowds with lines like, "Oh my God I'm dropping shit like a pigeon / I hope you're listenin' / Smackin' babies at their christenin'."ĭespite the Garden cameo, Biggie still wasn't much known outside of Brooklyn. Biggie slept on Tupac's couch whenever he came back to California, and when Tupac was in New York, he came by Biggie's neighborhood, picking him up in a white limousine and throwing dice with the locals. Tupac gifted Biggie a bottle of Hennessy. "We all thought he was a dope rapper," Tupac's longtime friend EDI Mean, a member of Tupac's affiliated group the Outlawz, told me.
And you know, that's truly where Big and 'Pac's friendship started."
We were drinking and smoking and all of a sudden 'Pac was like, 'Yo, come get it.' And we go into the kitchen and he had steaks, and French fries, and bread, and Kool‑Aid and we just sittin' there eating and drinking and laughing. While we were running around, 'Pac walks into the kitchen and starts cooking for us. "So now, here we are, in this backyard running around with guns, just playing," continued Dan Smalls in The Fader. Tupac got them high and pulled out a "green army bag" filled with handguns and machine guns.
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