@H.B.G Big Yachty That seems to be gang related. The shit that happened in the 90's made the national news often. It was blown out of proportion but it was literally a coast to coast beef spurned by some gangsters pretending to be business men and was infused with hood gang nonsense. Y'all stuff is mostly gang nonsense, jealousy and boys who don't know how to be men.
@@funagameplays2579 besides ; Against all odds and All out were MUCH better disstracks when it comes to the lyrics and flow ; hit em up just had the bigger impact ; but he goes MUCH harder on Against all odds and All out
I feel you. Forty-one year old white woman here, and listening to Tupac often gave me the courage to be who I was instead of who I was expected to be because his music gave me that "fuck it" attitude!
I was in an argument with some kids on TikTok that non-Black people can’t use Keep Your Head Up as a sound because it’s meant for BW only. But they just don’t know what his music did for women like us growing up with him. How that song got me out of an abusive relationship. They just don’t know
Tupac wrote this fueled by his anger against Biggie and bad boy records. He believed that they had a role in the November 30, 1994, ambush and attack on him. He claimed that Biggie and his crew knew of his shooting and wanted him dead. Tupac was pissed by Biggie's release of "who shot ya" only months after the shooting incident, and although it did not directly say Tupac in the song he believed it was directed towards him. Then the rivalry between East Coast & West Coast intensified. #Tupac4life
Crack the code in 2Pac's "Against All Odds", that song explains how and why there's beef between him and Bad Boy. Key players in the song, Haitian Jack and Jimmy Henchman. Jimmy wanted Pac to sign to Bad Boy, after Jimmy spends money on Versace clothes, Rolex watches and jewelry and 2Pac still say no to Jimmy on signing to Bad Boy. Jimmy got mad and then Nov. 30th 1994 happened. As how Jimmy and Bad Boy do business together, and how 2Pac saw Biggie, Puffy and Junior Mafia members @ Quad Studios, in 2Pac mind, he believe that they knew about the hit before hand and never warned 2Pac. Biggie Smalls drop "Who Shot Ya!" while 2Pac was incarcerated for alleged rape against Jimmy Henchman's side chick Ayanna Jackson...
Biggie's song was Who Shot Ya. Which came out after "someone" shot Tupac five times. Pac was pretty much 100% certain that it was Biggie or someone else at Bad Boy Records. So he came out with this song. And that's how the beef started.
It was Diddy/Diddy's henchmen who shot Tupac, not Biggie. Biggie was a troll but he wouldn't have shot Pac over some silly east coast/west coast bull ish like they say. Diddy wanted Pac out the picture, and he wanted Big out the picture too. He set up both of their deaths. Because they were starting to expose the industry and corruption that Puff was the leader of at the time. Dude is straight up EVIL. Let's just be thankful he never got 50.
He was shot while in the lobby of Bad Boy HQ in NY, before this Tupac and Biggy were friends, Tupac blamed Biggy for the attack but Biggy always denied it.
2Pac was shot 5x in the lobby of the building where Puffy and Biggie were upstairs in the studio. Biggie and Pac were friends and Big called Pac and told him to come down to the studio. That's why everyone thought Puffy did it because those guys that shot Pac, just "happened" to know he was coming and they waited in that lobby for him! It was disguised as a robbery, but I think Puff did it. That's why this song came out. After Faith Evans, Biggie's wife was on the West Coast hanging out with Pac. It punked Biggie and made him look bad, obvi.
Nah Diddy didn’t have nothing to do with the first shooting. Pac and bad boys was still cool before this incident so Diddy had no reason to set him up. Jimmy henchmen ordered it however Diddy knew jimmy and had insight that jimmy wanted to rob pac and didn’t say shit
Pac was ahead of his time. I loved Tupac and his messages. Everyone speculated why Pac didn't have much money when he died. Yes, he spent a lot in legal fees AND partying, but not many know that Pac would go to grocery stores and wait until he saw a single mother and give her wads of cash. Pac did this more often than was known. Check out California Love!
@@Great-Documentaries who filled your head up wit doz lies? Sounds like a hater to me! If anything pac was known for hiz quick song writing and hiz delivery.... Haters spead lies best.... Makaveli lives
@@Great-Documentaries 2pac was well know for his writing. He often would be leaving the studio just to turn right around bcuz he just wrote something in the car and needed to record. The reason he had so much unrealsed music. Dude 5 albums of come out after his death (most of which where double albums)
Tupac was a genius. You'll have to listen to more of his music to get a better perspective of everything he was going through. I liked Biggie too. But I loved Tupac. Tragic ending for both of them. Sad.
@@rainofkhandaq6678 even Geniuses make mistakes. Tupac made plenty of them, most likely because of youth, but that certainly doesn't take away from the genius that was there. I don't even agree wholeheartedly with his pro-black message, but he wasn't saying anything that was wrong. In fact, he said things in a way that made most of us look at things from a different vantage point... his gift was helping other people to see and relate.
The best thing about 2pac is he bridges so many gaps. I’m a white woman from NH and I was/am a hard core 2Pac fan. Always. His music. His poetry is nothing like rap and hip hop today. This song isn’t the best example, but he woke us up this song is about the East and West rivalry. Gangsta rap... there are not words.
Dear mama was great. I can relate to his song" huggin on my mama from a jail cell" first time i did time i was 14 got out when i was 18. I was livin foul.
Yeah, in the 90s, if u were from the East, u had to strap up and not get caught slippin to go rappin out West. And if u were a West coast rapper, u had to watch your back in the East. Rappers had to do that or squad up with some riders from the city they were going to. It was no joke. I lived down South and peeps down there pretty much stayed outta that. But it was crazy back then.
@@EverywhereAndNowhere You speak the truth on that. I from Manning S.C. In those days the whole town was about 5 miles long. At the pool hall you wouldn't hear no East/West mimicking. They were creating their own thing. Unfortunately that's as far as it got. Slinging played a huge role in the extinction of that
“Now when I came out I told you it was JUST about BIGGIE! Then EVERYBODY had to open their mouth with a Mother Fing Opinion!” “Well this is how we gonna do this‼️ Tupac gave his reason right there.. as to why he & the Outlawz went off so hard on so many people via the track! 😳🤣 I love it! 🔥💙
2 Pac was shot on two occasions- once in New York in 1994 (hit 5 times, twice in the head) and in 1996 when he died. In this song I believe he is referring to the first time.
Like he said Pac was shot on two occasions. He lived the 1st one, which happened in NY if I'm not mistaken. Biggie made a song, who shot ya in response to that. Then this song came out. And pac was killed shortly after. Then biggie. Word on the street back in the day, was that some BONE thugs people did it, but i really don't believe that.
Pac did this song with the Outlawz. It was done prior to his 96 shooting. This was done after his 1st death row record, i want to say it was done for the mackevelli era around the time the Outlawz Thug Life record was done.
Pac was a preacher, a gansta, was always real. He had many sides, like we all do…one song was, let’s get together and do better, the next let’s ride! My favorite rapper of all time.. blessed to be born early enough to appreciate the game!
I'm so old I couldn't name 3 rappers after 2001, love watching these kids get there mind blown listen to music we had at there age. I'm a Houston guy myself could we get some Geto Boys reactions.
Been waiting for this one. This is a masterpiece. The anger rises in real-time. The menacing humor is so threatening. By the end he is so pissed he can't even talk. Truly a great painting. This is modern art. He drops it right on the table and doesn't give a crap about the reaction. As I recall it was about Biggie copping his beats. We all knew Tupac's beats, so there was something to that. Then there was Mr. Knight. enough said about that. This was the real deal, this was Gangster Rap. The genre went down when we lost Tupac and Biggie. I never get these when you drop them Rome, always days later. This artist, actor, poet, was taken from us. Perhaps, it was just rendered 'paid in full' who knows. He was no saint. A real-life artist with a pit-bull attitude who climbed out of the hell that was Marin City Ca. He held onto his heart. That comes through. This one hits close but, I remember reading, as I handed a personally signed poster of the artist to one of his neighbors, Nothing but Love-Tupac. RIP.
Biggie dropped "Who Shot Ya?" in '94. Pac took that as Biggie admitting to Pac getting shot when he went to record in NY. He almost died but left the hospital and Pac being the person he was spewed as much venom as he could.
Arguably the most memorable diss track of the East Coast-West Coast rivalry; 2Pac and The Outlawz take aim at The Notorious B.I.G., Diddy, and Mobb Deep, with direct threats of violence. 2Pac’s feud with Biggie and Bad Boy was rooted in the 1994 shooting at the Quad Recording Studios. Pac believed that Bad Boy Records were involved in his shooting the first time because Biggie and Puff Daddy were at the studio the same night he was robbed and shot in the studio lobby. Months after the incident, Biggie released “Who Shot Ya?” while Tupac was incarcerated for sexual abuse allegations. Pac was aggravated by the song and saw it as an insult, as noted in a 1995 Vibe interview. This song spawned controversy and exacerbated the East Coast-West Coast rivalry even further. Biggie never responded directly but he took jabs at ‘Pac on “Long Kiss Goodnight which came out after his death .” Mobb Deep retaliated with their 1996 track, “Drop A Gem On ‘Em which also came out after his death 2Pac extended his beef with the East Coast on tracks such as “Bomb First (My Second Reply)” and “Against All Odds” off of his November 1996 posthumous album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory.
Honestly I some times wonder if it was some rogue government agents who did the kills of Tupac and Biggie. Their constant feud was stirring up a lot of trouble and ironically enough the kills on both effectively ended the feud. Tupac and Biggie both got memorialized and the beef between both sides was effectively squashed. Their labels even made extra cash on the memorial albums and their allies also made money from memorial songs as well.
As a drum lover you HAVE to react to Led Zeppelins Moby Dick LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall which is about 50 years old and NOBODY has been able to do what John Bonzo Bonham did since then!!
@@kemitamenophis3221 exactly he was a lil nigga when this song came out so he ain't really know about thr Tupac and Biggie Smalls beef back in the day they don't discover it until they get older like in their early 20's
bro ...some part of me died when you said "your OLD uncle used to listen to 2Pac" ....i'm getting by ....but back then we had Rappers ...now it's nuthing compared to back then ...2pac is the GOAT
No doubt and you can feel Pac's anger in the song not for nothing he even came for Prodigy from Mobb deep and I didn't know Mobb Deep had anything to do with it
Bad Boy was run by Sean "Puffy" Combs. There was a rap "war" between East and West coast rappers. It was either the VH1 VMAs or MTV Music awards where Snoop got onstage and started talking shit yo the East Coast crew and the Suge Knight got up and started shit talking about Diddy. You should try to RUclips it. Pretty entertaining.
The award show you're talking about is thr Source Awards when Snoop won an award and Suge Knight said any real rapper's wanna come over to death row and ain't gotta worry about the producers dancing all in the video or talking all over theor track come over Deathrow
You were pretty spot on about the who shot me line. Who Shot Ya was Biggie's song that dropped right after Pac was shot the 1st time and survived. That was part of the feud. This was Pac's response basically, even though Biggie wasn't coming at him
Absolutely love Tupac! Lyrical & musical genius. Talking about Biggie. Goes back to when he was shot in NYC. Bad Boy label...Puff Daddy. Listen to a bunch of Tupac. You'll like it.❤️🎶💯
It's about P Diddy's record label. Tupac came to NY and got ganged up on, he was shot 5 times (and he survived). Tupac believed it was someone from Bad Boys crew that did a job on him. Check out this link, it explains a lot. Biggie had a song Who Shot Ya, which Tupac believed was Biggie making fun of him getting shot. www.songmeaningsandfacts.com/2pacs-hit-em-up-lyrics-meaning/
A lot of younger rap fans be sleeping on Tupac, saying he isn't lyrical, and that's totally wrong and bound to happen if they're judging him by songs like Hit 'Em Up and California Love. To understand Tupac accurately, you have to hear Changes, Brenda's Got A Baby, Keep Ya Head Up, Dear Mama, Smile, etc. Puff Daddy ran the Bad Boy record label, but the whole label was Puffy and Biggie's friends. Mase, Junior Mafia, Lil' Kim, etc. Who Shot Ya didn't come out after Pac died. Tupac was shot and robbed at a studio connected to the course case against Haitian Jack, set-up by Jimmy Henchmen, but Bad Boy was also present at the studio, so Tupac assumed they were involved in the set-up. Who Shot Ya came out after that shooting (not sure if it was written beforehand). Hit 'Em Up dropped after Who Shot Ya. But Tupac survived that shooting and was later killed at a different shooting on the Las Vegas strip; presumably connected to the Orlando Anderson assault, but there's so many other possible suspects that bang with the crips.
The best diss track ever till this day (2021) and years to come.The great 2 pac & Outlawz,legends yo.Rest in peace brotha 2 Pac & Biggy small & Outlawz members Hussein fatal,Yaki Kadafi .
When Eminem calls out Puff Daddy on killshot, he said no I'm just kidding you know I love you man. I don't care what anybody says LOL Eminem wasn't clowning on him, he was subliminally letting him know that he knows, as well as many others in the game
It is really sad that us as people backk then could not help squash this situation be cause we got great music from the battle from both!!!!! But we all lost them both at the same time!!!! R.I.P. Tupac and Biggy!!!!!!!!!!!
Pac and Biggie were way ahead of everyone else more so Tupac he also did movies too,dissing each other got them killed live by the sword die by the sword two legends gone far too young
At the time hip-hop was divided into West Coast and East Coast. The label from West Coast was 'Death Row', from which came out the biggest rappers like Pac, Dre, Dogg, and technically Eminem. The label from East Coast was Bad Boy, from which came out big rappers like Biggie, Diddy and almost not but technically MGK. The West and East Coast started beefing when Pac was attempted to killed. This is his response, and considered the greatest diss-track ever, as it was lethal enough to start the biggest rap feud ever which ended up in Pac getting assasinated, believed by many including Eminem to be a job done by DIddy.
Correct Puff ran Bad Boys and Biggie was on that record label Beef was basically because Pac went to Biggies studio and Got shot 5 times and then Big dropped a song called Who Shot Ya and Pac came back with this
Pac got shot 5 times at biggies studio in NY, they were best friends. That led to east coast/west coast drama. And bad boy was puffs record label and big was his main talent.
This sing came out when 2Pac came out of jail. He was friends with Biggie, but things changed when Pac got shot and Biggie had a song named "Who shot Ya". He survived the initial shooting, and then got shot up after a Mike Tyson fight. And yes he is talking about Bad Boy records, Puffy's label. Biggie, Mase, and Puffy were the main artists .
For me, it was Pac's more cruiser tracks that always caught me best. Tracks like Hit em Up were responses to incidents, but it was his more laid back tracks that truly showcase' his inner artist. For me, my fave track was Do For Love.
2pac got rob and shot at quad studio in new York. Actually he was coming to record a song with one of puffy daddy artist. Biggie all them was at the studio and the ones that did it were friends of biggie. 2pac knew that biggie didn't have anything to do with it, but he knew what had happened. So he wanted biggie too give him answers. Him and biggie were friends. 2pac really believe that puffy help set him up. Also around that time 2pac were fighting a case that he caught when biggie and junior Mafia left there guns in 2pac room. He took that case and didn't Snitch. He felt biggie suppose too have gave him answers, but biggie were more scared of the other side. Him and his friend stretch.
This is the angry Tupac. Listen to his earlier stuff. He had a great message and wanted to change the world for the better (which is not allowed, especially a black rapper speaking to black youth about their true oppressors.. hint: not the "white man"). He knew the nature of our so called "leaders" and spoke truth to power. This is why he was attacked. The rabbit hole is deep my friend. You'd be shocked.
Crazy 😧!!!! But yeah...... there was big time drama between west coast and east coast rappers in that era. They started talking ( making raps) back and forth, on who was legit, and it was a crazy time!!!
OMG!! Even today, I listen to this song and can't help to remember when all the beef happened back then and when Pac got shot the first time...it got crazy! I still believe Pac is one of the best lyricist ever! You should watch 'Unsolved' on Netflix added to both 2Pac's and Biggie's biopics (All eyes on me, Notorious), it is romanced but you still get a great idea of what went on as it is based on true events and is pretty accurate...
I'm so glad you reacted to this because I dig your reactions and I like all kinds of music. I'm writing before watching and I don't recognize this song either. I remember Run DMC and Sugarhill Gang so 2Pac isn't even old school to me. I was into P.E. and A Tribe Called Quest which was before this by a little ways (edit - and other stuff later like Gang Starr, Black Star, Kwali, Mos, Nas). So thanks for letting me hang out and hear something new with you. It would be cool if you shared some of your favorite tracks that you grew up on, like a top 10. Peace out. (Update: Well that was hard. I had to check my volume hahaha.)
Tupac accused bad boy crew of shooting him in the elevator, who shot me came out before the death of Tupac. Biggie felt bad that Tupac got shot, Tupac was inconsolable about the shooting when Biggie tried to talk to him. They were the best of friends the shooting divided them .
OHHH! This was the song aimed at Biggie Smalls (Notorious B.I.G.) when they had beef! When Pac was shot, he felt like Puffy and Biggie had something to do with it, even though they always denied it.
There's so much backstory it's crazy to think about. Tupac was friends with Biggie (Big used to open for Pac and Pac was kind of a mentor in Biggies early days in hip hop) and encouraged him to stay with Puff - he told him that Puff will make him a star. Pac was in NY (I think) shooting Above the Rim, then he got accused of sexual misconduct in the hotel room. He went to Quad City studio to record and Lil Ceaser and them saw him walkin up with his signature Tupac strut. They were all friendly and talking and going to hang out. When Pac enters the building he got shot 5 times after resisting a robbery. Pac believed that even if Biggie didn't have anything to do with it initially, then since he is a boss in NYC, he should at least have the decency to tell Tupac what happened. Everyone knows the streets talk! Within days Tupac got shot, checked out of the hospital because of death threats, and was in court getting sentenced for a crime that everyone knows damn well he didn't do. While in jail he's hearing from all kinds of people that "Biggies homeboys shot you. Cause they braggin!" Then the song Who Shot Ya comes out and it really seems like a direct message. Big and Puff and them claim the song was recorded months before Pac got shot but even if that is that case, it's obviously a bad move to release it when they did. Like if I had a song called Killing Kings I wouldn't release it right after King Vons death. TLDR; To answer your questions: Pac got shot 5 times (lived this time) while going to a studio that Biggie was at. Biggie released Who Shot Ya while Pac was in jail but claimed it was recorded before the shooting. Bad Boy is Puff and Big and Junior Mafia and everyone else that Puff had signed (engineers and producers and all that). Also in the opening he's saying he slept with BIGs wife, Faith Evans. There is at least one picture of Pac and Faith together and it looks like Faith is about to get to know Pac better.
i rememeber when i got my first portable cd player thug life vol 1 and 2pacalypse was my first two cd's other than some junk my parents had bought, i would bump those two albums everywhere i remeber we were downtown i next door was a record store. when my old man wasnt looking i ran out and ran next door with 20 bucks i had saved up found both those almbums for like 5 bucks for the 2pacalypse and like 10 bucks for the thug life vol 1. man thug life vol 1 was the dopest shit i had ever heard such a legendary album
Puff Daddy hired a guy named Orlando to put the hit out. Orlando was shot and killed on his motorcycle not long after Tupac was killed. That is really all anybody will talk about. Anyways, that's my suspicions
Damn ... memory lane ... You got a big hole to go down with this one, even some movies. This is when shit got real. The little bs game playing ppl do now a days doesn't compare to what went on in the 90s.... more than that though, more than the beef, Tupac was insane. Messages...
Kids these days will never know how 90's beef was ruthless.
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No doubt gen x yo
Plus people died in the 90s no charges learn to get away with it
The Source Awards
@H.B.G Big Yachty That seems to be gang related. The shit that happened in the 90's made the national news often. It was blown out of proportion but it was literally a coast to coast beef spurned by some gangsters pretending to be business men and was infused with hood gang nonsense. Y'all stuff is mostly gang nonsense, jealousy and boys who don't know how to be men.
The grand daddy of all diss songs. No subliminal shit, straight to the point and names dropped.
this aint no disstrack ; this is a straightup threat of violence and death
@@Makaveli13Xroy soft boy
@@funagameplays2579 besides ; Against all odds and All out were MUCH better disstracks when it comes to the lyrics and flow ; hit em up just had the bigger impact ; but he goes MUCH harder on Against all odds and All out
This song and no Vaseline best diss tracks of all time
@@leonzajackson269 you forgot the real muthafukkin G, The Godfather of Hiphop, Eazy E
Tupac got me through a real bad time in my life. I'm a 40 year old white woman, but he gave me hope when I needed it. Art hits us all differently.
I feel you. Forty-one year old white woman here, and listening to Tupac often gave me the courage to be who I was instead of who I was expected to be because his music gave me that "fuck it" attitude!
46 year old lady and this song helped me access the anger I felt and the strength I needed at a terrible time as well.
Hope you're doing well now
Hi ladies,powerful times back then.
I was in an argument with some kids on TikTok that non-Black people can’t use Keep Your Head Up as a sound because it’s meant for BW only. But they just don’t know what his music did for women like us growing up with him. How that song got me out of an abusive relationship. They just don’t know
Tupac wrote this fueled by his anger against Biggie and bad boy records. He believed that they had a role in the November 30, 1994, ambush and attack on him. He claimed that Biggie and his crew knew of his shooting and wanted him dead. Tupac was pissed by Biggie's release of "who shot ya" only months after the shooting incident, and although it did not directly say Tupac in the song he believed it was directed towards him. Then the rivalry between East Coast & West Coast intensified.
#Tupac4life
@Natdl thx. ✌ & 💜
@@ldybozz good job also
@@lawrencecarr4973 thx ✌ & 💜
@@ldybozz you welcome❤️💛💛
Crack the code in 2Pac's "Against All Odds", that song explains how and why there's beef between him and Bad Boy. Key players in the song, Haitian Jack and Jimmy Henchman. Jimmy wanted Pac to sign to Bad Boy, after Jimmy spends money on Versace clothes, Rolex watches and jewelry and 2Pac still say no to Jimmy on signing to Bad Boy. Jimmy got mad and then Nov. 30th 1994 happened. As how Jimmy and Bad Boy do business together, and how 2Pac saw Biggie, Puffy and Junior Mafia members @ Quad Studios, in 2Pac mind, he believe that they knew about the hit before hand and never warned 2Pac. Biggie Smalls drop "Who Shot Ya!" while 2Pac was incarcerated for alleged rape against Jimmy Henchman's side chick Ayanna Jackson...
Biggie's song was Who Shot Ya. Which came out after "someone" shot Tupac five times. Pac was pretty much 100% certain that it was Biggie or someone else at Bad Boy Records. So he came out with this song. And that's how the beef started.
Yeah this too when he was shot the first time and didn't die. They had beef already though
Biggie and Diddy both on Bad Boy records also
It was Diddy/Diddy's henchmen who shot Tupac, not Biggie. Biggie was a troll but he wouldn't have shot Pac over some silly east coast/west coast bull ish like they say. Diddy wanted Pac out the picture, and he wanted Big out the picture too. He set up both of their deaths. Because they were starting to expose the industry and corruption that Puff was the leader of at the time. Dude is straight up EVIL. Let's just be thankful he never got 50.
He was shot while in the lobby of Bad Boy HQ in NY, before this Tupac and Biggy were friends, Tupac blamed Biggy for the attack but Biggy always denied it.
Lets be honest, they were both executed by cops.
I honestly love seeing the new generation reacting to what we lived through 😂😂🤦🏾
Makes
Me feel like a proud mama lol
2Pac was shot 5x in the lobby of the building where Puffy and Biggie were upstairs in the studio. Biggie and Pac were friends and Big called Pac and told him to come down to the studio. That's why everyone thought Puffy did it because those guys that shot Pac, just "happened" to know he was coming and they waited in that lobby for him! It was disguised as a robbery, but I think Puff did it. That's why this song came out. After Faith Evans, Biggie's wife was on the West Coast hanging out with Pac. It punked Biggie and made him look bad, obvi.
They shot him 5x but those punks didn’t get him.
Nah Diddy didn’t have nothing to do with the first shooting. Pac and bad boys was still cool before this incident so Diddy had no reason to set him up. Jimmy henchmen ordered it however Diddy knew jimmy and had insight that jimmy wanted to rob pac and didn’t say shit
"Changes". "Brenda Had a Baby" "Shed so many Tears". "Keep your Head Up" and many more
The message of changes applies perfectly to today... The message was there but people didn't want to accept it.
I second ALL of these
Many many more
@@gumz5661 Consider he wrote "changes" 1992 when he just was 21 years old.
@@JOYBOY_D_ and the movie juice
Pac was ahead of his time. I loved Tupac and his messages.
Everyone speculated why Pac didn't have much money when he died. Yes, he spent a lot in legal fees AND partying, but not many know that Pac would go to grocery stores and wait until he saw a single mother and give her wads of cash. Pac did this more often than was known.
Check out California Love!
@@Great-Documentaries who filled your head up wit doz lies? Sounds like a hater to me! If anything pac was known for hiz quick song writing and hiz delivery.... Haters spead lies best.... Makaveli lives
N mostly every song the insustry samples whether u like to admit it or not?
@@Great-Documentaries 2pac was well know for his writing. He often would be leaving the studio just to turn right around bcuz he just wrote something in the car and needed to record. The reason he had so much unrealsed music. Dude 5 albums of come out after his death (most of which where double albums)
Suge knight was behind Tupacs money issues.
100% suge knight and a lot of people feel suge even had pac killed since pac was the cash cow and about to leave death row
Bad Boy he's talking about is Puff's record label. And basically everyone associated with it.
And anyone who wanted to be down with Badboys... including you, yo momma and anyone else, all 5 billion on the planet at the time...
@@jasondaniels640 Not me. I never cared for Puff Daddy. "Dancing. All up in the videos"(those will always be some of my favorite lines).
@@ldybozz puffy can't dance
@@ZhanLala I know he twirls like a girl.
Tupac was a genius. You'll have to listen to more of his music to get a better perspective of everything he was going through. I liked Biggie too. But I loved Tupac. Tragic ending for both of them. Sad.
South Marin boyz, yo
A genius would've gotten a 9 to 5 and stayed alive.
@@rainofkhandaq6678 even Geniuses make mistakes. Tupac made plenty of them, most likely because of youth, but that certainly doesn't take away from the genius that was there. I don't even agree wholeheartedly with his pro-black message, but he wasn't saying anything that was wrong. In fact, he said things in a way that made most of us look at things from a different vantage point... his gift was helping other people to see and relate.
@@rainofkhandaq6678 if you started making a shit ton of money you would stick with it too. Don't act like you're so special.
I'm so privileged that I was a teen in the 90s and got to be there for tupac's greatness.
Tupac was the Goat!
Same! So glad I was a teen in the 90s
The best thing about 2pac is he bridges so many gaps. I’m a white woman from NH and I was/am a hard core 2Pac fan. Always. His music. His poetry is nothing like rap and hip hop today. This song isn’t the best example, but he woke us up this song is about the East and West rivalry. Gangsta rap... there are not words.
You have to react to 2 Pac - Dear Mama very soon with this song fresh in your mind, there is such a contrast between the two songs
This^^^^^
Dear mama is one of them songs that get you in your feels
Dear mama was great. I can relate to his song" huggin on my mama from a jail cell" first time i did time i was 14 got out when i was 18. I was livin foul.
Dear Mama tears me up. Especially since I lost mine. I grew up listening to Pac because of her. RIP to them both 💕
Damn what a time that was yall 😆 90s rap wars weren't no joke man
Rap wars are actually way worse nowadays.... rappers dropping left and right like flies
Yeah, in the 90s, if u were from the East, u had to strap up and not get caught slippin to go rappin out West. And if u were a West coast rapper, u had to watch your back in the East. Rappers had to do that or squad up with some riders from the city they were going to. It was no joke. I lived down South and peeps down there pretty much stayed outta that. But it was crazy back then.
@@EverywhereAndNowhere You speak the truth on that. I from Manning S.C. In those days the whole town was about 5 miles long. At the pool hall you wouldn't hear no East/West mimicking. They were creating their own thing. Unfortunately that's as far as it got. Slinging played a huge role in the extinction of that
after this song, it was just a matter of time. "my 44 make sure all y'all kids dont grow". cold af! RIP to the GOAT, Tupac Shakur
“Now when I came out I told you it was JUST about BIGGIE! Then EVERYBODY had to open their mouth with a Mother Fing Opinion!” “Well this is how we gonna do this‼️
Tupac gave his reason right there.. as to why he & the Outlawz went off so hard on so many people via the track! 😳🤣 I love it! 🔥💙
2 Pac was shot on two occasions- once in New York in 1994 (hit 5 times, twice in the head) and in 1996 when he died. In this song I believe he is referring to the first time.
Like he said Pac was shot on two occasions. He lived the 1st one, which happened in NY if I'm not mistaken. Biggie made a song, who shot ya in response to that. Then this song came out. And pac was killed shortly after. Then biggie. Word on the street back in the day, was that some BONE thugs people did it, but i really don't believe that.
Pac did this song with the Outlawz. It was done prior to his 96 shooting. This was done after his 1st death row record, i want to say it was done for the mackevelli era around the time the Outlawz Thug Life record was done.
@@Great-Documentaries Pretty sure :D
Ya never know with 2 Pac
lol
1990 grade 10. what a decade. still bump this when im driving. 2 10" Pioneer Subs. WESTSIDE TILL WE DIE!
Pac was a preacher, a gansta, was always real. He had many sides, like we all do…one song was, let’s get together and do better, the next let’s ride! My favorite rapper of all time.. blessed to be born early enough to appreciate the game!
I'm so old I couldn't name 3 rappers after 2001, love watching these kids get there mind blown listen to music we had at there age. I'm a Houston guy myself could we get some Geto Boys reactions.
You could literally a song a day for over a year with just Houston stuff alone.
Geto Boys and Three Six Mafia fan here. Lil Wyte was good too.
Geto boys for life.
Still would be a good one
Bushwick Bill. 😂. Great times. Gangsta boogie was my 💩 in the day.
I distinctly remember where I was when I heard this for the first time. You felt the anger in Pac's voice and you knew this shit was just different.
I was mad as hell at biggy for
No reason lol the anger in his voice was contagious
Tupac is a goat . Miss the 90s. I was heart broken in 96. R.i.p tupac you are still miss brother.
1st time listening!! WOW!! The older we get the more we can feel the music
1st time listening found it on a mixed tape in 95 black arts festival in Fredericksburg VA went back to the spot told everyone y'all gotta hear this
I always liked both 2Pac and Biggie but 2Pac was always 1000x better in my opinion 🔥
Been waiting for this one. This is a masterpiece. The anger rises in real-time. The menacing humor is so threatening. By the end he is so pissed he can't even talk. Truly a great painting. This is modern art. He drops it right on the table and doesn't give a crap about the reaction. As I recall it was about Biggie copping his beats. We all knew Tupac's beats, so there was something to that. Then there was Mr. Knight. enough said about that. This was the real deal, this was Gangster Rap. The genre went down when we lost Tupac and Biggie. I never get these when you drop them Rome, always days later. This artist, actor, poet, was taken from us. Perhaps, it was just rendered 'paid in full' who knows. He was no saint. A real-life artist with a pit-bull attitude who climbed out of the hell that was Marin City Ca. He held onto his heart. That comes through. This one hits close but, I remember reading, as I handed a personally signed poster of the artist to one of his neighbors, Nothing but Love-Tupac. RIP.
This was a response to Who Shot Ya? Biggie said it wasn’t a song to Pac and denied involvement in the shooting, but Tupac didn’t buy it.
Omg! All of a sudden I'm 21 again. 🥂
Biggie dropped "Who Shot Ya?" in '94. Pac took that as Biggie admitting to Pac getting shot when he went to record in NY. He almost died but left the hospital and Pac being the person he was spewed as much venom as he could.
This being your first introduction to listening to *Tupac* is equivalent to somebody first listening to to *Eminem* choosing the song *(Kim)*
Right 😂
This is honestly one of his best cuts! Pac a straight legend!
Arguably the most memorable diss track of the East Coast-West Coast rivalry; 2Pac and The Outlawz take aim at The Notorious B.I.G., Diddy, and Mobb Deep, with direct threats of violence.
2Pac’s feud with Biggie and Bad Boy was rooted in the 1994 shooting at the Quad Recording Studios. Pac believed that Bad Boy Records were involved in his shooting the first time because Biggie and Puff Daddy were at the studio the same night he was robbed and shot in the studio lobby. Months after the incident, Biggie released “Who Shot Ya?” while Tupac was incarcerated for sexual abuse allegations. Pac was aggravated by the song and saw it as an insult, as noted in a 1995 Vibe interview.
This song spawned controversy and exacerbated the East Coast-West Coast rivalry even further. Biggie never responded directly but he took jabs at ‘Pac on “Long Kiss Goodnight which came out after his death .” Mobb Deep retaliated with their 1996 track, “Drop A Gem On ‘Em which also came out after his death
2Pac extended his beef with the East Coast on tracks such as “Bomb First (My Second Reply)” and “Against All Odds” off of his November 1996 posthumous album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory.
This was a heavy song to start with for your first Tupac reaction! Please react to Tupac ft. Snoop Dogg - 2 of Amerika's Most Wanted.
Honestly I some times wonder if it was some rogue government agents who did the kills of Tupac and Biggie. Their constant feud was stirring up a lot of trouble and ironically enough the kills on both effectively ended the feud. Tupac and Biggie both got memorialized and the beef between both sides was effectively squashed. Their labels even made extra cash on the memorial albums and their allies also made money from memorial songs as well.
As a drum lover you HAVE to react to Led Zeppelins Moby Dick LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall which is about 50 years old and NOBODY has been able to do what John Bonzo Bonham did since then!!
Most definitely!!!!! Amazing!!!!
It is unbelievable that a rap fan didn t heard this genius diss song.. every rap fan in the whole world knew hit em up
But the younger generation don't care about history
If a toddler was raised right, the older ones did not expose them to this did track until they got older.
@@kemitamenophis3221 exactly he was a lil nigga when this song came out so he ain't really know about thr Tupac and Biggie Smalls beef back in the day they don't discover it until they get older like in their early 20's
Tupac best ever!! Love this song, he was angry and every right to be mad!! Tupac is a Legend 💯❤️👏👏
Biggie - Who Shot Ya and Long Kiss Goodnight are other pieces to this puzzle. React to those.
You took me back to high school with this track!
Ambitionz as a Ridah, Troublesome, I Ain't Mad at Ya, the entire All Eyes on Me album. Too many classics
Man every time I hear this I remember being young in Cali...we was bumpin it everywhere every set, every block, every party😂..Good times.
bro ...some part of me died when you said "your OLD uncle used to listen to 2Pac" ....i'm getting by ....but back then we had Rappers ...now it's nuthing compared to back then ...2pac is the GOAT
Wow, I’m 40 and I feel old now, 90’s rap was it brother..these days no one knows how it was back then..
Easily the best diss track ever written. Even though I love biggie, this shit was so dope when it came out and still is today
No doubt and you can feel Pac's anger in the song not for nothing he even came for Prodigy from Mobb deep and I didn't know Mobb Deep had anything to do with it
I was 20 years old when this song came out riding to the club fighting every weekend again the nineties were the best
Bad Boy was run by Sean "Puffy" Combs. There was a rap "war" between East and West coast rappers. It was either the VH1 VMAs or MTV Music awards where Snoop got onstage and started talking shit yo the East Coast crew and the Suge Knight got up and started shit talking about Diddy. You should try to RUclips it. Pretty entertaining.
Puff Daddy, Puffy, P Daddy, P Diddy , Diddy is that all the names he went by at different points in his career? I feel like I'm forgetting something.
The award show you're talking about is thr Source Awards when Snoop won an award and Suge Knight said any real rapper's wanna come over to death row and ain't gotta worry about the producers dancing all in the video or talking all over theor track come over Deathrow
Come on man！That's 2Pac， As a Chinese i listened to this song 10years ago！Go！ Listen MORE！
You were pretty spot on about the who shot me line. Who Shot Ya was Biggie's song that dropped right after Pac was shot the 1st time and survived. That was part of the feud. This was Pac's response basically, even though Biggie wasn't coming at him
Absolutely love Tupac! Lyrical & musical genius. Talking about Biggie. Goes back to when he was shot in NYC. Bad Boy label...Puff Daddy. Listen to a bunch of Tupac. You'll like it.❤️🎶💯
Pretty much when Tupac and Biggie died, the whole East Coast, West Coast dispute started fading slowly away.
Why do you think they were murdered then? Both were murdered to stop this.
@@lyndamccallum1535 you think so?...
@@lyndamccallum1535 Nope. It has nothing to do with stopping the beef especially when 2Pac died first due to a rival gang altercation in a casino.
They realized they all lost
Imagine the energy coming off Pac in the booth ratting this out! If only social media had a got this on film👊
It's about P Diddy's record label. Tupac came to NY and got ganged up on, he was shot 5 times (and he survived). Tupac believed it was someone from Bad Boys crew that did a job on him. Check out this link, it explains a lot. Biggie had a song Who Shot Ya, which Tupac believed was Biggie making fun of him getting shot. www.songmeaningsandfacts.com/2pacs-hit-em-up-lyrics-meaning/
I was 13 when Pac died and I need this song
Word for
Word
A lot of younger rap fans be sleeping on Tupac, saying he isn't lyrical, and that's totally wrong and bound to happen if they're judging him by songs like Hit 'Em Up and California Love. To understand Tupac accurately, you have to hear Changes, Brenda's Got A Baby, Keep Ya Head Up, Dear Mama, Smile, etc.
Puff Daddy ran the Bad Boy record label, but the whole label was Puffy and Biggie's friends. Mase, Junior Mafia, Lil' Kim, etc.
Who Shot Ya didn't come out after Pac died. Tupac was shot and robbed at a studio connected to the course case against Haitian Jack, set-up by Jimmy Henchmen, but Bad Boy was also present at the studio, so Tupac assumed they were involved in the set-up. Who Shot Ya came out after that shooting (not sure if it was written beforehand). Hit 'Em Up dropped after Who Shot Ya. But Tupac survived that shooting and was later killed at a different shooting on the Las Vegas strip; presumably connected to the Orlando Anderson assault, but there's so many other possible suspects that bang with the crips.
Unconditional love
I was in my late 20s living in Los Angeles. This was a crazy time.
Tupac was a raw genius.
The best diss track ever till this day (2021) and years to come.The great 2 pac & Outlawz,legends yo.Rest in peace brotha 2 Pac & Biggy small & Outlawz members Hussein fatal,Yaki Kadafi .
When Eminem calls out Puff Daddy on killshot, he said no I'm just kidding you know I love you man. I don't care what anybody says LOL Eminem wasn't clowning on him, he was subliminally letting him know that he knows, as well as many others in the game
So so true you know your shit wow.
2pac for life
It is really sad that us as people backk then could not help squash this situation be cause we got great music from the battle from both!!!!! But we all lost them both at the same time!!!! R.I.P. Tupac and Biggy!!!!!!!!!!!
and in my opinion rap real rap started to die when pac and biggie died!!!!!!!!
Holler If You Hear Me is my favorite Tupac track with Digital Underground's Same Song (Pac's debut) a close second
Pac and Biggie were way ahead of everyone else more so Tupac he also did movies too,dissing each other got them killed live by the sword die by the sword two legends gone far too young
Keep rockin' bro. You still killing it.
At the time hip-hop was divided into West Coast and East Coast. The label from West Coast was 'Death Row', from which came out the biggest rappers like Pac, Dre, Dogg, and technically Eminem. The label from East Coast was Bad Boy, from which came out big rappers like Biggie, Diddy and almost not but technically MGK. The West and East Coast started beefing when Pac was attempted to killed. This is his response, and considered the greatest diss-track ever, as it was lethal enough to start the biggest rap feud ever which ended up in Pac getting assasinated, believed by many including Eminem to be a job done by DIddy.
You just unlocked the treasure trove that is Tupac's music
Tupac was the SHIT! He made you understand what was happening in the culture. This song in particular had so much emotion in it
Correct Puff ran Bad Boys and Biggie was on that record label
Beef was basically because Pac went to Biggies studio and Got shot 5 times and then Big dropped a song called Who Shot Ya and Pac came back with this
Pac got shot 5 times at biggies studio in NY, they were best friends.
That led to east coast/west coast drama. And bad boy was puffs record label and big was his main talent.
This sing came out when 2Pac came out of jail. He was friends with Biggie, but things changed when Pac got shot and Biggie had a song named "Who shot Ya". He survived the initial shooting, and then got shot up after a Mike Tyson fight. And yes he is talking about Bad Boy records, Puffy's label. Biggie, Mase, and Puffy were the main artists
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Do "Keep Ya Head Up" with Mama, then come back and share "Dear Mama".
For me, it was Pac's more cruiser tracks that always caught me best.
Tracks like Hit em Up were responses to incidents, but it was his more laid back tracks that truly showcase' his inner artist.
For me, my fave track was Do For Love.
2pac got rob and shot at quad studio in new York. Actually he was coming to record a song with one of puffy daddy artist. Biggie all them was at the studio and the ones that did it were friends of biggie. 2pac knew that biggie didn't have anything to do with it, but he knew what had happened. So he wanted biggie too give him answers. Him and biggie were friends. 2pac really believe that puffy help set him up. Also around that time 2pac were fighting a case that he caught when biggie and junior Mafia left there guns in 2pac room. He took that case and didn't Snitch. He felt biggie suppose too have gave him answers, but biggie were more scared of the other side. Him and his friend stretch.
This is the angry Tupac. Listen to his earlier stuff. He had a great message and wanted to change the world for the better (which is not allowed, especially a black rapper speaking to black youth about their true oppressors.. hint: not the "white man"). He knew the nature of our so called "leaders" and spoke truth to power. This is why he was attacked. The rabbit hole is deep my friend. You'd be shocked.
Puffy name was mentioned in the beginning of the song.
Lmao the intro always gets everyones attention who hears the song for the first time
Crazy 😧!!!! But yeah...... there was big time drama between west coast and east coast rappers in that era. They started talking ( making raps) back and forth, on who was legit, and it was a crazy time!!!
Big song is called Who Shot Ya which came out first. This is the response. I was in high school during this time.
OMG!! Even today, I listen to this song and can't help to remember when all the beef happened back then and when Pac got shot the first time...it got crazy! I still believe Pac is one of the best lyricist ever! You should watch 'Unsolved' on Netflix added to both 2Pac's and Biggie's biopics (All eyes on me, Notorious), it is romanced but you still get a great idea of what went on as it is based on true events and is pretty accurate...
I'm so glad you reacted to this because I dig your reactions and I like all kinds of music. I'm writing before watching and I don't recognize this song either. I remember Run DMC and Sugarhill Gang so 2Pac isn't even old school to me. I was into P.E. and A Tribe Called Quest which was before this by a little ways (edit - and other stuff later like Gang Starr, Black Star, Kwali, Mos, Nas). So thanks for letting me hang out and hear something new with you. It would be cool if you shared some of your favorite tracks that you grew up on, like a top 10. Peace out. (Update: Well that was hard. I had to check my volume hahaha.)
Good times. Im 36 grew up with this
Pac called out every rapper on bad boy label! Including puff! The last versus you can hear the anger in pac’s voice!
Tupac accused bad boy crew of shooting him in the elevator, who shot me came out before the death of Tupac. Biggie felt bad that Tupac got shot, Tupac was inconsolable about the shooting when Biggie tried to talk to him. They were the best of friends the shooting divided them .
OHHH! This was the song aimed at Biggie Smalls (Notorious B.I.G.) when they had beef! When Pac was shot, he felt like Puffy and Biggie had something to do with it, even though they always denied it.
Pacs the GOAT of the GOATs 🐐👑 different breed fr💯
ok, real talk... I'm glad you are getting all this in now... let it get in your soul. Pac is the truth!
“Wonda why they call you bitch” THAT SONG IS DEEP
There's so much backstory it's crazy to think about.
Tupac was friends with Biggie (Big used to open for Pac and Pac was kind of a mentor in Biggies early days in hip hop) and encouraged him to stay with Puff - he told him that Puff will make him a star.
Pac was in NY (I think) shooting Above the Rim, then he got accused of sexual misconduct in the hotel room. He went to Quad City studio to record and Lil Ceaser and them saw him walkin up with his signature Tupac strut. They were all friendly and talking and going to hang out. When Pac enters the building he got shot 5 times after resisting a robbery. Pac believed that even if Biggie didn't have anything to do with it initially, then since he is a boss in NYC, he should at least have the decency to tell Tupac what happened. Everyone knows the streets talk!
Within days Tupac got shot, checked out of the hospital because of death threats, and was in court getting sentenced for a crime that everyone knows damn well he didn't do. While in jail he's hearing from all kinds of people that "Biggies homeboys shot you. Cause they braggin!"
Then the song Who Shot Ya comes out and it really seems like a direct message. Big and Puff and them claim the song was recorded months before Pac got shot but even if that is that case, it's obviously a bad move to release it when they did. Like if I had a song called Killing Kings I wouldn't release it right after King Vons death.
TLDR;
To answer your questions:
Pac got shot 5 times (lived this time) while going to a studio that Biggie was at. Biggie released Who Shot Ya while Pac was in jail but claimed it was recorded before the shooting.
Bad Boy is Puff and Big and Junior Mafia and everyone else that Puff had signed (engineers and producers and all that).
Also in the opening he's saying he slept with BIGs wife, Faith Evans. There is at least one picture of Pac and Faith together and it looks like Faith is about to get to know Pac better.
i rememeber when i got my first portable cd player thug life vol 1 and 2pacalypse was my first two cd's other than some junk my parents had bought, i would bump those two albums everywhere i remeber we were downtown i next door was a record store. when my old man wasnt looking i ran out and ran next door with 20 bucks i had saved up found both those almbums for like 5 bucks for the 2pacalypse and like 10 bucks for the thug life vol 1. man thug life vol 1 was the dopest shit i had ever heard such a legendary album
Puff Daddy hired a guy named Orlando to put the hit out. Orlando was shot and killed on his motorcycle not long after Tupac was killed. That is really all anybody will talk about. Anyways, that's my suspicions
U been bumpin Pac for years, dont lie
To live and die in L.A
So many tears
Keep ya head up
I aint mad at cha
Tupac is just chillin' with Elvis :D
6 minutes in and that's the reaction I came to see, awesome
Go to a classic Eminem, Cleaning Out My Closet!! Great bars that tell a good story
Yes
Damn Bro PAC Is more Classic than eminem
@@svetlananaavgustova2128 no one here said he wasn’t. Lol
"Hit'em up" & "Ether" were str8 fire 🔥. If you haven't heard of it listen to "Ether" by Nas.
2pac was shot five times in a lift on his way to see biggie in a studio. The song "who shot ya" came out while 2pac was in prison.
Most songs don't have a music video so as a reactor when an artist & a label puts the time and money into making a video I would react to the video
The song is "who shot you "was after pac got shot at the recording studio in nyc. Puff daddy, b.i.g ,jayz ,mobb deep ,Craig mac ,mase
Damn ... memory lane ... You got a big hole to go down with this one, even some movies. This is when shit got real. The little bs game playing ppl do now a days doesn't compare to what went on in the 90s.... more than that though, more than the beef, Tupac was insane. Messages...