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Speaker 2: The stories about the Notorious Big are insane. He was

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Speaker 2: the release of his debut album, Ready to Die, an

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Speaker 2: the music. He made great music. That music he heard

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Speaker 2: That was a preset loop from my mellotron called Coola

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Speaker 2: I can't afford the rights to I'll Make Love to

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Speaker 2: America on September thirteenth, nineteen ninety four, and that was

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Speaker 2: the day the Notorious Big released his debut album Ready

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Speaker 2: to Die, marking the beginning of his very short, impactful

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Speaker 2: two part episode Dealing Crack Spitting Beef, Easy Flow, Hard

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Speaker 2: Beats in the Notorious Big, I'm Jake Brennan and this

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Speaker 2: is dis Graceland. America was, is, and always will be

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Speaker 2: about opportunity. The rub is that depending on one station

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Speaker 2: in life, opportunity comes in different forms. For Freeway Rick Ross,

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Speaker 2: the form of rock cocaine. A born hustler, he couldn't

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Speaker 2: big Araguan connection supplied Freeway Rick and Bulk direct from

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Speaker 2: He was buying upwards of four hundred million kilos a week,

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Speaker 2: Cocaine and modified it into its highly addictive smokable rock

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Speaker 2: He later told a journalist, I didn't get in this

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Speaker 2: it better than most. Nineteen eighty nine, another summer, the

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Speaker 2: And it wasn't just Public Enemy posters Slick Rick krs Ian,

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Speaker 1: Daddy Kane, all enshrined Biggie's room.

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Speaker 1: His success was inevitable, with.

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Speaker 2: his shadow long, and Biggie loved the music, sure, but

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Speaker 1: Stuck to him.

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Speaker 2: He would spit rhymes on the corner with his boys

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Speaker 2: Dealing crack was a full time job. Sometimes sleep was impossible.

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Speaker 2: Biggie woke up on his mother's sofa and headed into

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Speaker 2: He looked everywhere, tore his room apart, and when he

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Speaker 2: She then told him that he shouldn't leave half eaten

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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety, at the age of seventeen, shortly after

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Speaker 2: warned him not to fuck it up. See he did

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Speaker 2: off straight away to an influential editor of the Source magazine.

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Speaker 2: The writer punched up a piece for his Unsigned Hype column,

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Speaker 2: Biggie Smalls. But the writer did Biggie one better and

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Speaker 2: tipped off a young scrappy A and R kid from

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Speaker 2: Combs was ambitious and wise beyond his years. His ear

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Speaker 2: Biggie Smalls, Puffy knew he had something truly special. Biggie's

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Speaker 2: he looked exactly like what he, was a street corner

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Speaker 2: survive even if it cost someone else's. Life his image was.

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Speaker 2: Menacing Sean combs sniffed out the potential. Immediately Biggie smalls

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Speaker 2: Notorious but even With Sean combe's, interests a deal was

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Speaker 2: hard to. Paper puffy was working on his own future

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Speaker 2: machiavelliing his way out from under his Mentor Andre herrel

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Speaker 2: Bad Boy, entertainment and the perfect artist to need the,

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Speaker 2: Way Biggie, smalls newly christened The Notorious. Big, still Despite

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Speaker 1: For the much needed.

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Speaker 2: Money his deal would come with money needed to take

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Speaker 2: thing he was good, at dealing. Crack so that's what

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Speaker 2: he did when he came to crack For Biggie. Smalls

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Speaker 2: the weight was In New York, city but the cash

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Speaker 2: was now In North. Carolina In, brooklyn crack was. Everywhere

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Speaker 2: buyers could afford to shop. Around if they didn't like

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Speaker 2: What biggie was, peddling they could move on down the

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Speaker 2: block to the next dealer for a better. Price making,

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Speaker 2: becoming harder For biggie In New, york but In North

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Speaker 2: Market there was less crack down so but there was

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Speaker 1: Demand in, Fact.

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Speaker 2: Biggie could post up In raleigh and buyers would drive

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Speaker 2: into town en masts looking to purchase in bulk to

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Speaker 2: In biggie and his connect were pocketing at about thirty

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Speaker 2: grand every two, weeks not bad for. Her high school

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Speaker 2: Dropout North carolina was anything but a lonely existence around.

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Speaker 2: Town as a hustling, export he was a bit of

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Speaker 2: a local celebrity in the. Clubs he was enjoying himself having,

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Speaker 2: back To New york anytime. Soon but his phone wouldn't stop,

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Speaker 2: ringing and his pager wouldn't stop. Buzzing his, mom his, Girl,

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Speaker 2: puffy no, doubt with more bullshit about an impending deal

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Speaker 2: than never seemed to. Come And biggie tried ignoring the

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Speaker 2: distractions at home to instead focus on the, hustle focus

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Speaker 1: they're all the.

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Speaker 2: Same, christopher where the fuck are?

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Speaker 1: You puffy will stop called and looking for, you hit

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Speaker 1: him back and.

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Speaker 3: Call me, back.

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Speaker 1: Motherfucker i'm about to have, you goddamn, baby AND i needs.

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Speaker 2: Money and Eventually Biggie smalls did indeed Call Sean Puffy

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Speaker 2: combs back from his and his drug dealing partners rented

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Speaker 2: apartment house In, Raleigh North. Carolina puff knew What biggie

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Speaker 2: was doing down there and told him he was a damn,

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Speaker 2: fool and he had a contract and a check waiting

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Speaker 2: for him on his, desk and that if he went

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Speaker 2: and got himself busted for dealing, weight which was every

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Speaker 2: day he pressed his luck became more and more of a,

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Speaker 2: likelihood then there would be no rap career from behind.

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Speaker 2: Bars biggie, protested he was making good. Money what did

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Speaker 2: he need to fuck with the music industry? For puffy

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Speaker 2: assured him this wouldn't be no one and done flash

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Speaker 2: in the pan. Nonsense he had a, plan a plan

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Speaker 2: to make him a. Star that this wasn't just About

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Speaker 2: Biggie small's it was about the launch of Bad Boy

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Speaker 2: entertainment as. Well it was About Sean Puffy combs climbing

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Speaker 2: out from the shadow of his mentor and making it

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Speaker 2: on his. Own so he best get the fuck out

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Speaker 2: Of dodge with the quickness and get himself back To

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Speaker 2: manhattan to sign his deal and cash his. Check so

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Speaker 2: that's What Biggie smalls. Did he Split North carolina For

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Speaker 2: New York city that very same morning after getting off

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Speaker 2: the phone With puffy and headed north to try and

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Speaker 2: make his way as a, rapper just Like, kane a

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Speaker 2: life in hip hop without the, cocaine a different kind of.

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Speaker 2: Hustle and that, afternoon after he left the house he

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Speaker 2: rented In raleigh with His North carolina connect the house

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Speaker 2: was raided by the. Cops everyone in it was promptly

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Speaker 2: arrested on stiff drug distribution charges and eventually sentenced to

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Speaker 2: long prison. Terms but Not Biggie. Smalls he was off,

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Speaker 2: out about to be on some other trip. Entirely we'll

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Speaker 2: be right back after this word word. Word how about, dope, grass, hash, coke, mescaline,

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Speaker 2: downers nevun, alto and all. Chlorohydrates how about uppers and.

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Speaker 2: Amphetamines biggie shook his. Head he wasn't. Interested crystal. METH

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Speaker 2: i can get you crystal, meth, nitrosoxide how about? That

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Speaker 2: how about a CADILLACT i get you a brand New

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Speaker 2: cadillac with a pink slip for twenty. Grand biggie just

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Speaker 2: stared at the bed in the cheap motel where they were.

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Speaker 2: Haggling Easy andy wouldn't shut. Up the easy part of

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Speaker 2: his name must have been a, joke because he was

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Speaker 2: anything but easy to deal. With maybe he got the

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Speaker 2: name because he could get you whatever he wanted.

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Speaker 1: Easily biggie didn't. Know all he knew was that he

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Speaker 1: wanted to talk.

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Speaker 2: About the, guns laid out neatly in the suitcase on

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Speaker 2: top of the. Bed the forty Four magnum in, Particular

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Speaker 2: andy called it a real, monster and it. Was it

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Speaker 2: could stop a car at one hundred, yard put around

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Speaker 2: right through the engine. Block was beautiful, too but it wasn't,

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Speaker 2: practical unlike the thirty eight Stub, nose another beauty nickel plated,

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Speaker 2: compact but powerful and, reliable nice. Action Hecka wallap cops

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Speaker 2: carried them for a, reason And biggie wanted them, both

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Speaker 2: as well as the cold twenty five, AUTOMATIC a real,

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Speaker 2: HONEY a nice little gun in the three eighty eight

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Speaker 2: shots in the, cliff sophisticated by comparison to the rest.

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Speaker 2: Easy andy told them that In World War two was

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Speaker 2: only issued to officers. Classy biggie liked that he Knew

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Speaker 2: Tupac shakor would. Too after, all the guns were Four

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Speaker 2: Tupac BIG's new brother from a wildly different mother for

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Speaker 2: an extra five large, easy and he would see too

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Speaker 2: it that the guns made it. Safely The tupac out

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Speaker 2: on The West, coast a heavy freight, charge but For

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Speaker 2: big was worth. It after securing the deal for the,

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Speaker 2: Guns big hopped in the back of His CHAUFFET Suv

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Speaker 2: Doctor Dres let me, ride blasted through the.

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Speaker 1: Speakers, man this shit never got. Old biggie.

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Speaker 2: Thought the album was a big influence for The Notorious

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Speaker 2: vig's first, Album ready To, die released as promised On

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Speaker 2: Sean Puffy comb's As Bad Boy entertainment On september, thirteenth

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety. Four the album was a hit out of the,

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Speaker 2: gate selling half a million copies in its first, week

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Speaker 2: and Though drey didn't produce the, album His chronic had

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Speaker 2: a lot to do with its. Success big heard in

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Speaker 2: The chronic a kindred, style a laid back sensibility that

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Speaker 2: he could relate to because it wasn't just laid, back

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Speaker 2: it was. Real the hardcore realism Of West coast rap

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Speaker 2: was something that had recently fallen out of fashion on

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Speaker 2: The East, coast where conscious, rap with its positive messages

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Speaker 2: and beta boy academic vibes reigned. Supreme East coast hip

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Speaker 2: hop in the early nineties was more huxtable than, hardcore

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Speaker 2: and that didn't speak Too. Big, sure a tribe Call

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Speaker 2: quest And De La soul were onto, something but it

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Speaker 2: didn't do For biggie what the chronic.

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Speaker 1: Did so when it came time to write.

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Speaker 2: And record his, Debut big enlisted some of The East

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Speaker 2: coast deadliest production, Weapons Easy mob AND Dj premiere to

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Speaker 2: craft beats into a unique style befitting The Big.

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Speaker 1: Man Like, Dre big would mix.

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Speaker 2: The hard with the, smooth hard as in the Hardcore

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Speaker 2: New York city street reality Where big made his living dealing,

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Speaker 2: drugs smooth as in the EASY r AND b sensibilities

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Speaker 2: that Sophisticated East coast listeners caught. Into Whereas dre turned

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Speaker 2: To George clinton And, Zap big turned To isak's And Teddy.

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Speaker 2: Pendergrass and just As snoop went laid back with that

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Speaker 2: unique flow of, His big was able to do the

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Speaker 2: same with his. Flow but Like, Snoop BIG's voice And

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Speaker 2: BIG's flow were entirely his, own and when it all came,

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Speaker 2: out filtered through his authentic street point of view and,

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Speaker 2: personality it was very clear that The Notorious big was

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Speaker 2: onto something entirely unique for the, Time and just As

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Speaker 2: drey had done with the Chronic big had now.

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Speaker 1: Done Was ready To.

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Speaker 2: Die created another inflection point for the artist's relatively young

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Speaker 2: musical genre with one fully realized artistic statement with one,

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Speaker 2: album his debut, Album The notorious B i g ushered

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Speaker 2: in a new phase of hip. Hop When The Notorious

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Speaker 2: big released his debut Album ready To die On Sean

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Speaker 2: Puffy comb's Is Bad Boy. Entertainment the results Of biggie's creative,

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Speaker 2: vision a melding of sorts Between east And West coast,

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Speaker 2: sensibilities are. Undeniable kids loved, It critics loved. It fellow

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Speaker 2: rappers Loved Tupac shakur. Included ever since first Hearing The

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Speaker 2: Notorious big in nineteen ninety, Three tupac was enamored of,

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Speaker 2: him both as a person and as a fellow, rapper

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00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,479
Speaker 2: and of, Course big was in a kind of awe Of,

432
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 2: tupac who at the time was a little further along

433
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 2: in the rap. Game the two, men despite their many obvious,

434
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 2: differences became fast, friends both fulfilling something different in the.

435
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 2: Other tupac grew up, poor the son of a black,

436
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 2: PANTHER a radical activist and. Addict he'd learned his trade

437
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 2: from real life, Revolutionaries it was as hardcore and real

438
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 2: a background as a rapper could, have And Christopher Biggie

439
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 2: Smalls wallace Envied Tupacamaru shakur for. It biggie grew up

440
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 2: with a single, mom, sure in the middle of a dangerous,

441
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 2: city but in comparison to the Way tupac grew, Up

442
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 2: big was, bourgeois practically middle, class and that Said tupac

443
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 2: as a child growing, up was bookish and a serious

444
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 2: student of the. Arts he attended The pristine He Just

445
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 2: Baltimore school For Performing. Arts and though his neighbors on

446
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 2: the hard streets Of baltimore no doubt lived lives of

447
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 2: violence and, crime and though his mother's friends were some

448
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 2: of the country's most revolutionary, Activists tupac was relatively soft by,

449
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 2: comparison and In biggie he saw a real street, thug

450
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,199
Speaker 2: someone who had the balls to take what was his

451
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 2: by any means necessary through his chosen trade of drug.

452
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 2: Dealing and they loved hanging out with each. Other when

453
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 2: one was on the other's, coast they took care of each.

454
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 2: Other big Hosted Pac pack did the same For, big

455
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 2: and When tupac's big mouth started getting him in, trouble

456
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 2: and his fame started to freak him, out and he

457
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 2: began complaining about having to look around too many corners

458
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 2: for fear of getting. Jacked big did what friends do

459
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 2: and looked out for his. Boy he shipped them the

460
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 2: fresh arsenal he'd procured in a Dingy East coast, motel

461
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 2: handpicked just for his.

462
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: Paranoid friend out.

463
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 2: West but either the guns came too Later tupac For,

464
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 2: god or didn't bother to make sure they made their

465
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 2: way back with him east for his next trip To New,

466
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 2: york or perhaps he just didn't bother to carry one with.

467
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 2: Him that, Night Quad studios to feature on The Bad

468
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,439
Speaker 2: Boy records Artist Little sean session that was going on

469
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 2: a floor below Where big And puffy were also recording

470
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 2: working On biggie's warning.

471
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 1: Video tupac had a lot on his.

472
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 2: Mind the trial for sexual assault that he was up

473
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 2: against was wearing on him and draining his bank, account

474
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 2: which is the real reason he was doing the session that.

475
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 2: Evening he needed the, cash but the session would never.

476
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 2: Happen the shots came as soon as he entered the

477
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 2: hallway At Quad, studios five of them from the pair

478
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 2: of nine millimeters carried by the roughnecks shaking him.

479
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: Down they wanted his money and his, jewels one in the,

480
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: hand two in the, head one of the dive exiting.

481
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 2: Through the Scrot the shooters split after Running tupacs jewels

482
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 2: and his. Cash he crawled into the hallway, elevator got

483
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 2: a bloody finger on the, button and was lifted to

484
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 2: the second floor. Studio when all was said and, Done

485
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 2: tupac came out of the, melee having survived with five gunshot.

486
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 2: Wounds With tupac in the hospital nursing his wounds and

487
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 2: then in and out of court in extreme, Pain big

488
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 2: ran all over town trying to buy as much weed

489
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 2: as he could for his friend to help him. Recuperate

490
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 2: he Had PAC's best interests in well being front of

491
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 2: mind after the, shooting But tupac had a different point

492
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 2: of view from where he sat after the trial in,

493
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 2: prison sentenced to one and a half to four years

494
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 2: for first degree sexual, abuse he started to see his

495
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 2: friend in a much different light than his friend saw at.

496
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 2: Him To, Tupac biggie impulse reaction in the immediate aftermath

497
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 2: of the quad shooting was highly. Suspicious hawk recounted to

498
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 2: a journalist in a jailhouse. Interview but When biggie And

499
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 2: puff Saw tupac bleeding out on the floor with fresh gunshot,

500
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 2: wounds they didn't move to help. Him in, fact they

501
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 2: looked surprised to see. Him tupac was insinuating That big

502
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: And puff his friends were surprised because they knew he

503
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 2: was going to be, shot so they were thus.

504
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: Surprised to see him. Alive nine months.

505
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 2: Into his, Sentence tupac was sprung from prison By Doctor

506
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 2: dre's Notorious Blood streak gang Affiliated Death Row records label

507
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 2: Boss Shook, night and thus now firmly under the wing

508
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: protection and career in financial control Of. Shook with that

509
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 2: muscle at his, Back tupac became more outspoken than, ever

510
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: except now instead of preaching the raw truth of life

511
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: in the ghetto for young black, Men tupac was spreading

512
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: his gospel of The quad studio, shooting specifically his belief

513
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: That big And puff had set him. Up when this,

514
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: happened the media smelled blood with the newfound rivalry Between

515
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 2: Tupac shakur and his former friend and Notorious, Big Between

516
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 2: shug's new record, Label Death Row records and label Boss

517
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 2: Shug knight And biggie's label Bad Boy entertainment and its,

518
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 2: Boss Sean Puffy, combs and between the coasts west Versus.

519
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 2: East the beef was undeniably. Compelling it sold, newspapers it sold,

520
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 2: magazines and most, important it sold.

521
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 3: Records the music press often chronicled the rivalry Between Chapeau's

522
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 3: West Coast Death Row records would be small to Bad.

523
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: Boy entertainment With Sean Puffy.

524
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 4: Poles schapour has been at the center of a battle

525
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 4: Between east And West coast rappers of words and. Users

526
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 4: but as recently As wednesday, Night chappole was In newport

527
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 4: at THE Mtv Music. Awards he and his friends got

528
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 4: into a confrontation At Radio City Music, hole which the

529
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 4: police had to break.

530
00:30:54,280 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 3: Up and talk again tonight about report the words is

531
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: That schakor's death as a result of an Ongoing east

532
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 3: Versus west rep. Dispute Tubox A corps was writing in

533
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 3: This BLACK bmw Two who was writing it Was BLACK

534
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 3: Bmw when the gunfire looked.

535
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 2: After Mike tyson knocked Out Bruce selden under a minute

536
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: Twenty tupac sat in the passenger sea Of SHUG'S bmw

537
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 2: at the corner Of East Flamingo road In Cova.

538
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: Lane his shug was at the.

539
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 2: Wheel from out of, nowhere a late Model cadillac rolled

540
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 2: up along the passenger side of THE.

541
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: Bmw then countless bullets.

542
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 2: Fired one In tupac's, arm one And tupacs, died two

543
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 2: in his, chest but one in his right.

544
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: Lung the kill, shot.

545
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 3: The kill.

546
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 2: Shot The Notorious big cried when he heard the news

547
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 2: that his Friend Tupac shakur had been shot and. Killed,

548
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 2: first he couldn't believe the Way tupac was behaving toward. Him,

549
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 2: now he couldn't believe That tupac was, gone. Murdered with

550
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 2: the killers still on the, loose and with a new

551
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: record to, finish writing and recording a follow up To

552
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 2: ready To, die there was no time for, tears never

553
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 2: mind actually processing his grief in any real. Way tupac's

554
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 2: death Had Christopher wallace in. Shock it was never supposed

555
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 2: to come to. This how did, everything it, seemed become so?

556
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: Complicated hip hop's starred and was supposed to alleviate the

557
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 2: precious of, life not add to. Them but that was

558
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 2: exactly what had. Happened biggie no longer knew what his

559
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 2: purpose was to be famous for what and how on

560
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 2: some beef that kills your friendship and gets someone you admire.

561
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 2: Killed to be a, father a. Husband he and his

562
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: baby mama had split before his child was even, borned

563
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 2: but he still wanted to provide his baby with, everything

564
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 2: except he had other commitments now to his, Wife Faith,

565
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 2: evans to his. Fans it was in so many directions at,

566
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 2: once and committing himself in earnest to family life at

567
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 2: the rambunctious age of twenty four just wasn't. Happening he

568
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: was too young to fully commit or to settle down.

569
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: In any real. Way to be an, artist, maybe but

570
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: life was.

571
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 2: So complicated that it was near impossible to find the

572
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 2: brain space to fully invest in the new album he was.

573
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: Making biggie's complications didn't all of a sudden die With.

574
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 2: Tupac big had recently been arrested, again this time for marijuana.

575
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 2: Possession his car was, impounded and at the moment he

576
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: was desperately needed at the, Studio he and his boy

577
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 2: Little cease rented a Shipbox Chevy.

578
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: Lumina to get them to where they needed to be

579
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: in time for the.

580
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 2: Session the car rent the place was, stubious and The

581
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 2: lumina was the Legit, hank but it was all that

582
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 2: was available to, rent And big was determined to get

583
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 2: to the, studio get into the, work get.

584
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: His mind off of.

585
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 2: Things they drove through the rain on the highway in,

586
00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 2: silence despite his recent arrest and the complicated men as

587
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 2: his life had become with, fame despite the beef that

588
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 2: still raged between the, coast Despite tupac's. Passing in this,

589
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 2: moment at least with the sound of the wet highway

590
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 2: passing them by the silence in the, car the radio,

591
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 2: off no yammering From, cease rain pelting the car to

592
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 2: save fifty five miles per hour with the hypnotic swipes

593
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 2: of the windshield. Wipers it all added up to a

594
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 2: kind of momentary piece For Biggie.

595
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: Smalls and Then cease went to make his exit off the.

596
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 2: Highway he put his foot to the brake, pedal only

597
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 2: to realize that there were no brakes in this.

598
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: Piece of Shit. Chevy they had completely gone.

599
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 2: Useless the car refused to slow on the off rim

600
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 2: and they glided over the wet road at a furious.

601
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: Cliff cease turned To big for an, answer and Then

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00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,759
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