Welcome to the final installment of our battle breakdown series. In today's episode, we're going to be talking about Tupac against Biggie, which was a battle that was way beyond the lyrics. It bled into the streets. It bled into pop culture and much more. And if you guys haven't checked out the first three episodes of this series, they're all available for you guys on Spotify, on Apple and everywhere that you

guys get your podcasts. We have Drake versus Meek Mill. We have Nas versus Jay-Z. And we have

50 Cent versus J-Rule. But this is a special one because I feel like this is probably the most

documented beef in hip-hop history if you look at it. And I think that it's also a tragic story.

It's probably the saddest story that hip-hop has ever seen because it did end up resulting in the loss of two amazing artists and people.

So first and foremost, rest in peace to Christopher Wallace and Tupac Shakur. May God bless their families.

But we're going to be primarily touching on the music on this one because obviously a lot of the headlines around this time

and even beyond this time, even today, what you see most of is like the investigations of

the murders and that stuff. And we're going to be slightly touching on some of the events,

but we're going to do our best to focus on the music, even though we didn't really even get

that many dedicated disc tracks throughout this entire beef. But before we get into this, how do you feel about

this story as a whole? I think it's tragic, especially when you look at what they left behind

as far as music goes and what could have been developed as far as more hip-hop material goes.

Maybe the genre would have been in a completely different place if they were able to collaborate with more artists or if the East Coast and the West Coast was

working together, right? And you saw that at that time, there were East Coast and West Coast artists

that were trying to kind of, I would say, unite the two sides of the states, right? You had Dr.

Dre and Nas that came together for

Nas coming off of, it was written, and that was interesting because that was the first time

that Dr. Jay worked with an East Coast producer. And even in that song, they had said that,

let's stop all this foolish shit, let's get to the money and to the music. And I feel like

if that would have been the mentality at the time, just seeing it from maybe my perspective, who knows what you would have gotten, right? You know that you would

have gotten maybe a Jay-Z and Biggie collaboration album. Maybe Tupac would have went on to

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