According to the AP, the Los Angeles Times has linked two former associates of rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs to a 1994 assault on singer Tupac Shakur and suggested Combs knew of the attack in advance. Combs called the story "a lie." The newspaper's report on Monday cited an unnamed source who said he was questioned during a federal probe of the shooting and beating of Shakur at the Quad Recording Studios in New York City. Combs' associates helped plan the attack, the source told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Times. The paper said it corroborated the source's comments in several ways. The Times suggested Combs and another rapper, the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), knew Shakur was being set up. For years, Shakur claimed Combs was involved, it said.
Is this ground-breaking in any way? No. It is like if the paper came out and said, "We have evidence that OJ did it," or "there is evidence of a second shooter from Dallas."
Hey LA Times, WE KNOW! We listened to TuPac's song Hit Em Up. We had already figured this one out.
Can you file a report on grass being green or the sky being blue? Maybe that water is wet or getting hit by a bus hurts.
All joking aside though, the East Coast v West Coast rap war was quite something. You HAD to pick sides back then. You couldn't be both. Certainly not. NOWADAYS you can look back and enjoy both, but I remember back then (yeah, I grew up in White Midlothian, but we still listened) you were either on board with Bad Boy Records with Biggie (The lyrical genius), Puff Daddy (or Puffy or P Diddy or Diddy), Mase, Lil Cease, Lil Kim or The West Coast Labels with Dre, Snoop, and of course TuPac. TuPac and Dr. Dre were amazing and Snoop's smooth voice gave rap an entire new level. How chillax he was while rapping about Murder being the case that they gave him. What's his motha-f*&^in' name?
When TuPac came out of jail, he did Changes and Kalifornia Love, WOW. KLove was awesome with Dre. Then Hit Em Up was fan-freaking-tastic. Dre has been there forever too. The Chronic then the follow up....He is a special talent too. Whereas the East Coast always seemingly had numbers, the West Coast had the quality opposed to the quanity.
But Biggie was a speciman himself. It is terrible that they died, but as bad as it sounds, it may have been the best thing to preserve their legacy. Look at Nirvana after Kurt's death. Immortalized opposed to struggling along and ending up like Stone Temple Pilots. Who knows, if Biggie is still alive, he might be doing "Making the Band" with Diddy and ruining his image and destroying his street cred. If TuPac was still "alive" he might be fat like Eminem and out of music.
But I would have liked to see them beat down the likes of JaRule and DMX and Nelly. Those guys are jokers. The best we have now...50 Cent, Kayne and Jay-Z. All really talented, but not on Biggie & TuPac's level.
Also, could the LA Times get study done on whether the sun will come up tomorrow?
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