Friendship Started & Ended By Hip-Hop: A Tupac & Biggie Story

“You want to set it off?” The two sat a table in an unknown location. They had water, weed, and alcohol on deck. At this very moment, they were unaware of where their careers would end up, what kind of legacy they’d have on hip-hop, and the unfortunate truth that they wouldn’t be friends forever. They were the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.

Their friendship began in 1993. Biggie would meet Tupac on the set of Poetic Justice in Los Angeles. During this encounter, it’s been reported that ‘Pac was playing “Party & Bullshit” over and over while on set, which was flattering for an upstarting Biggie. It was his first single and ‘Pac was already an established name.

The two would hang out at ‘Pac’s home, also in L.A., and smoke. “I always thought it to be like a Gemini thing,” Biggie said to Vibe. “We just clicked off the top and were cool ever since.” D-Dot said that their relationship was sort of like a teacher-student. ‘Pac was giving Biggie his advice being the more experienced rapper at the time. The advice would one day come back to haunt Tupac’s mindstate.

If there’s one thing that Tupac valued more than anything out of his friends, it was loyalty. After his 1994 Quad shooting, he would become mortal enemies with Biggie and Puff Daddy. The hate stems from Biggie allegedly knowing ‘Pac…