Originally posted by babyslug
Oh - music...I actually thought eastside and westside were gangs of some sort. My mistake.
It was Deathrow - BadBoy. The media blew it out to be coast vs coast, but it wasn't like that.
The Outlaws are actually Jersy based by memory (?!?!)
But then they're just record labels, not gangs. Although Suge Knight is a Blood, and Puff Daddy was Crip. So the labels were gang related.
Back then. Deathrow (West) > BadBoy (East) (music wise)
Still today, East coast is flooded with uncreative textbook rappers.
West coast is a bit better. But as soon as anyone makes a good album they think they're the next Pac 'bringing back the West coast'...
Recently, Midwest have made so many great under-appreciated rappers. (Tech N9ne and Twista are the best talent going around I'd say)
As for the battle... They both messed up
It shouldn't have gone to shootings. I think Pac was looking for beef though, he figured being a mainstream artist making death threats he might attract a little attention, and he did.
If it was personal, not a music thing, and he thought Biggie was in on his robbery, he should've went to Biggie about it.
But Biggie handeled it pretty badlym too, straight up he should've either admitted or denied his part (from a personal level).
Musically, what's with the vauge references without names? All pretty timid since it looked like he wanted a beef.
