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"Hit 'Em Up" is a diss track by American rapper 2Pac, featuring the Outlawz. It is the B-side to the single "How Do U Want It", released on June 4, 1996.The song's lyrics contain vicious insults to several East Coast rappers, chiefly Shakur's former friend turned rival, the Notorious B.I.G. (also referred to colloquially as Biggie Smalls).
The video contains interviews of both Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. It is the only song from the album to feature a music video. The video version mutes all language, violence and drug references, even Biggie's comment about two cops being shot (the radio version only censors all profanity except the word "bitches" in 2Pac's verse). In the video ...
Biggie consistently disputed that "Who Shot Ya" targeted Tupac. [26] [2] [39] Still, some call it a diss track, [118] [119] if "subliminal." [120] Biggie recorded his lyrics "months" before Tupac was shot in November 1994, [121] but Puffy removed the song from Biggie's album, released in September 1994. [9]
After Tupac's death but shortly before Biggie's, rappers from both coasts worked together on Ice Cube's Dangerous Ground soundtrack. [53] Later some rappers ridiculed the rivalry like Big Pun - who in his song "You Ain't a Killer" raps "won't even talk that East or West crap" - with Pun himself being an East Coast rapper "heartily embraced" by ...
The prelude for the song shows a parody of Biggie Smalls ("Piggy") and Puff Daddy in discussion with Shakur about the November 1994 shooting. The beginning of the scene where Tupac is speaking to Biggie is in reference to the movie Scarface, where Tony Montana speaks to his alleged killer before shooting
“R.I.P., rest in peace, Biggie / And Pac, both of y’all should be living,” Eminem rapped. “But I ain’t tryna beef with him / ‘Cause he might put a hit on me like Keefe D did / And that ...
Biggie, Tupac, Suge: How Diddy became the last man standing in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry. Kevin E G Perry. March 29, 2024 at 8:05 AM.
The first verse is performed by three of the four members of the rap group Dramacydal (referred to in the song as the Thoro Headz) who would go on to join 2Pac's Outlawz group (Young Hollywood, K-Dog, and Big Malcolm, in that order), the second by Stretch and the Notorious B.I.G., and the third and last by 2Pac, with the hook sung by Lil Vicious.