Sadly the beginning of end of the East against the West Hip Hop battle when Notorious B.I.G. was shoot dead by an unknown assailant in a drive by shooting on March 9Th,1997 in Los Angeles after an after party of the soul train awards which was a follow up to the September 13Th,1996 which was another drive by shooting in Las Vegas by another unknown assailant where Tupac Sakura was killed after leaving a Mike Tyson boxing fight. The end result is that it looks like a West Coast person took down B.I.G. while a East Coast person took down Sakura along with real was the end of the battle between East Vs West hip hop battle. It was unnecessary for these acts to have to happen and the untimely death of these 2 promising artists having to be taken out to finish a grudge off.
The worst part of the Notorious B.I.G. death is what happened after his death which was his producer and so called friend Sean "puffy" Combs took advantage of his death by putting Notorious on an album where he used it to just promote his other acts which just did not feel right at the time and I still feel he a little slimy to this day. Notorious had some good music at the time of his death and I believe he was just hitting his stride and would of been a monster artist in the following years and it would of changed the whole music industry heading towards the turn of the century like year later people were introduced to the Backstreet Boys along with 'N Sync and then a year after that they are introduced to Britney Spears and then Christina Aguilera came of age too. If Notorious B.I.G. was still alive maybe he would of made music that would of made it unlikely these other acts would of made it successfully.
Not a happy day for me
Tom Mehegan
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