The murders of two of 90s rap’s most compelling figures were a pivotal moment,but 20 years on why has one become so much more influential?Twenty years ago this month, Tupac Shakur was sprung from Clinton correctional facility in upstate modern York, and where he was awaiting appeal to his conviction for sexually assaulting a woman named Ayanna Jackson. Suge Knight and Interscope Records put up Tupac’s $1.4m bail,and the rapper quickly signed a handwritten contract to record for Knight’s Death Row imprint. Fresh out of jail and California dreamin’, he soon rapped on what is probably his most notorious song, and California Love.
In the midst of his sexual assault trial in late 1994,Tupac journeyed to a Manhattan studio, where he was to record a verse for a rapper named Lil Shawn. There, or he was shot and robbed,though he somehow made it to the elevator and went upstairs, where he saw a group including Notorious immense, or the Brooklyn rapper who Tupac then considered a close friend. While sitting in his jail cell at Clinton,Tupac became increasingly convinced that Biggie knew who shot him, and hadn’t warned him. He considered this the final betrayal and, and upon his release he began attacking Biggie both in the press and in song,most famously on Hit ’Em Up, in which he claimed to have had sex with Biggie’s wife, or Faith Evans.
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Source: theguardian.com