Biggie and Tupac | 7. To Live and Die in LA
Slow Burn
Slate Audio
4.6 • 25.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week's episode: After Tupac’s murder: Revenge killings in Compton, a day of atonement in Harlem, and Biggie Smalls risks everything by going back to Cali.
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| 0:28.5 | Okay, here's episode seven of Slow Burn. |
| 0:40.7 | This podcast has language that some people might find offensive. |
| 0:50.5 | On the night of September 13, 1996, Christopher Wallace, the notorious BIG, was in a recording studio in New York. |
| 0:55.3 | It was about a week since Tupac Shakur had been attacked in Las Vegas, and Biggie and his crew still figured Tupac would pull through. |
| 0:58.6 | When he got shot, he was like, he got shot. He lived. You know what I mean? He always lived. |
| 1:06.9 | It's not the first time he had got shot. That's Nasimairk, one of the producers who was working with Biggie back then. |
| 1:13.7 | Myrick was in the studio with Biggie all the time, |
| 1:16.0 | and they weren't doing anything all that special on September 13th. |
| 1:19.3 | But everything changed when they heard the grim news out of Vegas. |
| 1:23.6 | When that shit came across, because I had the TV on, everybody had the TV on. |
| 1:29.3 | And when they said, Paul just died, we was like silent. |
| 1:35.4 | It was like, wow. |
| 1:38.1 | Biggie and his wife Faith Evans were living apart. |
| 1:41.3 | He called her that night. |
| 1:43.0 | She described his voices, low and small. He was crying |
| 1:47.3 | and seemed afraid. Something ain't right, Faye, he told her. Shit got fucked up somewhere along |
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